The paper engages a new wave of literature on the increasing incidence of borrowing of economic regulation and policy amongst Global South economies, termed "horizontal learning." Substantively, the paper considers India's adoption of special economic zones (SEZs) as a development strategy to...

This paper asserts that the narrative of economic development where it meets globalization is, in India, sufficiently vacuous, flexible, and fungible as to be appropriated by ideologically separate political groups. The paper tests the political use of development narratives in...

This paper considers a relationship between what it identifies as the Roberts Court's re-engagement of economic rights with sustained debate on issues of structural economics. In the first section, I explore the ways in which the contemporary U.S. Supreme Court, despite assigning the lowest...

This chapter examines right-to-food jurisprudence and activism in India. When Indian jurists and policymakers recognized a right to food, they were mindful of rights critique and did not articulate a narrow juridical entitlement that an individual, with sufficient resources, could attempt to...

Most scholars attribute the development and ubiquity of global value chains to economic forces, treating law as an exogenous factor, if at all. By contrast, we assert the centrality of legal regimes and private ordering mechanisms to the creation, structure, geography, distributive effects and...

This article highlights a counterintuitive dynamic of neoliberal globalization. India has controversially liberalized foreign investment rules in the politically sensitive food retail sector. Critics argue that India bowed to pressure from multinational corporations, consistent with a common...