Law and the Millennium Development Goals: Like Water in Marr...

Professor William Twining

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are an important part of the campaign “to make poverty history”. What has law to do with this, except perhaps to serve as a brake on development? What can law contribute to universal primary education, infant mortality, clean water, or adult literacy? At first sight, not much. This lecture will examine obvious and not-so-obvious ways in which law may assist or frustrate the MDGs with special reference to po...Read More

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are an important part of the campaign “to make pov...Read More