'Epistemic Communities in International Law' by Andrea Bianchi
LCIL International Law Centre Podcast
The Epistemic Community of International Investment Professionals
There are exogenous, often objective elements of fact which a particular community might describe. So for example, it may be seen as an objective fact by policy makers, but inflation often results from dovish central bankers. And we of course also see the emergence of epistemic communities and their changing of configuration. When the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes was created back in the 1960s, there was no Epistemic community. The World Bank invited a group of international lawyers to negotiate a convention. They all spoke a similar language, but they disagreed in important ways about how this new institution should be configured. This has become a closed-knit community that has certain shared background of
