Law in many societies
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Lawrence M. Friedman, Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo, and Manuel A. Gómez
Publisher: Stanford Law Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780804763738; 9780804763745
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Sociological jurisprudence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The internal control of a bureaucratic judiciary : the case of Japan / Masaki Abe; title: Mutual bonds : media frames and the Israeli High Court of Justice / Bryna Bogoch and Yifat Holzman-Gazit; title: Law, lawyers, and legal practice in Silicon Valley : a preliminary report / Lawrence M. Friedman, Robert W. Gordon, Sophie Pirie, and Edwin Whatley; title: Advocating democracy : the role of lawyers in Taiwan's political transformation / Jane Kaufman Winn and Tang-chi Yeh; title: Legal education in late twentieth-century Latin America / Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo; title: Harsh justice : criminal punishment and the widening divide between America and Europe / James Q. Whitman; title: The benevolent paternalism of Japanese criminal justice / Daniel H. Foote; title: Plea-bargaining and plea negotiation in England / John Baldwin and Michael McConville; title: The tuna court : law and norms in the world's premier fish market / Eric A. Feldman; title: The legal cultures of Europe / James L. Gibson and Gregory A. Caldeira; title: Between law and culture : Rwanda's gacaca and postcolonial legality / Ariel Meyerstein; title: Legal cultures in the (un)rule of law : indigenous rights and juridification in Guatemala / Rachel Sieder; title: The transformation of constitutional discourse and the judicialization of politics in Latin America / Javier Couso; title: Commercial relations, contract, and litigation in Denmark : a discussion of Macaulay's theories / Britt-Mari Blegvad; title: Creating people's justice : street committees and people's courts in a South African City / Sandra Burman and Wilfried Scharf; title: All in the family : the influence of social networks on dispute processing (a case study of a developing economy) / Manuel A. Gómez; title: Bargaining in the shadow of the community : neighborly dispute resolution in Beijing hutongs / Haini Guo and Bradley Klein; title: The inquisitor strikes back : obstacles to the reform of criminal procedure in revolutionary Venezuela / Carmen Alguíndigue and Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo; title: Judicial reform in Mexico : what next? / Héctor Fix-Fierro; title: Business litigation in the transition : a portrait of debt collection in Russia / Kathryn Hendley; title: Mother or father : who received custody? : the best interest of the child standard and judges' custody decisions in Taiwan / Hung-En Liu; title: The sky is high and the emperor is far away : the enforcement of intellectual property law in China / Ling Li; title: Immigration, law, and marginalization in a global economy : notes from Spain / Kitty Calavita; title: Law, lawyers, and social capital : rule of law versus relational capitalism / Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth; title: Globalization and the decline of legal consciousness : torts, ghosts, and karma in Thailand / David Engel; title: From Cold War instrument to supreme European court : the European Court of Human Rights at the crossroad of international and national law and politics / Mikael Rask Madsen; title: Erewhon : the coming global legal order / Lawrence M. Friedman.