Introduction : studying law and lawyers in Asia
Pt. I. 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
Pt. II. 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
Pt. III. 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
Pt. IV. 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.
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Asian legal revivals : lawyers in the shadow of empire. ISBN 9780226144634. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
