The paper examines the fruits of the efforts of Law & Development to show how their results are debatable. it also examines the accumulated body of knowledge about what works in Law & Development to show how it is inconclusive. to do this, it draws the implications of the primacy of the society for Law & Development, an approach that asserts that law is interconnected with everything else in society, so everything matters. this is the fundamental insight of the investigation conducted by Law & Society, original home of the work that now is conducted under the label of law & development.
Law; Development; Law & Society; Latin America