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As we move further into the 21st century, it is incumbent upon lawyers and law students to understand and manage the complexities of sustainable development.
International Development Law: Rule of Law, Human Rights, and Global Finance offers a coherent and systematic overview of the many issues and underlying trends that affect 'international development law' and the underlying legal architecture between developing countries and advanced nations.
Professor Sarkar describes how internaitonal development works, its shortcomings, its theoretical and practical foundations, along with the prescriptions for the future. The text is structured into two basic parts: the first part deals with the theoretical and philosophic foundations of the subject, and the second part sets forth issues relating to the international financial architecture, namely, international borrowing practices, privatization, and emerging economies.
International Development Law provides the reader with new perspectives on the origins of global poverty, identifies legal impediments to sustainable economic growth, and provides a better understanding of the challenges faced by the international community in resolving global policy issues.
Introduction
1: Fin de Siecle Analysis
2: Significant Historical Trends
3: The Failures of the State
4: The Failure of Ideology
Part I: The Rule of Law
1: The Rule of Law: Theoretical Principles
2: International Development Law: Substantive Principles
3: The Rule of Law: A Projectized Approach
4: Is There a Human Right to Development?
Part II: International Financial Architecture
5: International Borrowing
6: Privatization
7: Emerging Capital Markets
Dr. Rumu Sarkar is a member of the faculty of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Ft. McNair, and a long-time member of the adjunct law faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. Previously, Professor Sarkar has served as General Counsel for the 2005 Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC), and General Counsel for the Overseas Basing Commission, two military commissions established by the U.S. Congress. She was formerly Assistant General Counsel for Administrative Affairs for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, where she managed a diverse administrative law portfolio in support of U.S. direct loans, loan guarantees, political risk insurance and investment funds in developing nations. She was also a member of the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Dr. Sarkar has published Development Law and International Finance, now in its second edition, based on a course she teaches at the Georgetown Law Center. Dr. Sarkar received her LL.M and Ph.D. from Newnham College, Cambridge University, her J.D. from the Antioch School of Law, and her B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University.
"...if you have pretty much any interest in this intersection of topics, or newly emerging international legal field, however you want to put it, I think you will have to take a look at this book." - Kenneth Anderson, Opinio Juris blog, October 2009
"International Development Law: Rule of Law, Human Rights, and Global Finance provides a tightly interwoven, well-organized, multi-disciplinary approach to the complex legal issues underlying sustainable international development. Professor Sarkar provides an overarching view of the legal principles that constitute international development law in an easily understandable way. This book gives the reader new insights on the origins of global poverty, identifies legal impediments to long-term, sustainable economic growth, and provides a better understanding of the challenges faced by the international community in resolving global poverty issues." - Jacob Katz Cogan, International Law Reporter, October 2009
"There is a huge amount of historical and philosophical information packed into International Development Law, with smatterings of anthropological and sociological thoughts here and there, that provides a text covering the complex legal & financial issues involved in international development. And Sarkar does it in an easy to read, well-organized manner (the glossary, abbreviations list, and index are nothing to sneeze at either)...I would recommend this book for any academic or firm library, definitely, as an academic treatise as well as a helpful guide for practicing attorneys in international development law." - Katie Lynn is the Electronic Services Librarian at the Wyoming State Law Library, AALL Spectrum
"In this path-breaking work, Professor Rumu Sarkar expertly combines law, philosophy, political theory, and economic analysis with real world experience to establish for the first time a comprehensive foundation of substantive law principles of international development law. This meticulously documented work is sure to be the touchstone for all future writing in a subject area that is quickly emerging as one of the most important in international law." - Michael P. Scharf, Professor of Law and Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center Case western Reserve University School of Law
"This book is a valuable contribution to the literarture on a developing area of international law. Sarkar's work is thoughtful and well researched; it largely achieves the goal of bringing cohesion to a largely scattered topic." - James Crawford, Whewell Professor of International Law and Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge
"Rumu Sarkar's new book comes as a most welcome decisive step forward. Making full use of her acute intelligence and multiple fields of expertise, and writing with the moral passion of one who cares personally for those whom development at its best is meant to benefit, Sarkar works just that synthesis which international development law, as a simultaneously academic and practical discipline fraught with ethical importance, has been so long awaiting." - Robert Hockett, Associate Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
"Rumu Sarkar makes the case for looking at international development law from the prism of mutuality, a duty of cooperation and equitable participation in development. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to readers of international development law, whether they be students or practitioners." - Marcia A. Wiss, Professor of International Project Finance and Investment at Georgetown University Law Center and International Investment Law at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Partner, Hogan and Hartson LLP
