Legitimacy, legal development, and change law and modernization reconsidered

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to legal development and change / David K. Linnan -- The new legal development model / David K. Linnan -- Rethinking the rule of law as antidote to African development challenges / Joseph M. Isanga -- The color of Thailand's (un)constitutional reforms : red, yellow, or orange? / Andrew Harding and Peter Leyland -- Debtor and creditor learning : changes over time in Indonesian bankruptcy reorganization approaches / Darminto Hartono --China's economic legal system in changing times / Liu Dongjin -- Economy and society : a Quranic perspective / Tarak Abdallah -- Rules and behavior in judging Shariah : a woman's perspective / Lily Zakiyah Munir -- Jewish law reform in nineteenth century Europe / Peter J. Haas -- Islam and constitutionalism in Indonesia / Robin Bush -- From both sides now : Shariah morality, pornography and women in Indonesia / Julia Suryakusuma -- Legal pluralism and the three-cornered case study of women's inheritance rights changing in Lombok / Erman Rajagukguk -- Japan's legal technical assistance : a different modernization narrative? / Veronica L. Taylor -- Japan : a society of rights? / John O. Haley -- Lessons from history : Japan's new quasi-jury system (saiban-in seido) and the Jury Act of 1923 / Kent Anderson and Peter Kirby -- Institutional factors determining the gap between laws in the books vs. laws in action : an analytical framework for improving judicial effectiveness / Edgardo Buscaglia -- Politicization of the Latin American judiciary via informal connections / Raul A. Sanchez Urribarri -- Criminal law reform after dictatorship : Chile's struggle to balance rights with citizens' desire for law and order / Lydia Brashear Tiede -- Modernization and legal reform : the dilemma of the state in Russia / Gordon B. Smith -- Can weak states have strong courts? Evidence from Post-Communist Russia / Alexei Trochev -- The challenges to deregulating Russia : business registration policy and practice under Putin / Eugene Huskey -- Dancing the rumba : federalism reform in Russia under Putin and Medvedev / Joel H. Samuels -- Rebuilding the Tower of Babel : the European Court of Human Rights and the diversity of legal cultures / Angelika Nussberger -- International legal development and national legal change in the fight against corruption / Michael Kubiciel -- Shifting the paradigm of international environmental law : the precautionary principle from a developing country perspective / Marsudi Triatmodjo.