From introduction: "During the last two decades, social scientists have begun to examine the links
between law and legał systems, and the broader political and economic changes
that are transforming developing democracies. In comparative politics and public
law debates on democracy, legał issues raised by national and transnational human
rights movements, and the rule of law, have become prominent concems. With the
spread of neoliberal economic reform and with new pressures from the world
economy, property rights, commercial law, and the predictability of legał systems
have become dominant themes in the work of legał scholars and students of political
economy. One primary goal of these evolving research agendas is to assess
whether legał institutions are proving to be a catalyst, or an obstacle, to deepening
democracy and economic innovation."(...
