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...

The field of new governance has generated passionate debate about the potential effects of its efforts to democratize political decision making through the bottom-up production of law. Some analysts suggest that new governance may reinforce neoliberal efforts to replace the state with market...

This chapter describes ADR as a paradigmatic form of contemporary legal thought and suggests that its vision of localized collaborative problem-solving points towards a reconstructed idea of “the social.” This collaborative or relational social strives to collapse what are often considered...