by Kiel Downey | Jan 1, 2013 | Publication
International migration has long been linked to development through hometown associations, remittances, and the brain drain/gain. These themes also carry over to work on forced migration where resettlement is viewed as the opportunity to obtain social and economic...
by Kiel Downey | Jan 1, 2013 | Publication
In August and September of 2013, Botswana’s courts delivered two different rulings relating to customary property rights. The first ruling denied Botswana’s indigenous Kalahari Bushmen the opportunity to challenge government restrictions on their customary rights to...
by Kiel Downey | Apr 1, 2012 | Publication
How do property rights become secure? How does rule of law take hold in an economy? The author uses an original survey of 516 firms in Russia and Ukraine, as well as interview-based case studies, to reexamine these fundamental issues of political economy. Most states...
by Kiel Downey | Mar 1, 2012 | Publication
Educational leaders are bound by legal and ethical imperatives to nnake certain that all children have access to an education and the opportunity to learn. To better understand how law and ethics intersect, this article adopted the cultural study perspective to...
by Kiel Downey | Jan 1, 2012 | Publication
This book addresses critical questions about how legal development works in practice. Can law be employed to shape behavior as a form of social engineering, or must social behavior change first, relegating legal change to follow as ratification or reinforcement? And...
