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. Part I. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Part II. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Part III. Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Chapter 10. Part IV. Chapter 11. Chapter 12. Chapter 13. Chapter 14. Introduction : studying law and lawyers in Asia

Introduction : 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.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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