Global Prescriptions

by Dezalay, Yves

• ISBN13: 9780472112357
• ISBN10: 047211235X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

Summary

Global Prescriptionsscrutinizes the movement to export a U.S.-oriented version of the " rule of law," found in the activities of philanthropic foundations, the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and several other developmental organizations. Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth have brought together a group of scholars from a variety of disciplines--anthropology, economics, history, law, political science, and sociology--to create tools for understanding this movement. Comprised of two sections, the volume first develops theoretical perspectives key to an understanding of the production and impact of new "global legal prescriptions." The second part shifts attention to the national importation of these legal orthodoxies. The scholars provide a diverse set of sophisticated approaches, both to the circumstances promoting the production of these prescriptions and to the limitations of the prescriptions in the different national settings. Thus,Global Prescriptionsprovides a unique treatment for readers interested in globalization generally or the potential spread of the "rule of law" in particular. This volume will intrigue scholars and students interested in a political science, economics, history, anthropology, law, and sociology. Contributors are Jeremy Adelman, Robert Boyer, Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Miguel Angel Centeno, Heinz Klug, Larissa Adler Lomnitz, John W. Meyer, Setsuo Miyazawa, Hiroshi Otsuka, Rodrigo Salazar, Kathryn Sikkink, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Catalina Smulovitz. Yves Dezalay is Director of Research, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris. Bryant G. Garth is Director of the American Bar Foundation.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(12)
Bryant G. Garth
Yves Dezalay
Breaking Out: The Proliferation of Actors in the International System	12	(25)
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Transnational Advocacy Networks and the Social Construction of Legal Rules	37	(28)
Kathryn Sikkink
Modern Law as a Secularized and Global Model: Implications for the Sociology of Law	65	(31)
Elizabeth Heger Boyle
John W. Meyer
What Institutional Regimes for the Era of Internationalization?	96	(43)
Robert Boyer
Between Liberalism and Neoliberalism: Law's Dilemma in Latin America	139	(23)
Jeremy Adelman
Miguel Angel Centeno
Legal Education and the Reproduction of the Elite in Japan	162	(47)
Setsuo Miyazawa
Hiroshi Otsuka
Cultural Elements in the Practice of Law in Mexico: Informal Networks in a Formal System	209	(40)
Larissa Adler Lomnitz
Rodrigo Salazar
The Discovery of Law: Political Consequences in the Argentine Case	249	(27)
Catalina Smulovitz
Hybrid(ity) Rules: Creating Local Law in a Globalized World	276	(30)
Heinz Klug
Legitimating the New Legal Orthodoxy	306	(29)
Yves Dezalay
Bryant G. Garth
Contributors	335	(2)
Index	337