Law

From investment treaties to human rights standards, we explore how to use the law to promote equity, sustainability and resource justice

Also related to

Investment treaties

International law

Indigenous Peoples

Aerial view of a village surrounded by vegetation

Law, economies and justice: a new programme

Lorenzo Cotula outlines a new IIED programme exploring the role of law in strategies to promote fairer, more sustainable economies.

04 October 2022

Three people working in a paddy field.

Investment governance in Cambodia: a window of opportunity

Thy Thy Try and Anna Bulman
20 May 2022

Screenshot of map

Mapping community development requirements in the mining sector

April 2021 - ongoing

Wildlige graze in the foreground of a rural scene with a road and trees and mountains in the background.

Special Economic Zones: global trends and issues in Senegal and Madagascar

Event on 21 September 2022

A woman picks beans. She carries a basket with aubergines with her head.

Inclusive dialogue gets priorities of Nepal’s rural producers recognised in local law

Binod Gautam
25 July 2022

Related collections

Learn more about focused areas of IIED's law work

Law, economies and justice

A collaborative programme of work on renegotiating the law to promote fairer, more sustainable economies

collection badge

What works for women’s land rights?

A series of blogs looking at ways to strengthen women’s access to and control over land in Africa

Publications

View more Law publications

21051IIED.pdf

Supporting small-scale farmer agency in commercial agriculture: Collective learning on the role of socio-legal empowerment from an international action-research project

20841x.pdf

International investment agreements and climate action

20686g.pdf

Possible reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS): the assessment of damages and compensation

20521g.pdf

Submission on Third-Party Funding Initial Draft

17778IIED.pdf

Land reforms in Guinea: challenges and prospects for the recognition of legitimate rights

20291x.pdf

Labour rights in Special Economic Zones: between unilateralism and transnational law diffusion

20286x.pdf

EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: an appraisal of its sustainable development section

20116x.pdf

Public Participation and Investment Treaties: towards a New Settlement?

12613IIED.pdf

Contracts in commercial agriculture: enhancing rural producer agency

17777IIED.pdf

How contracts affect the agency of rural producers

Aerial view of a village surrounded by vegetation

Law, economies and justice: a new programme

Blog, 04 October 2022

Wildlige graze in the foreground of a rural scene with a road and trees and mountains in the background.

Special Economic Zones: global trends and issues in Senegal and Madagascar

Event on 21 September 2022

Tea plantation with many people carrying baskets on their backs.

Legal empowerment with a gender lens: how women tea farmers in Malawi are claiming their rights

Blog, 25 August 2022

A woman picks beans. She carries a basket with aubergines with her head.

Inclusive dialogue gets priorities of Nepal’s rural producers recognised in local law

Blog, 25 July 2022

A man hoeing ground that is dry and cracked.

Moving forward with communal land rights in Ethiopia: what are the legal solutions?

Blog, 24 June 2022

Aerial view of a forest in Cameroon.

Navigating the challenges of land-based investment governance

Blog, 10 June 2022

Three people working in a paddy field.

Investment governance in Cambodia: a window of opportunity

Blog, 20 May 2022

Five chimneys. Two of them releasing smoke.

Why the ‘climate club’ needs to take on investment rules

Blog, 14 March 2022

The edge of a cliff falls away into the water.

International investment agreements (IIAs) and climate action

Event on 04 February 2022

A group of people sit on the floor in a circle. A woman on her feet is reading from a paper. Some other people are no their feet and holding hands in the air.

Legal empowerment as action research

Blog, 11 January 2022