Publication: “Expert Ignorance”

This recent book by project member Deval Desai explores the concept of ‘expert ignorance’, whereby ideas about the ‘rule of law’ remain undefined and are indeed kept underdetermined by structures of expertise. This, in turn, regulates their ability to travel beyond their context, for example, in their application in the Global South. Desai’s interdisciplinary approach spans legal theory, development practice, global economic governance and sociology to demonstrate “the enduring power of proclaiming what one does not know.”

Expert Ignorance is published by Cambridge University Press as part of the Cambridge Studies in Transnational Law series, and is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.