The plurality of law and development: Reflections on a field in transformation

The teaching of Law and Development: towards inclusiveness and reflexivity across time zones

“…The time of context-independent transplantation of law and abstract advice for scalable legal reform has thus long passed, and there is a need for a more usercentred approach to understanding how the law works in different contexts (De Souza, 2019b). It is important to keep in mind that while these continuing contestations have redrawn categories and pluralised the movement, the hierarchy of ideas, methods and actors has not vanished and continues to shape the contested identity of L&D (Riegner et al, 2019;Tan, 2019). Significantly, it puts questions of epistemological power centre stage in L&D studies.…”