Tort, Custom, and Karma: Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand
- ISBN-10
- 0804763828
- ISBN-13
- 9780804763820
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 190
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-02-12
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Authors
- David Engel, Jaruwan Engel
Description
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.
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