East Asian Law : Universal Norms and Local Cultures / edited by Arthur Rosett, Lucie Cheng and Margaret Y.K. Woo.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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