Some Aspects of the Present Discussion of Lawyers on the Place of Law in Development

Anthony Carty

Chapter 6 in Conflict and Change in the 1990s, 1993, pp 80-97 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract I put the stress on the present discussion of the place of law in development because I think there has been a sea-change since the 1970s. Then there was an attempt to change the whole international economic system through a restructuring of the legal institutions of international economic relations. The high point was the 1974 Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States passed by a majority in the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 1974.1 This was to have led to such radical change as the introduction of just prices for exports from developing countries, the democratisation of the IMF, and a completely free hand to expropriate the assets of foreign corporations, or otherwise to subject their operations to a complete national control. I think it is evident since the Thatcher-Reagan era that there has been no international consensus on any substantial measures of structural change in the international system. This general political change is reflected in the concerns of lawyers sympathetic to the economic problems of the Third World. These have now turned from the language of the law of a new international economic order to the language of the right to development.2

Keywords: International Monetary Fund; International Economic Order; Interest Rate Policy; International Lawyer; International Economic Relation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-12728-3_6

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781349127283

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12728-3_6

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().