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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791783803321

Autore

West Mark D

Titolo

Law in everyday Japan [[electronic resource] ] : sex, sumo, suicide, and statutes / / Mark D. West

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2005

ISBN

0-226-89409-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Disciplina

349.52

Soggetti

Law - Japan

Law and economics

Sociological jurisprudence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Lost and found -- Sumo -- Karaoke -- Earthquakes and condominiums -- Love hotels -- Working hours -- Debt-suicide -- Conclusions and implications.

Sommario/riassunto

Lawsuits are rare events in most people's lives. High-stakes cases are even less commonplace. Why is it, then, that scholarship about the Japanese legal system has focused almost exclusively on epic court battles, large-scale social issues, and corporate governance? Mark D. West's Law in Everyday Japan fills a void in our understanding of the relationship between law and social life in Japan by shifting the focus to cases more representative of everyday Japanese life. Compiling case studies based on seven fascinating themes-karaoke-based noise complaints, sumo wrestling, love hotels, post-Kobe earthquake condominium reconstruction, lost-and-found outcomes, working hours, and debt-induced suicide-Law in Everyday Japan offers a vibrant portrait of the way law intermingles with social norms, historically ingrained ideas, and cultural mores in Japan. Each example is informed by extensive fieldwork. West interviews all of the participants-from judges and lawyers to defendants, plaintiffs, and their families-to uncover an everyday Japan where law matters, albeit in very surprising ways.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816848903321

Autore

Kastenberg Joshua E. <1967->

Titolo

To raise and discipline an army : Major General Enoch Crowder, the Judge Advocate General's Office and the realignment of civil and military relations in World War I / / Joshua E. Kastenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dekalb, [Illinois] : , : Northern Illinois University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5017-5804-7

1-60909-213-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

343.73/0143

Soggetti

Judge advocates - United States

Civil-military relations - United States - History - 20th century

World War, 1914-1918 - Law and legislation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Enoch Crowder and the Wilson presidency -- Staffing and directing the Judge Advocate General's Department: duties and discipline -- The conscripting and training of a disciplined force -- Judge advocates in the AEF -- International law and administrative duties in war and after the Armistice -- Political oversight of military discipline -- Courts-martial, concerns over subversion, and conscientious objection -- Courts-martial and discipline controversy: 1918-1920 -- Conclusion: return to normalcy and a forgotten history.

Sommario/riassunto

Major General Enoch Crowder served as the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1911 to 1923. In 1915, Crowder convinced Congress to increase the size of the Judge Advocate General's Office—the legal arm of the United States Army—from thirteen uniformed attorneys to more than four hundred. Crowder's recruitment of some of the nation's leading legal scholars, as well as former congressmen and state supreme court judges, helped legitimize President Woodrow Wilson's wartime military and legal policies. As the United States entered World War I in 1917, the army numbered about 120,000 soldiers. The Judge Advocate General's Office was



instrumental in extending the military's reach into the everyday lives of citizens to enable the construction of an army of more than four million soldiers by the end of the war. Under Crowder's leadership, the office was responsible for the creation and administration of the Selective Service Act, under which thousands of men were drafted into military service, as well as enforcement of the Espionage Act and wartime prohibition. In this first published history of the Judge Advocate General's Office between the years of 1914 and 1922, Joshua Kastenberg examines not only courts-martial, but also the development of the laws of war and the changing nature of civil-military relations. The Judge Advocate General's Office influenced the legislative and judicial branches of the government to permit unparalleled assertions of power, such as control over local policing functions and the economy. Judge advocates also altered the nature of laws to recognize a person's diminished mental health as a defense in criminal trials, influenced the assertion of US law overseas, and affected the evolving nature of the law of war. This groundbreaking study will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers of US history, as well as military, legal, and political historians.