Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Professional Actors in the Legal System
Introduction
1. The Internal Control of a Bureaucratic Judiciary: The Case of Japan
2. Mutual Bonds: Media Frames and the Israeli High Court of Justice
3. Law, Lawyers, and Legal Practice in Silicon Valley: A Preliminary Report
4. Advocating Democracy: The Role of Lawyers in Taiwan's Political Transformation
5. Legal Education in Late Twentieth-Century Latin America
Part II. Criminal Justice
Introduction
6. Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe
7. The Benevolent Paternalism of Japanese Criminal Justice
8. Plea Bargaining and Plea Negotiation in England
Part III. Legal Culture and Legal Structure
Introduction
9. The Tuna Court: Law and Norms in the World's Premier Fish Market
10. The Legal Cultures of Europe
11. Between Law and Culture: Rwanda's Gacaca and Postcolonial Legality
12. Legal Cultures in the (UN)Rule of Law: Indigenous Rights and Juridification in Guatemala
13. The Transformation of Constitutional Discourse and the Judicialization of Politics in Latin America
Part IV. Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Introduction
14. Commercial Relations, Contract, and Litigation in Denmark: A Discussion of Macaulay's Theories
15. Creating People's Justice: Street Committees and People's Courts in a South African City
16. All in the Family: The Influence of Social Networks on Dispute Processing (A Case Study of a Developing Economy)
17. Bargaining in the Shadow of the Community: Neighborly Dispute Resolution in Beijing Hutongs
Part V. Law and Development and Legal Reform
Introduction
18. The Inquisitor Strikes Back: Obstacles to the Reform of Criminal Procedure in Revolutionary Venezuela
19. Judicial Reform in Mexico: What Next?
20. Business Litigation in the Transition: A Portrait of Debt Collection in Russia
21. Mother or Father: Who Received Custody? The Best Interest of the Child Standard and Judges' Custody Decisions in Taiwan
22. The Sky Is High and the Emperor Is Far Away: The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Law in China
Part VI. Law and Globalization
Introduction
23. Immigration, Law, and Marginalization in a Global Economy: Notes from Spain
24. Law, Lawyers, and Social Capital: Rule of Law Versus Relational Capitalism
25. Globalization and the Decline of Legal Consciousness: Torts, Ghosts, and Karma in Thailand
26. From Cold War Instrument to Supreme European Court: The European Court of Human Rights at the Crossroad of International and National Law and Politics
27. Erewhon: The Coming Global Legal Order
Index