East Asian Law: Universal Norms and Local Cultures

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 6
Preface......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
Global convergence and local practices......Page 13
East Asia as a special case?......Page 15
Culture and legal interpretation......Page 16
The role of law and culturally embedded identities in Asian  development......Page 17
Law, national identity and migrant labor......Page 21
Legal institutions, world norms and culturally embedded practices......Page 24
Conclusion: bringing universal norms and local practices together......Page 27
Notes......Page 28
2 PROPERTY RIGHTS AND INDIGENOUS TRADITION AMONG EARLY TWENTIETH  CENTURY JAPANESE FIRMS......Page 32
Equity......Page 33
Labor policy......Page 34
Results......Page 35
Legal structure and growth......Page 36
The role of government—the IBJ example......Page 37
Too little law, too much law......Page 39
Conclusions......Page 40
Notes......Page 41
3 MARKETS, DEMOCRACY AND  ETHNICITY......Page 44
The paradox of free market democracy......Page 45
Paradox lost: markets and democracy in the developed world......Page 46
The developing world’s absence of institutions to mediate the paradox  of free market democracy......Page 47
Countries with market-dominant majorities......Page 49
The pervasiveness of market-dominant minorities in the developing world......Page 50
Paradox unleashed: markets, democracy and ethnonationalist conflict......Page 52
Indonesia......Page 53
Other developing countries......Page 54
Law, culture and development......Page 55
Notes......Page 56
4 COMPETING CONCEPTIONS OF ‘RULE OF LAW’ IN CHINA......Page 62
Four ideal types: statist socialist, neo-authoritarian, communitarian, liberal democratic......Page 64
The economic regime......Page 66
The political order......Page 67
Perspective on rights......Page 68
Purposes of rule of law......Page 70
Institutions and practices......Page 72
Outcomes in specific cases......Page 75
Conclusion......Page 78
Notes......Page 81
Introduction......Page 96
The state-building project and ideologies of incorporation......Page 97
Nation and state in Chinese discourse......Page 100
Demographics of foreign labor......Page 103
Background on the importation of foreign labor......Page 104
The legalization of foreign labor......Page 106
State, employer and wailao rights......Page 109
Laws and bureaucratic practices: mutually reinforcing or contradicting?......Page 110
Migrant identity, state-building ideology and rights......Page 111
Notes......Page 113
Introduction......Page 116
Nationals, ‘overseas compatriots’ and aliens......Page 117
Foreigners in the labor market......Page 121
Ethnic Chinese residents......Page 129
Gender and nationality......Page 133
Epilogue......Page 137
Notes......Page 138
7 INTERNAL MIGRANTS AND THE CHALLENGE OF THE ‘FLOATING POPULATION’ IN THE PRC......Page 146
A bit of background......Page 147
Nationalism and localism; citizenship and foreignness......Page 149
Subcommunity and officialdom......Page 152
The rhetoric and the reality of rights......Page 153
Socialist superstructure and capitalist base......Page 156
Conclusion: market and law......Page 157
Notes......Page 158
8 THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF STASIS AND CHANGE IN JAPANESE LEGAL EDUCATION......Page 166
The present legal education and the need for reform......Page 167
The structure of the legal profession......Page 169
Genesis of the modern judicial system: nation-building  struggles......Page 171
Establishing a central government within an ancient legal  framework......Page 175
Formation of a unified judicial system......Page 177
The formation of the legal profession and legal education......Page 180
Conclusion......Page 183
Notes......Page 185
References......Page 190
9 OF LAWYERS LOST AND FOUND......Page 192
The growth of the Chinese legal profession......Page 193
Why observers misunderstand the development of the Chinese legal profession......Page 198
The challenge of thinking about lawyers in the PRC......Page 204
Notes......Page 206
The growing activity of the courts......Page 216
Legislative disorder......Page 217
Curbing bureaucratic discretion......Page 218
External influence on courts by the national Party-state......Page 219
The judges......Page 220
The judicial process......Page 221
Chinese courts as bureaucratic institutions......Page 222
Proposals for reform......Page 225
Leadership ambivalence in policy toward law......Page 226
An emergent non-state economic sector in uncertain transition; a  backward state sector......Page 227
The crisis of values......Page 228
New rights, new means of enforcing them......Page 230
Changing attitudes toward law......Page 231
Legal culture influx......Page 232
The uncertain future of Chinese law reform......Page 233
Notes......Page 235
INDEX......Page 244