Fighting for political freedom : comparative studies of the legal complex and political liberalism / / edited by Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik and Malcolm M. Feeley.

• Superior document: Onati international series in law and society
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Halliday, Terence C.; Karpik, Lucien.; Feeley, Malcolm.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Onati international series in law and society.
• Physical Description: xii, 508 p. :; ill.
• Other title: The legal complex and struggles for political liberalism /; Law and the liberal transformation of the Northeast Asian legal complex in Korea and Taiwan /; Tom Ginsburg --; Birth of a liberal moment? Looking through a one-way mirror at lawyers' defence of criminal defendants in China /; 'Dissolving the people' : capitalism, law and democracy in Hong Kong /; The state, civil society, and the legal complex in modern Japan : continuity and change /; Mobilising the law in an authoritarian state : the legal complex in contemporary Egypt /; Reluctantly sailing towards political liberalism : the political role of the judiciary in Turkey /; The ambivalent language of lawyers in Israel : liberal politics, economic liberalism, silence and dissent /; The legal complex and the response to police violence in South America /; When the 'political complex' takes the lead : the configuration of moderate state in Chile /; Lawyers and political liberalism in Venezuela /; Contesting legality in the United States after September 11 /; Politicising law to liberalise politics : anti-Francoist judges and prosecutors in Spain's democratic transition /; Lawyers and statist liberalism in Italy /; Political lawyers /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781841137674; 9781841137681 (pbk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik and Malcolm M. Feeley.