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18%OFFDarryl E. Flaherty - Public Law, Private Practice: Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan - 9780674066779 - V9780674066779
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Public Law, Private Practice: Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan

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Description for Public Law, Private Practice: Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan Hardback. Practitioners of private law opened the way toward Japan's legal modernity in ways the samurai and the state could not. Tracing law regimes from Edo to Meiji, Flaherty shows how the legal profession emerged as a force for change in modern Japan, founding private universities and political parties, and contributing to twentieth-century legal reform. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.

Long ignored by historians and repudiated in their time, practitioners of private law opened the way toward Japan’s legal modernity. From the seventeenth to the turn of the twentieth century, lawyers and their predecessors changed society in ways that first samurai and then the state could not. During the Edo period (1600–1868), they worked from the shadows to bend the shogun’s law to suit the market needs of merchants and the justice concerns of peasants. Over the course of the nineteenth century, legal practitioners changed law from a tool for rule into a new epistemology and laid the foundation for ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
350
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Condition
New
Weight
635g
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674066779
SKU
V9780674066779
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Ref
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About Darryl E. Flaherty
Darryl E. Flaherty is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware.

Reviews for Public Law, Private Practice: Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Flaherty’s work is ground-breaking…Flaherty’s book offers readers an overarching description of both legal practices and the activities of legal practitioners in Japan from the 1600s (the Edo era) to the 1890s (the middle of the Meiji era)…Flaherty’s dynamic book on the Japanese legal profession has opened the door to many new areas of scholarship, and will no doubt become standard ... Read more

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