Futility of Law and Development: China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law

by Jedidiah Joseph Kroncke

For all the attention paid to the Founder Fathers in contemporary American debates, it has almost been wholly forgotten how deeply they embraced an ambitious and intellectually profound valuation of foreign legal experience. Jedidiah Kroncke uses the Founders' serious engagement with, and often admiration for, Chinese law in the Revolutionary era to begin his history of how America lost this Founding commitment to legal cosmopolitanism and developed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190233524
• ISBN13: 9780190233525
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"