International Development Law (eBook)

Rule of Law, Human Rights & Global Finance

Rumu Sarkar (Autor)

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2020 | 2nd ed. 2020
XXXV, 453 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-40071-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This book describes how international development works, its shortcomings, its theoretical and practical foundations, along with prescriptions for the future. 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 poverty issues. 

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. In particular, the book provides new, innovative analysis on corruption as an impediment to sustainable development. The three interlocking facets of corruption are examined: transnational organized crime, Islamic-based international terrorism, and corruption within emerging economies and the international banking system. Thus fresh new analysis adds depth and clarity to a field that heretofore has been scattered and superficial. Finally, the 'right to development' within the international human rights discourse is critically reviewed, particularly in light of new jurisprudence emerging from the African context.

This book offers a fresh, new and balanced legal perspective on the development process. The text has been rigorously researched and has many practical facets based on the author's professional experience within the international development field. It is an invaluable research and teaching tool since it takes a multidisciplinary approach to putting complex issues, legal trends and political questions into a clear, new perspective that is highly analytical as well as accessible to the reader. The author's elegant legal prose is both powerful and persuasive. 

Dr. Rumu Sarkar is the General Counsel to Millennium Partners, an international development consulting firm in Charlottesville, Virginia, and was a long-time member of the adjunct law faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. Previously, Professor Sarkar served as General Counsel for the 2005 Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC), and as the 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, and Transnational Business Law, based on a course she taught at the Georgetown Law Center. She has written other monographs and articles on issues related to international business and development law. 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. She lives in Washington, DC.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.3.2020
• Zusatzinfo: XXXV, 453 p. 2 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Original-Titel: International Development Law
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Corruption • Debt Crisis • Emerging capital economies • Financial Crises • Human Rights • International development law • international financial architecture • right to development • Rule of Law • SDG 16
• ISBN-10: 3-030-40071-9 / 3030400719
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-40071-2 / 9783030400712