TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dezalay, Yves
AU  - Garth, Bryant G
TI  - Asian legal revivals : lawyers in the shadow of empire 
SN  - 9780226144634 
AV  - KM50 .A853 2010
U1  - 340.0235 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Chicago 
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Law
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Asia
KW  - Lawyers
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: studying law and lawyers in Asia -- Geneses of law and state in Europe and their relationship to colonial ventures abroad -- European geneses: models of law and state power -- Expatriates and traders in early colonial state building in Asia -- Lawyers and the construction of U.S. "anti-imperialist" imperialism and a foreign policy elite -- Strategies for constructing legal professions and producing new state elites -- The British empire and the Indian Raj: a legal elite from colonial co-optation to state independence -- The American empire in the Philippines: building a state and a legal elite in the U.S. image -- Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore: late and relatively weak colonial -- Legal investment converted into state leadership. Korea as a different model of weakness -- Turf battles of the cold war: lawyer-politicians challenged by technocrats as modernizers -- Indonesia and south Korea: marginalizing legal elites and empowering economists -- The Philippines and Singapore: lawyers and the construction of authoritarian regimes -- India and Malaysia: resistance of the legal elite to marginalization by the authoritarian developmental states -- Merchants of law as moral entrepreneurs -- Lawyers as political champions against authoritarianism: relative successes exemplified by the Philippines and India -- Lawyers as political champions against authoritarianism: relative failures in Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong -- Corporate compradors doubling as sponsors of a new generation of social justice entrepreneurs: Indonesia, Philippines, India, and south Korea -- Political investment and the construction of legal markets: legal, social and international capital in Asian legal revivals
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