About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

1 Law & Dev. Rev. 1 (2008)

handle is hein.journals/ldevr1 and id is 1 raw text is: Editors: Foreword In publishing this memorable inaugural issue of the Law and Development Review (LDR), the editors wish to make a few remarks on the purpose of this new journal and its future directions. Indeed, in this age of information explosion, the launch of a new journal may call for some justification. The LDR has been started to promote law and development scholarship, that is, studies that explore the impact of law, both domestic and international, on economic and social development. While there are a number of journals developed to the subject of development, there are few solely focused on the theme of law and development. A separate journal is necessitated by several factors. First, since its inception in the 1960s, the law and development movement has gone through several phases both in terms of the conceptualization of the relationship between law and development and the determination of the content of each. These different phases have not been adequately studied in terms of the lessons they offer, specially to States and peoples in the developing world. Second, the number of organizations, governmental and non-governmental, involved with law and development initiatives, or having an impact on development, have increased calling for an understanding and assessment of their role. Thus, for instance, the regulatory framework for international trade, as currently embodied in the World Trade Organization (WTO), has growing impact on the economic development of developing countries requiring a continuous evaluation of WTO law. Third, since the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Right to Development, 1986 and the Vienna Declaration of Human Rights, 1993 the relationship between law and development has increasingly come to be examined in the matrix of international human rights law giving rise to a distinct literature on the subject that calls for analysis. Fourth, first world academic journals devoted to development studies tend to accord relatively less space to the perspectives and concerns of third world states and peoples. LDR is hoping to remedy this situation by actively publishing excellent scholarship from developing countries as well as from developed ones. In sum, LDR hopes to be a forum where views and perspectives from both developing and developed worlds, on different aspects of law and development, are exchanged generating a truly global scholarship on the subject. We will of course strive to maintain the highest academic quality for the journal; all articles will go through a rigorous peer review selection process. The articles for the inaugural issue, except one, address the impact of international economic law on economic development. The lead article by B.S. Chimni addresses the broader theme of law and development through critically exploring parallels between Amartya Sen's conceptualization of development as freedom, the most widely accepted understanding of development, and 1

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most