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The political economy of law : a Third World reader
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- Creator
- edited by Yash Ghai, Robin Luckham, Francis Snyder
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Delhi ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1987
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 821 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780195619911, 0195619919
- OCLC
- ocm15101530
- Includes indexes.
- The Ocean Island Cases / The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales -- The development of law / Sir Henry Maine -- Determinants of legal development : the guiding thread / Karl Marx -- Determinants of legal development : the economic element / Frederick Engels -- The specificity of law / E.B. Pashukanis -- Legal foundations of modern capitalism / Max Weber -- Capitalism and the rule of law / E.P. Thompson -- Islam and capitalism / Maxime Rodinson -- Primitive accumulation / Karl Marx -- Law and historical forms of state / Robin Luckham -- British extraterritorial jurisdiction in 19th century Zanzibar / Jagdish Gundara -- Andean women under Spanish rule / Irene Silverblatt -- The reception of English law in colonial Africa / Robert B. Seidman -- Colonial policy and practice / J.S. Furnivall -- Law and labour in colonial Papua New Guinea / Peter Fitzpatrick -- Labour power and legal transformation / Francis Snyder -- The creation of "customary law" in Senegal / Francis Snyder -- Law, state and agrarian society in colonial India / David Washbrook -- Ideology, state and law / Karl Marx and Frederick Engels -- The origin of the state / Frederick Engels -- Consequences of the division of labour / Frederick Engels -- State and civil society / Antonio Gramsci -- Ideology in capitalism / Nicos Poulantzas -- The exceptional state / Nicos Poulantzas -- Forms of state and socio-economic change / Guillermo O'Donnell -- The colonial state in Kenya, 1895-1914 / John Lonsdale and Bruce Berman -- The state in post-colonial societies / Hamza Alavi -- The post-colonial state : a contribution / John S. Saul -- The "overdeveloped" post-colonial state : a re-evaluation / Colin Leys -- The limits of state power / Goran Hyden -- The rule of law, legitimacy and governance / Yash Ghai -- Courts and coups / Peter G. Snow -- Courts and coups : a further note / the editors -- Transnational capitalism and national disintegration in Latin America / Osvaldo Sunkel -- The internationalisation of capital and the nation state / Robin Murray -- The international patent system / United Nations -- Legal issues in the revision of the international patent system / Constantine Vaitsos -- Foreign trade marks in developing countries / Daniel Chudnovsky -- The World Bank / A.A. Fatouros -- The International Monetary Fund / M. Zammit Cutajar -- The IMF and the third world : the case of Jamaica 1974-1980 / Norman Girvan, Richard Bernal and Wesley Hughes -- Law and the multinational enterprise / Detlev F. Vagts -- Management contracts / Yash Ghai -- Women workers in world market factories / Diane Elson and Ruth Pearson -- The evolving international law of development / Oscar Schachter -- Controlling the transnationals? The UN Code of Conduct / F.I. Nixson -- The developmental state / Gordon White -- Contract law, the free market and state intervention / Robert B. Seidman -- Operational controls over the private sector / Gunnar Myrdal -- Transnational corporations and the neutralization of legislation / Thomas J. Biersteker -- Critique of a joint venture / Jerker Carlsson -- Labour law and labour relations in Chile, 1900-1970 / Heleen Ietswaart -- Allocation of government contracts in Peru and Venezuela / Richard Batley -- Regulation of the "informal sector" / Jan Breman / Gender, law and control of property / Daisy Hilse Dwyer -- Counterreform / Ernest Feder -- The state, agribusiness and contract farming / Mogens Buch-Hansen and Henrik Secher Marcussen -- Law and public enterprise / Yash Ghai -- The state and the legal system / Robin Luckham -- Judiciary and society in colonial Brazil / Stuart B. Schwartz -- Judicial independence in an authoritarian regime / Jose J. Toharia -- Authoritarian rule and martial law / Col. Vicente Pascual, Jr. et al. -- Indian Supreme Court judges : a portrait / George H. Gadbois, Jr. -- Law and order or law and freedom? / Robert L. Kidder -- The role of courts in rural Mexico / Eva Hunt and Robert Hunt -- The law of the oppressed / Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- Statutory reconciliation in Sri Lanka / Neelan Tiruchelvam -- A sociologist looks at the legal profession / Talcott Parsons -- Monopolies of competence and ideology / M.S. Larson -- Lawyers and the social order / Antonio Gramsci -- Professional training and legal thought / Max Weber -- Imperialism and the professions / Terence Johnson -- Development of the legal profession in India / Samuel Schmitthener -- The October Boycott and legal practice in Malaysia / A. Rahim Said -- Formal litigation and professional insecurity in Bangalore / Robert L. Kidder -- The economic base of private law practice in Ghana / Robin Luckham -- Bush-lawyers in Indonesia / Daniel S. Lev -- On the correct handling of contradictions among the people / Mao Zedong -- What is state power? / Etienne Balibar -- Legality and illegality / George Lukacs -- The Chilean road to socialism / Salvador Allende -- The legal system and socialism / Jose Antonio Viera-Gallo -- The Allende regime and the Chilean judiciary / Heleen Ietswaart -- The courts and social transformation : an exchange / Salvador Allende and the President of the Chilean Supreme Court -- Law and economic coercion as instruments of international control / Carlos Fortin