Asian Legal Revivals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asian Legal Revivals write by Yves Dezalay. This book was released on 2010-11-15. Asian Legal Revivals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than a decade ago, before globalization became a buzzword, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth established themselves as leading analysts of how that process has shaped the legal profession. Drawing upon the insights of Pierre Bourdieu, Asian Legal Revivals explores the increasing importance of the positions of the law and lawyers in South and Southeast Asia. Dezalay and Garth argue that the current situation in many Asian countries can only be fully understood by looking to their differing colonial experiences—and in considering how those experiences have laid the foundation for those societies’ legal profession today. Deftly tracing the transformation of the relationship between law and state into different colonial settings, the authors show how nationalist legal elites in countries such as India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Korea came to wield political power as agents in the move toward national independence. Including fieldwork from over 350 interviews, Asian Legal Revivals illuminates the more recent past and present of these legally changing nations and explains the profession’s recent revival of influence, as spurred on by American geopolitical and legal interests.
Society for Asian Legal History monograph series
Society for Asian Legal History monograph series - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Society for Asian Legal History monograph series write by Society for Asian Legal History. This book was released on 2004. Society for Asian Legal History monograph series available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Asian Legal Systems
Asian Legal Systems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asian Legal Systems write by Poh-Ling Tan. This book was released on 2002. Asian Legal Systems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Legal Orientalism
Legal Orientalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legal Orientalism write by Teemu Ruskola. This book was released on 2013-06-03. Legal Orientalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the Cold War ended, China has become a global symbol of disregard for human rights, while the United States has positioned itself as the world’s chief exporter of the rule of law. How did lawlessness become an axiom about Chineseness rather than a fact needing to be verified empirically, and how did the United States assume the mantle of law’s universal appeal? In a series of wide-ranging inquiries, Teemu Ruskola investigates the history of “legal Orientalism”: a set of globally circulating narratives about what law is and who has it. For example, why is China said not to have a history of corporate law, as a way of explaining its “failure” to develop capitalism on its own? Ruskola shows how a European tradition of philosophical prejudices about Chinese law developed into a distinctively American ideology of empire, influential to this day. The first Sino-U.S. treaty in 1844 authorized the extraterritorial application of American law in a putatively lawless China. A kind of legal imperialism, this practice long predated U.S. territorial colonialism after the Spanish-American War in 1898, and found its fullest expression in an American district court’s jurisdiction over the “District of China.” With urgent contemporary implications, legal Orientalism lives on in the enduring damage wrought on the U.S. Constitution by late nineteenth-century anti-Chinese immigration laws, and in the self-Orientalizing reforms of Chinese law today. In the global politics of trade and human rights, legal Orientalism continues to shape modern subjectivities, institutions, and geopolitics in powerful and unacknowledged ways.
Law and Society in East Asia
Law and Society in East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law and Society in East Asia write by Christoph Antons. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Law and Society in East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The massive and complex process of change in East Asia over recent decades has brought about a transformation in the nature of law and legal institutions in the region. Whilst the process of change has to some degree mimicked western models of law and legal change, there have been significant differences in approach due to the different social foundations of East Asian societies. The more obvious of these has been the variety of ways in which rule of law ideas have been adopted in many East Asian countries where the role of the state is more dominant when compared with Western models. This volume brings together a selection of the most important writings on East Asia of researchers in recent years, and shows the broad range of questions which researchers have been addressing about the effect of law reform and legal change in societies dominated by traditional values and political forces, and at a time of massive economic change.
