While judicial bodies have proliferated in the last fifty years in a process that has been deemed “quasi-anarchic”(Guillaume,G., 2000) creating a risk of inconsistency in their decisions which would endanger the international law system, quasi-judicial bodies such as Multilateral Development...

In 2015, though several joint statements, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) repeatedly stated their support to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But 2016 saw another milestone in development finance: the World Bank adopted new environmental and social safeguards that place more...

This paper argues that the World Bank's adoption of the principle of sustainable development is an example of the persistence of the law and development approach. Indeed, the World Bank's interpretation of the principle translates into its projects; through soft law and loan conditionality, it...

Spanish Abstract: En el Banco Mundial, desde 1992, la cuestión de la protección del medio ambiente se traduce en una estrategia de incorporación de las cuestiones ambientales y sociales en sus actividades, en particular a través de la condicionalidad. La comprensión de la condicionalidad...