Gregory C. Shaffer is the Melvin C. Steen Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Political Science. His publications include Dispute Settlement at the WTO: The Developing Country Experience (2010), When Cooperation Fails: The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods (2009), Defending Interests: Public-Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation (2003), Transatlantic Governance in the Global Economy (with Mark Pollack, 2001) and more than seventy articles and book chapters.

'This path-breaking collection, excellently edited by Gregory Shaffer, includes theoretically sophisticated chapters by top scholars examining a variety of processes of transnational legal ordering affecting developing countries. Drawing on rich empirical materials, the authors show us how the different results of such interventions arise from a complex but understandable process involving local, national and international institutions.' David Nelken, Distinguished Research Professor of Law, Cardiff Law School

• 1. Transnational legal ordering and state change Gregory Shaffer; 2. The dimensions and determinants of state change Gregory Shaffer; 3. Similar in their differences: transnational legal processes addressing money laundering in Brazil and Argentina Maira Machado; 4. Architects of the state: international organizations and the reconstruction of states in East Asia Terrence Halliday; 5. Neoliberalism, transnational education norms, and education spending in the developing world, 1983–2004 Minzee Kim and Elizabeth Boyle; 6. Access to medicines and the transformation of the South African state Heinz Klug; 7. The limits of transnational transformations of the state: comparative regulatory regimes in water services delivery Bronwen Morgan; 8. Conclusion: the study of transnational legal ordering Gregory Shaffer.

Gregory C. Shaffer is the Melvin C. Steen Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Political Science. His publications include Dispute Settlement at the WTO: The Developing Country Experience (2010), When Cooperation Fails: The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods (2009), Defending Interests: Public-Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation (2003), Transatlantic Governance in the Global Economy (with Mark Pollack, 2001) and more than seventy articles and book chapters.

'This path-breaking collection, excellently edited by Gregory Shaffer, includes theoretically sophisticated chapters by top scholars examining a variety of processes of transnational legal ordering affecting developing countries. Drawing on rich empirical materials, the authors show us how the different results of such interventions arise from a complex but understandable process involving local, national and international institutions.' David Nelken, Distinguished Research Professor of Law, Cardiff Law School

• 1. Transnational legal ordering and state change Gregory Shaffer; 2. The dimensions and determinants of state change Gregory Shaffer; 3. Similar in their differences: transnational legal processes addressing money laundering in Brazil and Argentina Maira Machado; 4. Architects of the state: international organizations and the reconstruction of states in East Asia Terrence Halliday; 5. Neoliberalism, transnational education norms, and education spending in the developing world, 1983–2004 Minzee Kim and Elizabeth Boyle; 6. Access to medicines and the transformation of the South African state Heinz Klug; 7. The limits of transnational transformations of the state: comparative regulatory regimes in water services delivery Bronwen Morgan; 8. Conclusion: the study of transnational legal ordering Gregory Shaffer.