Global prescriptions
Subtitle: the production, exportation, and importation of a new legal orthodoxy
By: edited by Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth.
Contributors: Dezalay, Yves, 1945-; Garth, Bryant G.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Law reform.; Legal polycentricity.; Comparative law.; Globalization.; Law and economic development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Breaking out : the proliferation of actors in the international system / Anne-Marie Slaughter; title: Transnational advocacy networks and the social construction of legal rules / Kathryn Sikkink; title: Modern law as a secularized and global model : implications for the sociology of law / Elizabeth Heger Boyle and John W. Meyer; title: What institutional regimes for the era of internationalization? / Robert Boyer; title: Between liberalism and neoliberalism : law's dilemma in Latin America / Jeremy Adelman and Miguel Angel Centeno; title: Legal education and the reproduction of the elite in Japan / Setsuo Miyazawa with Hiroshi Otsuka; title: Cultural elements in the practice of law in Mexico: informal networks in a formal system / Larissa Adler Lomnitz and Rodrigo Salazar; title: The discovery of law : political consequences in the Argentine case / Catalina Smulovitz; title: Hybrid(ity) rules : creating local law in a globalized world / Heinz Klug; title: Legitimating the new legal orthodoxy / Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth.