IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-12728-3_6.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

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

In: Conflict and Change in the 1990s

Author

Listed:
  • Anthony Carty

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

Suggested Citation

  • Anthony Carty, 1993. "Some Aspects of the Present Discussion of Lawyers on the Place of Law in Development," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Anthony Carty & H. W. Singer (ed.), Conflict and Change in the 1990s, chapter 6, pages 80-97, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-12728-3_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12728-3_6
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-12728-3_6. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.