International Development Law

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 international 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. InternationalDevelopment 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.

...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., 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., 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., 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., 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.

Dr. Rumu Sarkar is the General Counsel to Millennium Partners, an international development consulting firm located in Charlottesville, Virginia. The author is a member of the Advisory Board to the PROLAW LL.M. program of Loyola University Chicago Law School, and has been 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 forInternational Development. Dr. Sarkar has published Development Law and International Finance, now in its second edition, based on a course she taught at the Georgetown University Law Center.