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Public law, private practice : politics, profit, and the legal profession in nineteenth-century Japan /

"Traces the transition of law regimes from Edo to Meiji, showing how the legal profession emerged as a force for change in modern Japan and highlights its lasting contributions in founding private universities, political parties, and a national association of lawyers that contributed to legal r...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Flaherty, Darryl E., 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2013.
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 348.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Early modern legal practice : overcoming antagonism and decorticatingTokugawa law, 1615-1868
  • Processes and practitioners : the fluid morality of early Meiji legal practice
  • High-minded legal associations, societies, and journals : putting law and politics before the public
  • The possibilities and limits of politics : legal advocates and the formation of political parties
  • Working within the state : institutionalization of interest and the making of a profession.