The World Bank's Lawyers

The World Bank's Lawyers
Author: Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2022-09-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 019266168X

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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 observation, interviews, legal memoranda, and documents obtained through freedom-of-information requests, it tells a previously untold story of the World Bank's legal department between 1983 and 2016. This is a story of people and the beliefs they have, the influence they seek, and the tools they employ. It is an account of the practices they cling to and how these practices gain traction, or how they fail to do so, in an international bureaucracy. Inspired by actor-network theory, relational sociologies of association, and performativity theory, this ethnographic exploration multiplies the matters of concern in our study of international law (and lawyering): the human and non-human, material and semantic, visible and evasive actants that tie together the fragile fabric of legality. In tracing these threads, this book signals important changes in the conceptual repertoire and materiality of international legal practice, as liberal ideals were gradually displaced by managerial modes of evaluation. It reveals a world teeming with life—a space where professional postures and prototypes, aesthetic styles, and technical routines are woven together in law's shifting mode of existence. This history of international law as a contingent cultural technique enriches our understanding of the discipline's disenchantment and the displacement of its traditional tropes by unexpected and unruly actors. It thereby inspires new ways of critical thinking about international law's political pathways, promises, and pathologies, as its language is inscribed in ever-evolving rationalities of rule.

Women, Business and the Law

Women, Business and the Law
Author: The World Bank
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2013-11-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1472906454

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Women perform 66% of the world's work, produce 50% of the food, but earn 10% of the income and own 1% of the property. To shed light on why this grim statistic still holds true, Women, Business and the Law aims to examine legal differentiations on the basis of gender in 143 of the world's economies. Women, Business and the Law tracks governments' actions to expand economic opportunities for women across six key areas: accessing institutions, using property, getting a job, providing incentives to work, building credit and going to court. The report uncovers legal differentiations for women and married versus unmarried women such as being able to register a business, open a bank account and work at night. These issues are of fundamental importance. When, because of tradition, social taboos or simple prejudice, half of the world's population is prevented from making its contribution to the life of a nation, the economy will suffer. The empirical evidence does suggest that, slowly but surely, governments are making progress in expanding opportunities for women. It is our hope that data presented in Women, Business and the Law will both facilitate research on linkages between legal differentiation and outcomes for women, and promote better informed policy choices on what governments can do to expand opportunities for women.

The World Bank Legal Papers

The World Bank Legal Papers
Author: Ibrahim F.I. Shihata
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 969
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9004502815

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The World Bank Legal Review

The World Bank Legal Review
Author: Hassane Cisse
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0821395076

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The fourth volume of the World Bank Legal Review contains essays that examine how innovations in law, and efforts to empower the poor, can help achieve development objectives.

Women, Business and the Law 2021

Women, Business and the Law 2021
Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2021-04-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1464816530

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Women, Business and the Law 2021 is the seventh in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. The project presents eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law as they move through their lives and careers: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension. This year’s report updates all indicators as of October 1, 2020 and builds evidence of the links between legal gender equality and women’s economic inclusion. By examining the economic decisions women make throughout their working lives, as well as the pace of reform over the past 50 years, Women, Business and the Law 2021 makes an important contribution to research and policy discussions about the state of women’s economic empowerment. Prepared during a global pandemic that threatens progress toward gender equality, this edition also includes important findings on government responses to COVID-19 and pilot research related to childcare and women’s access to justice.

The World Bank's Lawyers

The World Bank's Lawyers
Author: Dimitri van den Meerssche
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2022-10-07
Genre: International law
ISBN: 0192846493

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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 observation, interviews, legal memoranda, and documents obtained through freedom-of-information requests, it tells a previously untold story of the World Bank's legal department between 1983 and 2016. This is a story of people and the beliefs they have, the influence they seek, and the tools they employ. It is an account of the practices they cling to and how these practices gain traction, or how they fail to do so, in an international bureaucracy. Inspired by actor-network theory, relational sociologies of association, and performativity theory, this ethnographic exploration multiplies the matters of concern in our study of international law (and lawyering): the human and non-human, material and semantic, visible and evasive actants that tie together the fragile fabric of legality. In tracing these threads, this book signals important changes in the conceptual repertoire and materiality of international legal practice, as liberal ideals were gradually displaced by managerial modes of evaluation. It reveals a world teeming with life--a space where professional postures and prototypes, aesthetic styles, and technical routines are woven together in law's shifting mode of existence. This history of international law as a contingent cultural technique enriches our understanding of the discipline's disenchantment and the displacement of its traditional tropes by unexpected and unruly actors. It thereby inspires new ways of critical thinking about international law's political pathways, promises, and pathologies, as its language is inscribed in ever-evolving rationalities of rule.

International Financial Institutions and International Law

International Financial Institutions and International Law
Author: Daniel D. Bradlow
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9041128816

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The fundamental recognition in this book is that the issue of what international legal principles are applicable to the operations of the IFIs is an important topic that would benefit from more rigorous study. Twelve deeply committed contributors - whose work spans the academic, policy, and activist spectrum - suggest that a better understanding of these legal issues could help both the organizations and their Member States structure their transactions in ways that are more compatible with their developmental objectives and their international responsibilities.

The Keys to Banking Law

The Keys to Banking Law
Author: Karol K. Sparks
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Banking law
ISBN: 9781614386988

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This handbook provides the reader with a thorough history of banking law and illustrates how today's system of financial regulation is unlike anything else in the world. New and experienced lawyers representing banks need to understand a bank's specific structure, the importance of capital, and the new language that has formed. A reference list is included with definitions on current "Bank Speak."

The World Bank's Lawyers

The World Bank's Lawyers
Author: Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
Publisher:
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2019
Genre: International agencies
ISBN:

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In the landscape of global governance, international institutions have emerged as productive sites for the incubation, circulation and mediation of international law. Legal labor and imagination have often appeared as essential to the manner in which the powers of these potent actors are rationalized or legitimized and to the ways in which their (reformist, operational, political or epistemic) practices are conceptualized, enacted or - occasionally and increasingly - contested. International law, as both a domain of legal knowledge and a (variable) set of material practices, thereby produces artefacts and value objects that perform pivotal roles in international institutional life. Yet, the academic field of international institutional law - marked by a doctrinal and normative inclination - has traditionally underplayed (or ignored) the constitutive importance of legal practices and the performative effects these engender in concrete institutional spaces. The vector of intellectual engagement in this domain of scholarship, in other words, has traditionally pointed towards abstraction, comparison or aspiration. In contrast - drawing on a largely unexplored archive and a Latourian methodological apparatus - this dissertation provides an original empirical account of the evolution in legal thinking and practice inside one specific organization at the heart of global governance: the World Bank (the 'Bank'). At the heart of this narrative are the Bank's lawyers. It is a story of people and the beliefs they have, the postures they adopt, the influence they seek and the intellectual tools they employ - from the inner workings of their syllogisms down to the material manifestations of their institutional interventions. It is a story of the practices they cling to and the ways through which these practices gain meaning and traction in a potent international bureaucracy - or how they fail to do so. In a broader sense, it is thereby also a story on the phenomenological life of international law, as it is imagined, constructed and applied. It is a story of an office space inhabited by General Counsels who have intervened in the operational and political practice of the Bank in myriad different ways, wielding diverging degrees of bureaucratic power and employing varying legal vocabularies and techniques. It is a story of evershifting structures of discourse and authority that are assembled and mobilized through these institutional interventions of legal expertise. In narrating this story, the dissertation reveals a profound transformation in the conceptual repertoire, ideology and professional sensibility of legal practice in the Bank, where the (liberal) trusteeship ideal of international law(yering) gradually disintegrated in corporate, managerial modes of evaluation and decision-making. In this sense, the story unfolds as a rise-and-fall tragedy of public international law's fate as a performative enterprise and authoritative discourse inside the Bank. Yet, the narrative is not aimed at nostalgia. Its aim, rather, is to disentangle the relational effects engendered by legal practices and performances in their continuously evolving manifestations. In that sense, this is a story of the ever-changing politics of legality in the Bank.

The World Bank Legal Review, Volume 5

The World Bank Legal Review, Volume 5
Author: Hassane Cisse
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2013-11-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1464800383

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This volume explores the potentially transformative role of effective laws and legal institutions in providing people with more opportunity that is both inclusive and equitable.