Designing Indicators for a Plural Legal World

Designing Indicators for a Plural Legal World

Author: Siddharth Peter de Souza

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-09-30

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1316514897

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It pluralises the conversation around legal indicators by considering the diversity of law and legal institutions in the Global South.


Designing Indicators for a Plural Legal World

Designing Indicators for a Plural Legal World

Author: Siddharth Peter de Souza

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-08-31

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1009276271

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Designing Indicators for a Plural Legal World engages with the role of quantification in law, and its impact on law and development and judicial reform. It seeks to examine how different institutions shape and influence the making and use of legal indicators globally. This book sheds light on the limitations of existing quantification tools, which measure rule of law due to their lack of engagement with contexts and countries in the Global South. It offers an alternative framework for measurement, which moves away from an institutional look at rule of law, to a bottom up, user centered approach that places importance on the lives that people lead, and the challenges that they face. In doing so, it offers a way of thinking about access to justice in terms of human capabilities.


The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development

The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development

Author: Ruth Buchanan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-02-15

Total Pages: 865

ISBN-13: 0192867369

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The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development is a unique overview of the field of international law and development, examining how normative beliefs and assumptions around development are instantiated in law, and critically examining disciplinary frameworks, competing agendas, legal actors and institutions, and alternative futures.


Quantitative Methods in Comparative Law

Quantitative Methods in Comparative Law

Author: Pier G. Monateri

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-11-03

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1802204458

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This invaluable and timely book provides a comprehensive “Conflict Prevention and Friction Analysis (CPFA) Model” for researching comparative law in our increasingly technology-led legal and economic order. It provides an in-depth examination of practical case studies, showcasing the real-world application of quantitative methods and theoretical approaches for analysing legal issues.


Comparative Legal Metrics

Comparative Legal Metrics

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-08-28

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9004680942

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The trend of measuring performances is global and pervasive. We all live in quantified societies, in which performances in an ever-growing array of fields–from education to health, work to credit, justice to consumption–are assessed and governed through quantitative techniques. While the disruption brought by the quantitative turn has been widely studied by social scientists, legal research on the issue is minimal. This book aims to fill the gap. The essays herein collected explore how performance measurements interact with the law in different regions and sectors, which legal effects they produce, and for whose benefit.


Quantifying Law

Quantifying Law

Author: Tor Krever

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13:

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Development thinking in the past two decades has explicitly embraced law as an engine of development. This legal turn has been accompanied by a dramatic expansion of efforts to measure and quantify legal systems. Against claims that legal indicators are neutral, technical descriptions of the legal world, this article argues that legal indicators do not merely reflect legal reality; their construction and deployment are central to the continuing diffusion of neo-liberalism as development common sense. The article considers the two most prominent projects to quantify law in the service of economic development - the World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators and Doing Business indicators - and argues that these indicators reproduce a narrow neo-liberal conception of law as a platform for private business and entrepreneurial activity and institutional support for a system of laissez faire markets.


Legal Design Perspectives

Legal Design Perspectives

Author: Rossana Ducato

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9788855265669

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Over the last few years, Legal Design has grown as a field of research and practice. The potential of design in the legal domain has been investigated and experimented in various sectors such as access to justice, dispute resolution, privacy indicators, policy prototyping, contractual negotiation. Being an interdisciplinary area of study, Legal Design combines different disciplines and methodologies and relies on insights from legal practice. This book intends to contribute to the study and advancement of Legal Design by presenting different voices and perspectives from scholars and practitioners active in this field. The volume brings together critical essays on the nature and methods of Legal Design and illustrations from the practice. The contributions provide the readers with the state of the art of Legal Design and a prospective outline of its future development.


Rule of Law Dynamics

Rule of Law Dynamics

Author: Michael Zurn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-06-18

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1139510975

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This volume explores the various strategies, mechanisms and processes that influence rule of law dynamics across borders and the national/international divide, illuminating the diverse paths of influence. It shows to what extent, and how, rule of law dynamics have changed in recent years, especially at the transnational and international levels of government. To explore these interactive dynamics, the volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together the normative perspective of law with the analytical perspective of social sciences. The volume contributes to several fields, including studies of rule of law, law and development, and good governance; democratization; globalization studies; neo-institutionalism and judicial studies; international law, transnational governance and the emerging literature on judicial reforms in authoritarian regimes; and comparative law (Islamic, African, Asian, Latin American legal systems).