Asian legal revivals lawyers in the shadow of empire (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
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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
More than a decade ago, before globalization became a buzzword, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth established themselves as leading analysts of how that process has shaped the legal profession. Drawing upon the insights of Pierre Bourdieu, Asian Legal Revivals explores the increasing importance of the positions of the law and lawyers in South and Southeast Asia. Dezalay and Garth argue that the current situation in many Asian countries can only be fully understood by looking to their differing colonial experiences--and in considering how those experiences have laid the foundation for those socie