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Setting an Agenda for the Socio-Legal Study of Contemporary Buddhism∙
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2016
Abstract
This introduction to the special issue on Buddhism and law lays out an agenda for the socio-legal study of contemporary Buddhism. We identify lacunae in the current literature and call for further work on four themes: the relations between monastic legal practice and state law; the formations of Buddhist constitutionalism; Buddhist legal activism and Buddhist-interest litigation; and Buddhist moral critiques of law. We argue that this agenda is important for advancing Buddhist studies and for the comparative study of law and legal institutions.
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- © Cambridge University Press and KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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The authors are grateful to Christian Lammerts, Michael Radich, and the anonymous reviewers for their suggestions. Thanks to Margaret O’Connor for research assistance.
Senior Lecturer in Buddhism/Asian Religions, University of Otago.
Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, University of Chicago Law School; Research Professor, American Bar Foundation. Correspondence to Tom Ginsburg, 1111 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637, US. E-mail address: tginsburg@uchicago.edu.
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