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Power, Legal Imperialism, and Dependency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

John R. Schmidhauser
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This review essay integrates applicable elements of scholarly perspectives that in quite different ways deal with political and economic power, legal imperialism, and dependency. Representative examples of scholarly treatments of these subjects were chosen from analyses of families of law, critical legal studies, comparative legal systems, world system and dependency theory, and legal history. Most are modern or contemporary works, but a few were chosen from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century publications to trace changing modes and emphases upon the central theme of law and power.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 23 , Issue 5 , 1989 , pp. 857 - 878
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Copyright © 1989 The Law and Society Association.

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