Fates of political liberalism in the British post-colony : the politics of the legal complex / edited by Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik, Malcolm M. Feeley.
Halliday, Terence C. (Terence Charles), editor.; Karpik, Lucien, editor.; Freeley, Malcolm M., editor.
2012
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Fates of political liberalism in the British post-colony : the politics of the legal complex / edited by Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik, Malcolm M. Feeley.
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Halliday, Terence C. (Terence Charles), editor.
Karpik, Lucien, editor.
Freeley, Malcolm M., editor.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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1 online resource (xiii, 555 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction. Political liberalism in the British post-colony : a theme with three variations / Terence C. Halliday and Lucien Karpik
Emasculating the executive : the Federal Court and civil liberties in late colonial India : 1942-1944 / Rohit De
The legal complex in the struggle to control police brutality in India / Charles R. Epp
Priests in the temple of justice : the Indian legal complex and the basic structure doctrine / Manoj Mate
Lawyers, politics, and publics : state management of lawyers and legitimacy in Singapore? / Jothie Rajah
Lawyers and the disintegration of the legal complex in Sudan / Mark Fathi Massoud
The Sri Lankan legal complex and the liberal project : only thus far and no more / Deepika Udagama
"Custodian of civil liberties and justice in Malaysia" : the Malaysian bar and the moderate state / Andrew Harding and Amanda Whiting
Liberal protagonists? : the lawyers' movement in Pakistan / Sadaf Aziz
Miscarriage of chief justice : judicial power and the legal complex in Pakistan under Musharraf / Shoaib A. Ghias
From judicial anatomy to regime transformation : the role of the lawyers' movement in Pakistan / Daud Munir
Postcolonial liberalism and the legal complex in Zambia : elegy or triumph? / Jeremy Gould
Legal complexes and the fight for political liberalism in new African democracies : comparative insights from Malawi, Zambia, and Namibia / Peter VonDoepp
Judge and company : courts, constitutionalism, and the legal complex / Malcolm M. Feeley.
Summary
What explains divergences in political liberalism among new nations that shared the same colonial heritage? This book assembles exciting original essays on former colonies of the British Empire in South Asia, Africa and Southeast Asia that gained independence after World War II. The interdisciplinary country specialists reveal how inherent contradictions within British colonial rule were resolved after independence in contrasting liberal-legal, despotic and volatile political orders. Through studies of the longue dure⁺ѓe and particular events, this book presents a theory of political liberalism in the post-colony and develops rich hypotheses on the conditions under which the legal complex, civil society and the state shape alternative postcolonial trajectories around political freedom. This provocative volume presents new perspectives for scholars and students of postcolonialism, political development and the politics of the legal complex, as well as for policy makers and publics who struggle to construct and defend basic legal freedoms.
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English
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9781139002981 ebook
9781107012783 (hardback)
9781107682788 (paperback)
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