LAW AND DEVELOPMENT MOVEMENT
IN LIGHT OF CONTRADICTIONS OF LEGAL RECEPTION

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V.A. SLYSHCHENKOV,
Candidate of Legal Sciences (PhD in Law), Associate Professor,
Department of Comparative Law, Law Faculty,
Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences

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https://doi.org/10.24031/1992-2043-2021-21-5-256-300

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The western Law and Development movement engaged in legal assistance to the socioeconomic development of the third world states as well as the postsocialist countries by the Western patterns includes two different stages, the first one continues about a decade and a half from the beginning of the 1960s, the second lasts approximately twenty years starting the beginning of the 1990s. The article provides a detailed consideration of the history and the achieved results, the content of the activities as well as the theoretical sources of the movement in the jurisprudence, the sociology and the economics. The Law and Development movement encourages and assists in the legal reception from the Western legal orders. Taking into account the distinction between the political and the doctrinal legal reception, the movement acts within framework of the former because it uses the legal regulations as an instrument for achievement of extra-legal purposes. Informed by this approach, the legislation serves the present-day policy whereas the law, which is a special social regulator establishing freedom in a social life, does not find a proper expression in the legislation, a statute compliant with the law is not the legislator’s reference point. Hence the political legal reception does not contribute to a successful legal development, establishment of legal values and the rule of law. This predetermines a failure of the Law and Development movement as a whole. The true outcome of the movement is an impulse of some kind to the further independent legal development in the interested recipient countries.

Keywords: law and development; legal reception; legal culture; statute compliant with the law; legal development; sociology of law; economic analysis of law; liberalism; neoliberalism.

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Information about the author

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Slyshchenkov V.A. (Moscow, Russia) – Candidate of Legal Sciences (PhD in Law), Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Law, Law Faculty, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (3-5, Bldg. 1 Gazetnyi per., Moscow, 125009, Russia; e-mail: vslyshchenkov@universitas.ru).

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