Developing Development Theory: Law and Development Orthodoxies and the Northeast Asian Experience 28 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law 2007

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28 U. Pa. J. Int'l Econ. L. 219 (2007)
Developing Development Theory: Law and Development Orthodoxies and the Northeast Asian Experience

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DEVELOPING DEVELOPMENT THEORY: LAW AND
DEVELOPMENT ORTHODOXIES AND THE NORTHEAST
ASIAN EXPERIENCE
JOHN K. M. OHNESORGE*
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. IN TRO D U CTIO N ............................................................................ 220
2. THE ORTHODOXIES OF LAW AND
D EVELO PM EN T ............................................................................. 231
2.1. Law and Development in the Era of Modernization ............. 233
2.2. Dependency and World Systems Theory:
M odernization's D iscontents ................................................ 239
2.3. The Washington Consensus Rule of Law .............................. 243
2.3.1. The Economics of the Washington Consensus .... 245
2.3.2. The New Law and Development of the
W ashington Consensus ...................................... 247
Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Director, East Asian Legal Studies
Center, University of Wisconsin Law School. S.J.D., Harvard Law School, 2002.
J.D., University of Minnesota Law School, 1989. 1 would like to thank Bill Alford,
Marc Galanter, Don Clarke, Bryant Garth, Terry Halliday, Chuck Irish, Neil
Komesar, Chang Hee Lee, Yoshi Matsuura, Veronica Taylor, David Trubek, and
Frank Upham for their comments and suggestions. I would like to thank
participants in workshops at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Seoul National
University, Korea University, Chuo University, Doshisha University, Hokkaido
University, Cornell Law School's 2004 conference on Japanese law, and
participants in the panel Law's New Empire: New Legal Techniques of
Development at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association.
Much of this paper was written as a visiting researcher at Nagoya University's
Center for Asian Legal Exchange (CALE), and I particularly want to thank CALE
for their support.