East Asian Law : Universal Norms and Local Cultures /
East Asian Law : Universal Norms and Local Cultures /
edited by Arthur Rosett, Lucie Cheng and Margaret Y.K. Woo.
- London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.
- 1 online resource (255 pages) 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Finding a role for law in Asian development / Lucie Cheng, Margaret Y.K. Woo and Arthur Rosett -- 2. Property rights and indigenous tradition among early twentieth-century Japanese firms / Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer -- 3. Markets, democracy and ethnicity / Amy L. Chua -- 4. Competing conceptions of 'rule of law' in China / Randall Peerenboom -- 5. Transnational labor, citizenship and the Taiwan state / Lucie Cheng -- 6. 'Us' and 'them' in Korean law : the creation, accommodation and exclusion of outsiders in South Korea / Chulwoo Lee -- 7. Internal migrants and the challenge of the 'floating population' in the PRC / Dorothy J. Solinger -- 8. The historical roots of stasis and change in Japanese legal education / Kahei Rokumoto -- 9. Of lawyers lost and found : searching for legal professionalism in the People's Republic of China / William P. Alford -- 10. Chinese courts and law reform in post-Mao China / Stanley Lubman.
This book explores the tension in East Asia between the trend towards a convergence of legal practices in the direction of a universal model and a reassertion of local cultural practices.
9780203361849 (electronic bk.) 0203361849 (electronic bk.) 9781134431809 (e-book) 1134431805 (OEB Format) 9781134431793 (e-book) 1134431791
Law--East Asia.
86.10 history of law, law of different countries, areas and peoples.
LAW--Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Law.
Development of law.
Constitutional state.
Civil society.
Lawyers.
Courts of law.
Asia.
Legal systems.
East Asia.
China.
Japan.
South Korea.
Taiwan.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
KNC79.E38 2002eb
349.5
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Finding a role for law in Asian development / Lucie Cheng, Margaret Y.K. Woo and Arthur Rosett -- 2. Property rights and indigenous tradition among early twentieth-century Japanese firms / Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer -- 3. Markets, democracy and ethnicity / Amy L. Chua -- 4. Competing conceptions of 'rule of law' in China / Randall Peerenboom -- 5. Transnational labor, citizenship and the Taiwan state / Lucie Cheng -- 6. 'Us' and 'them' in Korean law : the creation, accommodation and exclusion of outsiders in South Korea / Chulwoo Lee -- 7. Internal migrants and the challenge of the 'floating population' in the PRC / Dorothy J. Solinger -- 8. The historical roots of stasis and change in Japanese legal education / Kahei Rokumoto -- 9. Of lawyers lost and found : searching for legal professionalism in the People's Republic of China / William P. Alford -- 10. Chinese courts and law reform in post-Mao China / Stanley Lubman.
This book explores the tension in East Asia between the trend towards a convergence of legal practices in the direction of a universal model and a reassertion of local cultural practices.
9780203361849 (electronic bk.) 0203361849 (electronic bk.) 9781134431809 (e-book) 1134431805 (OEB Format) 9781134431793 (e-book) 1134431791
Law--East Asia.
86.10 history of law, law of different countries, areas and peoples.
LAW--Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Law.
Development of law.
Constitutional state.
Civil society.
Lawyers.
Courts of law.
Asia.
Legal systems.
East Asia.
China.
Japan.
South Korea.
Taiwan.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
KNC79.E38 2002eb
349.5