Overview

This authoritative legal guide, written by a distinguished group of specialists, presents analyses of legal systems, practices, and practitioners of all the major countries and regions of the world. Adopting a systematic, comparative approach, the volume illuminates the linkages between the nature of legal arrangements with the nature of particular societies.

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Author:   Alan Katz ,  Katz
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Greenwood Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780313238307

ISBN 10:   0313238308
Pages:   461
Publication Date:   17 September 1986
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Tables Acknowledgments Introduction by Alan N. Katz Africa by Harvey M. Feinberg Benelux Nations by Albert L. Gastman and Scott B. MacDonald Canada, Australia, and New Zealand by Alan N. Katz Eastern Europe by Paul J. Best Federal Republic of Germany by Alan N. Katz France by Alan N. Katz India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh by Alan N. Katz Italy by Maria Elisabetta de Franciscis Japan by Alan N. Katz Latin America by Scott B. MacDonald Middle East by Lee Epstein, Karen O'Connor and Diana Grub People's Republic of China by Richard C. DeAngelis Scandinavia by Alan N. Katz Southeast Asia by Justus M. van der Kroef Soviet Union by Albert J. Schmidt Spain by Thomas D. Lancaster and Michael W. Giles United Kingdom by Alan N. Katz United States by Donald W. Greenberg About the Contributors Index

Reviews

?This collection of essays endeavors to analyze not the law but the social components closely surrounding it, which may often determine particular content in the law. The 18 articles perform their analyses in different national and regional societies, seeking to show how the legal systems of each have historically developed, how they operate, their law personnel, and the public's perception of the law in each. The authors are political scientists and historians from the US academic community. A good index common to all the essays is included. Prelaw students should be made aware that these are papers on the sociology and politics of law rather than the law itself. Once students leave law school and go further in the legal profession, they will rarely be allowed by the demands of legal work to interest themselves in the topics of these essays, whose editor is an Affiliated Scholar with the American Bar Foundation, the research arm of the American Bar Association. Recommended for prelaw and social science students; for law and public libraries.?-Choice

Author Information

ALAN N. KATZ, Professor of Politics at Fairfield University, has lectured extensively on comparative legal systems and has been an Affiliated Scholar of the American Bar Foundation since 1974.

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