Luis Eslava is a lecturer in international law at Kent Law School, a senior fellow at Melbourne Law School, and an international professor at Universidad Externado de Colombia. He teaches and writes in the areas of international law, international legal theory and history, anthropology of international law, public law, law and development, and urban law and politics.

'Every now and then, books come along which make us look afresh at things we thought we knew. Local Space, Global Life is one of those books. Eslava's meticulous analysis of the way international law shapes daily life in the Global South is given life by a resistant sensibility and fluency across disciplines. Considered through his lens, international law will never look the same again.' Sundhya Pahuja, University of Melbourne, and author of Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality

• 1. Introduction; 2. Building the global from the local; 3. Development and the nation-state; 4. Development changes places; 5. The making of a new Bogotá; 6. The local self of the international; 7. Conclusions.

Luis Eslava is a lecturer in international law at Kent Law School, a senior fellow at Melbourne Law School, and an international professor at Universidad Externado de Colombia. He teaches and writes in the areas of international law, international legal theory and history, anthropology of international law, public law, law and development, and urban law and politics.

'Every now and then, books come along which make us look afresh at things we thought we knew. Local Space, Global Life is one of those books. Eslava's meticulous analysis of the way international law shapes daily life in the Global South is given life by a resistant sensibility and fluency across disciplines. Considered through his lens, international law will never look the same again.' Sundhya Pahuja, University of Melbourne, and author of Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality

• 1. Introduction; 2. Building the global from the local; 3. Development and the nation-state; 4. Development changes places; 5. The making of a new Bogotá; 6. The local self of the international; 7. Conclusions.

Luis Eslava is a lecturer in international law at Kent Law School, a senior fellow at Melbourne Law School, and an international professor at Universidad Externado de Colombia. He teaches and writes in the areas of international law, international legal theory and history, anthropology of international law, public law, law and development, and urban law and politics.

'Every now and then, books come along which make us look afresh at things we thought we knew. Local Space, Global Life is one of those books. Eslava's meticulous analysis of the way international law shapes daily life in the Global South is given life by a resistant sensibility and fluency across disciplines. Considered through his lens, international law will never look the same again.' Sundhya Pahuja, University of Melbourne, and author of Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality

• 1. Introduction; 2. Building the global from the local; 3. Development and the nation-state; 4. Development changes places; 5. The making of a new Bogotá; 6. The local self of the international; 7. Conclusions.