Law and International Economic Development

This pathway aims to prepare law students to the understanding and practice of legal reforms implemented by the U.S. or a foreign government; by private multinationals and international organization operating in a global economy aiming to ameliorate the relationship between law and international economic development models. The law and economic development field revolves around important questions of globalization of property regimes, financial markets, foreign investments, sustainability, gender equality, transparency and fundamental rights in administrative regulations and constitutional regimes. These areas of law are central to understanding how legal reforms can enhance or worsen individual well-being and how is law implicated in the project of building national and transnational legal regimes that facilitate or restrict a world-integrated economy.

This discipline evaluates the impact of international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF as well as regional integration organization such as the EU, Mercosur and the OAS on national governments and the global economy. Students will have to grasp the most influential economic development models since World War II ranging from modest interventionism, export-led growth, neoliberalism and post-Washington Consensus in order to examine the interdependence between economic theories, policies, and legal reform projects underpinning these different development models. Students will be studying and engage with some of the most salient projects aimed at changing the legal regimes of developing countries. Among the main areas of expertise, students will have to be exposed to the relevance of judicial reform, land titling, market deregulation and reregulation, and promotion of human rights and corporate social responsibility.

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