Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Part I. Introduction
5. 1 Legal Revolutions, Cosmopolitan Legal Elites, and Interconnected Histories 3
6. Part II. Learned Law and Social Change: Theoretical Orientation and European Geneses
7. 2. Sociological Perspectives on Social Change and the Role of Learned Law: Building on and Going beyond Berman and Bourdieu 17
8. 3. Learned Law, Legal Education, Social Capital, and States: European Geneses of These Relationships and the Enduring Role of Family Capital 31
9. Part III. The Construction of the United States as the Major Protagonist in Promoting Legal Revolution
10. 4. US Legal Hybrids, Corporate Law Firms, the Langdellian Revolution in Legal Education, and the Construction of a US-Oriented International Justice through an Alliance of US Corporate Lawyers and European Professors 57
11. 5. Social and Neoliberal Revolutions in the United States 75
12. Part IV. From Law and Development to the Neoliberal Revolution
13. Introduction 97
14. 6. India: Colonial Path Dependencies Revisited: An Embattled Senior Bar, the Marginalization of Legal Knowledge, and Internationalized Challenges 101
15. 7. Hong Kong as a Paradigm Case: An Open Market for Corporate Law Firms and the Technologies of Legal Education Reform—as Chinese Hegemony Grows 121
16. 8. South Korea and Japan: Contrasting Attacks through Legal Education Reform on the Traditional Conservative and Insular Bar 137
17. 9. Legal Education, International Strategies, and Rebuilding the Value of Legal Capital in China 164
18. 10. Conclusion: Combining Social Capital with Learned Capital: Competing on Different Imperial Paths 193
19. Notes 203
20. Bibliography 207
21. Index 223