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Benedict Kingsbury

Benedict Kingsbury

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D-Index
33
Citations
8865
World Ranking
194
National Ranking
147

Overview

Benedict Kingsbury is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily spans Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a focus on Political Science and International Relations, Law, Economics and Econometrics, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment as subfields.

The topics covered in their work include Climate Change Policy and Economics, Water Governance and Infrastructure, Legal Issues in South Africa, Law in Society and Culture, International Law and Human Rights, and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies.

Recent papers authored by Benedict Kingsbury include:

  • Infrastructures and Laws: Publics and Publicness (2021, Annual Review of Law and Social Science)
  • Introduction to the Symposium on Infrastructuring International Law (2023, AJIL Unbound)
  • Sensoring the Oceans: The Argo Floats Array in the Governance of Science Data Infrastructures (2024, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kingsbury are:

  • Richard B. Stewart
  • Bryce Rudyk
  • Nahuel Maisley
  • Angelina Fisher
  • Thomas Streinz

Their scholarly contributions have appeared in venues such as the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, AJIL Unbound, and the SSRN Electronic Journal.

Kingsbury has also published a book titled Climate Finance in 2020, which was released through New York University Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • THE EMERGENCE OF GLOBAL ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

    Benedict Kingsbury;Nico Krisch;Richard B. Stewart

  • The International politics of the environment : actors, interests, and institutions

    Andrew Hurrell;Benedict Kingsbury

  • Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance

    Kevin E. Davis;Benedict Kingsbury;Sally Engle Merry

  • Governance by Indicators: Global Power through Classification and Rankings

    Kevin Davis;Angelina Fisher;Benedict Kingsbury;Sally Engle Merry

  • Introduction: global governance and global administrative law in the international legal order

    Nico Krisch;Benedict Kingsbury

  • “Indigenous Peoples” in International Law: A Constructivist Approach to the Asian Controversy

    Benedict Kingsbury

  • Sovereignty and Inequality

    Benedict Kingsbury

  • The quiet power of indicators: Measuring governance, corruption, and rule of law

    Sally Engle Merry;Kevin E. Davis;Benedict Kingsbury

  • The Concept of ‘Law’ in Global Administrative Law

    Benedict Kingsbury

  • The International Politics of the Environment.

    Richard B. Bilder;Joan E. Donoghue;Andrew Hurrell;Benedict Kingsbury

  • Global administrative law dimensions of international organizations law

    Benedict Kingsbury;Lorenzo Casini

  • Hugo Grotius and international relations

    Hedley Bull;Benedict Kingsbury;Adam Roberts

  • The Concept of Compliance as a Function of Competing Conceptions of International Law

    Benedict Kingsbury

  • Introduction: Global Governance by Indicators

    Kevin E. Davis;Benedict Kingsbury;Benedict Kingsbury;Sally Engle Merry

  • Indigenous Peoples of Asia

    R. H. Barnes;Andrew Gray;Benedict Kingsbury

  • Public Law Concepts to Balance Investors’ Rights with State Regulatory Actions in the Public Interest - The Concept of Proportionality

    Stephan Schill;Benedict Kingsbury

  • Investor-State Arbitration as Governance: Fair and Equitable Treatment, Proportionality and the Emerging Global Administrative Law

    Benedict Kingsbury;Stephan W. Schill

  • Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development

    Richard B. Stewart;Benedict Kingsbury;Bryce Rudyk

  • Claims by Non-State Groups in International Law

    Benedict Kingsbury

  • Introduction: Grotian Thought in International Relations

    Benedict Kingsbury;Adam Roberts

  • Reconciling Five Competing Conceptual Structures of Indigenous Peoples' Claims in International and Comparative law

    Benedict Kingsbury

  • Foreword: Global Governance as Administration - National and Transnational Approaches to Global Administrative Law

    Benedict Kingsbury;Nico Krisch;Richard B. Stewart;Jonathan B. Wiener

  • The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations

    Benedict Kingsbury;Benjamin Straumann

  • United nations, divided world

    John C. Campbell;Adam Roberts;Benedict Kingsbury

  • United Nations, divided world : the UN's roles in international relations

    Adam Roberts;Benedict Kingsbury

Frequent Co-Authors

Sally Engle Merry
Sally Engle Merry New York University
Adam Roberts
Adam Roberts University of Oxford
Allen Buchanan
Allen Buchanan University of Arizona
Joseph H. H. Weiler
Joseph H. H. Weiler New York University
Philip Alston
Philip Alston New York University

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