Johanna Aleria Lorenzo is an Assistant Professor in Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam. Her perspective on international law's interaction with development, sustainability, and global economic governance, is informed by her upbringing, education, and professional experience in Asia, the United States, and Europe. Johanna received the Ambrose Gherini Prize, the highest prize awarded in the field of international law by Yale Law School, for her doctoral dissertation on which this book is based.