Chapter 1. International Anti-Corruption Agenda and Business Environment in Uzbekistan (Tolibjon Mustafoev).- Chapter 2. Regionalization of International Initiatives: A Case Study of the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG) (Dilaver Khamzaev).- Chapter 3. International Corruption Scandals and Its Ramifications for the Domestic Legal Environment: Corporate Criminal Liability in Uzbekistan (Dildora Karimova and Uygun Nigmadjanov).- Chapter 4. Promises and Commitments: The Role of Fair and Equitable Provisions and Local Foreign Direct Investment Law and Regulations in Generating Legitimate Expectations (Khasan Sayfutdinov).- Domestic Institutions and Legal Environment in Central Asia.- Chapter 5. Local Government and Everyday Business Life: A Case Study of Sectors in Rural Uzbekistan (Rustamjon Urinboyev and Sherzod Eraliev).- Chapter 6. Understanding Legal Culture in Uzbekistan Through the Analysis of Business Disputes in Economic Courts (Muzaffar Dostqoriev and Nasimbek Azizov).- Chapter 7. The Duty of Confidence in the Law of Trade Secrets of Uzbekistan (Akbar Ismanjanov).- Chapter 8. Taxation of the Digital Economy in Uzbekistan (Alisher Pulatov).- Chapter 9. A New Big Boss? Interethnic Patronage Networks and Business in Kyrgyzstan (Aksana Ismailbekova).- Chapter 10. Connectedness and (In)equitable Access to Formal Finance in Uzbekistan (Kobil Ruziev).- Chapter 11. Legal Issues of the Opening and Running Gastronomic Entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan: A Case Study of the City of Taldykorgan (Daniya Nurmukhankyzy).- Chapter 12. Women and Bazaars: Gendering Entrepreneurship in Uzbekistan (Binazirbonu Yusupova).

This open-access book provides fresh and much-needed insights into the interconnections between law, society and governance in Central Asia. By taking the interdisciplinary perspective of law and society, the book explores the social life of law and legal institutions in Central Asia in broader terms, encompassing not only the state legal system and institutions but also various informal (non-legal) forms of normative ordering. The topics covered within this book will be of interest to many scholars considering various theoretical and methodological challenges in studying law, governance, and informality in authoritarian regime contexts such as Central Asia. 
Rustam Urinboyev is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology of Law. He is an interdisciplinary socio-legal scholar, studying corruption, governance, legal reform, migration, and penal institutions in the context of Russia, Central Asia and Turkey. He is the author of Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia (2020), published by the University of California Press.

Presents new insights on mutually transforming interactions between law, society and governance in Central Asia Reflection on the social life of law and legal institutions in the context of authoritarian regimes Unique examination of the business environment in Central Asia, a rising EU growth market This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

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