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Press Release
Mythmaking in the Rule of Law Orthodoxy
Published on Oct 1, 2002
Source: Carnegie
Frank Upham
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Summary
As governments and donor agencies struggle over questions of aid and international
development, a growing concensus is emerging that there is an explicit link
between rule of law reform and sustainable growth. However, this new rule of
law orthodoxy ignores evidence that the formalist rule of law advocated by the
World Bank and other donors does not necessarily exist in the developed world.
Moreover, attempting to transplant a common template of institutions and legal
rules into developing countries without attention to indigenous contexts harms
preexisting mechanisms for dealing with issues such as property ownership and
conflict resolution.
Frank Upham is professor of law at New York University School of Law and a specialist in comparative law. He is the author of Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan.
Other working papers in the Rule of Law Series:
Do
Judicial Councils Further Judicial Reform? Lessons from Latin America,
Linn Hammergren
Foreign
Direct Investment: Does the Rule of Law Matter?, John Hewko
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