318 pagesTable of Contents\ud
Acknowledgements viii\ud
Table of Contents xii\ud
List of Abbreviations xv\ud
Introduction 1\ud
Chapter 1 10\ud
Setting the Context: Understanding Law in Turkey 10\ud
I. Modernization and Turkey: A Historical Glimpse 10\ud
1. The Decline 11\ud
2. The New Nation State 14\ud
3. Whither the Project of Modernity? 20\ud
II. Law and Social Change 39\ud
Chapter 2 55\ud
Legal Professionals as Pillars of Modernization 55\ud
I. The Emergence and the Development of a Profession 58\ud
II. A Creation of the Republic: Political Nature of the Legal Profession in Turkey 64\ud
Chapter 3 78\ud
Theory: Possibilities and Limits 78\ud
I. Prevalence of Law: A Miracle? 78\ud
II. Studying Law from Within: Legal Consciousness 80\ud
IV. Juridical Field 87\ud
Chapter 4 95\ud
Methodology 95\ud
I. Interviews 95\ud
1. Pre-interview Process 95\ud
2. Selection of Respondents 99\ud
3. The Ones Left Out 103\ud
4. Interview Process 106\ud
5. Notes on the Interviews 112\ud
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II. Discourse Analysis 115\ud
1. Archival Media (News) Search 117\ud
2. Institutional Statements and Press Releases 117\ud
3. Blogs and Forums 118\ud
III. Nonparticipant Observation 119\ud
Chapter 5 121\ud
A General Look at Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Emergence of Mediation in\ud
Turkey 121\ud
I. Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Look at Theory and Practice 121\ud
1. Birth of ADR 126\ud
2. The Context 129\ud
3. Defining ADR 133\ud
II. The Birth of Mediation in Turkey: Context and Process 137\ud
1. International Context 138\ud
2. National Context 144\ud
Chapter 6 153\ud
Representations of Mediation in Turkey 153\ud
I. Archival Media (News) Search 154\ud
II. Institutional Statements and Press Releases 165\ud
III. Blogs and Forums 180\ud
V. Notes on Observations 183\ud
Chapter 7 192\ud
What do Legal Professionals Talk About? 192\ud
Implications of Mediation Debates for Legal Consciousness 192\ud
I. Debates around the Draft Law 197\ud
1. Scope of Mediation 197\ud
2. Mediation Agreement 203\ud
3. Mediators 211\ud
II. Implications of Debates: Understanding Legal Consciousness 227\ud
1. Imagining Society 228\ud
2. Imagining Law 245\ud
3. Imagining Legal Profession 257\ud
Chapter 8 270\ud
Beyond Mediation: Legal Professionals and Republican Trajectories 270\ud
I. Binary Oppositions, Modernist Recollections 27