A key task for any interdisciplinary field such as law and development is to determine what each discipline aims to gain fromits interaction with the other. Law and development certainly seeks to ensure that development considerations are taken into account by lawyers, and that legal considerations are taken into account by those who study development. But is the aim to ensure that law merely begins to feature—if ever more regularly and prominently—on a list of development objectives, and vice versa; or is it to ensure that legal and developmental concerns are each so integrated into the domain of the other, that placing them on a list.
