ABSTRACT
SUM MARY. This paper offers one lawyer’s perspective on illegal acts related to forests. In particular, it considers the role of legal reform in ad dressing these problems. After cautioning on the danger of looking at il legal acts from too narrow a perspective, this paper lists som e o f the kinds of failures in law and government institutions associated with ille-
KEYW ORDS. Forest law, forest governance, forest policy, illegal acts, corruption, legal reform, institutional reform
INTRODUCTION This paper offers a legal perspective on illegal activities in the forest sector.
