How do we study the UN Security Council, a bastion of sovereign nation-state politics, from
the perspective of 'outsiders' such as UN special rapporteurs? This article reimagines the …

On the heavily polluted soil of De Ceuvel–a former shipyard in Amsterdam turned into an
eco-tech playground–the Sovereign Nature Initiative (SNI) recently convened its first …

Abstract My 2019 article 'From Planning to Prototypes: New Ways of Seeing Like a
State'(P2P) drew attention to some shortcomings of the kinds of critical, reformist impulses …

Abstract Models of global governance abound: expert governance, networked governance,
algorithmic governance, and old-fashioned juridico-political governance vie for explanatory …

The World Bank's Lawyers provides an original socio-legal account of the evolving
institutional life of international law. Informed by oral archives, months of participant …

The'unwilling or unable'doctrine is amongst the most contested in contemporary
international law. However, this paper is not concerned with whether 'unwilling or …

Periodic abortion law materialises women and pregnant people as timely reproductive
subjects, as those who may make themselves free of gestational labour, if they keep to time …

Transnational law and regulation is pluralistic and often characterised by friction between
multiple or conflicting regimes. It is an area where socio-legal studies can make a real …