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We will undertake to rectify errors or omissions in future editions of the book. We would like to thank all the authors represented in this work, as well as the following publishers for the permission to reprint their material:ι.ι: Republished with permission of Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Academy of Religion from Donald R. Davis, Jr. (2007), “Hinduism as a Legal Tradition,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75 (2): 241-67, doi: io.io9j/jaarel/lfmoo4; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
1.2: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press from Rebecca Redwood French and Mark A. Nathan (2014), “Introducing Buddhism and Law,” in Buddhism and Law: An Introduction, edited by Rebecca Redwood French and Mark A. Nathan (Cambridge University Press), 1-28, doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139044134; permission conveyed through Publishers' Licensing Services Ltd.
1.3: Republished with permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd. from Russell Kirkland (2004), Taoism: The Enduring Tradition (Routledge), 31-3, 144-9, doi: 10.4324/9780203646717; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
1.4: Republished with permission of University of Hawai'i Press from Arskal Salim (2008), Challenging the Secular State: The Islamization of Law in Modern Indonesia (University of Hawai'i Press), chap. 1: “The Notion of Shari'a,” 11-15, doi: 10.21313/hawaii/9780824832377.001.0001; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
1.5: Republished with permission of Stanford University Press from David and Jaruwan Engel (2010), Tort, Custom, and Karma: Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand (Stanford University Press), chap.
3: “State Law and the Law of Sacred Centers,” 47-76, www.sup.org/books/title/?id= 10202; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.1.6: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History from Marc Galanter (1972), “The Aborted Restoration of �Indigenous' Law in India,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 14 (1): 53-70, doi: 10.1017/ S0010417500006502; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
1.7: Republished with permission of Oxford University Press from Peter van der Veer (2011), “Smash Temples, Burn Books: Comparing Secularist Projects in India and China,” in Rethinking Secularism, edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jonathon VanAntwerpen, 17-25 (Oxford University Press); permission conveyed through Publishers' Licensing Services Ltd.
1.8: Republished with permission of Oxford University Press from Tamir Moustafa (2014), “Judging in God's Name: State Power, Secularism, and the Politics of Islamic Law in Malaysia,” Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 3 (1): 152-67, doi: 10.1093/ojlr/rwt035; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
1.9: Republished with permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd. from Vineeta Sinha (2005), “Theorising �Talk' about �Religious Pluralism' and �Religious Harmony' in Singapore,” Journal of Contemporary Religion 20 (1): 25-40, doi: 10.1080/1353790052000313891.
1.10: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press from Benjamin Schonthal (2016), “Securing the Sasana Through Law: Buddhist Constitutionalism and Buddhist-Interest Litigation in Sri Lanka,” Modern Asian Studies 50 (6): 1966-2008, doi: 10.1017/S0026749X15000426; permisÂsion conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
1.11: Republished with permission of the copyright holder (John Breen) from John Breen (2010), “�Conventional Wisdom' and the Politics of Shinto in Postwar Japan,” Politics and Religion 4 (1): 68-82, doi: 10.54561/ prj0401068b; this Open Access article was published by the Center for Study of Religion and Religious Tolerance (Belgrade) under the CC-BY- NC-SA 4.0 license.
2.1: Republished with permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd. from Keebetvon Benda-Beckmann and Bertram Turner (2018), “Legal Pluralism, Social Theory, and the State,” The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 50 (3): 255-74, doi: 10.1080/07329113.2018.1532674; this Open Access article was published under the CC-BY 4.0 license.
2.2: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law from Andrew Harding (2002), “Global Doctrine and Local Knowledge: Law in South East Asia,” International and Comparative Law Quarterly 51 (1): 35-53, doi: 10.1093/iclq/51.1.35; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
2.3: Republished with permission of SAGE Publications Ltd. on behalf of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) from Rebecca Strating and Beth Edmondson (2015), “Beyond Democratic Tolerance: Witch Killings in Timor-Leste,” Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 34 (3): 37-64, doi: 10.1177/186810341503400302; this Open Access article was published under the CC-BY-ND 3.0 license.
2.4: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Bar Foundation from Matthew S. Erie (2015), “Muslim Mandarins in Chinese Courts: Dispute Resolution, Islamic Law, and the Secular State in Northwest China,” Law & Social Inquiry 40 (4): 1001-30, doi: 10.1111/lsi.12137; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
2.5: Republished with permission of American Ethnological Society from Erin P. Moore (1993), “Gender, Power, and Legal Pluralism: Rajasthan, India,” American Ethnologist 20 (3): 522-42, doi: 10.1525/ ae.1993.20.3.02a00040. Not for sale or further reproduction.
3.1: Republished with permission of Koninklijke Brill N.V. from Fernanda Pirie (2006), Peace and Conflict in Ladakh: The Construction of a Fragile Web of Order (Brill), chap. 4: “Conflict in the Village,” 68-87, doi: 10.1163/ ej.9789004155961.i-238.29; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
3.2: Republished with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., on behalf of The University of Denver/Colorado Seminary from Ke Li (2015), “�What He Did Was Lawful': Divorce Litigation and Gender Inequality in China,” Law & Policy 37 (3): 153-79, doi: 10.1111/lapo. 12034; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
3.3: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies at Shanghai Jiao Tong University from Sepalika Welikala (2016), “Community Mediation as a Hybrid Practice: The Case of Mediation Boards in Sri Lanka,” Asian Journal of Law and Society 3 (2): 399-422, doi: 10.1017Zals.2016.32; permisÂsion conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
4.1: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press from Masayuki Murayama (2013), “Kawashima and the Changing Focus on Japanese Legal Consciousness: A Selective History of the Sociology of Law in Japan,” International Journal of Law in Context 9 (4): 565-89, doi: 10.1017ZS174455231300030X; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
4.2: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Bar Foundation from David M. Engel (2005), “Globalization and the Decline of Legal Consciousness: Torts, Ghosts, and Karma in Thailand,” Law & Social Inquiry 30 (3): 469-514, doi: 10.1111/ j.1747-4469.2005.tb00351.x; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
4.3: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University from Qian Liu (2018), “Legal Consciousness of the Leftover Woman: Law and Qing in Chinese Family Relations,” Asian Journal of Law and Society 5 (1): 7-27, doi: 10.1017Zals.2017.28; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
4.4: Republished with permission of SAGE Publications Ltd. on behalf of Sociologists for Women in Society from Muhammad Azfar Nisar (2018), “(Un)Becoming a Man: Legal Consciousness of the Third Gender Category in Pakistan,” Gender & Society 32 (1): 59-81, doi: 10.1177Z0891243217740097; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
4.5: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Bar Foundation from Tamir Moustafa (2013), “Islamic Law, Women's Rights, and Popular Legal Consciousness in Malaysia,” Law & Social Inquiry 38 (1), 168-88, doi: 10.1111Zj.1747-4469.2012.01298.x; perÂmission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
4.6: Republished with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., on behalf of the Law and Society Association from Hsiao-Tan Wang (2019), “Justice, Emotion, and Belonging: Legal Consciousness in a Taiwanese Family Conflict,” Law & Society Review 53 (3): 764-90, doi: 10.1111Zlasr.12422; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
5.1: Reprinted with permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd. from Margaret Becker (2015), “Constructing SSLM: Insights from Struggles over Women's Rights in Nepal,” Asian Studies Review 39 (2): 247-65, doi: 10.1080Z 10357823.2015.1021754.
5.2: Republished with permission of Stanford University Press from Lynette J. Chua (2019), The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life (Stanford University Press), doi: 10.1515/9781503607453; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
5.3: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University from Tu Phuong Nguyen (2018), “Labour Law and (In)justice in Workers' Letters in Vietnam,” Asian Journal of Law & Society 5 (1): 25-47, doi: 10.1017Zals.2017.29; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
5.4: Republished with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., on behalf of the Law and Society Association from Lynette J. Chua (2012), “Pragmatic Resistance, Law, and Social Movements in Authoritarian States: The Case of Gay Collective Action in Singapore,” Law & Society Review 46 (4): 713-48, doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2012.00515.x; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
5.5: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Bar Foundation from Di Wang and Sida Liu (2020), “Performing Artivism: Feminists, Lawyers, and Online Legal Mobilization in China,” Law & Social Inquiry 45 (3): 678-705, doi: 10.1017/lsi.2019.64; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
5.6: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Bar Foundation from Nate Ela (2017), “Litigation Dilemmas: Lessons from the Marcos Human Rights Class Action,” Law & Social Inquiry 42 (2): 479-508, doi: 10.1111/lsi. 12207; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
5.7: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press from Pooja Parmar (2015), Indigeneity and Legal Pluralism in India: Claims, Histories, Meanings (Cambridge University Press), doi: 10.1017/ CBO9781139962896; permission conveyed through Publishers' Licensing Services Ltd.
5.8: Reproduced with permission of the George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research from Sealing Cheng (2011), “The Paradox of Vernacularization: Women's Human Rights and the Gendering of Nationhood,” Anthropological Quarterly 84 (2): 475-505, doi: 10.1353/ anq.2011.0021
5.9: Reproduced with permission of John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the Law and Society Association from Mary E. Gallagher (2006), “Mobilizing the Law in China: �Informed Disenchantment' and the Development of Legal Consciousness,” Law & Society Review 40 (4): 783-816, doi: 10.1111/j. 1540- 5893.2006.00281.x; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
5.10: Reproduced with permission of Princeton University Press from Rohit De (2018), A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic (Princeton University Press), doi: 10.2307/^0^346037; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
6.1: Reproduced with permission of Cornell University Press on behalf of Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program from Daniel S. Lev (1976), “Origins of the Indonesian Advocacy,” Indonesia 21: 135-69, doi: 10.2307/ 335096c,.
6.2: Reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd. from Marc Galanter and Nick Robinson (2013), “India's Grand Advocates: A Legal Elite Flourishing in the Era of Globalization,” International Journal of the Legal Profession 20 (3): 241-65, doi: 10.1080/09695958.2014.912359.
6.3: Reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd. from Kay-Wah Chan (2012), “Setting the Limits: Who Controls the Size of the Legal Profession in Japan?,” International Journal of the Legal Profession 19 (2-3): 321-37, 10.1080/09695958.2012.783990.
6.4: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University from Arm Tungnirun (2018), “Practising on the Moon: Globalization and Legal Consciousness of Foreign Corporate Lawyers in Myanmar,” Asian Journal of Law and Society 5 (1): 49-67, doi: 10.1017/als.2017.30; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
6.5: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of SOAS University of London from Sida Liu (2011), “Lawyers, State Officials and Significant Others: Symbiotic Exchange in the Chinese Legal Services Market,” The China Quarterly 206: 276-93, doi: 10.1017/
S0305741011000269; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
6.6: Republished with permission of John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the Law and Society Association from Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen (2019), “Just Like Global Firms: Unintended Gender Parity and Speculative Isomorphism in India's Elite Professions,” Law & Society Review 53 (1): 108-40, doi: 10.1111/ lasr.12381; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
6.7: Reproduced with permission from the University of Wisconsin Law School from John Gillespie (2013), “The Juridification of Cause Advocacy in Socialist Asia: Vietnam as a Case Study,” Wisconsin International Law Journal 31 (3): 672-701, URL: https://wilj.law.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/ 1270/2019/10/Gillespie_Final.pdf.
6.8: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University from Ching-fang Hsu (2019), “The Political Origins of Professional Identity: Lawyers, Judges, and Prosecutors in Taiwan's State Transformation,” Asian Journal of Law and Society 6 (2): 321-46, doi: 10.1017Zals.2018.35; permisÂsion conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
6.9: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Bar Foundation from Sahar Shafqat (2018), “Civil Society and the Lawyers' Movement of Pakistan,” Law & Social Inquiry 43 (3): 889Â914, doi: 10.1111∕lsi.12283; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
6.10: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press from Waikeung Tam (2013), Legal Mobilization under Authoritarianism: The Case of Post-Colonial Hong Kong (Cambridge University Press), chap. 6, “The Political Origins of Cause Lawyering in Hong Kong,” 115-34, doi: 10.1017ZCBO9781139424394.009; permission conveyed through Publishers' Licensing Services Ltd.
7.1: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University from Rahela Khorakiwala (2018), “Legal Consciousness as Viewed through the Judicial Iconography of the Madras High Court,” Asian Journal of Law and Society 5 (1): 111-33, doi: 10.1017Zals.2017.33; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
7.2: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University from Benjamin Schonthal (2020), “Judging in the Buddha's Court: A Buddhist Judicial System in Contemporary Asia,” Asian Journal of Law and Society 8 (2): 1-22, doi: 10.1017Zals.2020.13; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
7.3: Republished with permission of John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the Law and Society Association from Michael G. Peletz (2018), “Are Women Getting (More) Justice? Malaysia's Sharia Courts in Ethnographic and Historical Perspective,” Law & Society Review 52 (3): 652-84, doi: 10.1111Zlasr. 12346; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
7.4: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University from Duncan McCargo (2020), “Punitive Processes? Judging in Thai Lower Criminal Courts,” Asian Journal of Law and Society 8 (2): 324-47, doi: io. 1017∕als.2020.22; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
7.5: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press from Kwai Hang Ng and Xin He (2017), Embedded Courts: Judicial Decision-Making in China (Cambridge University Press), chap. 1, “Chinese Courts as Embedded Institutions”, doi: 10.1017/9781108339117.002; permission conveyed through Publishers' Licensing Services Ltd.
7.6: Republished with permission of John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the Law and Society Association from Chunyan Zheng, Jiahui Ai, and Sida Liu (2017), “The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts,” Law & Society Review 51 (1): 168-99, doi: 10.1111/lasr. 12249; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
7.7: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University from Chien-Chih Lin (2016), “The Judicialization of Politics in Taiwan,” Asian Journal of Law and Society 3 (2): 299-326, doi: 10.1017∕als.2016.10; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
7.8: Reproduced with permission of the NIAS Press of the University of Copenhagen from Kheang Un (2009), “The Judicial System and Democratization in Post-Conflict Cambodia,” in Beyond Democracy in Cambodia: Political Reconstruction in a Post-Conflict Society, edited by Joakim Ojendal and Mona Lilja, 70-100 (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press).
8.1: Republished with permission of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law from Daniel H. Foote (1992), “The Benevolent Paternalism of Japanese Criminal Justice,” California Law Review 80: 317-90, doi: 10.15779∕Z38GQ7Q; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
8.2: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University from David T. Johnson and Jon Fernquest (2018), “Governing through Killing: The War on Drugs in the Philippines,” Asian Journal of Law and Society 5 (2): 359-90, doi: 10.1017∕als.2018.12; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
8.3: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Bar Foundation from Tobias Smith (2020), “Body Count Politics: Quantification, Secrecy, and Capital Punishment in China,” Law & Social Inquiry 45 (3): 706-27, doi: 10.1017∕lsi.2020.10; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
8.4: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press from Flora Sapio, Susan Trevaskes, Sarah Biddulph, and Elisa Nesossi (2017) Justice: The China Experience (Cambridge University Press), chap. 1, “The Expression of Justice in China”, doi: 10.1017/9781108115919.001; permission conveyed through Publishers' Licensing Services Ltd.
8.5: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University from Won Kyung Chang (2018), “Old Wine in New Wineskins? A Trial of Restorative Justice in a Korean Criminal Court,” Asian Journal of Law and Society 5 (2): 391-411, doi: 10.1017Zals.2017.34; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
8.6: Republished with permission of Harvard Law School from Nguyen Trang (Mae) 2019, “In Search of Judicial Legitimacy: Criminal Sentencing in Vietnamese Courts,” Harvard Human Rights Journal 32: 147-88, https:// harvardhrj.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/07/Nguyen_In-Search-of- Judicial-Legitimacy.pdf; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
8.7: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press from Nick Cheesman (2015), Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar's Courts Make Law and Order (Cambridge University Press), chap. 6, doi: 10.1017Z CBO9781316014936.008; permission conveyed through Publishers' Licensing Services Ltd.
8.8: Republished with permission of SAGE Publications Ltd. on behalf of the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi from Pratiksha Baxi (2010), “Justice Is a Secret: Compromise in Rape Trials,” Contributions to Indian Sociology 44 (3): 207-33, doi: 10.1177/006996671004400301; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
9.1: Republished with permission of Stanford University Press from David M. Engel and Jaruwan Engel (2010), Tort, Custom, and Karma: Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand (Stanford University Press), www.sup.org/books/title/?id=io2O2; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
9.2: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press from Tamir Moustafa (2018), Constituting Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights, and the Malaysian State (Cambridge University Press), doi: 10.1017Z 9781108539296; permission conveyed through Publishers' Licensing Services Ltd.
9.3: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press from Mathew S. Erie (2016), China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law (Cambridge University Press), doi: 10.1017/9781107282063; permission conveyed through Publishers' Licensing Services Ltd.
9.4: Reproduced with permission of Princeton University Press from Rohit De (2018), A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic (Princeton University Press), doi: 10.2307∕j.ctv346n37; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
9.5: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press on behalf of the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University from Tu Phuong Nguyen (2018), “Labour Law and (In)justice in Workers' Letters in Vietnam,” Asian Journal of Law & Society 5 (1): 25-47, doi: 10.1017/als.2017.29; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
9.6: Republished with permission of Cambridge University Press from Pooja Parmar (2015), Indigeneity and Legal Pluralism in India: Claims, Histories, Meanings (Cambridge University Press), doi: 10.1017/ CBO9781139962896; permission conveyed through Publishers' Licensing Services Ltd.
9.7: Republished with permission of Oxford University Press, India from Pratiksha Baxi (2014), Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India (Oxford University Press), doi: 10.1093∕acprof∙oso∕9780198089568.∞1.0∞1.
9.8: Republished with permission of SAGE Publications Ltd. from Di Wang and Sida Liu (2021), “Doing Ethnography on Social Media: A Methodological Reflection on the Study of Online Groups in China,” Qualitative Inquiry 27 (8/9): 977-87, doi: 10.1177/10778004211014610; this Open Access article was published under the CC-BY 4.0 license.