3. Debased Informalism: Lok Adalats and Legal Rights in Modern India

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Contributors xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Evaluating Systems of Justice Through Public Opinion: Why, What, Who, How, and What For? 21
8. 2. Judicial Systems in Western Europe: Comparative Indicators of Legal Professionals, Courts, Litigation, and Budgets in the 1990s 63
9. 3. Debased Informalism: Lok Adalats and Legal Rights in Modern India 96
10. 4. Democratization of Justice: The Indian Experiment with Consumer Forums 142
11. 5. Empirical Research into the Chinese Judicial System 164
12. 6. Putting China’s Judiciary into Perspective: Is It Independent, Competent, and Fair? 193
13. 7. Economic and Political Aspects of Judicial Reform: The Chilean Case 220
14. 8. Judicial Reform in Mexico: What Next? 240
15. 9. International Assistance to Latin American Justice Programs: Toward an Agenda for Reforming the Reformers 290
16. 10. The Rule of Law and Judicial Reform: The Political Economy of Diverse Institutional Patterns and Reformers’ Responses 336
17. 11. An Immodest Postscript 382
18. Index 419