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_b.A853 2010
082 0 0 _a340.0235
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100 _aDezalay, Yves
100 _aGarth, Bryant G
245 0 0 _aAsian legal revivals
_blawyers in the shadow of empire
260 _aChicago
_bUniversity of Chicago Press
_c2010
263 _a1012
300 _a289p.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 _aLaw
_xPolitical aspects
_zAsia.
650 0 _aLawyers
_xPolitical aspects
_zAsia.
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