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Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Leading scholars provide a fresh theoretical look at the reasons why many legal development projects fail and explore in rich empirical detail how different societies interpret global legal reforms and the implications of this for development aid.
This open access book uses an interdisciplinary approach that not only focuses on social organization but also analyzes how societies and ecological settings were interwoven. How did early modern indigenous Sami inhabitants in interior northwest Fennoscandia build institutions for governance of natural resources? The book answers this question by exploring how they made decisions regarding natural resource management, mainly with regard to wild game, fish, and grazing land and illuminate how Sami users, in a changing economy, altered the long-term rules for use of land and water in a self-governance context. The early modern period was a transforming phase of property rights due to fundamental changes in Sami economy: from an economy based on fishing and hunting to an economy where reindeer pastoralism became the main occupation for many Sami. The book gives a new portrayal of how proficiently and systematically indigenous inhabitants organized and governed natural assets and how capable they were in building highly functioning institutions for governance.
Includes Part 1, Books, Group 1, Nos. 1-155 (March - December, 1934)
Law and legal institutions in East Asia's high-growth episodes -- Conclusion: East Asia, law and development, and today's developing countries -- Chapter 4: A new China model for the era post global financial crisis: Legal dimensions -- Introduction -- The East Asian model, its progeny and their problems -- The emerging post Washington, post Beijing consensus (PWBC) -- Implications of the PWBC for the China model -- The decision in light of the PWBC -- The implications of the decision for legal reforms -- Conclusion
This collection assesses the legal developments which have taken place since the 1980s in China. It discusses China's achievements in building a new legal system and identifies the theoretical and institutional limitations of China's legal reform. Featuring an extensive case-study of foreign investment law, this book considers a wide-ranging set of interconnecting variables in China's changing social context, in order to examine and illustrate the gap between the text and actual practice of the law, especially as it relates to foreign direct investment. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese Law, Business and Economics, as well as to business investors in China.