Category: Publications

Recent LDRN member publications

Oyeniyi Abe, Implementing Business and Human Rights Norms in Africa: Law and Policy Interventions, Routledge, 2022
 
Donatella Alessandrini, Johanna del Pilar Cortes-Nieto, Luis Eslava & Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, The Dream of Formality: Racialisation Otherwise and International Economic Law, Journal of International Economic Law, 2022
 
Vincent Bellinkx, Deborah Casalin, Gamze Erdem Türkelli, Werner Scholtz & Wouter Vandenhole, Addressing Climate Change through International Human Rights Law: From (Extra)Territoriality to Common Concern of Humankind, Transnational Environmental Law, 2022
 
Danny Bradlow & Magalie Masamba, Three priorities Africa’s newbie on the World Bank board should focus on, The Conversation, 20 April 2022
 
Deborah Casalin, ‘Development-Oriented’ Durable Solutions: (Re-)Entry Point for a Human Rights-Based Approach?, Researching Internal Displacement, 25 April 2022
 
Lorenzo Cotula, Confronting structural inequalities in South-North research collaborations, IIED Blog, 11 May 2022
 
Viljam Engström, Mikaela Heikkilä, Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Vulnerabilisation: Between mainstreaming and human rights overreach, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 2022
 
Pascale Hatcher & Jennifer Lander, Searching for New Political Spaces: Negotiating Citizenship and Transnational Identities on Mongolia’s Mining Frontier, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2022
 
Giedre Jokubauskaite & Catherine Turner, Mediation and development-related conflict, International Institute for Environment & Development, 2022
 
David Otieno Ngira, Plural-legalities and the clash between customary law and ‘child rights talk’ among rural communities in Kenya, Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2022
 
Pedro Schilling de Carvalho, Retaining Influence in Post-Brexit International Financial Regulation: Lessons from the UK’s FinTech Framework, Journal of Financial Regulation, 2022
 
Markus Marselinus Soge, Digital Supervision of Assimilated Inmates in the Covid-19 Pandemic Period, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Social Science, Humanity, and Public Health (ICOSHIP 2020)
 
Markus Marselinus Soge & Denny Nazaria Rifani, Implementation of National Instrument and Bangkok Rules During the Pandemic Period Through Hydroponics Skills Training by Bandung Women’s Penitentiary,  Proceedings of the 1st International Conference Of Education, Social And Humanities (INCESH 2021)
 
Agung Wardana, Geografi Hukum Proyek Strategis Nasional: Studi Kasus Bendungan Bener di Purworejo, Jawa Tengah (Legal Geography of the National Strategic Project: A Case Study of the Bener Dam in Purworejo, Central Java), Jurnal Hukum, 2022
 
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This regular feature on the website of the Law & Development Research Network (LDRn) primarily aims to highlight the recent publications of our members.
 
Other recent publications of interest to our readers, e.g. special journal issues or symposia on law & development, may also be included.
 
If you are an LDRn member and would like to have your recent publication included in the next round-up, please send references and links to the editor and/or tag LDRn on Twitter when you announce it there!

New book: Beyond Law and Development – Resistance, Empowerment and Social Injustice (Sam Adelman & Abdul Paliwala, eds – Routledge 2022)

Beyond Law and Development – Resistance, Empowerment and Social Injustice (Sam Adelman & Abdul Paliwala, eds – Routledge 2022)

This book, which follows the 2021 volume “The Limits of Law and Development – Neoliberalism, Governance and Social Justice“, highlights new imaginaries required to transcend traditional approaches to law and development.

The authors – including researchers from LDRN partner institutions such as Cardiff Law and Global Justice, the University of Antwerp Law & Development Research Group, and the University of Warwick School of Law – focus on injustices and harms to people and the environment, and confront global injustices involving impoverishment, patriarchy, forced migration, global pandemics and intellectual rights in traditional medicine resulting from maldevelopment, bad governance and aftermaths of colonialism.

New imaginaries emphasise deconstruction of fashionable myths of law, development, human rights, governance and post-coloniality to focus on communal and feminist relationality, non-western legal systems, personal responsibility for justice and forms of resistance to injustices.

Beyond Law and Development – Resistance, Empowerment and Social Injustice will be available from Routledge as from 28 April 2022.

The editors of this volume, Dr. Sam Adelman and Prof. Abdul Paliwala, are respectively Reader and Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Warwick (an LDRN partner institution). Sam Adelman is currently a member of the LDRN steering committee.

Recent LDRn member publications – January 2022 [UPDATED]

Edited volumes / special issues
 
Canadian Journal of Development Studies: Special Issue – Critical and Heterodox Perspectives on Law and the Governance of Development (open access), featuring:
 
Journal of African Law: Special issue – COVID-19 and the Law in Africa, (open access), featuring:
– Ebenezer Durojaye, Olivia Lwabukuna, Lutz Oette & Sope Williams-Elegbe, Introduction: COVID-19 and the Law in Africa
– Carolien Jacobs, Patrick Milabyo Kyamusugulwa, Rachel Sifa Katembera & Henri Kintuntu, Containing COVID-19 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Government Measures and Women’s Compliance 
 
Mark Gibney, Gamze Erdem Türkelli, Markus Krajewski, Wouter Vandenhole (eds), The Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations (Routledge, 2021) (open access), featuring:
– Gamze Erdem Türkelli & Stéphanie de Moerloose & Joshua Curtis, Extraterritorial human rights obligations and international financial institutions
 
Individual chapters / articles
Radha D’Souza, Transcending Disciplinary Fetishisms: Marxism, Neocolonialism, and International Law, in Elgar Handbook on Law and Marxism, edited by Paul O’Connell and Umut Ozsu (Edward Elgar, 2021) 335-355. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788119863
 
Maryna Rabinovych & Anne Pintsch, EU differentiated integration as a tangible: internal and external dimensions, in Thomas Hoerber, Gabriel Weber Ignazio Cabras (eds), The Routledge Handbook of European Integrations (Routledge 2021)
 
Salvador Santino Jr. Regilme, United States Foreign Aid and Multilateralism Under the Trump Presidency, New Global Studies, January 2022 (open access) 
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This regular feature on the website of the Law & Development Research Network (LDRn) primarily aims to highlight the recent publications of our members.
 
Other recent publications of interest to our readers, e.g. special journal issues or symposia on law & development, may also be included.
 
If you are an LDRn member and would like to have your recent publication included in the next round-up, please send references and links to the editor and/or tag LDRn on Twitter when you announce it there!

Recent LDRn member publications

Klaus D. Beiter, Extraterritorial human rights obligations to “civilize” intellectual property law: Access to textbooks in Africa, copyright, and the right to education, Journal of World Intellectual Property, Volume 23, Issue 3-4, July 2020, 232-266 (open access)
 
 
Luciano Bottini Filho, Covid-19 Through Brazilian Courts: The Deserving and the Undeserving Vulnerable, German Law Journal, 2021, 22(6), 1098-1114 (open access)
 
Cristiano d’Orsi, Grim Perspectives for the Protection of LGBTI Communities in South Sudan, International Law Blog, 9 December 2021 (open access)
 
Stéphanie de Moerloose & Ángeles Figueroa Alcorta, Nueva agenda de cooperación internacional al desarrollo, en Mariana Colotta et al (comp.), Manual de Relaciones Internacionales (Teseo Press, Buenos Aires 2021) (open access)
 
Carol Chi Ngang, Human Rights and Socio-economic Transformation in South Africa, Human Rights Review 22, 349–370 (2021).
 
Carol Chi Ngang, The Right to Development in Africa (Brill, Leiden, 2021) 
 
Carol Chi Ngang, Right to Development Governance in the Advent of the African Continental Free Trade Area, Journal of African Law, 65(2), 153-178 (2021).
 
Carol Chi Ngang & Serges Djoyou Kamga (eds), Natural Resource Sovereignty and the Right to Development in Africa (Routledge, 2022)
 
 
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This regular feature on the website of the Law & Development Research Network (LDRn) primarily aims to highlight the recent publications of our members.
 
Other recent publications of interest to our readers, e.g. special journal issues or symposia on law & development, may also be included.
 
If you are an LDRn member and would like to have your recent publication included in the next round-up, please send references and links to the editor and/or tag LDRn on Twitter when you announce it there!

Recent LDRn member publications / publications of interest

Symposium
 
Richard Abel and David Trubek (eds), The Short Happy Life of the Yale Program in Law and Modernization: From the Cold War to Comparative Legal Sociology and Critical Legal Studies, Revista de Estudos Institucionais / Journal of Institutional Studies (2021), Vol. 7, No. 2 
 
Member publications
 
Kinnari Bhatt & Gamze Erdem Türkelli, OECD National Contact Points as Sites of Effective Remedy: New Expressions of the Role and Rule of Law within Market Globalization?, Business and Human Rights Journal , FirstView, 26 July 2021, pp. 1 – 26
 
Danny Bradlow, How Africa can seize the moment and start resetting its relationship with the IMF, The Conversation, 19 August 2021
 
Daniel Bradlow & Kevin P. Gallagher, Opinion: Making $650B in SDRs work for lower-income countries, Devex, 17 August 2021
 
Stéphanie de Moerloose, Indigenous Peoples’ Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)and the World Bank Safeguards: Between Norm Emergence and Concept Appropriation, VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, Vol. 53, Issue 3 (2021), 223 – 244 (related blog post at IACL-AIDC)
 
Siddharth Peter de Souza and Thomas Dollmaier, The teaching of Law and Development: towards inclusiveness and reflexivity across time zones, International Journal of Law in Context, online 19 August 2021
 
Gamze Erdem Türkelli, “Children’s rights when financing development through multilateral development banks:  mapping the field and looking forward”, International Journal of Children’s Rights (2021) 29(1): 199-238.
 
Rachel Hammonds, Protecting the right to health through inclusive and resilient health care for all, Office of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, 2021
 
Giedre Jokubauskaite & David Rossati, “A tragedy of juridification in international development finance“. Canadian Journal of Development Studies = Revue canadienne d’études du développement, 2021 
 
Arpitha Kodiveri, Our land is banked: forest rights, consent and the invention of a legal exception as land banks, The International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 25, Issue 7 (2021) 1148 – 1167
 
 
Olivia Lwabukuna, The Responsibility to Protect IDPs: African and Kenyan Encounters, European Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, 8 September 2021.
 
Aleydis Nissen, ‘Business and human rights: the role of European Union member states in developing accountability mechanisms for corporations from developing and emerging states’ (PhD dissertation) -awarded the Andrés Bello Prize (Institut de Droit International)
 
Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr., Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia, University of Michigan Press, 2021
 
Agung Wardana, The risk of protecting the environment: Strategic Litigation against Public Participation (SLAPP) in post-authoritarian Indonesia, Policy Matters, September 2021
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This regular feature on the website of the Law & Development Research Network (LDRn) primarily aims to highlight the recent publications of our members.
 
Other recent publications of interest to our readers, e.g. special journal issues or symposia on law & development, may also be included.
 
If you are an LDRn member and would like to have your recent publication included in the next round-up, please send references and links to the editor and/or tag LDRn on Twitter when you announce it there!

Watch: highlights of the Encyclopedia of Law & Development festive launch

On 12 March 2021, the Law & Development Research Network (LDRN) and the University of Antwerp Law & Development Research Group held a festive online launch for the Encyclopedia of Law and Development, a collaborative creation of editors and authors from across and beyond LDRN.

Watch the highlights below or on the LDRN Youtube channel!

Join us for the festive launch of the Encyclopedia of Law & Development! | University of Antwerp (online), 12 March 2021

FESTIVE BOOK LAUNCH

FRIDAY 12 MARCH, 3 – 4.30 PM CET (UTC+1)

Register here!

Encyclopedia of Law and Development

 Edited by Koen De Feyter, Gamze Erdem Türkelli and Stéphanie de Moerloose

Associate Editors : Philipp Dann, Celine Tan, Elina Pirjatanniemi, Avinash Govindjee

Published by Edward Elgar

Publication Date: 2021 ISBN: 978 1 78811 796 8 Extent: 336 pp

The Encyclopedia is a collaborative effort of LDRn, the Law and Development Research Network

Read the introductory chapter here

This Virtual Panel discussion celebrates the publication of the Encyclopedia of Law and Development.  Our panelists will reflect on the state and future of law and development research.  Short presentations will be followed by an exchange with the audience, moderated by Encyclopedia General Editor Gamze Erdem Türkelli.

Our panelists include:

Stéphanie de Moerloose, Austral University, Buenos Aires

Nadia Latif, Smith College, Northampton (US)

Ada Ordor, University of Cape Town

Daniel Mathew, National Law University New Delhi

Abdul Paliwala and Sam Adelman, University of Warwick

Philipp Dann, Humboldt University of Berlin

Please register here

A special launch discount is available from Edward Elgar Publishers

  • 30% for readers in OECD countries – discount code: DFEY30
  • 60% for readers in non-OECD countries – discount code: DFEY60
  • An e-book edition for individuals is also available from Google Play at an accessible price

This event is hosted by the University of Antwerp Law and Development Research Group, in conjunction with the Law & Development Research Network

Book launch: The Limits of Law and Development Neoliberalism, Governance and Social Justice | University of Warwick / LDRN (online) | 3 March 2021, 13h00 – 14h30 UTC

BOOK LAUNCH

THE LIMITS OF LAW AND DEVELOPMENT: NEOLIBERALISM, GOVERNANCE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (Routledge), edited by Sam Adelman and Abdul Paliwala

WEDNESDAY, 3 MARCH 1-2.30 pm GMT

The book examines the well-established field of ‘law and development’ and asks whether the concept of development and discourses on law and development have outlived their usefulness.

The contributors ask whether instead of these amorphous and contested concepts we should focus upon social injustices such as patriarchy, impoverishment, human rights violations, the exploitation of indigenous peoples, and global heating? If we abandoned the idea of development, would we end up adopting another, equally problematic term to replace a concept which, for all its flaws, serves as a commonly understood shorthand? The contributors analyse the links between conventional academic approaches to law and development, neoliberal governance and activism through historical and contemporary case studies.

All the contributors to the book have studied, taught or had a close association with the University of Warwick Law School and most of them will be participating in the session. A number of contributors and discussants are also active in the Law & Development Research Network (LDRN).

Contributors: Sam Adelman, Upendra Baxi, Radha D’Souza, Julio Faundez, Tomaso Ferrando, Peter Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Lander, Abdul Paliwala, Sol Picciotto, Issa Shivji, William Twining

Chair: Christine Schwobel-Patel (Warwick Law School)

Discussants: Martha Gayoye (Warwick Law School) and Professor Koen de Feyter (University of Antwerp / Law and Development Research Network)

Please use this link to join

This event is in conjunction with the Law and Development Research Network

New issue paper: Rachel Hammonds, “Protecting the right to health through inclusive and resilient health care for all” (Office of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, 2021)

LDRN member Dr. Rachel Hammonds, of the University of Antwerp Law & Development Research Group (an LDRN partner institution), recently authored the Issue Paper on Protecting the right to health through inclusive and resilient health care for all for the Office of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. The paper forms the basis for 12 recommendations by Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović to member states. The recommendations set out the various components required to deliver inclusive and resilient health care systems and underline the need for a broader social rights perspective taking into account the social determinants of health.
 
The paper is intended as a tool to help governments address the urgency of protecting the right to health in an environment where health inequalities have been growing and causing significant social, human and economic costs to individuals and societies. The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded this situation, exposing the weaknesses of health care systems strained by years of austerity, economic difficulties and neglect.
 
 

Call for submissions: Elgar Studies in Law, Development and Global Justice

Call for submissions: Elgar Studies in Law, Development and Global Justice

The series editors, John Harrington, Celine Tan and Wouter Vandenhole (from LDRN partner institutions Cardiff University, University of Warwick, and University of Antwerp respectively)  welcome submissions to the Elgar Studies in Law, Development and Global Justice book series.

This series explores the relationship between law, development and global justice. It provides a platform for critical engagement with and interdisciplinary perspectives on the role and impact of law, defined in its broadest and most pluralistic sense, on economic development and social and political organisation. The series seeks contributions animated by a concern with global, social and gender justice, broadly understood, and welcomes both theoretically and empirically informed approaches to these issues. The series particularly welcomes contributions focused on and originating from the global south. Proposals are sought across the wide range of substantive legal areas, such as international trade and investment law, intellectual property law, international development law, environmental law, human rights, gender and the law, constitutional law, health law, housing and land law, and strategic and public interest litigation. It also seeks innovative work on the pedagogy and methodologies of law and development.

The series aims to bring scholarship on and from the global south to the widest possible audience, and the publisher is committed to ensuring the widest possible access. In particular, books are included in two schemes which provide free or low-cost access to libraries in developing countries.

Please see the website of the Elgar Studies in Law, Development and Global Justice for further details.