Law as Reproduction and Revolution: An Interconnected History

Bryant G. Garth

book: Law as Reproduction and Revolution

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2021

Law as Reproduction and Revolution

An Interconnected History

Bryant G. Garth

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520382725

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This sweeping book details the extent to which the legal revolution emanating from the US has transformed legal hierarchies of power across the globe, while also analyzing the conjoined global histories of law and social change from the Middle Ages to today. It examines the global proliferation of large corporate law firms—a US invention—along with US legal education approaches geared toward those corporate law firms. This neoliberal-inspired revolution attacks complacent legal oligarchies in the name of America-inspired modernism. Drawing on the combined histories of the legal profession, imperial transformations, and the enduring and conservative role of cosmopolitan elites at the top of legal hierarchies, the book details case studies in India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and China to explain how interconnected legal histories are stories of both revolution and reproduction. Theoretically and methodologically ambitious, it offers a wholly new approach to studying interrelated fields across time and geographies.

Author / Editor information

Garth Bryant G. :

Yves Dezalay is Emeritus Director of Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Bryant G. Garth is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Part I. Introduction
1 Legal Revolutions, Cosmopolitan Legal Elites, and Interconnected Histories Open Access Download PDF	3
Part II. Learned Law and Social Change: Theoretical Orientation and European Geneses
2. Sociological Perspectives on Social Change and the Role of Learned Law: Building on and Going beyond Berman and Bourdieu Open Access Download PDF	17
3. Learned Law, Legal Education, Social Capital, and States: European Geneses of These Relationships and the Enduring Role of Family Capital Open Access Download PDF	31
Part III. The Construction of the United States as the Major Protagonist in Promoting Legal Revolution
4. US Legal Hybrids, Corporate Law Firms, the Langdellian Revolution in Legal Education, and the Construction of a US-Oriented International Justice through an Alliance of US Corporate Lawyers and European Professors Open Access Download PDF	57
5. Social and Neoliberal Revolutions in the United States Open Access Download PDF	75
Part IV. From Law and Development to the Neoliberal Revolution
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	97
6. India: Colonial Path Dependencies Revisited: An Embattled Senior Bar, the Marginalization of Legal Knowledge, and Internationalized Challenges Open Access Download PDF	101
7. Hong Kong as a Paradigm Case: An Open Market for Corporate Law Firms and the Technologies of Legal Education Reform—as Chinese Hegemony Grows Open Access Download PDF	121
8. South Korea and Japan: Contrasting Attacks through Legal Education Reform on the Traditional Conservative and Insular Bar Open Access Download PDF	137
9. Legal Education, International Strategies, and Rebuilding the Value of Legal Capital in China Zhizhou Wang Open Access Download PDF	164
10. Conclusion: Combining Social Capital with Learned Capital: Competing on Different Imperial Paths Open Access Download PDF	193
Notes Open Access Download PDF	203
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	207
Index Open Access Download PDF	223

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 250

eBook

Published: September 28, 2021
ISBN: 9780520382725