LAW AND GOVERNANCE IN
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Some Introductory Remarks on Law, Governance and
Development
Jan Michiel Otto
The subject of ‘Law and Administration in Developing Countries’ has been taught at Leiden University since 1984 as an optional subject for Dutch students of law, social sciences and arts. It is situated at the crossing of several disciplinary branches of science. Since 1993 the subject has also been taught in the English programs of the Faculty of Law to both LLCstudents as well as to LLM-students. Because of changes in terminology used by leading institutions of international development, the concept of ‘administration’ has partly been replaced by the concept of ‘governance’. The Van Vollenhoven Institute itself changed names and instead of an institute for ‘law and administration in developing countries’, it became an institute for ‘law, governance and development’ (LGD). The institute’s focus also changed more towards ‘legal systems’; administration or governance are still important but secondary.
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