Beyond Law and Development

Sam Adelman is a Reader in the Law School at the University of Warwick. He was a student leader and was exiled during the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. His recent publications cover issues including climate change, climate justice, international environmental law, human rights, geoengineering, development and sustainable development. He has degrees from Wits University, Harvard University and the University of Warwick. He is a Research Associate at Nelson Mandela University and North-West University in South Africa and has been a visiting Professor in Ethiopia, Malawi, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa and a visiting Fellow at the University of Rosario in Colombia. He has been involved in the founding of the global Law and Development Research Network (https://lawdev.org). Abdul Paliwala is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Warwick where he was involved in the founding and teaching of Law in Development (renamed LLM International Development Law and Human Rights) since 1981. He has also been involved in the founding of the global Law and Development Research Network (https://lawdev.org). He previously taught at the Queen’s University of Belfast, the University of Dar es Salaam and the University of Papua New Guinea, where he also worked as the Secretary of the Law Reform Commission. He was Director of the CTI Law Technology Centre for UK Law Schools, the Law Courseware Consortium, the UK Centre for Legal Education and the Electronic Law Journals Project that published the Journal of Information Law and Technology and Law Social Justice and Global Development.

Introduction

SAM ADELMAN AND ABDUL PALIWALA

Part I

Towards New Imaginaries

1. Shifting the Frame from Law in Development to Ending Injustice

SAM ADELMAN AND ABDUL PALIWALA

2. The Post-Hobbesian State, Sovereignty and Development

RAZA SAEED

3. Returning the Anti-Colonial to Philosophy

JAYAN NAYAR

4. The Constitution of Turbulence

ILLAN RUA WALL

5. ‘I Built this House on my Back’: An Historical Perspective on Care and Property in East Africa

AMBREENA MANJI, AND ANN STEWART

6. The Role of Community in Human-Rights and Development Discourse: Resisting Apathy and Antipathy

OCHE ONAZI

Part II

Rights and Injustices

7. Transnational human rights obligations: Beyond territory and state

WOUTER VANDENHOLE

8. Beyond Development: Human Rights, Personal Responsibility and the Search for Meaning

ANDREW WILLIAMS

9. The Human Right to Water and Beyond: Some Reflections on Water Justice and Water Reform in Zimbabwe

BILL DERMAN AND ANNE HELLUM

10. Access to Justice for Refugees

DALLAL STEVENS

11. Islamic Law, Social Justice and Injustices: The Case for Islamic Welfare Systems

SHAHEEN SARDAR ALI AND FAQIR ASFUNDYAR YOUSAF

12. Countering corruption to promote social justice in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: The Case of Uganda

MONICA TWESIIME KIRYA AND SHARIFAH SEKALALA

13. ‘In My Own Village’: Chronotopes, Governmentality and the Changing Regulation of Traditional Medicine in Kenya

JOHN HARRINGTON