Screen LibraryGlobal perspectives on the rule of law
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| Group Author: | ; ; ; |
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| Published: |
Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | London New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Law, development and globalization |
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 342 p.: ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780415499552 (hbk) 0415499550 (hbk) 9780203870594 (ebk) 020387059X (ebk) |
| Index Number: | D90 |
| CLC: | D90 |
| Call Number: | D90/G562-1 |
| Contents: |
"A GlassHouse book"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. Rule of law temptations / Thomas Carothers -- Why developing countries prove so resistant to the rule of law / Barry R. Weingast -- Global justice / Amartya Sen -- The rule of law in Islamic thought and practice : a historical perspective / Timur Kuran -- The viability of the welfare state / James J. Heckman -- Comparing legal and alternative institutions in finance and commerce / Franklin Allen and Jun Q.J. Qian -- Law, finance, and the first corporations / Ron Harris -- The politics of courts in democratization / Thomas Ginsburg -- Principled principals in the founding moments of the rule of law / Margaret Levi and Brad Epperly -- The fight for basic legal freedoms : mobilization by the legal complex / Terence C. Halliday -- Social norms, rule of law, and gender reality : an essay on the limits of the dominant rule of law paradigm / Katharina Pistor, Antara Haldar, and Amrit Amirapu -- Constitutionalism and the challenge of ethnic diversity / Yash Ghai. |