Fighting for political freedom comparative studies of the legal complex and political liberalism / [electronic resource] : edited by Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik and Malcolm M. Feeley. - Oxford ; Portland, Ore. : Hart, 2007. - xii, 508 p. : ill. - Onati international series in law and society . - Onati international series in law and society. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The legal complex and struggles for political liberalism / Law and the liberal transformation of the Northeast Asian legal complex in Korea and Taiwan / Tom Ginsburg -- Birth of a liberal moment? Looking through a one-way mirror at lawyers' defence of criminal defendants in China / 'Dissolving the people' : capitalism, law and democracy in Hong Kong / The state, civil society, and the legal complex in modern Japan : continuity and change / Mobilising the law in an authoritarian state : the legal complex in contemporary Egypt / Reluctantly sailing towards political liberalism : the political role of the judiciary in Turkey / The ambivalent language of lawyers in Israel : liberal politics, economic liberalism, silence and dissent / The legal complex and the response to police violence in South America / When the 'political complex' takes the lead : the configuration of moderate state in Chile / Lawyers and political liberalism in Venezuela / Contesting legality in the United States after September 11 / Politicising law to liberalise politics : anti-Francoist judges and prosecutors in Spain's democratic transition / Lawyers and statist liberalism in Italy / Political lawyers / Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik and Malcolm M. Feeley -- Terence C. Halliday and Sida Liu -- Carol Jones -- Malcolm M. Feeley and Setsuo Miyazawa -- Tamir Moustafa -- Zuhtu Arslan -- Gad Barzilai -- Daniel M. Brinks -- Javier A. Couso -- Rogelio Perez Perdomo -- Richard L. Abel -- Lisa Hilbink -- Carlo Guarnieri -- Lucien Karpik.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Liberalism--Cross-cultural studies.
Civil rights--Cross-cultural studies.
Law--Political aspects--Cross-cultural studies.


Electronic books.

JC574 / .F54 2007

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