One Law for All? : Western Models and Local Practices in

ISBN-13: 9783593394930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 300 str.

Stefan B. Kirmse

Opis

Examining new archival material from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, "One Law for All?" discusses legal transfer and practice in imperial and post-imperial societies, including Russia, Latin America, Africa, and East Asia. The essays collected here analyze the legal sphere as a site of struggle, both in debate and in everyday life, from the level of universal aspirations to particular local practices. The contributors explore the ways in which both lawmakers and ordinary people talk about and actively use the law, thereby telling a story of contested European hegemony, local assertions, and multiple legal borrowings.

Recenzje

"There is much to like in this book and it engages an important topic from a unique perspective." Jonathan F. Parent, Law and Politics Book Review, 01.03.2013(D)er Herausgeber versteht den Band als Beitrag zur rechtssoziologischen Forschung in der Tradition der "Law and Society"-Bewegung, die Recht als Praxis analysiert und seine sozialen und kulturellen Kontexte in den Blick nimmt. So werden historische Analysen zu Lehrstücken für den Umgang mit heutigen Herausforderungen des Rechtspluralismus., Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 23.08.2012

Spis treści

Contents

Introduction .........................................................................................7
Stefan B. Kirmse

Discussing Legal Reform

A Step for the "Whole Civilized World"?
The Debate over the Death Penalty in Russia, 1905-1917 ..................37
Benjamin Beuerle

A New Legal Order under Discussion:
Legal Reform and the Loya Jirga in Afghanistan in the 1920s ..............65
Benjamin Buchholz

Agents of Knowledge Transfer:
Western Debates and Psychiatric Experts in
Late Imperial Russia ............................................................................91
Lena Gautam

Gatekeepers to the Legal System: The Role of Legal Intermediaries

Tinterillos, Indians, and the State:
Towards a History of Legal Intermediaries in
Post-Independence Peru ....................................................................117
Carlos Aguirre

The Ties that Bind:
Sovereignty and Law in the Late Russian Empire...............................150
Jane Burbank

When People go to Court
Law and Courts as Negotiating Tools:
Marriage and Divorce in Republican China, 1912-1949 ..................181
Xiaoqun Xu

Dealing with Crime in Late Tsarist Russia:
Muslim Tatars and the Imperial Legal System ...................................207
Stefan B. Kirmse

Entanglements and Interactions within a Plural Legal Order:
The Case of the German Colony Cameroon, 1884-1916..................241
Ulrike Schaper

De jure and de facto:
The Penal Code of 1871 and Juridical Culture in Mexico City ..........263
Manuel de los Reyes Garcia Markina

Notes on Contributors ......................................................................285

Index of Names and Places ................................................................289

O autorze

Stefan B. Kirmse, Ph.D., ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Sonderforschungsbereich 640 »Repräsentationen sozialer Ordnungen im Wandel« an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.