The legal complex and struggles for political liberalism / Law and the liberal transformation of the Northeast Asian legal complex in Korea and Taiwan / Tom Ginsburg -- Birth of a liberal moment? Looking through a one-way mirror at lawyers' defence of criminal defendants in China / 'Dissolving the people' : capitalism, law and democracy in Hong Kong / The state, civil society, and the legal complex in modern Japan : continuity and change / Mobilising the law in an authoritarian state : the legal complex in contemporary Egypt / Reluctantly sailing towards political liberalism : the political role of the judiciary in Turkey / The ambivalent language of lawyers in Israel : liberal politics, economic liberalism, silence and dissent / The legal complex and the response to police violence in South America / When the 'political complex' takes the lead : the configuration of moderate state in Chile / Lawyers and political liberalism in Venezuela / Contesting legality in the United States after September 11 / Politicising law to liberalise politics : anti-Francoist judges and prosecutors in Spain's democratic transition / Lawyers and statist liberalism in Italy / Political lawyers