Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and StatutesUniversity of Chicago Press, 15/08/2005 - 279 من الصفحات Lawsuits are rare events in most people's lives. High-stakes cases are even less commonplace. Why is it, then, that scholarship about the Japanese legal system has focused almost exclusively on epic court battles, large-scale social issues, and corporate governance? Mark D. West's Law in Everyday Japan fills a void in our understanding of the relationship between law and social life in Japan by shifting the focus to cases more representative of everyday Japanese life. Compiling case studies based on seven fascinating themes—karaoke-based noise complaints, sumo wrestling, love hotels, post-Kobe earthquake condominium reconstruction, lost-and-found outcomes, working hours, and debt-induced suicide—Law in Everyday Japan offers a vibrant portrait of the way law intermingles with social norms, historically ingrained ideas, and cultural mores in Japan. Each example is informed by extensive fieldwork. West interviews all of the participants-from judges and lawyers to defendants, plaintiffs, and their families-to uncover an everyday Japan where law matters, albeit in very surprising ways. |
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الصفحة 92 - ... features of social organization, such as networks, norms, and trust, that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit.
الصفحة 165 - Without precisely identifying every consideration that may underlie this type of constitutional protection, we have noted that certain kinds of personal bonds have played a critical role in the culture and traditions of the Nation by cultivating and transmitting shared ideals and beliefs; they thereby foster diversity and act as critical buffers between the individual and the power of the State.
الصفحة 116 - Non-Contractual Relations in Business: A Preliminary Study, 28 AM. Soc. REV. 55 (1963).
الصفحة 49 - Richard H. McAdams, The Origin, Development, and Regulation of Norms, 96 Mich.
الصفحة 54 - Because of the nature of community life in the Bronx — its anonymity, the frequency with which cars are abandoned and things are stolen or broken, the past experience of 'no one caring...
الصفحة 165 - ... an emphasis upon the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
الصفحة 53 - Margaret M. Blair & Lynn A. Stout, Trust, Trustworthiness, and the Behavioral Foundations of Corporate Law, 149 U.
الصفحة 4 - In our view, scholarship on law in everyday life should abandon the law-first perspective and should proceed, paradoxically, with its eye not on law, but on events or practices that seem on the face of things, removed from law, or at least not dominated by law from the outset.
الصفحة 97 - Land Problems and Policies in Japan: Structural Aspects," in Land Issues in Japan: A Policy Failure, ed.
الصفحة 4 - James G. Carrier, Gifts and Commodities: Exchange and Western Capitalism since 1700 (New York: Routledge, 1995), p. 20. Bataille expands upon Mauss in his essay "The Notion of Expenditure...