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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2025
Print publication year:
2025
Online ISBN:
9781009539555
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Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - NC
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Book description

This volume challenges the common perception that legal systems in developing countries are outdated or plagued by enforcement issues. Instead, it presents detailed case studies of private law in the Global South, showcasing how countries in the region have embraced legal doctrines that diverge from traditional approaches in the Global North. Chapters cover core areas of private law, including contracts, property, torts, corporations, and legal personality. The case studies range from India's adoption of CSR rules to Argentina's protection of hyper-vulnerable consumers. This volume demonstrates how many countries have incorporated social and distributional concerns into their private law regimes. Through these examples, the book presents a set of under-appreciated and innovative legal developments in the Global South. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Contents

  • Legal Heterodoxy in the Global South
    pp i-ii
  • Legal Heterodoxy in the Global South - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Dedication
    pp v-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-viii
  • Tables
    pp ix-x
  • Contributors
    pp xi-xiv
  • Preface
    pp xv-xvi
  • Acknowledgments
    pp xvii-xviii
  • 4 - Contracts, Inequality, and the State
    pp 112-148
  • Contract Law Ultra-heterodoxy in China
  • 5 - Tort Law Heterodoxy in China
    pp 149-182
  • 7 - Heterodox Legal Informality
    pp 201-242
  • Some Examples from Latin America
  • 9 - The Political Economy of India’s Corporate Social Responsibility Reforms
    pp 274-298
  • 10 - Corporate Law in the Global South
    pp 299-338
  • Heterodox Stakeholderism
  • 11 - Global Legal Pluralism and the Rights of Nature
    pp 339-376

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