Asian legal revivals : lawyers in the shadow of empire / / Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth

• Pubblicazione: Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Disciplina: 340.023/5
• Soggetto topico: Law - Political aspects - Asia; Lawyers - Political aspects - Asia
• Altri autori: DezalayYves <1945-> GarthBryant G
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Introduction: Studying Law and Lawyers in Asia -- Chapter Two. European Geneses: Models of Law and State Power -- Chapter Three. Expatriates and Traders in Early Colonial State Building in Asia -- Chapter Four. Lawyers and the Construction of U.S. "Anti-Imperialist" Imperialism and a Foreign Policy Elite -- Chapter Five. The British Empire and the Indian Raj: A Legal Elite from Colonial Co-optation to State Independence -- Chapter Six. The American Empire in the Philippines: Building a State and a Legal Elite in the U.S. Image -- Chapter Seven. Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore: Late and Relatively Weak Colonial Legal Investment Converted into State Leadership. Korea as a Different Model of Weakness -- Chapter Eight. Indonesia and South Korea: Marginalizing Legal Elites and Empowering Economists -- Chapter Nine. The Philippines and Singapore: Lawyers and the Construction of Authoritarian Regimes -- Chapter Ten. India and Malaysia: Resistance of the Legal Elite to Marginalization by Authoritarian Developmental States -- Chapter Eleven. Lawyers as Political Champions against Authoritarianism: Relative Successes Exemplified by the Philippines and India -- Chapter Twelve. Lawyers as Political Champions against Authoritarianism: Relative Failures in Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong -- Chapter Thirteen. Corporate Compradors Doubling as Sponsors of a New Generation of Social Justice Entrepreneurs: Indonesia, Philippines, India, and South Korea -- Chapter Fourteen. Political Investment and the Construction of Legal Markets: Legal, Social, and International Capital in Asian Legal Revivals -- Works Cited -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: More than a decade ago, before globalization became a buzzword, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth established themselves as leading analysts of how that process has shaped the legal profession. Drawing upon the insights of Pierre Bourdieu, Asian Legal Revivals explores the increasing importance of the positions of the law and lawyers in South and Southeast Asia. Dezalay and Garth argue that the current situation in many Asian countries can only be fully understood by looking to their differing colonial experiences-and in considering how those experiences have laid the foundation for those societies' legal profession today. Deftly tracing the transformation of the relationship between law and state into different colonial settings, the authors show how nationalist legal elites in countries such as India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Korea came to wield political power as agents in the move toward national independence. Including fieldwork from over 350 interviews, Asian Legal Revivals illuminates the more recent past and present of these legally changing nations and explains the profession's recent revival of influence, as spurred on by American geopolitical and legal interests.
• Titolo autorizzato: Asian legal revivals
• ISBN: 1-282-90182-6; 9786612901829; 0-226-14466-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820293603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Chicago Series in Law and Society