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Author Engel, David M., author.

Title Tort, custom, and karma : globalization and legal consciousness in Thailand / David M. Engel and Jaruwan S. Engel
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 190 pages) : illustrations
Series The cultural lives of law
Cultural lives of law.
Contents Buajan's injury narrative -- Chiangmai : a history of globalizations -- State law and the law of sacred centers -- Injury practices in a transformed society -- Litigation -- Justice -- Ming's injury narrative
Summary This colorful portrait of law and society during a period of rapid social change reaches a counter-intuitive conclusion about the role of law in injury cases: globalization has led ordinary Thai people to turn away from courts and lawyers and to embrace a form of religious practice that leaves them without any remedy for harms they have suffered
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index
Notes English
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Subject Torts -- Thailand
Law and globalization -- Thailand
Buddhism and law -- Thailand
Culture and law
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Buddhism and law
Culture and law
Law and globalization
Torts
Schadensersatz
Rechtsbewusstsein
Sozialer Wandel
Thailand
Chiang Mại
Form Electronic book
Author Engel, Jaruwan S., author.
LC no. 2009035121
ISBN 9780804773751
0804773750
9780804763813
080476381X
9780804763820
0804763828