"Contents" [2010] ELECD 148; in Tanase, Takao; Nottage, Luke; Wolff, Leon (eds), "Community and the Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010)

Book Title: Community and the Law

Editor(s): Tanase, Takao; Nottage, Luke; Wolff, Leon

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848447851

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Contents
Translators' preface: the legal sociology of Takao Tanase vi
Acknowledgements x

PART I INTRODUCTION

1 Introduction ­ community and the law: a critical reassessment
of American liberalism and Japanese modernity 3

PART II A CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM

2 Invoking law as narrative: lawyers' ethics and the discourse of law
in the United States 17
3 The moral foundations of tort liability 54
4 Post-divorce child visitations and parental rights: insights from
comparative legal cultures 63

PART III A NORMATIVE THEORY OF COMMUNITY AND
THE LAW

5 Rights and community 95
6 Communitarianism and constitutional interpretation 106

PART IV A RE-EVALUATION OF JAPANESE MODERNITY

7 Japanese modernity revisited: a critique of the theory and practice
of Kawashima's sociology of law 139
8 Litigation in Japan and the modernisation thesis 155

Bibliography 179
Index 195




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