This article, published in 1995, examines and criticizes the results of Law & Development research since the 60's, based upon two collections of texts published in the 90's. It presents and shows the shortcomings of the two most important theoretical paradigms in the champ, the modernization theory and the dependency theory, and examines the nature of the crisis that dominated the L&D studies since the publication of the 1974 article " Academics in self-estrangement..." by David M. Trubek and Marc Galanter. It argues that the crisis that dominated the champ is a manifestation of a broader crisis that results from the hegemony of post-modern thought and its lack of confidence on social sciences heuristic power. The article also examines International Law texts on the " right to development" and the then recent production on L&D.
law; development; modernization; dependency; postmodernism