Contractual Knowledge

Grégoire Mallard is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology of Development at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Jérôme Sgard is Professor of Political Economy at Sciences Po, Paris.

1. Contractual knowledge: one hundred years of legal experimentation in global markets Grégoire Mallard and Jérôme Sgard; Part I. Writing Sovereign Debt Obligations: The Evolution of Contractual Provisions: 2. Financial markets, international organizations, and conditional lending: a long-term perspective Juan H. Florès; 3. When governments write contracts: policy and expertise in sovereign debt markets W. Mark C. Weidemaier, Mitu Gulati and Anna Gelpern; 4. Market rules: social conventions, legal fictions, and the organization of sovereign debt markets in the long twentieth century Stephen C. Nelson; Part II. Consolidating International Organizations: The Mobilization of Social Capital and the Standardization of Interpretive Processes: 5. A tale of three cities: the construction of international commercial arbitration Jérôme Sgard; 6. Constructing a transatlantic marketplace of disputes: on the symbolic foundations of international justice Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth; 7. The duty to repair in practice: the hundred years history of a legal concept Ariel Colonomos and Grégoire Mallard; 8. The changing ideas about valuation mechanisms in the interwar period: Toeplitz, Marlio and the 'great transformation' Marco Bertilorenzi and Giuseppe Telesca; Part III. Structuring Fields: Market Dominance, Complementarity, and Differentiation in Complex Institutional Ecologies: 9. The rise and fall of trade and monetary legal orders: from the interwar period to today's global imbalances Gregory Shaffer and Michael Waibel; 10. Credit ratings and global economic governance: non-price valuation in financial markets Bruce G. Carruthers; 11. Contracts and private law in the emerging ecology of international lawmaking Susan Block-Lieb and Terence Halliday.