In April 2010 the International Finance Corporation announced the creation of the African, Latin American, and Caribbean fund, a new co-investment vehicle funded largely with commitments from sovereign wealth and pension funds. The fund's objective was to draw on the IFC and the World Bank's...

In June 2008, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie, submitted the final report of his initial three-year mandate. The Report, titled Protect, Respect and Remedy: A Framework for...

Foreign direct investment is commonly believed to have a stabilizing effect in countries receiving investments, and is believed to lead to positive development outcomes. This chapter pushes back on these assumptions. Informed by nearly four years of intermittent ethnographic fieldwork in the...

Conference proceeding of the American Society of International Law. This panel was convened at 10:45 a.m., Friday, March 27, by its moderator, Penelope Simons of the University of Ottawa, who introduced the panelists: John G. Ruggie of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Special...

The essay explores the development of transnational women's networks in Guatemala and the connections of Guatemalan transnational networks to internal and international litigation aimed at reforming Guatemala's Civil Code and modifying constitutional interpretations of Guatemalan gender...

When large-scale mining companies alight in remote locations, their arrival has significant social and environmental effects on the communities and ecosystems that receive them. In recent years, these effects have been measured by impact assessment reports and this article is driven by the...

A state monopoly on customary international law formation was once required and acceptable, given the status states enjoyed as the sole subjects of international law. Since the drafting of the most commonly cited doctrinal sources of customary international law, legal personhood has been...

In April, 2008, World Bank president, Robert Zoellick, called for sovereign wealth funds to invest one percent of their capital in Africa. The result will be the International Finance Corporation's Sovereign Funds Initiative and is an attempt to nurture the potential of sovereign wealth funds to...