The Global Water Partnership (GWP) represents a new kind of institution that raises various interesting questions in terms of international institutional law. Established in 1996 as a “virtual organization”, it progressively evolved to become in 2002 a twofold institution structured around,...

This paper extends recent theoretical developments on transnational activism and norm diffusion by examining the dynamics of norm contestation visible in socio-ecological controversies about water and other bio-resources. It examines cases in which turbulent change in established normative...