Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law

Informationen zum Autor James J. Heckman shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2000. He is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. Robert L. Nelson is the Director of the American Bar Foundation, the MacCrate Research Chair in the Legal Profession at the ABF, and professor of sociology and law at Northwestern University. Lee Cabatingan is a Research Associate at the American Bar Foundation and a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Klappentext Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law presents original work from a panel of leading social scientists and legal scholars on the relationship between the rule of law and economic and political development. Zusammenfassung Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law presents original work from a panel of leading social scientists and legal scholars on the relationship between the rule of law and economic and political development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law: A Preface and an Introduction Robert L. Nelson and Lee Cabatingan Part 1: Assessing Rule of Law Development 1. Rule of Law Temptations, Thomas Carothers 2. Why Developing Countries Prove So Resistant to the Rule of Law Barry R. Weingast Part 2: Global Justice and the World Community 3. Global Justice Amartya Sen 4. The Rule of Law in Islamic Thought and Practice: A Historical Perspective Timur Kuran Part 3: Rule of Law and Economic Development 5. The Viability of the Welfare State James J. Heckman 6. Comparing Legal and Alternative Institutions in Finance and Commerce Franklin Allen and Jun "QJ" Qian 7. Law, Finance, and the First Corporations Ron Harris Part 4: Rule of Law and Political Development 8. The Politics of Courts in Democratization Thomas Ginsburg 9. Principled Principals in the Founding Moments of the Rule of Law Margaret Levi and Brad Epperly 10. The Fight for Basic Legal Freedoms: Mobilization by the Legal Complex Terence C. Halliday 11. 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 12. Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Ethnic Diversity Yash Ghai ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: James J Heckman, James J. (University of Chicago Heckman, James J. Nelson Heckman
• Mitarbeit: Lee Cabatingan (Herausgeber), Cabatingan Lee (Herausgeber), James J Heckman (Herausgeber), James J. Heckman (Herausgeber), Heckman James J. (Herausgeber), Robert L Nelson (Herausgeber), Robert L. Nelson (Herausgeber), Nelson Robert L. (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 12.07.2010
• EAN: 9780415589598
• ISBN: 978-0-415-58959-8
• Seiten: 344
• Serie: Law, Development and Globalization
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Internationales Recht, Ausländisches Recht; LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, LAW / International, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Comparative, International Law, Politics & government, Politics and government, comparative law, Social Law, Development Studies, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Social law and Medical law