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25 - Law and Development

from Part III - Central Themes in Comparative Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2024

By
Yong-Shik Lee  and
Andrew Harding
Edited by
Mathias Siems  and
Po Jen Yap
Mathias Siems
Affiliation:
European University Institute, Florence
Po Jen Yap
Affiliation:
The University of Hong Kong
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Summary

This chapter introduces comparative lawyers to the field known as law and development, which in turn examines the uses of law for developmental objectives. The chapter attempts to relate the two fields and indicate the relevance of each to the other. In the course of doing this we also introduce a general theory of law and development that can be used as a bridge between the two. We submit that law and development is itself developing in ways that involve new ideas and the processing of varied experiences; these in themselves are preoccupations of comparative law too.

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law and developmentdeveloping countriesGlobal Southeconomic developmentWashington Consensus
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The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law , pp. 510 - 524
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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