One Law for All? () von Stefan B. Kirmse

ContentsIntroduction .........................................................................................7Stefan B. KirmseDiscussing Legal ReformA Step for the "Whole Civilized World"?The Debate over the Death Penalty in Russia, 19051917 ..................37Benjamin BeuerleA New Legal Order under Discussion:Legal Reform and the Loya Jirga in Afghanistan in the 1920s ..............65Benjamin BuchholzAgents of Knowledge Transfer:Western Debates and Psychiatric Experts inLate Imperial Russia ............................................................................91Lena GautamGatekeepers to the Legal System: The Role of Legal IntermediariesTinterillos, Indians, and the State:Towards a History of Legal Intermediaries inPost-Independence Peru ....................................................................117Carlos AguirreThe Ties that Bind:Sovereignty and Law in the Late Russian Empire...............................150Jane BurbankWhen People go to CourtLaw and Courts as Negotiating Tools:Marriage and Divorce in Republican China, 19121949 ..................181Xiaoqun XuDealing with Crime in Late Tsarist Russia:Muslim Tatars and the Imperial Legal System ...................................207Stefan B. KirmseEntanglements and Interactions within a Plural Legal Order:The Case of the German Colony Cameroon, 18841916..................241Ulrike SchaperDe jure and de facto:The Penal Code of 1871 and Juridical Culture in Mexico City ..........263Manuel de los Reyes Garcia MarkinaNotes on Contributors ......................................................................285Index of Names and Places ................................................................289

Im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert traten weltweit Gesetzgeber mit der Absicht auf, lokale Rechtsordnungen nach westlichem Muster umzubilden. Aber welche Modelle sollten als Vorbilder dienen, da doch die rechtliche Realität bereits in Westeuropa uneinheitlich war? Zudem wurde das importierte Recht vor Ort unterschiedlich aufgenommen, umformuliert und interpretiert. Der Band untersucht das Spannungsfeld zwischen den universellen Ansprüchen verschiedener imperialer und post-imperialer Gesetzgeber und der lokalen Umsetzung und Anwendung neuer Rechtsformen, von Lateinamerika und Afrika über Russland bis nach Ostasien.

InhaltsangabeContentsIntroduction .........................................................................................7Stefan B. KirmseDiscussing Legal ReformA Step for the "Whole Civilized World"?The Debate over the Death Penalty in Russia, 1905"1917 ..................37Benjamin BeuerleA New Legal Order under Discussion:Legal Reform and the Loya Jirga in Afghanistan in the 1920s ..............65Benjamin BuchholzAgents of Knowledge Transfer:Western Debates and Psychiatric Experts inLate Imperial Russia ............................................................................91Lena GautamGatekeepers to the Legal System: The Role of Legal IntermediariesTinterillos, Indians, and the State:Towards a History of Legal Intermediaries inPost-Independence Peru ....................................................................117Carlos AguirreThe Ties that Bind:Sovereignty and Law in the Late Russian Empire...............................150Jane BurbankWhen People go to CourtLaw and Courts as Negotiating Tools:Marriage and Divorce in Republican China, 1912"1949 ..................181Xiaoqun XuDealing with Crime in Late Tsarist Russia:Muslim Tatars and the Imperial Legal System ...................................207Stefan B. KirmseEntanglements and Interactions within a Plural Legal Order:The Case of the German Colony Cameroon, 1884"1916..................241Ulrike SchaperDe jure and de facto:The Penal Code of 1871 and Juridical Culture in Mexico City ..........263Manuel de los Reyes Garcia MarkinaNotes on Contributors ......................................................................285Index of Names and Places ................................................................289