International sustainable development law, from lexfranda to lexlata

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Article 3, Volume 19, Issue 2, January 2013   

Document Type: Scientific research

DOI: 10.22067/le.v19i2.27376

Author

Hojjat Salimi Turkamani^*

Abstract

In thelight of historical and economic circumstances of 1960s, dominant paradigm in international development law was essentially relayed on economic development. But gradually by international efforts and issuing Brountland report, the conception of sustainable development came up in context of international law; The conception that by avoiding of mere consideration of economic development and reaction among three aspects of sustainable development( economic development, social development and environmental conservation) lead international development law to international sustainable development law. In spite of some progress on sustainable development in international law,from one hand, due to introduction of the conception in soft law and on the other hand because of failures of policies of sustainable development for priority of economic aspect on two other aspects, there is considerable gap between theoretical and practical approach to international development law. Hence it can be said that nowadays international sustainable development law is lexfrandanotlexlata.

Keywords

Sustainable development; international law; international development law