Cover; Contents; Translators' preface: the legal sociology of Takao Tanase; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction -- community and the law: a critical assessment of American liberalism and Japanese modernity; Chapter 2: Invoking law as narrative: lawyers' ethics and the discourse of law in the United States; Chapter 3: The moral foundations of tort liability; Chapter 4: Post-divorce child visitations and parental rights: insights from comparative legal cultures; Chapter 5: Rights and community; Chapter 6: Communitarianism and constitutional interpretation.
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Challenging the view that legal liberalism represents the pinnacle of legal achievement, the author criticizes liberalism for destroying community in the United States and for offering false hope for a delayed modernity in Japan.