Law and Development
Fall term, Block E
M,T 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Professor David W. Kennedy
4 classroom credits LAW-41160A
This course will deal with past and present debates over the role of the legal order in economic development. After preliminary discussions of economists' theories of growth and legal theorists' views of law in society, we will focus on such issues as Third World nationalist regimes' attempts at regulation and planning, the role of the international trade regime, and the legal structures put in place during and after transitions to a market economy through privatization. We will end by evaluating proposals for the role of law in economic development in the wake of a chastened neo-liberalism and the ongoing global economic crisis.