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Global Business, Local Law The Indian Legal System as a Communal Resource in Foreign Investment Relations
By Amanda Perry-Kessaris
Copyright 2008
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume establishes a theoretical framework for exploring the role of host state legal systems (courts and bureaucracies) in mediating relations between foreign investment, civil society and government actors. It then demonstrates the application of that framework in the context of the south Indian city of Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore). Drawing on the 'law-and-community' approach of Roger... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Law as a communal resource; Introducing Bengaluru; Expressions of trust; Gateways to participation; Spaces for coordination; Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix; Index.
Biography
Amanda Perry-Kessaris is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Socio Legal Studies Association and of the editorial board of the journal International Community Law Review.
'Presenting her rich empirical research in an innovative analytical framework, Amanda Perry-Kessaris has produced a fascinating, highly original book. Ambitious, critical and thought-provoking, it will be of great interest not only to law and development specialists but also to readers more generally concerned with legal and social theory.' Roger Cotterrell, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
