...Robert Pringle Lawyer in the Wilderness . By K. H. Digby . Preface and Notes by R. H. W. Reece. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Southeast Asia Program (Department of Asian Studies, Data Paper, No. 114), 1980 . ix, 102 pp. $5.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Pamela G. Price Lawyers and Touts: A Study in the Sociology of the Legal Profession . By J. S. Gandhi . Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press , 1982 . viii, 164 pp. Bibliography, Index. $14.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 566 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...R. Randle Edwards Law Without Lawyers: A Comparative View of Law in China and the United States . By Victor H. Li . Boulder : Westview Press , 1978 . xii, 102 pp. Illustrations, Reader's Guide. $11.75 (cloth); $6.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980...

...David W. Haines Lawyering an Uncertain Cause: Immigration Advocacy and Chinese Youth in the U.S . By Michele Statz . Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press , 2018 . xv, 235 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Although at times a dense read...

...Charles Morrison Abstract The term munshi (scribe) usually refers to the clerical assistants employed by Indian lawyers ( vakils ), particularly by those who practice at the district and subdivisional courts at the lowest level of the legal system. The majority of vakils maintain only the most...

..., and of the way in which customary law asserted its vitality in face of the legislator by surviving unchanged into modern times. And lastly it illustrates, by the erroneous interpretations that for 150 years have been put upon it by European lawyers, the pitfalls that lie in the way of anyone who tries to explain...

...Warren B. Walsh Abstract Anson Burlingame, lawyer and politician, was elected to the Congress of the United States from Massachusetts in 1855 as a member of the Know Nothing Party. Later he changed his allegiance to the new Republican Party of which he was one of the founders in Massachusetts. He...

.... It portrays the beliefs and interests as well as the strategies and activities of a diverse sample of writers, film directors, activists, lawyers, historians, NGO workers, and bloggers. Market reform since the 1989 Tiananmen protest movement, especially state retreat from the workplace, has created room...

... correct in its analysis of punishment in the ancient and classical Indian context and, used with care, will prove a helpful work. RICHARD W LARIVIERE University of Texas at Austin Lawyers and Touts: A Study in the Sociology of the Legal Profession. By J. S. GANDHI. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities...

... for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 This collection of essays by nonlawyers sets a great benchmark for Chinese law studies. Contemporary Chinese law studies, especially those conducted by lawyers, have not yet developed a consistent methodology for analyzing the fast-growing and complex legal system...

... skilfully gives us a general view of the laws of Nationalist China, and, in conclusion, a couple of pages on laws under the Communist regime. Both Dr. Cheng and Dr. Liang, as one would expect from lawyers who are addressing an audience of lawyers, speak from a juristic point of view. In studies about China...

.../4080 (accessed June 25, 2018 ). TLHR (Thai Lawyers for Human Rights) . 2016 . “TLHR's Legal Opinion on Prosecutions of ‘Referendum Suspects.’” December 23. http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=3095 (accessed June 20, 2018 ). TLHR (Thai Lawyers for Human Rights) . 2017a . “112 Wan Khong Pai Nai...

..., regardless of how many excellent arguments could be discovered or elaborated on the basis of classical Islamic legal texts. One theme that emerges clearly in Kozlowski's work is the extent to which Muslim lawyers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries accepted the basic principles of the English...

.... Essential to the hypothesis would be evidence that caste" participation had led to learning experiences in litigation. That is, caste would be the chief locus of first contact with lawyers and courts, and caste associates would be identifiable as tutorial agents. Such a pattern could be of more general...

..., where even a detainee's right to remain silent has not been clearly established. One might expect lawyers to play a role in correcting such errors, but in most of the country defendants do not have ready access to lawyers. “For people in remote villages,” He writes, “‘lawyer’ was a totally alien...

.... It has been the subject of a number of books, articles, and essays, and an annotated edition will appear shortly. There is much in it, nevertheless, to analyze and discuss, and this collection offifteenessays by a most impressive array of contributors, mainly lawyers (and mainly, though by no means all...

...Qian Liu Even with its many strengths, the collection would have benefited from clearer methodology sections in the chapters on rights claiming on the ground. I also would have liked to see more qualitative data and some quotes from activists, lawyers, and ordinary citizens who participated...

..., the title on the front cover, together clearly meant to be a summary of the five hundred pages in between. “Sovereignty,” “sea,” “Indonesia,” “become,” and “archipelagic state” are obviously the keywords in this fascinating narration of the struggle of Indonesian diplomats and lawyers to have Indonesia...

... justice system handled the three suspects as serious political offenders who resisted the system, 1 interrogating them intensively for three weeks while they exercised their constitutional right to remain silent and were denied communication with anyone except their lawyers. Because they were well...

... construction of adat, adat in legal thought, adat and Indonesian legal pluralism, adat and Islam, adat and the legislature, adat and the courts, and adat and village justice. It is a book by a lawyer concerned with legal pluralism (the coexistence of more than one system of law), with conflict of laws (both...