Tort, Custom, and Karma: Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand (Cultural Lives of Law)

by David M . Engel (Author), JaruwanS.Engel (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $114.87

  This colorful portrait of law and society during a period of rapid social change reaches a counter-intuitive conclusion about the role of law in injury cases: globalization has led ordinary Thai people to turn away from courts and lawyers and to embrace a form of religious practice that leaves them without any remedy for harms they have suffered.