Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Keywords
Governance, labour law
Abstract
This essay explores how such “governance by knowledge” interacts with international law’s “governance by norm,” through a case study of the World Bank’s Doing Business project and the International Labour Organization (ILO)’s responses to it. I contend that Doing Business ultimately rests on “bad science,” and thus offers a potent illustration of the power wielded by actors who claim “technical” knowledge. I argue that those who fail to engage with the technicalities of the knowledge claims that ground projects like Doing Business, and who instead meet such projects primarily through the idiom of (international) legal normativity, may have already lost the battle for influence.
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Recommended Citation
Liam McHugh-Russell, "International Labor Law and Its Others: Governance by Norm Versus Governance by Knowledge" (2019) 113 AJIL Unbound 402.
Publication Abbreviation
AJIL Unbound
