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Law and Development

Balancing Principles and Values

  • Presents a multidisciplinary perspective with practical research based on different branches of law
  • Explains the complexities of different meanings of development, e.g., in the context of sustainable development and integral human development
  • Combines an overarching theoretical perspective with case studies related to law, economics, environmental protection, and human rights

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Populorum Progressio: Development and Law?

    • Christine Mengès-Le Pape
    Pages 19-30
  3. Water: The Common Heritage of Mankind?

    • Franck Duhautoy
    Pages 115-130
  4. Between Economic Development and Human Rights: Balancing E-Commerce and Adult Content Filtering

    • Adam Szafrański, Piotr Szwedo, Małgorzata Klein
    Pages 159-178

About this book

This book examines the concept of ‘development’ from alternative perspectives and analyzes how different approaches influence law. ‘Sustainable development’ focuses on balancing economic progress, environmental protection, individual rights, and collective interests. It requires a holistic approach to human beings in their individual and social dimensions, which can be seen as a reference to ‘integral human development’ – a concept found in ethics. ‘Development’ can be considered as a value or a goal. But it also has a normative dimension influencing lawmaking and legal application; it is a rule of interpretation, which harmonizes the application of conflicting norms, and which is often based on the ethical and anthropological assumptions of the decision maker. This research examines how different approaches to ‘development’ and their impact on law can coexist in pluralistic and multicultural societies, and how to evaluate their legitimacy, analyzing the problem from an overarchingtheoretical perspective. It also discusses case studies stemming from different branches of law.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

    Piotr Szwedo

  • School of Law, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, USA

    Richard Peltz-Steele

  • Graduate School of Law, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

    Dai Tamada

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Law and Development

  • Book Subtitle: Balancing Principles and Values

  • Editors: Piotr Szwedo, Richard Peltz-Steele, Dai Tamada

  • Series Title: Kobe University Monograph Series in Social Science Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9423-2

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9422-5Published: 31 October 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9425-6Published: 31 October 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-9423-2Published: 14 September 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2524-504X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-5058

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 241

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Development Economics, Public International Law

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