Global perspectives on the rule of law / 
edited by James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, and Lee Cabatingan. 
 - London ;  New York :  Routledge,  2010. 
 - xvi, 342 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
 - Law, development and globalization .
<br/><br/> 'A GlassHouse book'--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-324) and index. 
<br/><br/>Rule-of-law temptations / Thomas Carothers -- Why developing countries prove so resistant to the rule-of-law / Barry R. Weingast -- Global justice / Amartya Sen -- The rule of law in Islamic thought and practice : a historical perspective / Timur Kuran -- The viability of the welfare state / James J. Heckman -- Comparing legal and alternative institutions in finance and commerce / Franklin Allen and Jun Q.J. Qian -- Law, finance, and the first corporations / Ron Harris -- The politics of courts in democratization / Thomas Ginsburg -- Principled principals in the founding moments of the rule-of-law / Margaret Levi and Brad Epperly -- The fight for basic legal freedoms : mobilization by the legal complex / Terence C. Halliday -- Social norms, rule of law, and gender reality : an essay on the limits of the dominant rule-of-law paradigm / Katharina Pistor, Antara Haldar, and Amrit Amirapu -- Constitutionalism and the challenge of ethnic diversity / Yash Ghai. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415499552 (hbk) 0415499550 (hbk) 9780203870594 (ebk) 020387059X (ebk) 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014926266  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rule of law.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>K3171  / .G58 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>340/.11