Fighting for Political Freedom Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Liberalism

by Halliday, Terence C.; Karpik, Lucien; Feeley, Malcolm M.

• ISBN13: 9781841137681
• ISBN10: 1841137685
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-18
• Publisher: Hart Publishing

Summary

ACROSS the world political liberalism is being fought for, consolidated and defended. That is the case for nations that have never enjoyed a liberal political society, for nations that have advanced towards and then retreated from political liberalism, for nations that have recently shifted from authoritarian to liberal political systems, and for mature democracies facing terrorism and domestic conflict.

Author Biography

Terence C Halliday is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago.
Malcolm M. Feeley is Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Chair Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
Lucien Karpik is at the Ecole des Mines, Centre Raymond Aron (EHESS), Paris.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
The Legal Complex and Struggles for Political Liberalism	p. 1
Asia
Law and the Liberal Transformation of the Northeast Asian Legal Complex in Korea and Taiwan	p. 43
Birth of a Liberal Moment? Looking Through a One-Way Mirror at Lawyers' Defence of Criminal Defendants in China	p. 65
'Dissolving the People': Capitalism, Law and Democracy in Hong Kong	p. 109
The State, Civil Society, and the Legal Complex in Modern Japan: Continuity and Change	p. 151
Middle East
Mobilising the Law in an Authoritarian State: The Legal Complex in Contemporary Egypt	p. 193
Reluctantly Sailing Towards Political Liberalism: The Political Role of the Judiciary in Turkey	p. 219
The Ambivalent Language of Lawyers in Israel: Liberal Politics, Economic Liberalism, Silence and Dissent	p. 247
The Americas
The Legal Complex and the Response to Police Violence in South America	p. 281
When the 'Political Complex' takes the Lead: The Configuration of a Moderate State in Chile	p. 315
Lawyers and Political Liberalism in Venezuela	p. 345
Contesting Legality in the United States after September 11	p. 361
Europe
Politicising Law to Liberalise Politics: Anti-Francoist Judges and Prosecutors in Spain's Democratic Transition	p. 403
Lawyers and Statist Liberalism in Italy	p. 439
Postscript
Political Lawyers	p. 463
Index	p. 495
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