New Book: Legitimacy: Legal Development and Change.
Co-Author: Dr. Tarak Abdulla, Associate Professor.

This book addresses critical questions about how legal development works in practice. Can law be employed to shapebehavior as a form of social engineering, or must social behavior change first, relegating legal change to follow asratification or reinforcement? And what is legal development's source of legitimacy if not modernization? But by the sametoken, whose version of modernization will predominate absent a Western monopoly on change? There are now legaldevelopment alternatives, especially from Asia, so we need a better way to ask the right questions of different approachesprimarily in (non-Western) Asia, Africa, the Islamic world, plus South America.

Contents: Introduction to legal development and change, David K Linnan; Part I Changing the ROL Narrative: The new, new legal development model, David K. Linnan; Rethinking the rule of law as antidote to African development challenges, Joseph M. Isanga; The color of Thailand's (un)constitutional reforms: red, yellow or orange?, Andrew Harding and Peter Leyland; Debtor and creditor learning: changes over time in Indonesian bankruptcy reorganization approaches, Darminto Hartono; China's economic legal system in changing times, Liu Dongjin. Part II Religious Law as Religious and Social Form: Economy and society: a Qur'anic perspective, Tarak Abdallah;

http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754677284