법과 사회발전 －발전으로서의 ‘법의 지배’, 그 시론－

This essay tries to provide preparatory information on relationship between law and social development, and to get some insights for new understanding and proper theorizing the relation. The word “development” is operationally defined as improvement of the Human Development Index, which means that law can make social development if it contributes to introducing and practicing the values of human rights and democracy. Since the turn of this century, such perspective of the relation has prevailed over the 1st and 2nd generation of “Law and Social Development” movement, which had ended in failure because they in vein tried to explain the relation from the point of linear relation of cause and effect. This essay scans these studies in their intentions and their strong and weak points, and tries to set meaningful framework of reference to re-articulate the relation, and to raise a kind of research propose toward a theoretical practice in establishing new development strategy for human rights, democracy, and human development.