Law and Development as a Field of Study: Connecting Law with Development
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Stéphanie de Moerloose
Abstract
This article introduces a series of papers prepared for the “2016 Law and Development Conference: From the Global South Perspectives,” held in Buenos Aires, Argentina and co-sponsored by Universidad Austral, the Law and Development Institute and the Inter-American Development Bank’s Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean (INTAL). The introduction aims to show one of the major contributions from the law and development field of study: scholars reveal the frequent disconnection between law and development; then, by uncovering contextual factors and proposing innovative solutions, they reconnect law with development. This provides an important support for the adoption of national development policies and the implementation of international development projects. Over forty years after the seminal paper by Trubek and Galanter,[1] scholars are no longer in self-estrangement. The papers presented in the Special Issue illustrate this point.
Acknowledgment
For their support to the 2016 Law and Development Conference in Buenos Aires, which gave rise to this Special Issue, the author would like to thank: at Universidad Austral, Marcelo Meregalli Ferrer, Director of International Programs, Andrés Lafaurie Bornacelli and our great team of student volunteers; at the IADB INTAL, Gustavo Béliz, Director; Ramiro Conte Grand and Ana Inés Basco, Trade and Integration Specialists; and, of course, at the Law and Development Institute, Yong-Shik Lee, Director. The views expressed in this introduction, as well as any errors or omissions, should be attributed solely to the author.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Law and Development as a Field of Study: Connecting Law with Development
- Development and the Rule of Law
- Human Rights for Women in Liberia (and West Africa): Integrating Formal and Informal Rule of Law Reforms through the Carter Center’s Community Justice Advisor Project
- Overcoming Extreme Poverty by Social Protection Floors – Approaches to Closing the Right to Social Security Gap
- Profit, Persuasion, and Fidelity: Why People Follow the Rule of Law
- Justice and the Common Good in Dispute Resolution Discourse in the United States and the People’s Republic of China
- Developmental State
- The Power to Judge, the Power to Act: the Argentine Supreme Court as a Policymaker
- Developmental State No Birth Right: South Africa’s Post-1994 Economic Development Story
- Development and Environment
- Multilateral Development Banks and Sustainable Development: On Emulation, Fragmentation and a Common Law of Sustainable Development
- Environmental Degradation and Economic Development in China: An Interrelated Governance Challenge
- Trade, Investment, and Regional Integration
- The (mis)use of development in international investment law: understanding the jurist’s limits to work with development issues
- Corruption and Development
- Creating an anti-corruption norm in Africa: Critical reflections on legal instrumentalization for development
- Clientelism, Law and Politics. Considerations in the Light of the Argentine Case
- Rising Issues
- The Role of Copyright in Creative Industry Development
- Foreign Aid Reciprocity Agreements: Committing Developing Countries to Improve the Effectiveness of Aid When They Become Donors
- Helping Working Children through Consumocratic LawA Global South Perspective
- Book Review
- Sung-Hee Jwa: A General Theory of Economic Development: Towards a Capitalist Manifesto – A Critical Review
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Law and Development as a Field of Study: Connecting Law with Development
- Development and the Rule of Law
- Human Rights for Women in Liberia (and West Africa): Integrating Formal and Informal Rule of Law Reforms through the Carter Center’s Community Justice Advisor Project
- Overcoming Extreme Poverty by Social Protection Floors – Approaches to Closing the Right to Social Security Gap
- Profit, Persuasion, and Fidelity: Why People Follow the Rule of Law
- Justice and the Common Good in Dispute Resolution Discourse in the United States and the People’s Republic of China
- Developmental State
- The Power to Judge, the Power to Act: the Argentine Supreme Court as a Policymaker
- Developmental State No Birth Right: South Africa’s Post-1994 Economic Development Story
- Development and Environment
- Multilateral Development Banks and Sustainable Development: On Emulation, Fragmentation and a Common Law of Sustainable Development
- Environmental Degradation and Economic Development in China: An Interrelated Governance Challenge
- Trade, Investment, and Regional Integration
- The (mis)use of development in international investment law: understanding the jurist’s limits to work with development issues
- Corruption and Development
- Creating an anti-corruption norm in Africa: Critical reflections on legal instrumentalization for development
- Clientelism, Law and Politics. Considerations in the Light of the Argentine Case
- Rising Issues
- The Role of Copyright in Creative Industry Development
- Foreign Aid Reciprocity Agreements: Committing Developing Countries to Improve the Effectiveness of Aid When They Become Donors
- Helping Working Children through Consumocratic LawA Global South Perspective
- Book Review
- Sung-Hee Jwa: A General Theory of Economic Development: Towards a Capitalist Manifesto – A Critical Review
