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Author: R. W. Kostal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Imprint: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674052413
ISBN 10: 0674052412
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 01 October 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
In 1945, Americans boldly set out to remake the legal systems of occupied Japan, where they knew nothing about Japanese law, and Germany, where they often ignored German experts. Kostal's book is a wonderfully novel, clear, and caustic history of the successes and failures of these endeavors. -Robert W. Gordon, author of Taming the Past: Essays on Law in History and History in Law This much-needed and compelling book examines American legal reform in occupied Germany and Japan, emphasizing the centrality of individual rights and the rule of law to American conceptualizations of democratic transformation. Kostal's close attention to the successes, hypocrisies, and shortcomings of these American efforts offers vital insights while highlighting the intellectual, institutional, and moral limits of American visions of postwar democratization. -Jennifer M. Miller, author of Cold War Democracy
In 1945, Americans boldly set out to remake the legal systems of occupied Japan, where they knew nothing about Japanese law, and Germany, where they often ignored German experts. Kostal’s book is a wonderfully novel, clear, and caustic history of the successes and failures of these endeavors. -- Robert W. Gordon, author of <i>Taming the Past: Essays on Law in History and History in Law</i> This much-needed and compelling book examines American legal reform in occupied Germany and Japan, emphasizing the centrality of individual rights and the rule of law to American conceptualizations of democratic transformation. Kostal’s close attention to the successes, hypocrisies, and shortcomings of these American efforts offers vital insights while highlighting the intellectual, institutional, and moral limits of American visions of postwar democratization. -- Jennifer M. Miller, author of <i>Cold War Democracy</i>
This much-needed and compelling book examines American legal reform in occupied Germany and Japan, emphasizing the centrality of individual rights and the rule of law to American conceptualizations of democratic transformation. Kostal's close attention to the successes, hypocrisies, and shortcomings of these American efforts offers vital insights while highlighting the intellectual, institutional, and moral limits of American visions of postwar democratization.--Jennifer M. Miller, author of Cold War Democracy In 1945, Americans boldly set out to remake the legal systems of occupied Japan, where they knew nothing about Japanese law, and Germany, where they often ignored German experts. Kostal's book is a wonderfully novel, clear, and caustic history of the successes and failures of these endeavors.--Robert W. Gordon, author of Taming the Past: Essays on Law in History and History in Law
Author Information
R. W. Kostal is Professor in the Faculty of Law at Western University, Ontario, and author of Law and English Railway Capitalism, 1825–1875, and A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law.
