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DOI

10.21143/jhp.vol50.no1.2502

Abstract

The emergence of World Bank legal reform projects in promoting the rule of law has been successful to encourage third world countries to reform their legal aspects to help formulate market friendly policy. This article tries to question the concept of rule of law that is materialized in many World Bank legal reform projects by using critical legal perspective to analysis legal scholarship on the role of law in the context of development. It trying to present an alternative explanation of World Bank’s rule of law which we are hypothetizing as a neoliberal concept. World Bank’s rule of law are nothing more than a formalistic and limitative concept which is constituted by abstract and universal rules such as protection of private property, contract enforcements and operational efficiency which is a legal framework to easify capitalism. This article conclude that World Bank’s rule of law are bereft of emancipatory values and only serves as a tool for neoliberal penetration to third world countries.

Bahasa Abstract

Meningkatnya peran World Bank dalam promosi rule of law telah mengarahkan banyak negara dalam menjalankan agenda reformasi hukum yang dimaksudkan membentuk kebijakan yang ramah pasar. Artikel ini menggunakan pendekatan hukum kritis untuk mempertanyakan konsep rule of law yang diartikulasikan dalam berbagai proyek reformasi hukum World Bank dengan menelusurinya melalui wacana pemikiran hukum yang terkait peran hukum dalam konteks pembangunan. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menawarkan penjelasan alternatif dalam memahami konsep rule of law World Bank sebagai sebuah konsep yang dirumuskan berdasarkan gagasan neoliberal. Artikel ini menemukan bahwa konsep rule of law World Bank tidak lebih dari sebuah konsep yang bersifat limitatif dan formalistik terdiri dari aturan abstrak dan universal yang melindungi hak properti, penegakan kontrak dan berorientasi pada efisiensi dimana hukum diasumsikan sebagai produk netral dan bebas nilai yang menyembunyikan kepentingan kapitalisme. Artikel ini menyimpulkan alih-alih merefleksikan hukum yang emansipatoris, konsep rule of law World Bank pada dasarnya merupakan kerangka kerja yang dipaksakan ke negara-negara dunia ketiga untuk membentuk rezim hukum yang sesuai dengan teori dan praktik neoliberalisme.

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Tesis

Herlambang Perdana Wiratraman, Good Governance and Legal Reform in Indonesia, Thesis Mahidol University, 2006

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Ioannis Glinavos, Rule of law Promotion and Development a Search Meaning, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228128242_Rule_of_Law_Promotio n_and_Development_A_Search_for_Meaning diakses 24 Mei 2019

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