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Tort, Custom, and Karma: Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand
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Tort, Custom, and Karma: Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand Paperback - 2010

by David Engel; Jaruwan S. Engel


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Diverse societies are now connected by globalization, but how do ordinary people feel about law as they cope day-to-day with a transformed world? Tort, Custom, and Karma examines how rapid societal changes, economic development, and integration into global markets have affected ordinary people's perceptions of law, with a special focus on the narratives of men and women who have suffered serious injuries in the province of Chiangmai, Thailand.

This work embraces neither the conventional view that increasing global connections spread the spirit of liberal legalism, nor its antithesis that backlash to interconnection leads to ideologies such as religious fundamentalism. Instead, it looks specifically at how a person's changing ideas of community, legal justice, and religious belief in turn transform the role of law particularly as a viable form of redress for injury. This revealing look at fundamental shifts in the interconnections between globalization, state law, and customary practices uncovers a pattern of increasing remoteness from law that deserves immediate attention.

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  • Title Tort, Custom, and Karma: Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand
  • Author David Engel; Jaruwan S. Engel
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford Law Books, Stanford, CA
  • Date 2010-02-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780804763820 / 0804763828
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects Culture and law, Torts - Thailand
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009035121
  • Dewey Decimal Code 346.593

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Citations

  • Choice, 10/01/2010, Page 0
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2010, Page 191

About the author

David M. Engel is SUNY Distinguished Service Professor at the Law School of the University at Buffalo. His most recent book is Fault Lines: Tort Law and Cultural Practice (Stanford, 2009). Jaruwan S. Engel is an author, Thai language instructor, and translator, and was formerly Lecturer and Coordinator of the Thai Language Program at the University at Buffalo.
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