Category: Publications
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.
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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)
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)
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)
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.