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Thai Law: Buddhist Law
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Between 1880 and 1930 Thai law was modernised. Using the French civil code as their model, the kings of Siam recast traditional Thai law into western form. This book describes Thai law as it was before 1880. For at least five-hundred years-- perhaps nearer a thousand years the Thai have used written lawbooks. During the last twenty years Thai scholars have systematically searched for these lawbooks through the book chests of monasteries. As a result there is now a very large number of legal manuscripts available for study. In this book six experts describe the new discoveries and assess how far our view of traditional Thai law has to change. The essays have a regional focus, dealing with the Northern Thai traditions of Lanna, the provincial cities of central Thailand, the Southern Kingdom based on Nakhon Si Thammarat, the law texts of Laos, the new discoveries in Burma and finally with Bangkok and its famous Three Seals Code
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Pages 211
Dimensions: Length: 8.19" Width: 5.2" Height: 0.55"
Weight: 0.75 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Sep 25, 2006
Publisher Orchid Press
ISBN 9748299864
EAN 9789748299860
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 | A bit too esoteric for non-experts Feb 22, 2010 |
This book is a collection of conference papers about Thai law scholarship. Although the introduction suggests that it is accessible to non-experts, in reality I found it to to be far too detailed and esoteric for anybody who hadn't at least read a primer on Thai or Buddhist law (I'm not a complete novice - I've read books on Thai history and am a lawyer - but even I was confused). The first three chapters focus on recent discoveries of manuscripts. Obviously, knowing the scholarship of Buddhist law would help in appreciating the significance of those finds. The other articles interpret Thai law manuscripts and their legal significance. With the exception of Andrew Huxley's article, they presume much knowledge of Thailand and refer to kings, terms, and places without any context. In fact, at times the authors cite Thai manuscripts without providing an English translation.
This book obviously represents a significant amount of work and intellectual scholarship. If you can borrow it from a library, the introduction and Huxley's article are worth reading and will give you a decent sense of the type of scholarship that occurs in this field. However, I'd really only recommend this book if you have some background in the field first. | | | Write your own review about Thai Law: Buddhist Law
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