Lawyers and the Rule of Law in an Era of Globalization

First published in 2011. Lawyers and the Rule of Law in an Era of Globalization focuses on the national and transnational processes transforming both the rule of law and the role of lawyers. The book draws on a framework that emphasizes the relationship between the national the international, the strategies of lawyers at various political levels, and the circulation of ideas and people. As such, it considers the 'rule of law', not as a normative ideal that has to be accomplished and realized, but rather as a field of action and discourse that emerges through complex relationships among experts, national elites and global institutions. Through detailed empirical work, the contributors all examine the relationship between law, politics and the state, focusing on lawyers and the social capital they possess and deploy, in order to understands the efficacy of the rule of law in different polities. This book will be invaluable for socio-legal scholars, students of the legal profession, as well as those with interests in law and development studies.

Autorentext

Yves Dezalay is a Director Emeritus of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France., Bryant G. Garth is Dean and Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, and Director Emeritus of the American Bar Foundation.

Zusammenfassung
First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Introduction, Yves Dezalay, Bryant G. Garth; Part 1 Law Embedded in Cocial Capital and Converted into Legal and Political Capital; Chapter 2 Greasing the Squeaky Wheel of Justice, Manuel A. Gómez; Chapter 3 ::, Ethan Michelson; Chapter 4 Italian legal elites, Maria Malatesta; Part 2 Imported know-how and local know-who; Chapter 5 Human rights and the rule of law in Argentina, Virginia Vecchioli; Chapter 6 Criminal procedure reform in Chile, Daniel Palacios Muñoz; Chapter 7 The European Union and the United States in Eastern Europe, Ole Hammerslev; Chapter 8 Toward a sociology of the global rule of law field, César Rodríguez-Garavito; Part 3 Testing rule-of-law hypotheses in the context of the largest Asian economies; Chapter 9 The reform of the profession of lawyers in Japan and its impact on the role of law, Kay-Wah Chan; Chapter 10 The democratization and internationalization of the Korean legal field, Kim Seong-Hyun; Chapter 11 Searching for political liberalism in all the wrong places, Randall Peerenboom; Chapter 12 Conclusion, Yves Dezalay, Bryant G. Garth;