Public law, private practice : : politics, profit, and the legal profession in nineteenth-century Japan / / Darryl E. Flaherty.

"Traces the transition of law regimes from Edo to Meiji, showing how the legal profession emerged as a force for change in modern Japan and highlights its lasting contributions in founding private universities, political parties, and a national association of lawyers that contributed to legal r...

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Superior document:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 348
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2013.
Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 348.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 322 pages )
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Early Modern Legal Practice: Overcoming Antagonism and Decorticating Tokugawa Law, 1615-1868
  • Processes and Practitioners: The Fluid Morality of Early Meiji Legal Practice
  • High-Minded Legal Associations, Societies, and Journals: Putting Law and Politics Before the Public
  • The Possibilities and Limits of Politics: Legal Advocates and the Formation of Political Parties
  • Working Within the State: Institutionalization of Interest and the Making of a Profession
  • Meiji Law Periodicals
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Harvard East Asian Monographs.