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Situating (Sustainable) Development and Non-State Actors in International Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2025
The introductory chapter briefly describes the book’s somewhat unorthodox objects of (legal) inquiry, namely, the IFIs’ environmental and social policies and the independent accountability mechanisms, and explains how they are interpreted in the book. The chapter contextualizes the research question within the broader themes and debates about "soft law" and subjecthood or participation in the international legal order. It also sketches an analytical framework for finding the place of development, its sustainability, and non-State actors like individuals within international law, before proceeding to present the elements of the main claim: IFIs are lawmakers in the field of sustainable development, but their weak accountability to non-State actors harmed by noncompliance with their own environmental and social policies undermines the performance of their sustainability-oriented and do-no-harm legal mandates
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