Law, Development and the Postcolonial World
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The project aims to better understand the relationship between law, politics, religion, and society in the development processes of countries and regions, previously or currently subject to colonization or occupation. There is a special interest in the processes of the Arab world and the Muslim world, which involve a great part of Africa and Asia. The following related topics will be considered:
a) The colonial heritage in terms of institutions, politics, and law, and its effects on development processes;
b) The result of combining local, previous, religious, or traditional law with the law provided by colonization, and the effects on the rule of law;
c) The normative and institutional transfer processes;
d) The relationship between international, political, legal, and economic institutions and national development processes, in postcolonial societies;
e) The resilience, in its various forms, of processes of domination or hegemony that replaced traditional colonialism, and its relationship with development.
Global law (as globalization law and as law in globalization) and development: coordinated by Professor Salem Nasser, the project aims to understand the multiplicity of normative, legal, and non-juridical phenomena that regulate international relations, as well as local or national relations in times of globalization; in addition, understand the relationships between these multiple normative phenomena. Topics of interest:
a) Legal pluralism, pluralism of legal orders, legal regimes, normative sets, and their implications for development and for the rule of law (in the broad sense that includes legal certainty, legitimacy, justice, accountability...);
b) The fragmentation of International Law into specialized regimes and its relationship with development and with the rule of law;
c) Specific studies related to one or some of the normative phenomena of what is being called global law, or on the literature that analyzes, describes, or criticizes them: global administrative law, transnational private regulation; soft law; global governance, etc.
d) Studies on thematic, global or transnational, legal, state or private regimes;
e) Globalization Law, as the Law that makes up and organizes what could be called the globalization process;
f) Law in globalization, as the implications of the globalization process on Law (whatever they may be, national, international, local...) and on its operation.
Team
Coordination:
Salem Nasser
