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Intro -- Contents -- Editorial Preface -- Editor's Introduction -- Law, Legislation, and Liberty -- Consolidated Preface to the One-Volume Edition -- Volume 1: Rules and Order -- Introduction -- 1. Reason and Evolution -- 2. Cosmos and Taxis -- 3. Principles and Expediency -- 4. The Changing Concept of Law -- 5. Nomos: The Law of Liberty -- 6. Thesis: The Law of Legislation -- Volume 2: The Mirage of Social Justice -- 7. General Welfare and Particular Purposes -- 8. The Quest for Justice -- 9. 'Social' or Distributive Justice -- 10. The Market Order or Catallaxy -- 11. The Discipline of Abstract Rules and the Emotions of the Tribal Society -- Volume 3: The Political Order of a Free People -- 12. Majority Opinion and Contemporary Democracy -- 13. The Division of Democratic Powers -- 14. The Public Sector and the Private Sector -- 15. Government Policy and the Market -- 16. The Miscarriage of the Democratic Ideal: A Recapitulation -- 17. A Model Constitution -- 18. The Containment of Power and the Dethronement of Politics -- Epilogue: The Three Sources of Human Values -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Chinese legal experts have long been working on problems involved in the history of legal culture. They managed to pinpoint major phenomena that disrupted the functioning of law as a social instrument and degraded its role in society. In most general terms, these are the identification of politics with law and a simplicistic view of law in general as a mere totality of administrative and criminal law. The author discusses old legal traditions and the making and enforcing of law in China. (DÜI-Sen)

This paper offers the first comprehensive analysis of legal change in the protection of shareholder and creditor rights in transition economies and its impact on the propensity of firms to raise external finance. Following La Porta et al. (1998), the paper constructs an expanded set of legal indices to capture a range of potential conflicts between different stakeholders of the firm. It supplements the analysis of the law on the books with an analysis of the effectiveness of legal institutions. Our main finding is that the effectiveness of legal institutions has a much stronger impact on external finance than does the law on the books, despite legal change that has substantially improved shareholder and creditor rights. This finding supports the proposition that legal transplants and extensive legal reforms are not sufficient for the evolution of effective legal and market institutions.

This report describes Campaign Finance Legislation and Activity in the 109th Congress.