Public Law, Private Practice: Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan
(Book #348 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674066774
ISBN13:9780674066779
Release Date:August 2013
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:334 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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