Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Heckman, James J.; Cabatingan, Lee; Nelson, Robert L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law presents original work from a panel of leading social scientists and legal scholars on the relationship between the rule of law and economic and political development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135202668
• Artikelnr.: 42513151

Autorenporträt

James J. Heckman shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2000. He is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. Robert L. Nelson is the Director of the American Bar Foundation, the MacCrate Research Chair in the Legal Profession at the ABF, and professor of sociology and law at Northwestern University. Lee Cabatingan is a Research Associate at the American Bar Foundation and a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law: A Preface and an Introduction
Robert L. Nelson and Lee Cabatingan Part 1: Assessing Rule of Law
Development 1. Rule of Law Temptations, Thomas Carothers 2. Why Developing
Countries Prove So Resistant to the Rule of Law Barry R. Weingast Part 2:
Global Justice and the World Community 3. Global Justice Amartya Sen 4. The
Rule of Law in Islamic thought and Practice: A Historical Perspective
Timur Kuran Part 3: Rule of Law and Economic Development 5. The Viability
of the Welfare State James J. Heckman 6. Comparing Legal and Alternative
Institutions in Finance and Commerce Franklin Allen and Jun "QJ" Qian 7.
Law, Finance, and the First Corporations Ron Harris Part 4: Rule of Law and
Political Development 8. The Politics of Courts in Democratization Thomas
Ginsburg 9. Principled Principals in the Founding Moments of the Rule of
Law Margaret Levi and Brad Epperly 10. The Fight for Basic Legal Freedoms:
Mobilization by the Legal Complex Terence C. Halliday 11. 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 12.
Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Ethnic Diversity Yash Ghai