Global perspectives on the rule of law / edited by James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, and Lee Cabatingan.

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Superior document:Law, development and globalization
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Law, development and globalization.
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Physical Description:xvi, 342 p. :; ill.
Notes:"A GlassHouse book"--T.p. verso.
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Table of Contents:
  • Rule-of-law temptations / Thomas Carothers
  • Why developing countries prove so resistant to the rule-of-law / Barry R. Weingast
  • Global justice / Amartya Sen
  • The rule of law in Islamic thought and practice : a historical perspective / Timur Kuran
  • The viability of the welfare state / James J. Heckman
  • Comparing legal and alternative institutions in finance and commerce / Franklin Allen and Jun Q.J. Qian
  • Law, finance, and the first corporations / Ron Harris
  • The politics of courts in democratization / Thomas Ginsburg
  • Principled principals in the founding moments of the rule-of-law / Margaret Levi and Brad Epperly
  • The fight for basic legal freedoms : mobilization by the legal complex / Terence C. Halliday
  • 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
  • Constitutionalism and the challenge of ethnic diversity / Yash Ghai.