Development law and international finance

Development law has increasingly gained importance for the international law practitioner in a world where unprecedented global interdependence has raised numerous legal and practice-oriented questions. Development Law and International Finance presents a comprehensive analytical framework for understanding development law issues from both a theoretical and practical viewpoint. The book analyzes this growing body of law in the context of the policy framework of 'Rule of Law' programs aimed at legal reform and structural legal change. The text also examines emerging constitutional and substantive principles of development law and the institurional framework in which it is unfolding. The author further discusses structural legal reforms. In addition, the text critically reviews the changing role of the state, the privatization process, and the growing importance of emerging capital markets. Finally, 'Development Law and International Finance' addresses the international human rights dimension of development and, in particular, the question of whether there is a human right to development. The author is the Assistant General Counsel for Administrative Affairs with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and an Adjunct Law Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C.