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Global poverty and the politics of good intentions /Sundhya Pahuja --Human rights and development : a fragmented discourse /Issa G. Shivji --Rights and development : a social power perspective /Ananya Mukherjee-Reed --Is a new 'TREMF' human rights paradigm emerging? Evidence from Nigeria /Obiora Chinedu Okafor --The transformation of Africa : a critique of rights in transitional justice /Makau W. Mutua --Marks indicating conditions of origin in rights-based sustainable development /Nicole Aylwin and Rosemary J. Coombe --Rethinking the convergence of human rights and labour rights in international law : depoliticisation and excess /Vidya Kumar --Measuring the world : indicators, human rights and global governance /Sally Engle Merry --Governing by measuring : the millenium development goals in global governance /Kerry Rittich --Reparations and development /Naomi Roht-Arriaza --Making history or making peace : when prosecutions should give way to truth commissions and peace negotiations /Martha Minow --Transitional justice as global project : critical reflections /Rosemary Nagy --Holding up a mirror to the process of transition? The coercive sterilisation of Romani women in the Czech Republic post-1991 /Morag Goodwin --Symptoms of sovereignty? Apologies, indigenous rights and reconciliation in Australia and Canada /Kirsten Anker --Working through 'bitter experiences' towards a purified European identity? A critique of the disregard for history in European constitutional theory and practice /Christian Joerges --The trials of history : losing justice in the monstrous and the banal /Vasuki Nesiah --Sociological jurisprudence 2.0 : updating law's inter-disciplinarity in a global context /Peer Zumbansen --Epilogue:Progressive law versus the critique of law & development : strategies of double agency revisited /Bryant G. Garth.

1. Incitement to justice : Fitzpatrick's citations as counter-imperialism / Marianne Constable -- 2. Reading Thomas Hobbes : Peter Fitzpatrick's gentle deconstructionist style / James Martel -- 3. Unconditional laws and ungovernable sovereigns / George Pavlich -- 4. Democracy's ruins, democracy's archive / Paul A. Passavant -- 5. Living in internal law / Fleur Johns -- 6. The World Trade Organization and Fitzpatrick's "new constitutionalism" / Fiona Macmillan -- 7. Derrida's territorial knowledge of justice / William E. Conklin -- 8. Reading Luther : law, modernity, and psychoanalysis / Judith Grbich -- 9. Totemic immimanence : Peter Fitzpatrick's liminal contemplation of law / Johan van der Walt -- 10. "The obliging etymology of 'nomos'" : Peter Fitzpatrick and the aesthetics of law / Carrol Clarkson -- 11. Writing by firelight : constructing an enduring consciousness of post-coloniality / Abdul Paliwala -- 12. Reading slowly : the law of literature and the literature of law / Peter Fitzpatrick.

Since the mid-twentieth century, 'international law' and 'international development' have become two of the most prominent secular languages through which aspirations about a better world are articulated. They have shaped the both the treatment and self-understanding of the 'developing' world, often by positing the West as a universal model against which developing states, their citizens, and natural environments should be measured and disciplined. In recent years, however, critical scholars have investigated the deep linkages between the concept of development, the doctrines and institutions of international law, and broader projects of ordering at the international level. They have shown how the leading models de-radicalise, if not derail, initiatives to redefine development and pursue other forms of global well-being. Bringing together scholars from both the Global South and the Global North, the contributions in this Handbook invite readers to consider the limits of common normative and developmentalist assumptions. At the same time, the Handbook demonstrates how disparate but still identifiable set of ideas, imaginaries, norms, and institutional practices - related to law, development and international governance - shape today's profoundly unequal material conditions, threatening the future of human and nonhuman life on the planet. The book focuses on five distinct areas: existing disciplinary frameworks, institutions and actors, regional theatres of international law and development, competing social and economic agendas, and alternative futures.

Since the mid-twentieth century, 'international law' and 'international development' have become two of the most prominent secular languages through which aspirations about a better world are articulated. They have shaped the both the treatment and self-understanding of the 'developing' world, often by positing the West as a universal model against which developing states, their citizens, and natural environments should be measured and disciplined. In recent years, however, critical scholars have investigated the deep linkages between the concept of development, the doctrines and institutions of international law, and broader projects of ordering at the international level. They have shown how the leading models de-radicalise, if not derail, initiatives to redefine development and pursue other forms of global well-being. Bringing together scholars from both the Global South and the Global North, the contributions in this Handbook invite readers to consider the limits of common normative and developmentalist assumptions. At the same time, the Handbook demonstrates how disparate but still identifiable set of ideas, imaginaries, norms, and institutional practices - related to law, development and international governance - shape today's profoundly unequal material conditions, threatening the future of human and nonhuman life on the planet. The book focuses on five distinct areas: existing disciplinary frameworks, institutions and actors, regional theatres of international law and development, competing social and economic agendas, and alternative futures.