More than a decade ago, before globalization became a buzzword,
Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth established themselves as leading
analysts of how that process has shaped the legal profession.
Drawing upon the insights of Pierre Bourdieu, "Asian Legal
Revivals" explores the increasing importance of the positions of
the law and lawyers in South and Southeast Asia. Dezalay and Garth
argue that the current situation in many Asian countries can only
be fully understood by looking to their differing colonial
experiences - and considering how those experiences have laid the
foundation for those societies' legal profession today. Deftly
tracing the transformation of the relationship between law and
state into different colonial settings, the authors show how
nationalist legal elites in countries such as India, Indonesia,
Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Korea came to wield
political power as agents in the move toward national independence.
Including fieldwork from over three hundred and fifty interviews,
"Asian Legal Revivals" illuminates the recent past and the present
of these legally changing nations and explains the profession's
recent revival of influence, as spurred on by American geopolitical
and legal interests.
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