Asian legal revivals lawyers in the shadow of empire

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dezalay, Yves 1945-, Garth, Bryant G.
Resource Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago The University of Chicago Press [c2010].
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505 0 |a Introduction : studying law and lawyers in Asia -- Pt. I. 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 -- Pt. II. 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 -- Pt. III. 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 -- Pt. IV. 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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