Rules, Rubrics and Riches: The Interrelations between Legal Reform and International Development

Rules, Rubrics and Riches: The Relationship Between Law, Institutions and International Development highlights the limitations of the traditional school of law and development that was based on a mainstream understanding of economic development, emphasizing notions of rational man at the micro level and the superiority of modernity and unilinear models of economic progress at the macro level. It offers a frame for 'law and development' thinking by specifically posing the question 'how do social sciences perceive the role of the law in international development'? Discussing a range of local, national and international institutions the focus of the book turns from the law-making/law-breaking paradigm to law's relation to social norms.

Shailaja Fennell is University Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include institutional reform; provision of education; and gender, kinship and ethnicity. Her recent publications include Gender Education and Development: Conceptual Frameworks, Engagements and Agendas (2007), edited with M. Arnot.