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... we might call its distinctive and meme-worthy schlock value—that is, a kind of meta-semiotic reflection and negative incitement of the idealized genre or political dreamscape of what the Chinese party-state had been promoting as legal reform. What comes from repeating failed political forms...

... in the separation of two distinct labor regimes, that is, in the differentia- tion between cultural and manual labor that was very much rejected under social- ism but stands at the core of neoliberal capitalism. Economic and legal reforms throughout...

... and inheritance to each religious community, codified and simplified these laws, and created personal-law boards for each community. Gradual legal reform in the nineteenth century also created legal frameworks of community trusts and ownership deeds of sites of worship, cemeteries, and other community-based...

... to effective legal reform. It should be possible to decriminalize prostitution, protecting sex workers from abuse, exploitation, physical violence, and extortion by applying ordinary statutes that do not mark them as a special group. It should be possible to come up with a set of guidelines that makes...

... of the suspicions cast by earlier generations of legal mediators such as the wukala’, the new class of effendi lawyers wanted to insist they were offering skills that were socially valuable. As the legal reforms of the 1890s came into effect...

... trusts and committees. As far as the modernizing efforts of the Indian elite are concerned, the nine- teenth-century attempts at social reform by soliciting the legal intervention of the colonial state are well known. In the second half...

... by mutual consent” made available in the 1975 law. This minor accommodation of France’s majority religion coincided with the spirit of legal pluralism that ani- mated the reform. A certain legal flexibility with respect to Catholic marriage law...

...- tion then sought to contain the implications of this fundamental legal reform in the face of assertive claim making by trade unions, veterans of the French army, student associations, and political movements, all in the name of the equality...

... in the form of new constitutions, as well as revising legal codes, and reforming judiciaries (Holston, forthcoming). In terms of the last, they force isolated judiciaries to confront social and legal contradictions. They create new services which...

... University Press 2019 Racial justice has been central to discourse about the costs and benefits of bodycams, as it has been to other conversations about police reform. Gender, however, has been largely overlooked. In this essay, we reconsider bodycam policy through an intersectionally gendered lens...

... and, above all, differenti- ated responsibilities for politicians. In Brazil, as opposed to other countries (Berger 1983), the constitutional, legal, and political framework recognizes the demands of honor, especially in politically sensitive...

.... An Essay on Crimes and Punishments. Birmingham, AL: Legal Classics Library. Bureau of Justice Statistics. 1996. Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1995. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. Christie , Nils . 1993. Crime Control as Industry. London: Routledge. Davis...

..., and opposition under state socialism: An introduction. In Memory, history, and opposition under state socialism , edited by Watson. Santa Fe,N.M.: School of American Research Press. West, Loraine A. 1999 . Pension reform in China:Preparing for the future. In The workers' state meets the market:Labour...

... relationship between secularism and popular politics. The national republic founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1923 emerged on the heels of the dramatic demise of the Ottoman Empire. During the ensuing fifteen years the Kemalist regime would pursue secularizing reforms not only in legal and bureau...

..." reform here but, to use the idiom of Criti- 389 cal Legal Studies, "trashed" it - and what's more, trashed the very reform that the Three Cases from Constitution and its bill of rights were intended to redress. the Postcolonial A similar sort of result-one leading to the same kind...

... spectacles and Internet video clips. In reform-era China, justice is a party-controlled affair, not a participatory one. The boundaries between party state and society are strictly regulated and policed. The purpose of the televised confessions in the Xi era is to repair the party’s image, not to empower...

... the regulatory and legal shifts made in the name of “Ease of Doing Business” have come at a cost. Trade unions have consistently opposed the labor reforms for curtailing workers’ rights and benefiting the market (Sushmita 2019 ). Environmental activists point out that many of the reforms that have led...

.... A Realistic Utopianism Modifying intellectual structures must also go hand in hand with reforming insti- tutional structures. The legal framework aimed at protecting future generations should, as in the case of mentalities, remain open and flexible...

... impression that the views Gandhi presented in Hind Swaraj were held consistently throughout his life. 3. Surendra Bhana and Goolam Vahed, The Making of a Political Reformer: Gandhi in South Africa, 1893 – 1914 (New Delhi: Monahar, 2005), 19; Paul F. Power, “Gandhi in South Africa,” Public...

... (Programa de Certificación de Derechos Ejidales y Titulación de Solares Urbanos, or PROCEDE), a 1992 legal provision that certified land titles and registered individual landholders. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Agrarian Law Reform, and PROCEDE, coupled with the 1992 Electric Energy...