VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

Using an interdisciplinary approach essentially based on legal and economic sciences, this study examines the relevance of the consecration in Congolese law of the free holding and use of foreign currency in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On the...

This study reviews the past, present, and future of agrarian jurisdiction in the context of the agrarian reforms in Colombia with a focus on violent conflicts in rural areas. The methodology used is that of a multi-method case study and legal...

Ten years ago, six institutions came together to establish a joint doctoral programme. The shared motivations behind this project were to improve the quality of doctoral research that we encountered and to create a space for qualitative research...

This contribution serves as a primer, identifying critical challenges to the teaching of Law and Development in Africa. It details landmarks in the African development trajectory, highlighting the vacuum which its omission from the scope of law and...

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...