Syllabus
International Development and Law
Course 262.7
BerkeleyLawSchool
University of California at Berkeley
Fall 2009
Stephen J. Golub
(510)653-3196
Note: 1. Unless otherwise indicated, all items listed are to be read and not simply skimmed.
2. Items for which a link is not provided will be forwarded separately.
Aug. 17, 2009
Introduction to the Course: No Readings
Aug. 24, 2009
The Relationship between Law and Development
Kevin E. Davis and Michael Trebilcock, The Relationship between Law and Development: Optimist versus Skeptics, New YorkUniversity Law and EconomicsWorking Papers, New YorkUniversitySchool of Law (April 21, 2008).
Aug. 31, 2009
The Rule of Law
Thomas Carothers, “Rule of Law Temptations,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 33/1 (Winter/Spring 2009), 49-61.
Rachel Kleinfeld Belton, Competing Definitions of the Rule of Law: Implications for Practitioners, Carnegie Working Paper No. 55, Rule of Law Series, Democracy and Rule of Law Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (January 2005),
Sept. 7, 2009
Labor Day: No Class
Sept. 14, 2009
Country/Thematic Case Study: Justice and Gender in Cambodia
Guest Speaker: Mu Sochua, Sam Rainsy Party, Cambodia
Skim:World Bank, East Asia and Pacific Region, “Project Information Document: Cambodia—Legal and Judicial Reform Project” (Feb. 16, 2001).
Skim:Sok An (Senior Minister in charge of the Office of the Council of Ministers, Cambodia), “Speaking Notes” for address to post-Consultative Group Process meeting (January 16, 2002).
Skim:Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defence of Human Rights,Legal and Judicial Reform in Cambodia: A LICADHO Briefing Paper, (February 2006).
Global Witness, Cambodia’s Family Trees: Illegal logging and the stripping of public assets by Cambodia’s elite (Washington, DC: Global Witness, June 2007)pp. 1-18 and Box 3 on p. 24 in pdf version (Low Resolution).
Tim Johnston, “Cambodia's Crackdown Stirs Concerns About Legal System,”
Washington Post (July 29, 2009).
Saving the World’s Women, special issue of The New York Times Magazine (August 20, 2009). Read the six articles that focus on women.
Sept. 21, 2009
Academic Break at Berkeley Law: No Class
Sept. 28, 2009
Thematic Case Study: Legal and Judicial Reform
Legal Vice Presidency, The World Bank, Initiatives in Legal and Judicial Reform (The World Bank, 2004). Read pp. 1-16. Skim the rest.
Livingston Armytage, “Pakistan's Law and Justice Sector Reform Experience: Some Lessons,”Law, Social Justice & Global Development Journal (LGD)2003 (2), (published online January 20,2004).
Caroline Sage and Michael Woolcock, “Breaking Legal Inequality Traps: New Approaches to Building Justice Systems for the Poor in Developing Countries,” Conference Paper for Arusha Conference,“New Frontiers of Social Policy” – December 12-15, 2005.
Stephen Golub, “A House Without a Foundation,” in Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: The Search for Knowledge, ed. Thomas Carothers (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006), pp. 106-136.
Skim:World Bank, “Justice for the Poor Program,” (May 2008). Skim website at
Oct. 5, 2009
Thematic Case Study: Legal Empowermentas Legal Services, Livelihood Enhancement or Social Accountability
Stephen Golub, “The Legal Empowerment Alternative,” in Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: The Search for Knowledge, ed. Thomas Carothers (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006), pp. 161-187.
Making the Law Work for Everyone: Report of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, Volume One (New York City: Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor and the U.N. Development Programme, 2008), pp. 1-11.
Stephen Golub, “The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor: One Big Step Forward and a Few Steps Back for Development Policy and Practice,” in Hague Journal on the Rule of Law (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press).
Vivek Maru, draft paper, “Allies Unknown: Social Accountability and Legal Empowerment.”
Skim:Celestine Nyamu-Musembi, “Breathing Life into DeadTheories about Property Rights:de Soto and Land Relations inRural Africa,” IDS Working Paper 272 (Brighton, U.K.: Institute of Development Studies, 2006)
Skim: Hernando de Soto, “The Mystery of Capital,” Finance and Development, Vol. 38, No. 1 (March 2001).
Skim: Mary McClymont and Stephen Golub, eds., Many Roads to Justice: The Law-Related Work of Ford Foundation Grantees Around the World. Read: the following chapters from this book:Stephen Golub, “Battling Apartheid, Building a New South Africa,”19-54; Stephen Golub, “Participatory Justice in the Philippines,” 197-232.
Skim: Gilbert Marcus and Steven Budlender,A Strategic Evaluation of Public Interest Litigation in South Africa (Atlantic Philanthropies, June 2008): 4-5, 149-155.
Oct. 12, 2009
Thematic/Regional Case Study: Environmental Justice in Uzbekistan and Latin America
Guest Speakers: Alice Thomas and Anna Cederstav, Earthjustice
US State Department, Background Note: Uzbekistan
BBC News, Country Profile: Uzbekistan
Sabrina Tavernise, “After '05 Uzbek Uprising, Issues Linger for the West,”The New York Times (May 29, 2008).
Philip Micklin and Nikolay V.Aladin, “Reclaiming the Aral Sea,” Scientific American (April 2008).
Journeymanpictures video, Nov. 2007, Shrinking Aral Sea, on youtube (approx 15 minutes): (Note that some interviews on the video have not been translated into English.)
Skim: World Bank Country Assistance Strategy for Uzbekistan, Fiscal Years 2008-11.
Skim: Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA) website at
Read: The rest of these items:
(Fisheries in Costa Rica)
protection in Colombia)
Climate Change, Clean Development Mechanism)
Central America)
Corey LaPlante, draft report, “La Oroya: Human Rights in Conflict,” pp.4-8, 47-51.
Simon Romero, “In the Andes, a Toxic Site Also Provides a Livelihood,” The New York Times (June 24, 2009).
Sara Shipley Hiles and Marina Walker Guevara, “Lead Astray: What happens when an American company off shores pollution?” Mother Jones (November/December 2006), pp. 58-62,101.
Oct. 19, 2009
Country/Thematic Case Study: Sierra Leone and Transitional Justice
Naomi Roht-Arriaza, “The new landscape of transitional justice,” in Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Javier Mariezcurrena, eds., Transitional Justice in the
Twenty-First Century: Beyond Truth versus Justice (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2006), pp. 1-16.
Vivek Maru, “Between Law and Society:Paralegals and the Provision of Justice Servicesin Sierra Leone and Worldwide,” Yale Journal of International Law, vol. 31 (2006). pp. 428-276.
Oct. 26, 2009
Country Case Study: China
Guest Speaker: Stanley Lubman, Berkeley Law, University of California
Articles from a special issue of the China Quarterly, No. 191, September 2007.
Donald A. Clarke, "Legislating for a Market Economy in China" 567-589.
Benjamin Liebman, "China's Courts: Restricted Reform", 620-643.
Pitman B. Potter, " China and the International Legal System," 699-719.
Skim:Julia Ya Qin, "Trade, Investment and Beyond: The Impact of WTO Accession on the Chinese Legal System," 720-744.
Nov. 2, 2009
Country/Thematic Case Study: Pakistan and Institutions, Incentives and Statebuilding
Guest speaker: Erik Jensen, Stanford Law School and the Asia Foundation
Erik G. Jensen, “Justice and the Rule of Law,” in Charles Call with Vanessa Wyeth, eds., Building States to Build Peace (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner, 2008).
Nov. 9, 2009
Thematic Case Study: Judicial Reform and Anti-corruption Activities
Guest speaker: Bill Davis, DPK Consulting
U.S. Agency for International Development, Guide to Rule of Law Country Analysis: The Rule of Law Strategic Framework (Washington: USAID, 2008).
Roberto C. Laver, “A Report on the Institutional Integrity Model” (evaluation prepared for DPK Consulting in connection with USAID Projecto de Justicia in the Dominican Republic), (2009).
Nov. 16, 2009
Thematic/Country Case Study: Customary Justice Systems and Bangladesh
Stephen Golub, “Non-state Justice Systems inBangladesh and the Philippines,” unpublished paper prepared for theUnited Kingdom Department for International Development (2003).
Nov. 23, 2009.
Thematic Case Study: Microfinance Law and Regulation
Guest speaker: Kate Lauer, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), The World Bank
Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford and Orlanda RuthvenPortfolios of the Poor (Princeton, New Jersey: PrincetonUniversity Press, 2009), pp. 1-27.
Robert Peck Christen, Timothy R. Liman and Richard Rosenberg, Microfinance Consensus Guidelines: Guiding Principles on Regulation and Supervision of Microfinance(Washington: CGAP/The World Bank Group, 2003).
Nov. 30, 2009
Ascertaining Impact and Course Wrap-up
Sabine Garbarino and Jeremy Holland, “Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Impact Evaluation and Measuring Results,” Issues Paper, Governance and Social Development Centre(March 2009).
Linn Hammergren, “Performance Indicators for Judicial Reform Projects,”World Bank (March 2002).
Stephen Golub-John Blackton email correspondence, 2001 and 2006.
Skim:Stephen Golub and Kim McQuay, “Legal Empowerment: Advancing Good Governance and Poverty Reduction,” in Law and Policy Reform at the Asian Development Bank, 2001 Edition (Manila: Asian Development Bank, 2001), 127-158. [This item comprises three separate documents.]
Skim:Nafissatou J. Diop, et. al., “The TOSTAN Program: Evaluation of a Community Based Education Program in Senegal,” (August 2004).
Skim:Bruce M. Owen and Jorge Portillo, “Legal Reform, Externalities and Economic Development:Measuring the Impact of Legal Aid on Poor Women in Ecuador” (evaluation prepared for the World Bank), (Stanford, California: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, 2003).
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