ABSTRACT
This chapter provides brief summaries of academic literature categorized by relevant topics in law and development. Carol Rose used Vietnam as a case study to demonstrate a move away from the idea of legal transplants that was the core of the first law and development movement. In addition to the rule of law, another focal point of the neoliberal development initiative was financial assistance, spearheaded by the World Bank, providing financial support for general development projects, and by the International Monetary Fund, for developing countries in financial distress. State institutions have always been at the center of law and development, whether they have been addressed from the perspective of developmental state in the first law and development wave, which underscored the positive role of state for development, or from the subsequent neoliberal perspective, which focused on limiting state involvement in the economy and encouraged privatization and deregulation.
