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

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010

1st edition

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Law -- Political aspects -- Asia.

Lawyers -- Political aspects -- Asia.

CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Studying law and lawyers in Asia

PART I. Introduction: geneses of law and state in Europe and their relationship in colonial ventures abroad

CHAPTER 2. European geneses: models of law and state power

CHAPTER 3. Expatriates and traders in early colonial state building in Asia

CHAPTER 4. Lawyers and the construction of U.S. "Anti-imperialist" imperialism and a foreign policy elite

PART II. Strategies for constructing legal professions and producing new state elites

CHPATER 5. The British empire and the Indian raj: A legal elite from colonial co-optation to state independence

CHAPTER 6. The American empire in the Philippines: building a state and legal elite in the U.S. image

CHAPTER 7. Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore: late and relatively weak colonial legal investment converted into state leadership. Korea as a different model of weakness.

PART III. Turf battles of the cold war: lawyer-politicians challenged by technocrats as modernizers

CHAPTER 8. Indonesia and South Korea: marginalizing legal elites and empowering economists

CHAPTER 9. The Philippines and Singapore: lawyers and the construction of Authoritarian regimes

CHAPTER 10. India and Malaysia: resistance of the legal elite to marginalization by authoritarian developmental states

PART IV. Merchants of Law as moral entrepreneurs

CHAPTER 11. Lawyers as political champions against authoritarianism: relative successes exemplified by the Philippines and India

CHAPTER 12. Lawyers as political champions against authoritarianism: relative failures in Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong

CHAPTER 13. Corporate compradors doubling as sponsors of a new generation of social justice entrepreneurs: Indonesia, Philippines, India, and South Korea

CHAPTER 14. Political investment and the construction of legal markets: legal, social, and international capital in Asian legal revivals

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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