The politics of private transnational governance by contract / edited by A. Claire Cutler and Thomas Dietz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The politics of private transnational governance by contract : introduction and analytical framework / A. Claire Cutler and Thomas Dietz -- Contract as normative regulation and the implied rule of law / Christopher May -- Governance by contract from a perspective of power : the case of land grabbing / Doris Fuchs and Anne Hennings -- Private transnational governance in global value chains : contract as a neglected dimension / A. Claire Cutler -- The new gatekeeper : ethical audits as a mechanism of global value chain governance / Genevieve LeBaron, Jane Lister, and Peter Dauvergne -- Relational contracts 2.0 : efficiency and power / Thomas Dietz -- Arbitration as transnational governance : legitimacy beyond contract / Fabien Geĺinas -- Private arbitration as a mechanism for the construction of contractual norms in private-public relationships : the case of investor-state arbitration / Edward Cohen -- Theorizing private transnational governance by contract in the investor-state regime / A. Claire Cutler and David Lark -- Contractual governance and sectoral fragmentation of transnational contract law / Joshua Karton -- Transnational carbon contracting : why law's invisibility matters / Natasha Affolder -- Merchants of hegemony : neoliberalism and the legitimacy of private contractual governance in the transnational cotton trade / Amy A. Quark -- Regulating private military security companies by contract : between anarchy and hierarchy? / A. Claire Cutler and Stephanie Law -- Conclusion : empire through contract : a private international law perspective / Horatia Muir Watt.