1. Introduction: Law, and Society Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth Part 1: Embedded in Social Capital and Converted into Legal and Political Capital 2. Greasing the Squeaky Wheel of Justice: Social Networks and Dispute Processing in Venezuela Manuel A. Gomez 3. Lawyers, Political Embeddedness, and Institutional Continuity in China's Transition from Socialism Ethan Michelson 4. Classic Model and its Maria Malatesta Part 2: Imported Know-How and Local Know-Who 5. Human Rights and the Rule of in Argentina. Transnational Advocacy Networks and the Transformation of the National Legal Field Virginia Vecchioli 6. Criminal Procedure Reform in Chile: New Agents and the Restructuring of a Field. Daniel Palacios Munoz 7. US and the EU in East European Legal ReformOle Hammerslev 8. Judicial Reform and the Transnational Construction of the Rule of in Latin America: The Return of and Development Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito Part 3: Testing Rule-of-Law Hypotheses in the Context of the Largest Asian Economies 9. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Reform of the Profession of Lawyers in Japan: Impact on the Role of Law Kaywah Chan 10. Hanyang University, Korea, Democratization and Internationalization of Korean Legal Field Seong-Hyun Kim 11. Oxford/La Trobe, Searching for Political Liberalism in all the Wrong Places: The Legal Profession in China as the Leading Edge of Political Reform? Randall Peerenboom 12. Conclusion. How to Convert Social Capital into Legal Capital and Transfer Legitimacy Across the Major Practice Divide Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth