Summary
Law and Development: Problems, Perspectives, and Prospects - Proceedings of the One Hundredth Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law: A Just World Under Law
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Comparative dimensions of law and development.
Beyond the precise relationship of law and development as distinctive and interdependent social phenomena, an investigation of how best to achieve development through law is profoundly comparative. Reform interventions carry two, often implicit, comparative dimensions. First, reforms are inspired by perceptions of success elsewhere (legal models in more "developed" societies). Second, reforms presuppose a comparison of the status quo and (with the help of the designed intervention) a different (more "developed") future. When examined more closely, the comparisons embedded in ...
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