Contents	6
	Acknowledgements	8
	Introduction – Stefan B. Kirmse	10
	Discussing Legal Reform	38
	A Step for the “Whole Civilized World”? The Debate over the Death Penalty in Russia, 1905–1917 – Benjamin Beuerle	40
	A New Legal Order under Discussion: Legal Reform and the Loya Jirga in Afghanistan in the 1920s – Benjamin Buchholz	68
	Agents of Knowledge Transfer: Western Debates and Psychiatric Experts in Late Imperial Russia – Lena Gautam	94
	Gatekeepers to the Legal System: The Role of Legal Intermediaries	118
	Tinterillos, Indians, and the State: Towards a History of Legal Intermediaries in Post-Independence Peru – Carlos Aguirre	120
	The Ties that Bind: Sovereignty and Law in the Late Russian Empire – Jane Burbank	154
	When People Go to Court	182
	Law and Courts as Negotiating Tools: Marriage and Divorce in Republican China, 1912–1949 – Xiaoqun Xu	184
	Dealing with Crime in Late Tsarist Russia: Muslim Tatars and the Imperial Legal System – Stefan B. Kirmse	210
	Entanglements and Interactions within a Plural Legal Order: The Case of the German Colony Cameroon, 1884–1916 – Ulrike Schaper	244
	De jure and de facto: The Penal Code of 1871 and Juridical Culture in Mexico City – Manuel de los Reyes García Márkina	266
	Notes on Contributors	288
	Index of Names and Places	292