Includes bibliographical references and index.

The legal complex and struggles for political liberalism / Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik and Malcolm M. Feeley -- 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 / Terence C. Halliday and Sida Liu -- 'Dissolving the people' : capitalism, law and democracy in Hong Kong / Carol Jones -- The state, civil society, and the legal complex in modern Japan : continuity and change / Malcolm M. Feeley and Setsuo Miyazawa -- Mobilising the law in an authoritarian state : the legal complex in contemporary Egypt / Tamir Moustafa -- Reluctantly sailing towards political liberalism : the political role of the judiciary in Turkey / Zühtü Arslan -- The ambivalent language of lawyers in Israel : liberal politics, economic liberalism, silence and dissent / Gad Barzilai -- The legal complex and the response to police violence in South America / Daniel M. Brinks -- When the 'political complex' takes the lead : the configuration of moderate state in Chile / Javier A. Couso -- Lawyers and political liberalism in Venezuela / Rogelio Perez Perdomo -- Contesting legality in the United States after September 11 / Richard L. Abel -- Politicising law to liberalise politics : anti-Francoist judges and prosecutors in Spain's democratic transition / Lisa Hilbink -- Lawyers and statist liberalism in Italy / Carlo Guarnieri -- Political lawyers / Lucien Karpik.

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