Law as Reproduction and Revolution : An Interconnected History / Bryant G. Garth, Yves Dezalay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garth, Bryant G., author.

Dezalay, Yves, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of California Press 2021

[s.l.] : University of California Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This sweeping book details the extent to which the legal revolution emanating from the US has transformed legal hierarchies of power across the globe, while also analyzing the conjoined global histories of law and social change from the Middle Ages to today. It examines the global proliferation of large corporate law firms-a US invention-along with US legal education approaches geared toward those corporate law firms. This neoliberal-inspired revolution attacks complacent legal oligarchies in the name of America-inspired modernism. Drawing on the combined histories of the legal profession, imperial transformations, and the enduring and conservative role of cosmopolitan elites at the top of legal hierarchies, the book details case studies in India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and China to explain how interconnected legal histories are stories of both revolution and reproduction. Theoretically and methodologically ambitious, it offers a wholly new approach to studying interrelated fields across time and geographies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I. Introduction

1 Legal Revolutions, Cosmopolitan Legal Elites, and Interconnected Histories

Part II. Learned Law and Social Change: Theoretical Orientation and European Geneses

2. Sociological Perspectives on Social Change and the Role of Learned Law: Building on and Going beyond Berman and Bourdieu

3. Learned Law, Legal Education, Social Capital, and States: European Geneses of These Relationships and the Enduring Role of Family Capital

Part III. The Construction of the United States as the Major Protagonist in Promoting Legal Revolution

4. US Legal Hybrids, Corporate Law Firms, the Langdellian Revolution in Legal Education, and the Construction of a US-Oriented International Justice through an Alliance of US Corporate Lawyers and European Professors

5. Social and Neoliberal Revolutions in the United States

Part IV. From Law and Development to the Neoliberal Revolution

Introduction

6. India: Colonial Path Dependencies Revisited: An Embattled Senior Bar, the Marginalization of Legal Knowledge, and Internationalized Challenges

7. Hong Kong as a Paradigm Case: An Open Market for Corporate Law Firms and the Technologies of Legal Education Reform-as Chinese Hegemony Grows

8. South Korea and Japan: Contrasting Attacks through Legal Education Reform on the Traditional Conservative and Insular Bar

9. Legal Education, International Strategies, and Rebuilding the Value of Legal Capital in China

10. Conclusion: Combining Social Capital with Learned Capital: Competing on Different Imperial Paths

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-SA

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520382725

0520382722

OCLC:

1291507843

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.110

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access