Legal Imperialism : Sovereignty and Extraterritoriality in Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and China
ISBN: 9780521765916 | 0521765919
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 4/19/2010
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Legal Imperialism examines the important role of nineteenth-century Western extraterritorial courts in non-Western states. Based on a cross-cultural comparison of the emergence, function, and abolition of these court systems in Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and China, Turan Kayaoglu elaborates a theory of extraterritoriality as an assertion of sovereignty by Western powers on foreign soil.
| Introduction: extraterritoriality in British legal imperialism | |
| Positive law and sovereignty | |
| Extraterritoriality and legal imperialism | |
| Japan's rapid rise to sovereignty | |
| The Ottoman Empire's elusive dream of sovereignty | |
| China's struggle for sovereignty | |
| Conclusion: American legal imperialism: extraterritoriality today | |
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