Using case studies drawn from Latin America, Africa, India and Eastern Europe, this volume examines the role of courts as a channel for social transformation for excluded sectors of society in contemporary democracies. With a focus on social rights litigation in post-authoritari…
Replete with a cast of giants in Islamic thought and philosophy, Ahmad S. Dallal's pathbreaking intellectual history of the eighteenth-century Muslim world challenges stale views of this period as one of decline, stagnation, and the engendering of a widespread fundamentalism. Fa…
Based on insights from prospect theory, a psychological theory of choice under risk, Vis demonstrates ably that the context in which governments find themselves (losses or gains) affects their attitude towards risk and thereby the degree and type of reform they pursue.
"This volume provides the first sustained analysis examining legal transplantation into East Asia. In addition to developing theoretical insights, the project provides a textured account of the political, economic and legal discourses guiding commercial law reforms in Vietnam."-…
This book tells the story of Bunchi (1619-1697), daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and founder of EnshMji. Bunchi advocated strict adherence to monastic precepts while devoting herself to the posthumous welfare of her family. As the first full-length biographical study of a premode…
1968 haben sich Teile der Politikwissenschaft radikal-reformerisch engagiert. Gestützt auf biographische Erfahrungen sucht der Autor den Grundgedanken dieser Revolte in einem Verständnis von Demokratie, das sich auf die niemals endende Aufgabe der Herstellung demokratischerer Ve…
1968 haben sich Teile der Politikwissenschaft radikal-reformerisch engagiert. Gestützt auf biographische Erfahrungen sucht der Autor den Grundgedanken dieser Revolte in einem Verständnis von Demokratie, das sich auf die niemals endende Aufgabe der Herstellung demokratischerer Ve…
"This is the first book in English on the Chinese judicial system and its operations in the Republican era, filling a large gap in the scholarship on modern China, Chinese law, Chinese legal history, and comparative law. Author Xiaoqun Xu offers a richly textured analysis of how…
