Asian legal revivals lawyers in the shadow of empire

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.