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The New Dilemmas of Rule of Law Assistance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2019

Veronica L. Taylor*
Affiliation:
Professor of Law and Regulation, School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University: Veronica.Taylor@anu.edu.au.

Extract

As we meet in 2018, it is nearly thirty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; seventeen years have passed since the terrorist attacks in the United States of September 11, 2001; and it is nearly fifteen years since the United Nations promulgated its definition of rule of law in 2004.

Type
New Approaches to International Rule of Law Assistance
Copyright
Copyright © by The American Society of International Law 2019 

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7 Taylor, Veronica L., Rule-of-Law Assistance Discourse and Practice: Japanese Inflections, in Law in the Pursuit of Development: Principles into Practice? 161 (Perry-Kessaris, Amanda ed., 2010)Google Scholar.

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9 See, e.g., Anna Bosch, Local Actors in Donor-Funded Rule of Law Assistance in Indonesia: Owners, Partners, Agents? (unpbublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 2017); Kristina Simion, Translating Rule of Law to Myanmar: Intermediaries’ Power and Influence (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, The Australian National University, 2018); Kristina Simion & Veronica L Taylor, Professionalizing Rule of Law: Issues and Directions (2015).

10 See, e.g., David Mosse, Adventures in Aidland: The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development (2011).

11 Taylor, Veronica L., The Rule of Law Bazaar, in Rule of Law Promotion: Global Perspectives, Local Applications 325–58 (Bergling, Per, Ederlöf, Jenny & Taylor, Veronica L. eds., 2010).Google Scholar

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13 Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice (Yves Dezalay & Byrant Garth eds., 2011).