Fighting for Political Freedom: Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Change (Onati International Series in Law & Society) (Onati International Series in Law and Society)

Half title page......Page 2
Title page......Page 6
Title verso......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 12
1 The Legal Complex in Struggles for Political Liberalism......Page 14
I. LAWYERS, POLITICS AND THE LEGAL COMPLEX......Page 16
II. POLITICAL LIBERALISM......Page 23
III. ORIENTATIONS TOWARDS BASIC LEGAL FREEDOMS......Page 25
IV. THE LEGAL ARENA AS A DOMAIN OF STRUGGLE......Page 47
REFERENCES......Page 50
Part One Asia......Page 54
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 56
II. THE NORTHEAST ASIAN LEGAL COMPLEX......Page 57
III. TRANSFORMATIONS......Page 63
REFERENCES......Page 75
3 Birth of a Liberal Moment? LookingThrough a One-Way Mirror at Lawyers’ Defence of Criminal Defendants in China......Page 78
I. UNPROPITIOUS FOUNDATIONS: LAWYERS AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CHINA......Page 80
II. AN INTERIOR VIEW OF LAWYERS AND THE QUEST FOR LIBERALISM......Page 85
III. NATURAL HISTORY OF A PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC SPHERE......Page 88
IV. DEFENCE LAWYERS IN DANGER: THREE CASES OF LAWYER PERSECUTION......Page 91
V. CONCLUSION......Page 115
REFERENCES......Page 118
4 ‘Dissolving the People’: Capitalism, Law and Democracy in Hong Kong......Page 122
I. FROM EARLY COLONIALISM TO POST-WORLD WAR II COMMUNISM AND COLD WAR REALPOLITIK......Page 125
II. 1970s–1980s: ‘DISSOLVING THE PEOPLE’......Page 129
III. 1983–90s: LIBERALISM IN RETREAT......Page 138
IV. CONCLUSION......Page 158
REFERENCES......Page 159
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 164
II. THE STATE, CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE LEGAL COMPLEX IN PRE-WORLD WAR II JAPAN......Page 165
III. THE STATE, CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE LEGAL COMPLEX IN POST-WORLD WAR II JAPAN......Page 180
IV. CONCLUSION......Page 197
REFERENCES......Page 199
Part Two Middle East......Page 204
6 Mobilising the Law in an Authoritarian State: The Legal Complex in Contemporary Egypt......Page 206
I. AUTHORITARIAN RULE, SOCIALISM, AND THE DECLINEOF THE EGYPTIAN LEGAL COMPLEX (1952–70)......Page 207
II. REBIRTH: SYNERGY WITHIN THE EGYPTIAN LEGAL COMPLEX (1970–98)......Page 208
III. THE LIMITS OF LITIGATION: STATE SECURITY COURTS AND ‘INSULATED LIBERALISM’......Page 216
IV. THE LEGAL COMPLEX UNDER SIEGE (1998–2002)......Page 219
V. CONCLUSIONS......Page 226
REFERENCES......Page 228
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 232
II. POLITICAL LIBERALISM AND THE JUDICIARY......Page 234
III. THE POLITICS OF THE TURKISH LEGAL COMPLEX......Page 236
IV. THE POLITICS OF THE TURKISH JUDICIARY AND BASIC RIGHTS......Page 244
V. ADJUSTING THE TURKISH JUDICIARY TO THE NEW LIBERAL ORDER......Page 252
VI. CONCLUSION......Page 255
REFERENCES......Page 256
I. BETWEEN SILENCE AND SPEECH—LAWYERS AND THE POLITICAL SPHERE......Page 260
II. THE COMPARATIVE SETTING......Page 261
III. LAWYERS AND THE STATE BEYOND ISOMORPHISM......Page 265
IV. VOICES OF AMBIVALENCE: TALKS, SILENCE AND DISSENT......Page 272
V. CONCLUSION......Page 287
REFERENCES......Page 288
Part Three The Americas......Page 292
9 The Legal Complex and the Response to Police Violence in South America......Page 294
I. THE CASES TO BE ANALYSED......Page 297
II. CRIME AND POLICE VIOLENCE AS A THREAT TO THE MODERATE LIBERAL STATE......Page 298
III. MEASURING THE PERFORMANCE OF VARIOUS SEGMENTS OF THE LEGAL COMPLEX......Page 300
IV. CONCLUSIONS......Page 319
REFERENCES......Page 324
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 328
II. THE HISTORICAL TRAJECTORY AND CHARACTER OF CHILE’S POLITICAL COMPLEX......Page 329
III. CONSTITUTION, EVOLUTION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF CHILE’S LEGAL COMPLEX......Page 334
IV. THE CHILEAN LEGAL COMPLEX IN A TIME OF EXCEPTION (1973–90)......Page 345
V. THE RECOVERY OF POLITICAL LIBERALISM AND THE LEGAL COMPLEX (1990–2006)......Page 351
VI. CONCLUSION......Page 353
REFERENCES......Page 354
11 Lawyers and Political Liberalism in Venezuela......Page 358
I. LIBERALISM, THE STATE AND LAWYERS IN THE VENEZUELAN TRADITION......Page 360
II. CHÁVEZ’S REGIME AND THE JURISTS......Page 364
III. THE EMPIRE’S COUNTERATTACK......Page 370
REFERENCES......Page 371
12 Contesting Legality in the United States after September 11......Page 374
I. UNLEASHING EXECUTIVE POWER......Page 375
II. LEGALISING LAWLESSNESS......Page 385
III. INTERNAL CORRECTIONS......Page 387
IV. JUDICIAL CHALLENGES TO DETENTION......Page 398
V. THE RESILIENCE OF LEGALITY......Page 409
REFERENCES......Page 411
Part Four Europe......Page 414
13 Politicising Law to Liberalise Politics: Anti-Francoist Judgesand Prosecutors in Spain’s Democratic Transition......Page 416
I. HISTORICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL BACKGROUND: DEBASED LIBERALISM AND DOCILE COURTS......Page 420
II. EMERGENCE AND ACTIONS OF JUSTICIA DEMOCRÁTICA......Page 425
III. CONDITIONS FOR JD’S MOBILISATION:OPPORTUNITIES AND FRAMES......Page 431
IV. CONDITIONS FOR JD’S MOBILISATION: ORGANISATIONAL ALLIANCES AND SUPPORT......Page 436
V. JD’S ROLE IN THE TRANSITION TO AND CONSOLIDATION OF DEMOCRACY......Page 440
VI. CONCLUSION......Page 445
REFERENCES......Page 447
I. THE LEGAL COMPLEX: THE STRUCTURE......Page 452
II. VARIETIES OF POLITICAL LIBERALISM......Page 456
III. A CRUCIAL ISSUE: THE REFORM OFTHE CRIMINAL PROCESS......Page 460
IV. FIGHTING TERRORISM, ORGANISED CRIMEAND CORRUPTION......Page 463
V. PERSPECTIVES......Page 468
REFERENCES......Page 472
15 Postscript Political Lawyers......Page 476
I. POLITICAL LIBERALISM: WHICH ONE?......Page 477
II. LIBERAL COMMITMENT OF ATTORNEYS AND OF THE LEGAL COMPLEX......Page 485
III. BACK TO THE GENERAL CONCEPTION OF POLITICAL LIBERALISM......Page 498
IV. POLITICAL LAWYERS......Page 503
V. CONCLUSION......Page 505
REFERENCES......Page 506
Index......Page 508