VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

This paper offers a snapshot of the way law and development is taught in the ‘Sustainable Development and Global Justice’ module taught at the Law Faculty of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. The first section highlights four interrelated...

In 2016, Azim Premji University, Bangalore launched an LL.M. program with a specialisation in Law and Development. A course called ‘Law and Development’ is taught as a mandatory core course in the first semester of the program. Across a period...

The Kingdom of Lesotho (the former Basutoland), independent since 1966, celebrates 200 years of its royal dynasty in 2022. Therefore, an analysis of its monarch's constitutional position, based on the current constitutional text of 1993 as amended...

This article describes how the authors understand Law and Development (L&D), and L&D teaching, based on their conceptual views, as well as on their practical experiences in the classroom. In light of Miola’s experience, it describes a...

The UN Global Compact for Migration (GCM) was adopted amidst much fanfare in 2018 and heralded as the first-ever UN global agreement on a common approach to international migration in all its dimensions. This claim is questionable, given the...

This article evaluates the judicial enforcement of provincial interventions in municipalities as a viable response to the collapse of local government in South Africa. We argue that when relations between municipalities and their communities have...

Since 2015 the Venezuelan migration and refugee crisis has become a central issue in the Latin American political agenda. Hyperinflation, high rates of poverty and violence, and the lack of infrastructure have triggered the exodus of millions of...

Whether and how the GCM will impact national migration orders depends crucially on whether and how both governments and non-state actors engage with it in practice. This article takes Morocco as a case study and focuses on the role of the government...

The present article addresses the question of whether cities can be considered new sites for international compliance, given their explicit inclusion in contemporary international soft law instruments such as the Global Compacts for Migration and...

This article advocates for empowering Australia’s Indigenous custodians through innovative legal devices with respect to their traditional lands. This is because Indigenous Australians possess certain rights and duties that are unique to their...