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1 Law Democracy & Dev. iii (1997)

handle is hein.journals/laacydev1 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial The first issue of Law, Development & Democracy (LDD) is devoted to a subject that has been extensively debated over the last two years - the Labour Relations Act of 1995 (LRA). Is there anything to add to what has already been said? As this is our first issue, a word or two about the contribution we hope to make and the approach we intend to follow - both in relation to this Act, and in future issues - might be in order. LDD is a legal journal, but not in the black-letter tradition. It sees law as a social process, Specifically, it sets out to examine the way in which law regulates, promotes or impedes the building of democracy and socio- economic reconstruction in South Africa. And it seeks to do so critically - that is, in a spirit of testing existing knowledge, seeking to stimulate new insights and providing a forum for debate. It follows that LDD is neither a general law journal nor specialised in any single branch of the law. It will have recourse to other disciplines which help to explain the operation of the law in a developmental context. It is, in short, issue-driven rather than discipline-bound - bringing together findings of research and experience from different disciplines, which may be relevant to them all. This broad-based approach is not intended merely to break new theo- retical ground. Our focus will be very much on practical legal problems thrown up in the process of reconstruction and development amidst present-day South African and global realities. Studying them in a multi- facetted way makes for a more thorough understanding. As such, we hope it will be challenging and useful to all lawyers - prac- titioners and academics alike - as well as non-lawyers involved in socio- economic research or policy-making, whether in preparing an argument or writing a thesis. From this standpoint, the new LRA is an appropriate and timely subject. It is a major piece of socio-economic engineering, closely tied to the assumptions and objectives which inform the new South Africa. Its wide- ranging provisions engage with different branches of the law - for exam- ple, constitutional law and company law - as well as other disciplines - for example, sociology and economics. Inevitably, it has given rise to much debate. It is not proposed to revisit these debates or seek to analyse the Act as a whole, Rather, this issue of LDD highlights a number of ques- tions that have received less public attention thus far, but nonetheless go to the heart of the new labour dispensation.

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