ABSTRACT
Revealing the legal technologies, broadly understood, by which market value is prioritised over social value remains one of the most urgent tasks for those engaged in questions of law and political economy critique. In recent years, this critique has importantly tackled legal technologies relating to the legitimation and fortification of the neoliberal order. This chapter focuses on a consequence of neoliberalism, and yet a decided departure from what the neoliberals of the Mont Pelerin Society had envisaged: rentier capitalism. In particular, the author is interested in the relationship between international law and imperialism as key components in the transformation of the state into facilitator of rent-seeking practices. For the purposes of the chapter, the author explores rentier capitalism from the perspective of the international legal transformation of the nation state into real estate.
