Trade & Development (LAW-817-001)
Fandl
Meets: 07:30 PM - 09:20 PM (T) - Room 526
Enrolled: 17 / Limit: 20
Notices
Due to a scheduling conflict with another course and with inauguration day, the first seminar for this class will begin on January 27. Please check BlackBoard for updates.
Description
International trade has a profound impact on economic growth and political and social change. The developmental impact of trade has occurred unevenly across the globe, expanding the gap between and within developed and developing countries. Globalization is the dissemination of knowledge, goods and services, and intangibles such as culture and language, across the globe. Trade plays a pivotal role in globalization and is often promoted as a mechanism for providing economic growth. But can economic growth be achieved in developing countries when vast poverty, corrupt legal and political practices and civil conflict are pervasive and when the benefits of globalization are inequitably distributed? Are the goals of trade compatible with development?
This survey course explores the developmental impact of international trade, as well as the intersection between trade laws and regulations and development-oriented policies and laws. It is intended to provide students with a thorough understanding of international trade law and economic growth theories, as well as a survey of the role of international institutions and legal bodies in facilitating development strategies. Subjects covered include: theories of economic growth and development; the impact of globalization on developing country economies; the effects of international development aid; economic and trade adjustment policies oriented toward economic and social development; inequality and the sustainability of modern trade policy; trade liberalization, protectionism and free trade agreements; human rights and the law; labor law and free trade.
Textbooks and Other Materials
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Required Books:
Kenneth Reinert and Ian Golding, Globalization for Development (2006)
David M. Trubek and Alvaro Santos, "The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal (2006) (hereinafter "NLED")
Kenneth Dam, The Law-Growth Nexus (2006)
Recommended Books:
James M. Cypher and James L. Dietz, The Process of Economic Development (2d ed)
Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents (2003)
William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth (2001)
Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (1999)
First Class Readings
January 27th, Session 1 - Introduction to the course and to development/ Economic Growth Theory 1:
Readings: NLED: David M. Trubek and Alvaro Santos, Introduction: The Third Movement in Law and Development Theory and the Emergence of a New Critical Practice (1-18).
[BlackBoard] Amartya Sen, "Development as Freedom", pages xi-xiv, 1-11 and 35-53.
Jeffrey L. Dunoff and Joel P. Trachtman, Economic Analysis of International Law, 24 Yale J. Int'l L. 1 (Winter 1999).
Syllabus
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