Law as Reproduction and Revolution

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org This sweeping book details the extent to which the legal revolution emanating from the US has transformed legal hierarchies of power across the globe, while also analyzing the conjoined global histories of law and social change from the Middle Ages to today. It examinesthe global proliferation of large corporate law firmsa US inventionalong with US legal education approaches geared toward those corporate law firms. This neoliberal-inspired revolution attacks complacent legal oligarchies in the name of America-inspired modernism. Drawing on the combinedhistoriesof the legal profession, imperial transformations, and the enduring and conservative role of cosmopolitan elites at the top of legal hierarchies, the book details case studies in India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and China to explain how interconnected legalhistoriesare stories of both revolution and reproduction.Theoretically and methodologically ambitious, it offers a wholly new approach to studying interrelatedfields across time and geographies.