Legal Heterodoxy in the Global South

Kevin E. Davis is a leading scholar of the relationship between law and economic development. His publications include Between Impunity and Imperialism: The Regulation of Transnational Bribery (2019) as well as Governance by Indicators: Global Power Through Quantification and Rankings (2012, with Kingsbury and Merry). Mariana Pargendler is a leading scholar on corporate law and contract law from economic and comparative perspectives. She is coauthor of The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach (3rd ed, 2017) and the recipient of writing prizes from the European Corporate Governance Institute and the American Society of Comparative Law.

• 1. Legal heterodoxy in the global South: adapting private laws to local contexts Kevin E. Davis and Mariana Pargendler; 2. Contract law and inequality in the global South Kevin E. Davis and Mariana Pargendler: Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa; 3. Reducing inequality in consumer transactions: the significance of aggravated vulnerabilities María Guadalupe and Martínez Alles; 4. Contracts, inequality and the State: Contract law ultra-heterodoxy in China Weitseng Chen; 5. Tort law heterodoxy in China Benjamin Liebman, Rachel E. Stern, Wenwa Gao and Xiaohan Wu; 6. Evictions during the pandemic: an empirical discussion from the Brazilian law perspective Bianca Tavolari and Saylon A. Pereira; 7. Heterodox legal informality: some examples from Latin America Jorge L. Esquirol; 8. Heterodoxy of the Brazilian supreme court: setting a new precedent as response to ultra-ortodoxy of the patent law system Carlos Portugal Gouvêa; 9. The political economy of India's corporate social responsibility reforms Vikramaditya S. Khanna; 10. Corporate law in the Global South: heterodox stakeholderism Mariana Pargendler; 11. Global legal pluralism and the rights of nature Daniel Bonilla Maldonado.