Table of Contents:
Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law:
A Preface and an Introduction, Robert L. Nelson and Lee Cabatingan;
PART I: Assessing Rule of Law Development;
1. Rule of Law Temptations, Thomas Carothers;
2. Why Developing Countries Prove So Resistant to the Rule of Law, Barry R. Weingast;
PART II: Global Justice and the World Community;
3. Global Justice, Amartya Sen;
4. The Rule of Law in Islamic Thought and Practice: A Historical Perspective, Timur Kuran PART III: Rule of Law and Economic Development;
5. The Viability of the Welfare State, James J. Heckman;
6. Comparing Legal and Alternative Institutions in Finance and Commerce, Franklin Allen and Jun "QJ" Qian 7.Law, Finance, and the First Corporations, Ron Harris;
PART IV: Rule of Law and Political Development;
8. The Politics of Courts in Democratization, Thomas Ginsburg;
9. Principled Principals in the Founding Moments of the Rule of Law, Margaret Levi and Brad Epperly;
10. The Fight for Basic Legal Freedoms: Mobilization by the Legal Complex, Terence C. Halliday;
11. 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;
12. Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Ethnic Diversity, Yash Ghai
Editor(s);
Biography;