Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire (Chicago Series in Law and Society)

by YvesDezalay (Author), Bryant G Garth (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $38.24

  Drawing upon the insights of Pierre Bourdieu, this book explores the increasing importance of the positions of the law and lawyers in South and Southeast Asia. It argues that the situation in many Asian countries can only be fully understood by looking to their differing colonial experiences.