Legitimacy, Legal Development and Change

Law and Modernization Reconsidered

Buch | Softcover

474 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-26030-6 (ISBN)

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This book addresses critical questions about how legal development works in practice. Can law be employed to shape behavior as a form of social engineering, or must social behavior change first, relegating legal change to follow as ratification or reinforcement? And what is legal development's source of legitimacy if not modernization? But by the same token, whose version of modernization will predominate absent a Western monopoly on change? There are now legal development alternatives, especially from Asia, so we need a better way to ask the right questions of different approaches primarily in (non-Western) Asia, Africa, the Islamic world, plus South America. Incoming waves of change like the 'Arab spring' lie on the horizon. Meanwhile, debates are sharpening about law's role in economic development versus democracy and governance under the rubric of the rule of law. More than a general survey of law and modernization theory and practice, this work is a timely reference for practitioners of institutional reform, and a thought-provoking interdisciplinary collection of essays in an area of renewed practical and scholarly interest. The contributors are a distinguished international group of scholars and practitioners of law, development, social sciences, and religion with extensive experience in the developing world.

David K. Linnan is a scholar of comparative, economic and public international law with a special interest in Asian law. He is Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, and the Program Director for the Law & Finance Institutional Partnership (http://www.lfip.org), a legal and financial sector reform project run from Jakarta via a consortium of Indonesian and foreign universities. His publications include Enemy Combatants, Terrorism, and Armed Conflict Law: A Guide to the Issues (Praeger Security International, 2008).

List of Figures and Tables, List of Contributors, Acknowledgments, 1 Introduction to Legal Development and Change, PART I: Changing The Rol Narrative, PART II: Religious Law as Religious and Social Form, PART III: Shari’ah, Customary and Secular National Laws’ Interplay in the World’s Most Populous Islamic Country, PART IV: Japa n’s Once and Future Legal Modernization Narrative, PART V: Lati n America, Post Conflict and the Judiciary, PART VI: Russia and the Stat e: A Window on Modernization, PART VII: International Law as Legal Development Subject, Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	793 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-138-26030-4 / 1138260304
ISBN-13	978-1-138-26030-6 / 9781138260306
Zustand	Neuware