This paper analyzes the contemporary emergence of neo-formalist and neo-functionalist approaches to law-making at a time when the state is seeking to reassert, reformulate and reconceptualize its regulatory competence, both domestically and transnationally. While the earlier turn to alternative...

This short essay introduces a set of timely critiques of the power shifts in global contracting. The chapters range from investment disputes and carbon trading, commercial arbitration and private military companies to cotton trading and global value chains. In a global context of a ‘turn to...

This paper analyzes the contemporary emergence of neo-formalist and neo-functionalist approaches to law-making at a time when the state is seeking to reassert, reformulate and reconceptualize its regulatory competence, both domestically and transnationally. While the earlier turn to alternative...