Legitimacy, legal development, and change
Subtitle: law and modernization reconsidered
By: by David K. Linnan
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780754677284; 9780754694458
Subjects: Law; Law reform; Rule of law; History
Description: "Addresses critical questions about how legal development works in practice. Can law be employed to shape behavior as a form of social engineering, or must social behavior change first, relegating legal change to follow as ratification or reinforcement? And what is legal development's source of legitimacy if not modernization? But by the same token, whose version of modernization will predominate absent a Western monopoly on change? There are now legal development alternatives, especially from Asia, so we need a better way to ask the right questions of different approaches primarily in (non-Western) Asia, Africa, the Islamic world, plus South America"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to legal development and change / David K. Linnan; title: The new legal development model / David K. Linnan; title: Rethinking the rule of law as antidote to African development challenges / Joseph M. Isanga; title: The color of Thailand's (un)constitutional reforms : red, yellow, or orange? / Andrew Harding and Peter Leyland; title: Debtor and creditor learning : changes over time in Indonesian bankruptcy reorganization approaches / Darminto Hartono; title: China's economic legal system in changing times / Liu Dongjin; title: Economy and society : a Quranic perspective / Tarak Abdallah; title: Rules and behavior in judging Shariah : a woman's perspective / Lily Zakiyah Munir; title: Jewish law reform in nineteenth century Europe / Peter J. Haas; title: Islam and constitutionalism in Indonesia / Robin Bush; title: From both sides now : Shariah morality, pornography and women in Indonesia / Julia Suryakusuma; title: Legal pluralism and the three-cornered case study of women's inheritance rights changing in Lombok / Erman Rajagukguk; title: Japan's legal technical assistance efforts : a different modernization narrative? / Veronica L. Taylor; title: Japan : a society of rights? / John O. Haley; title: Lessons from history : Japan's new quasi-jury system (saiban-in seido) and the Jury Act of 1923 / Kent Anderson and Peter Kirby; title: Institutional factors determining the gap between laws in the books vs. laws in action : an analytical framework for improving judicial effectiveness / Edgardo Buscaglia; title: Politicization of the Latin American judiciary via informal connections / Raul A. Sanchez Urribarri; title: Criminal law reform after dictatorship : Chile's struggle to balance rights with citizens' desire for law and order / Lydia Brashear Tiede; title: Modernization and legal reform : the dilemma of the state in Russia / Gordon B. Smith; title: Can weak states have strong courts? evidence from Post-Communist Russia / Alexei Trochev; title: The challenges to deregulating Russia : business registration policy and practice under Putin / Eugene Huskey; title: Dancing the rumba : federalism reform in Russia under Putin and Medvedev /  Joel H. Samuels; title: Rebuilding the Tower of Babel : the European Court of Human Rights and the diversity of legal cultures / Angelika Nussberger; title: International legal development and national legal change in the fight against corruption / Michael Kubiciel; title: Shifting the paradigm of international environmental law : the precautionary principle from a developing country perspective / Marsudi Triatmodjo.