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In Gratitude

25.11.2022

Dimitri Van Den Meerssche

One of the most challenging parts of writing The World Bank’s Lawyers was coming to terms with its closure – the closure of its cover, its core claims, the changes...

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Disentangling Global Governance

25.11.2022

Gail Lythgoe

Whatever happened to chaos theory anyway? Its heyday seems to be over within social sciences at least. With a longer history in ‘natural’ or ‘hard’ sciences, the theory became big...

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The Firm

24.11.2022

Negar Mansouri

In his ethnographic book on the World Bank, Goldman describes the bank as “a fickle place to experience and comprehend. Mental maps mislead, directional signs baffle, and paths through it...

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International Institutional Law “Under the Radar”

23.11.2022

Michael Riegner

When I arrived at the World Bank in Washington D.C. in 2014, the Bank was in the process of incorporating a new agenda on security, conflict and fragility in its...

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A New Map of (International Law’s) Empire?

22.11.2022

Guy Fiti Sinclair

In a (very) short story, “On Exactitude in Science”, Jorge Luis Borges tells how, in a certain Empire, “the Art of Cartography” had “attained such Perfection” that eventually “a Map...

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Unsettling the Place of Law in International Organizations

21.11.2022

Isobel Roele

In The World Bank’s Lawyers Dimitri Van Den Meerssche does a great service to legal scholarship on international organizations by insisting that the place of law therein is not guaranteed,...

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The World Bank’s Lawyers: Book Launch

21.11.2022

Florenz Volkaert Tommaso Soave Ahmed Memon Gail Lythgoe Negar Mansouri Dimitri Van Den Meerssche

On Wednesday 16 November, the ESIL Interest Groups on History of Intentional Law and International Organisations and Völkerrechtsblog, hosted a book launch for The World Bank’s Lawyers by Dr. Dimitri...

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Ever Shifting, Ever Changing

21.11.2022

Anna Sophia Tiedeke

As international scholars, we have been trained to accept a certain role law occupies in international and global settings, and have adopted a very peculiar perspective on how to study...

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