Asian legal revivals
Subtitle: lawyers in the shadow of empire
By: Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth.
Contributors: Dezalay, Yves, 1945-; Garth, Bryant G.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226144627; 9780226144634
Subjects: Law -- Political aspects -- Asia; Lawyers -- Political aspects -- Asia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: studying law and lawyers in Asia; title: Geneses of law and state in Europe and their relationship to colonial ventures abroad; title: European geneses: models of law and state power; title: Expatriates and traders in early colonial state building in Asia; title: Lawyers and the construction of U.S. "anti-imperialist" imperialism and a foreign policy elite; title: Strategies for constructing legal professions and producing new state elites; title: The British empire and the Indian Raj: a legal elite from colonial co-optation to state independence; title: The American empire in the Philippines: building a state and a legal elite in the U.S. image; title: Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore: late and relatively weak colonial; title: Legal investment converted into state leadership. Korea as a different model of weakness; title: Turf battles of the cold war: lawyer-politicians challenged by technocrats as modernizers; title: Indonesia and south Korea: marginalizing legal elites and empowering economists; title: The Philippines and Singapore: lawyers and the construction of authoritarian regimes; title: India and Malaysia: resistance of the legal elite to marginalization by the authoritarian developmental states; title: Merchants of law as moral entrepreneurs; title: Lawyers as political champions against authoritarianism: relative successes exemplified by the Philippines and India; title: Lawyers as political champions against authoritarianism: relative failures in Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong; title: Corporate compradors doubling as sponsors of a new generation of social justice entrepreneurs: Indonesia, Philippines, India, and south Korea; title: Political investment and the construction of legal markets: legal, social and international capital in Asian legal revivals.