Asian legal revivals : lawyers in the shadow of empire

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Asian legal revivals : lawyers in the shadow of empire

Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth

The University of Chicago Press, c2010

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-279) and index

Content Type: text (ncrcontent), Media Type: unmediated (ncrmedia), Carrier Type: volume (ncrcarrier)

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  • Introduction : studying law and lawyers in Asia
  • Pt. I. Geneses of law and state in Europe and their relationship to colonial ventures abroad
  • European geneses : models of law and state power
  • Expatriates and traders in early colonial state building in Asia
  • Lawyers and the construction of U.S. "anti-imperialist" imperialism and a foreign policy elite
  • Pt. II. Strategies for constructing legal professions and producing new state elites
  • The British empire and the Indian Raj : a legal elite from colonial co-optation to state independence
  • The American empire in the Philippines : building a state and a legal elite in the U.S. image
  • Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore : late and relatively weak colonial legal investment converted into state leadership. Korea as a different model of weakness
  • Pt. III. Turf battles of the cold war : lawyer-politicians challenged by technocrats as modernizers
  • Indonesia and South Korea : marginalizing legal elites and empowering economists
  • The Philippines and Singapore : lawyers and the construction of authoritarian regimes
  • India and Malaysia : resistance of the legal elite to marginalization by the authoritarian developmental states
  • Pt. IV. Merchants of law as moral entrepreneurs
  • Lawyers as political champions against authoritarianism : relative successes exemplified by the Philippines and India
  • Lawyers as political champions against authoritarianism : relative failures in Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong
  • Corporate compradors doubling as sponsors of a new generation of social justice entrepreneurs : Indonesia, Philippines, India, and South Korea
  • Political investment and the construction of legal markets : legal, social and international capital in Asian legal revivals

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