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Community and the law : a critical reassessment of American liberalism and Japanese modernity / Takao Tanase; translated and edited by Luke Nottage, Leon Wolff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tanase, Takao.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights--Japan.
- Civil rights.
- Civil rights--United States.
- Comparative law.
- Communitarianism.
- Liberalism.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Challenging the view that legal liberalism represents the pinnacle of legal achievement, the author criticizes liberalism for destroying community in the United States and for offering false hope for a delayed modernity in Japan.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Translators' preface: the legal sociology of Takao Tanase; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction - community and the law: a critical assessment of American liberalism and Japanese modernity; Chapter 2: Invoking law as narrative: lawyers' ethics and the discourse of law in the United States; Chapter 3: The moral foundations of tort liability; Chapter 4: Post-divorce child visitations and parental rights: insights from comparative legal cultures; Chapter 5: Rights and community; Chapter 6: Communitarianism and constitutional interpretation
- Chapter 7: Japanese modernity revisited: a critique of the theory and practice of Kawashima's sociology of lawChapter 8: Litigation in Japan and the modernisation thesis; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-53409-2
- 9786612534096
- 1-84980-354-4
- OCLC:
- 608352129
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