I have conducted this multifaceted project with Jérôme Sgard from 2012 up to 2016, with the support of Northwestern University and SciencesPo Paris, and with Pierre Pénet. This project has lead to various publications, and has participated in creating an interdisciplinary discussion among sovereign debt specialists who now regularly meet as part of the "DebtCon" conferences.
Contractual Knowledge: One Hundred Years of Legal Experimentation in Global Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2016), extends the scholarship of law and globalization in two important directions. First, it provides a unique genealogy of global economic governance by explaining the transition from English law to one where global exchanges are primarily governed by international, multilateral, and finally, transnational legal orders. Second, it explores micro-level aspects of market exchanges, including how and by whom contracts were designed and exactly who (experts, courts, arbitrators, or international organizations) interpreted, upheld, and established the legal validity of these rules.
Various articles and book chapters on the politics of sovereign debt have also come out from this project, including articles on the role of anticipatory knowledge practices by credit rating agencies and central banks in the 2008 sovereign debt crisis, particularly in Europe. Other publications include the historical analysis of debates on sovereign debt crises in the 1920s in Europe, which I also explore in more details in my second monograph, Gift Exchange.
Publications
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Africas Rising in the 21st Century: The 21st Century Promise?
Grégoire Mallard, Dominic Eggel and Marc Galvin. June 24, 2024 |
1 Jun 2024 |
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We Owe You Nothing: The Limits of the Legal Mobilization for a New International Economic Order.
Grégoire Mallard. 2021. |
1 Dec 2021 |
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Post-Colonial Odious Debt.
Grégoire Mallard. April 2021 |
1 Apr 2021 |
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Governing Capital, Labor and Nature in a Changing World
Gopalan Balachandran and Grégoire Mallard, with Olufunmilayo Arewa, Lucio Baccaro, Tim Büthe, Andrea Nightingale, Pierre Pénet, Dominique Pestre, Anthea Roberts. 2017 |
1 Dec 2017 |
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Contractual Knowledge: One Hundred Years of Legal Experimentation in Global Markets
Grégoire Mallard and Jérôme Sgard (editors). 2016. Cambridge University Press. |
1 Dec 2016 |
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Contractual Knowledge: One Hundred Years of Legal Experimentation in Global Markets
Grégoire Mallard and Jérôme Sgard. 2016 |
1 Dec 2016 |
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7. |
The Duty to Repair in Practice: The Hundred Years History of a Legal Concept
Ariel Colonomos and Grégoire Mallard. 2016 |
1 Dec 2016 |
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From Risk Models to Loan Contracts: Austerity as the Continuation of Calculation by Other Means
Pierre Pénet and Grégoire Mallard. 2014 |
1 Dec 2014 |
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Seeing Like a Credit Rating Agency: The constitution of Financial Uncertainties During the Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis
Grégoire Mallard and Pierre Pénet. 2013 |
1 Dec 2013 |
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The Gift Revisited: Marcel Mauss on War, Debt and the Politics of Reparations
Grégoire Mallard. 2011 |
1 Dec 2011 |