Comprehensive legal and judicial development : Toward an agenda for a just and equitable society in the 21st century

This book presents a selection of papers discussed at a global conference on comprehensive legal and judicial development sponsored by the World Bank in June 2000, in partnership with the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the United Nations Development Programme. This was the first truly global symposium of its kind, uniting practitioners and exerts in legal and judicial development in the broadest cross - disciplinary sense - including over 600 judges, government officials, academics managers of economic assistance agencies, and representatives of nongovernmental organizations from all over the world. The questions they addressed area of universal concern, and the papers collected here show the diversity of possible answers according to the a needs and circumstances of individual countries.