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• 1.Asian IP Laws: An Area of Rising Importance
• 2. Some Features of Patent Laws and Cases
• 3. Some Features of Trademark Laws and Cases
• 4. Some Features of Copyright Laws and Cases
• 5. Pre-Established Damages for Copyright Infringement and Trademark Counterfeiting- Finding an Asian Model
• 6. The Problems with Trade Secret and Its Over-Protection- Directions For Asia
• 7. IP in China-From Follower to Gamechanger
• 8. Economic Development and IP in India and China
• 9. How Can Taiwan Adopt International Exhaustion in All IP Laws?
• 10. Singapore Ascending the Global Value Chains Through IP.
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This book systematically studies the structural characteristics of IP laws and regimes of major Asian economies, including (but not always) China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. It explores and crystallizes some worthy Asian models which could further help the development of international IP laws. This book begins with an overview of Asian modern history and IP laws. It discusses the three basic IP laws in Asia which are patent law, trademark law and copyright law. It looks at the pre-established damages for copyright infringement and trademark counterfeiting. The book also deals with problems with trade secret and its over-protection. It compares IP laws and four industries in India and China, and examines what role have IP laws played in the development in those industries and how India and China can learn from each other. Finally, it examines one medium and one small-sized Asian economy on its respective struggle (Taiwan's efforts to build a coherent IP exhaustion regime) and a success story (how Singapore has utilized IP to secure its position in global value chains). This book is a useful reference for law students, scholars, practitioners, IP professionals who are interested in knowing Asia, Asian IP laws and industries, their struggles and finding ways to better global IP laws. The case studies could provide helpful lessons for other Asian economies and beyond.
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• Part I. Introduction: 1. Leniency in Asian Competition Law Steven Van Uytsel, Mark Fenwick and Yoshiteru Uemura
• Part II. Leniency In Historical, International and Theoretical Context: 2. The Development of the Leniency Programmes of the US Department of Justice and the European Commission Baskaran Balasingham
• 3. International Guidelines and Best Practices on Leniency Programmes: Decontextualised Summaries of Local Practices Steven Van Uytsel
• 4. Situating Leniency Mark Fenwick
• Part III. Leniency Programmes In Selected Asian Jurisdictions: 5. The Original Leniency Programme of Japan: Law Making in the Shadow of Lobbying, Political Pressure and Legal Constraints Steven Van Uytsel
• 6. Negotiated Leniency in Japan Embedded in Ever Increasing Sanctions: A Deterrence Perspective Steven Van Uytsel and Yoshiteru Uemura
• 7. The Law and Policy on Cartels and Leniency in Korea Yo Sop Choi
• 8. The Leniency Programme in Taiwan: Enforcement Experience, Effectiveness Assessment, and Future Challenges Andy C. M. Chen
• 9. The State Administration for Market Regulation and its Leniency Programme: Infusing a Dose of Trust and Predictability Ying Bi and Steven Van Uytsel
• 10. Leniency Policy in Singapore Scott Clements and Daren Shiau
• 11. The Leniency Programme in Malaysia's Competition Regime: A Critical Evaluation Cassey Lee
• 12. Hong Kong's Revised Leniency Policy and its Potential to Deter Cartels Sandra Marco Colino
• 13. The Leniency Programme under the Indian Competition Law Nikita Koradia, Kiran Manokaran and Juhi Hirani
• 14. Cartel Defection in the Philippines Through Leniency: Incentives Jeopardised by Discretionary Decision Making Power Alizedney M. Ditucalan and Steven Van Uytsel
• 15. The Absence of a Leniency Programme in Thai Competition Law Ploykaew Porananond
• Part IV. Concluding Remarks: 16. Leniency Programmes in Asia: Convergence, Divergence and Distinctiveness Steven Van Uytsel, Mark Fenwick and Yoshiteru Uemura
• Bibliography
• Index.
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In response to cartel formation, competition lawyers and policymakers in nine Asian jurisdictions have experimented with leniency programmes. This mechanism allows firms to come forward with information in relation to their illegal cartel participation in return for a reduction of or immunity from a sanction. The experimentation plays out across three different dimensions: the revision of early adopted leniency programmes, the introduction of newly written leniency programmes, and the decision - deliberate or otherwise - not to create a leniency programme. This volume is the first to analyse the empirical evidence across a number of countries to determine how effective these measures have been, and how they have been amended in response to problems encountered. In this volume, local experts from key Asian jurisdictions, together with international experts, offer an introduction to this fast-developing field, and explore the theoretical, international and regulatory contexts of leniency programmes.
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• Introduction: What is Bedouin law?
• Justice without government
• Honor and private might in the service of justice
• The role of collective responsibility in achieving justice
• The role of private violence in achieving justice
• The role of litigation in achieving justice
• Laws pertaining to women, property, and sanctuary
• Afterword: A major human achievement

Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev is the first comprehensive study of Bedouin law published in English, including oral, pre-modern law. The material for the book, collected over the course of forty years of field work by Clinton Bailey, one of the world's leading scholars on Bedouin culture, is of permanent scholarly value. Bailey shows how a nomadic desert-dwelling society provides for its own law and order in the traditional absence of any centralized authority or law enforcement agency to protect it. This comprehensive picture of Bedouin law, offers readers a unique opportunity to understand Bedouin law by highlighting the close connection between the law and the culture from which it emerged.
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• Volume 1. Theory and practice in context

At a time when Asia represents the fastest growing economic region, there is no better moment to consider what trusts law can contribute to societal stability and economic prosperity. This book does this by offering the first work that systematically explores trusts law across the region. Many Asian-Pacific jurisdictions have integrated and developed trusts law in their legal systems; either through colonial heritage or statutory activism. But the diversity of legal traditions and local contexts has resulted in trusts laws having a significantly varied impact across the region. In the modern globalised world there is growing need to adopt an outward looking approach in dealing with matters of common interest. This book answers this need by bringing together leading legal scholars and practitioners in the region to explore the theory and practice of trusts law, contextualised to specific jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific. Exploring 17 jurisdictions in Asia, it bring both an academic and practitioner perspective to trusts law in the region.
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• The digital economy and Asian competition law : an introduction / Steven Van Uytsel
• Competition law enforcement for exploitative abuse by digital platforms : the Japanese approach in a global context / Toshiaki Takigawa
• Regulating competition between digital platforms : the Japan Fair Trade Commission's preference for unfair trade practices / Steven Van Uytsel and Yoshiteru Uemura
• The nexus between competition and personal data protection laws : Thailand's perspective / Peerapat Chokesuwattanaskul
• Ride hailings apps enter in competition with Ojek : Indonesia's response to the impact of disruptive innovation / Ningrum Natasya Sirait, Mohammad Reza, Angayar Kanni Ramaiah, and Aria Suyudi
• Algorithmic collusion and Indian Competition Act : suggestions to tackle inadequacies and naivety / Nikita Koradia, Kiran Manokaran, and Zara Saeed
• Algorithmic hub-and-spoke cartels : a Japanese perspective / Steven Van Uytsel

The digital economy, broadly defined as the economy operating on the basis of interconnectivity between people and businesses, has gradually spread over the world. Although a global phenomenon, the digital economy plays out in local economic, political, and regulatory contexts. The problems thus created by the digital economy may be approached differently depending on the context. This edited collection brings together leading scholars based in Asia to detail how their respective jurisdictions respond to the competition law problems evolving out of the deployment of the digital economy. This book is timely, because it will show to what extent new competition law regimes or those with a history of lax enforcement can respond to these new developments in the economy. Academics in law and business strategies with an interest in competition law, both in Asia and more broadly, will find the insights in this edited collection invaluable. Further, this volume will be a key resource for scholars, practitioners and students. .
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• Orthodoxy, order and odium : the enduring legacy of religious penal clauses in contemporary Asia / Li-ann Thio and Jaclyn L. Neo
• Religious penal clauses in Commonwealth Asia : a brief history / Kevin YL Tan
• Apollonian restraint and dionysian impulse : law, freedom and religious feelings / Li-ann Thio
• Making Islamic penal clauses : translation, transformation and transmogrifycation / Arif A. Jamal
• Between religious coexistence and religious hierarchy : divergent developments in religious offence laws in common law Asia / Jaclyn L. Neo
• Religious penal clauses in India / Mrinal Satish
• Forbidden discourse : evaluating the transformation of colonial-era religious penal offences into contemporary Pakistan's blasphemy laws / Syed Ali Raza
• Bangladesh : public law, religious freedom and regulating 'religious sentiment' / SM Masum Billah
• Prosecuting religious violence in Sri Lanka / Mario Gomez
• Offences against religion in Malaysia : navigating the 'secular' federal constitution and the salience of Islam in the constitutional order / Dian AH Shah
• Religious offences penal clauses and the Singapore constitutional order : secular, sensible but sensitive to the sacred? / Li-ann Thio
• Recalibrating the scales of criminal justice in Brunei Darussalam : Religious Penal Clauses 1905-2018 / Ann Black

This book provides in-depth comparative analysis of how religious penal clauses have been developed and employed within Asian common law states, and the impact of such developments on constitutional rights. By examining the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of religious offences as well as interrogating the nature and impact of religious penal clauses within the region, it contributes to the broader dialogue in relation to religious penal clauses globally, whether in countries which practise forms of secular or religious constitutionalism. Asian practice is significant in this respect, given the centrality of religion to social life and indeed, in some jurisdictions, to constitutional or national identity. Providing rigorous studies of common law jurisdictions that have adopted similar provisions in their penal code, the contributors provide an original examination and analysis of the use and development of these religious clauses in their respective jurisdictions. They draw upon their insights into the background sociopolitical and constitutional contexts to consider how the inter-relationship of religion and state may determine the rationale and scope of religious offences. These country-by-country chapters inform the conceptual examination of religious views and sentiments as a basis for criminality and the forms of 'harm' that attract legal safeguards. Several chapters examine these questions from a historical and comparative perspective, considering the underlying bases and scope, as well as evolving objectives of these provisions. Through these examinations, the book critically interrogates the legacy of colonialism on the criminal law and constitutional practice of various Asian states.
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• Introduction
• Evolution of Eastern belief systems
• Human rights values in Eastern civilisations
• The principles of humanitarian law in Hinduism
• China's approach to human rights and the UN human rights agenda
• The impact on the universality of human rights of the shift of power to the East
• Human rights challenges in a country with a Hindu-Buddhist heritage : a case study of Cambodia
• Conclusions

Based on the author's first-hand experience as a UN Special Rapporteur, this thought-provoking and original book examines the values of Eastern civilisations and their contribution to the development of the UN Human Rights agenda. Offering an authoritative analysis of Hindu and Buddhist traditions, Surya P. Subedi, QC, focuses on the norms underpinning these two seminal Eastern philosophies to assess the extent to which the ancient civilisations already have human rights values embedded in them. Chapters explore the expression of values in the scriptures and practices of these philosophies, assessing their influence on the contemporary understanding of human rights. Rejecting the argument based on ''Asian Values'' that is often used to undermine the universality of human rights, the book argues that secularism, personal liberty and universalism are at the heart of both Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The unique perspective offered by Human Rights in Eastern Civilisations will appeal to students, academics and researchers in a wide range of disciplines, including human rights, international law and relations, and religious studies.
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• Introduction: Studying law and lawyers in Asia
• European geneses : models of law and state power
• Expatriates and traders in early colonial state building in Asia
• Lawyers and the construction of U.S. "anti-imperialist" imperialism and a foreign policy elite
• The British empire and the Indian Raj : a legal elite from colonial co-optation to state independence
• The American empire in the Philippines : building a state and a legal elite in the U.S. image
• Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore: late and relatively weak colonial
• Legal investment converted into state leadership. Korea as a different model of weakness
• Indonesia and south Korea: marginalizing legal elites and empowering economists
• The Philippines and Singapore: lawyers and the construction of authoritarian regimes
• India and Malaysia : resistance of the legal elite to marginalization by the authoritarian developmental states
• Lawyers as political champions against authoritarianism: relative successes exemplified by the Philippines and India
• Lawyers as political champions against authoritarianism : relative failures in Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong
• Corporate compradors doubling as sponsors of a new generation of social justice entrepreneurs : Indonesia, Philippines, India, and south Korea
• Political investment and the construction of legal markets : legal, social and international capital in Asian legal revivals

More than a decade ago, before globalization became a buzzword, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth established themselves as leading analysts of how that process has shaped the legal profession. Drawing upon the insights of Pierre Bourdieu, "Asian Legal Revivals" explores the increasing importance of the positions of the law and lawyers in South and Southeast Asia. Dezalay and Garth argue that the current situation in many Asian countries can only be fully understood by looking to their differing colonial experiences - and considering how those experiences have laid the foundation for those societies' legal profession today. Deftly tracing the transformation of the relationship between law and state into different colonial settings, the authors show how nationalist legal elites in countries such as India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Korea came to wield political power as agents in the move toward national independence. Including fieldwork from over three hundred and fifty interviews, "Asian Legal Revivals" illuminates the recent past and the present of these legally changing nations and explains the profession's recent revival of influence, as spurred on by American geopolitical and legal interests.
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• Adopting competition law in Asia : an increasingly complex reality / Steven Van Uytsel
• The proliferation of competition law in Asia : from forced adoption to an integration project / Steven Van Uytsel
• The Japanese competition law in its own way : a historical review of the AMA and its characteristics / Shuya Hayashi, Kunlin Wu and Xiaoyu Ma
• The evolution of fair and free competition law in the Republic of Korea / Yo Sop Choi
• Political, economic and legal driving forces shaping the developmental contours of competition law : the experience of Taiwan / Andy C.M. Chen
• Indonesian competition law : up for renewal / Sih Yuliana Wahyuningtyas
• Competition law in Thailand : in transition to an operational law / Sakda Thanitcul
• Vietnam's competition law adoption : from passive to active / Ly Huong Luu
• Competition law in Singapore : the first decade / Barton Ong
• Hong Kong competition law and legal transplant / Thomas K. Cheng
• Legal transplant : giving life to Malaysia's competition regime / May Fong Cheong, Joshua Beni Chris Teoh and Esther Li Ean Khoo
• Retrospective and prospects of China's anti-monopoly law / Xiaoye Wang
• The Philippine competition law dilemma : US-EU fusion to tension? / Alizedney M. Ditrucalan
• Competition law in Laos : evaluating its potential for effective enforcement / Steven Van Uytsel and Somsack Hongvichit
• A legal transplant made unnecessarily complex : the Myanmar competition law / Steven Van Uytsel
• The journey to the Cambodian competition law / David Fruitman and Meng Songkheang

This timely Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview and discussion of the substantive competition law provisions of the ASEAN Plus Three region, including Hong Kong and Taiwan. Taking a unique comparative perspective, chapters examine Asian competition laws in relation to the existing laws that served as models for them, analysing how and why they deviate. Expert contributions from both scholars and practitioners provide insight into the complex development of competition law in the region taking into account the growing number of competition law models, changing views on law convergence, enforcement practice and the progression of economic thought. Chapters highlight and explore the special features of these laws as a result, as well as draw conclusions on the perceptions of competition law in different ASEAN member states. Academics in law, economics and public policy with an interest in competition law, both in Asia and more broadly, will find this Research Handbook's insights invaluable. Legal practitioners and policy makers will also find its examination of the major issues in the competition law of the region useful.
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• Introduction
• Cuneiform law
• Jewish law
• Persian law
• The law of the Church of the East
• Pre-Islamic Arabia
• Classical Islamic law
• Hindu law
• Societies of Buddhist law
• Chinese law
• Societies exposed to Chinese legal influence
• Japanese law
• Exclusive customary laws
• Concurrent customary laws
• Complementary customary law
• Conclusions

This book offers a comparative analysis of traditional Asian legal systems. It combines methods from legal history, legal anthropology, legal philosophy, and substantive law, pursuing a comprehensive approach that offers readers a broad perspective on the topic. The geographic regions covered include the Near East, Middle East, Central Asia, India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. For each region, the book first provides historical and political context. Next, it discusses major milestones in the region's legal history and political institutions, as well as its forms of government. Readers are then presented with fundamental principles and terms needed to understand the legal arguments discussed. The book begins with the Ancient Near East and important topics such as Jewish law. The next part considers Islamic law, while also exploring modern issues. The third part focuses on Hindu and Buddhist law, while the fourth part covers China and Japan. The book's closing section examines tribal societies, e.g. Mongols, Pashtuns and Malays. Topics covered include the interaction of legal systems within a legal circle, inter-systemic interactions, reasons for the failure and success of legal modernization, legal pluralism, and its effects on Asian societies. Family law, law of obligation, criminal law, and procedural law are also explored.
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• Introduction and overview Michael W. Dowdle, John Gillespie and Imelda Maher
• Part I. Asia, Asian Capitalism, and Global Competition Law: Conceptual Mappings: 1. The regulatory geography of market competition in Asia (and beyond): a preliminary mapping Michael W. Dowdle
• 2. Asia and global law convergence David J. Gerber
• Part II. The Political Economy of Global Competition Law: 3. The institutional structure of competition law Imelda Maher
• 4. Cultural political economy of competitiveness, competition law, and competition policy in Asia Ngai-Ling Sum
• 5. The complexities of competition and competitiveness: challenges for competition law and economic governance in variegated capitalism Bob Jessop
• Part III. Competition Regulation in Representative Asian Countries: 6. Competition and competition law in Japan: between skepticism and embrace Simon Vande Walle
• 7. State capitalism and the regulation of competition in China Wentong Zheng
• 8. Managing competition in Socialist-transforming Asia: the case of Vietnam John Gillespie
• Part IV. Asian Capitalism and Competition Regulation in Operation: Selected Issues: 9. Competition in the periphery: melamine milk adulteration as peripheral 'innovation' Michael W. Dowdle
• 10. Competition law and the role of the state in East Asia Tony Prosser
• Part V. Into the Future: Asian Capitalism and Competition Regulation as Dynamic Systems: 11. Globalizing competition in Asia: an evolutionary perspective Henry Wai-Chung Yeung
• 12. Addressing the development deficit of competition policy: the role of economic networks Frederic C. Deyo
• 13. Whither Asia? Whither capitalism? Whither global competition law? Michael W. Dowdle.
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Asian Capitalism and the Regulation of Competition explores the implications of Asian forms of capitalism and their regulation of competition for the emerging global competition law regime. Expert contributors from a variety of backgrounds explore the topic through the lenses of formal law, soft law and transnational regulation, and make extensive comparisons with Euro-American and global models. Case studies include Japan, China and Vietnam, and thematic studies include examinations of competition law's relationship with other regulatory terrains such as public law, market culture, regulatory geography and transnational production networks.
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• Part I. Overview
• Introduction / Lusina Ho and Rebecca Lee
• Reception of the trust in Asia : an historical perspective / Lusina Ho and Rebecca Lee
• Trust law in Japan : inspiring changes in Asia, 1922 and 2006 / Makoto Arai
• Trust law in South Korea : developments and challenges / Wu Ying-Chieh
• Trust law in Taiwan : history, current features and future prospects / Wang Wen-Yeu, Wang Chih-Cheng and Shieh Jer-Shenq
• Trust law in China : a critical evaluation of its conceptual foundation / Lusina Ho, Rebecca Lee and Jin Jinping
• Part II. Case studies : hypothetical scenarios
• Case 1 : creating, managing and terminating the management relationship
• Case 2 : protecting ring-fenced assets against incompetence of the asset manager
• Case 3 : protecting ring-fenced assets against disloyalty of the asset manager
• Case 4 : distribution of property in the insolvency of the owner
• Case 5 : protecting ring-fenced assets from the insolvency of the asset manager
• Case 6 : misappropriation and unauthorised disposition by the asset manager
• Part III. Conclusion
• Emerging principles of Asian trust law / Lusina Ho and Rebecca Lee.

The reception of the trust in civil law jurisdictions has generated considerable conceptual debate internationally and in East Asia. In Trust Law in Asian Civil Law Jurisdictions, the authors: * Provide a detailed comparative examination of trust laws in Asian civil law jurisdictions from both operational and theoretical perspectives * Discuss the reception of the trust laws in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China and the challenges facing them * Engage in in-depth comparative inquiries as to how these Asian legal systems resolve questions pertaining to the trust * Evaluate the distinctive features of Asian trusts and how they are moulded to suit the civilian legal frameworks within which they are situated. The analysis intersects with the Trento trust project in Europe, but also differs from it by providing valuable perspectives of the 'Asian' approaches to trust researchers in Asia and the Anglophone world at large.
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English translation of the French consolidated text of the Constitution of 1964 as amended to 1971.

• Editor's introduction / R. Ian McEwin
• A regulator's perspective on getting the balance right / William E. Kovacic
• The role of economic analysis in competition law / Douglas H. Ginsburg and Eric M. Fraser
• Favouring dynamic competition over static competition in antitrust law / J. Gregory Sidak and David Teece
• Australia / Bob Baxt and Henry Ergas
• China / Michael Jacobs and Xinzhu Zhang
• India / Vinod Dhall and Augustine Peter
• Indonesia / Ningram Sirait and Gento Veljanovski
• Japan / H. Stephen Harris, Jr. and Hiroshi Ohashi
• Singapore / Ashish Lall and Daryl Lim
• South Korea / Sang-Seung Yi and Seong-wook Heo
• Thailand : medicines, competition law and compulsory licensing / R. Ian McEwin and Sakda Thanitcul
• Vietnam : a review of the legal framework and enforcement / Doan Tich Phuoc and Bui Nguyen Anh Tuan.

This book results from a conference held in Singapore in September 2009 that brought together distinguished lawyers and economists to examine the differences and similarities in the intersection between intellectual property and competition laws in Asia. The prime focus was how best to balance these laws to improve economic welfare. Countries in Asia have different levels of development and experience with intellectual property and competition laws. Japan has the longest experience and now vigorously enforces both competition and intellectual property laws. Most other countries in Asia have only recently introduced intellectual property laws (due to the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement) and competition laws (sometimes due to the World Bank, International Monetary Fund or free trade agreements). It would be naive to think that laws, even if similar on the surface, have the same goals or can be enforced similarly. Countries have differing degrees of acceptance of these laws, different economic circumstances and differing legal and political institutions. To set the scene, Judge Doug Ginsburg, Greg Sidak, David Teece and Bill Kovacic look at the intersection of intellectual property and competition laws in the United States. Next are country chapters on Asia, each jointly authored by a lawyer and an economist. The country chapters outline the institutional background to the intersection in each country, discuss the policy underpinnings (theoretically as well as describing actual policy initiatives), analyse the case law in the area, and make policy prescriptions.
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• Introduction : what is Bedouin law?
• Justice without government
• Honor and private might in the service of justice
• The role of collective responsibility in achieving justice
• The role of private violence in achieving justice
• The role of litigation in achieving justice
• Laws pertaining to women, property, and sanctuary
• Afterword : a major human achievement.

Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev is the first comprehensive study of Bedouin law published in English, including oral, pre-modern law. The material for the book, collected over the course of forty years of field work by Clinton Bailey, one of the world's leading scholars on Bedouin culture, is of permanent scholarly value. Bailey shows how a nomadic desert-dwelling society provides for its own law and order in the traditional absence of any centralized authority or law enforcement agency to protect it. This comprehensive picture of Bedouin law, offers readers a unique opportunity to understand Bedouin law by highlighting the close connection between the law and the culture from which it emerged.
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• Varieties of rule of law: an introduction and provisional conclusion / Randall Peerenboom
• Rule of law in the United States / Brian Z. Tamanaha
• Rule of law in France / Laurent Pech
• Competing conceptions of rule of law in China / Randall Peerenboom
• Concept of law in Vietnam: transforming statist socialism / John Gillespie
• Rule of law within a nonliberal "communitarian" democracy: the Singapore experience / Li-Ann Thio
• Competing conceptions of rule of law in Malaysia / H.P. Lee
• Debating rule of law in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 1997-2002 / Albert H.Y. Chen and Anne S.Y. Cheung
• Indonesia: devaluing Asian values, rewriting rule of law / Tim Lindsey
• Rule of law in India: theory and practice / Upendra Baxi
• Rule of law and aspects of human rights in Thailand: from conceptualization to implementation? / Vitat Muntarbhorn
• The Philippine "People Power" constitution, rule of law, and the limits of liberal constitutionalism / Raul C. Pangalangan
• Rule of law in South Korea: rhetoric and implementation / Hahm Chaihark
• The effects of rule of law principles in Taiwan / Sean Cooney
• Rule of law in Japan / John O. Haley and Veronica Taylor.

Rule of law is one of the pillars of the modern world, and widely considered necessary for sustained economic development, the implementation of democracy and the protection of human rights. It has however emerged in Western liberal democracies, and some people question how far it is likely to take root fully in the different cultural, economic and political context of Asia. This book considers how rule of law is viewed and implemented in Asia. Chapters on France and the USA provide a benchmark on how the concept has evolved, is applied and is implemented in a civil law and a common law jurisdiction. These are then followed by twelve chapters on the major countries of East Asia, and India, which consider all the key aspects of this important issue.
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• Introduction
• Understanding legal regimes
• Historical overview of Chinese and Indonesian legal regimes
• Law and revolution : mobilizational justice and charismatic politics
• Rule by law : authoritarian legitimacy and legal efficiency
• Neotraditional sclerosi s: law in the service of stagnant hierarchies
• Conclusion: Chinese and Indonesian politics beyond law; law and politics beyond Indonesia and China.

How do legal systems actually operate outside of Western European or North American liberal democracies? To understand law and legal institutions globally, we must go beyond asking if countries comply with idealized, yet under-theorized, rule of law principles to determine how they work in practice. Examining legal regimes across different areas of criminal and civil law in both urban and rural China and Indonesia during distinct periods from 1949 to the present, William Hurst offers a new way of understanding how cases are adjudicated (and with what implications) across authoritarian, developing, post-colonial, and newly democratizing settings. This is the first systematic comparative study of the world's largest Communist and majority-Muslim nations, and the most comprehensive scholarly work in many years on the micro-level workings of either the Chinese or Indonesian legal system at the grassroots, based on a decade of research and extensive fieldwork in multiple Indonesian and Chinese provinces.
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• Introduction: Framing gender, violence and the state in Asia / Amy Barrow and Joy L. Chia
• Gender, violence and access to justice in international law / Christine Chinkin
• From transition to transformation in gender equality : lessons from Asia / Rita Shackel
• Women in post-war Sri Lanka : linking policy to reality / Shyamala Gomez
• Violnce, women and conflict in Nepal / Amrita Gurung and Lily Thapa
• Implementing security council resolution 1325 in Asia : the role of national action plans on women, peace and security / Amy Barrow
• Sexual assault under cover of national security laws in India / Surabhi Chopra
• Public interest litigation on violence against wome in Bangladesh : possibilities and limits / Sara Hossain
• Dispute resolution and access to justice in rural China : an analysis from a gender perspective / Huang Zhong
• Bringing intersectionality home : delivering contextualised justice in response to gender-based violence in Hong Kong / Puja Kapai
• State violence, human-rights violations and the case of apwint in Myanmar / Lynette J. Chua and David Gilbert
• Legislating inequalities : gender, sexuality and violence in China / Joy L. Chia
• PathFinders : supporting access to justice for pregnant migrant workers and their children in Hong Kong / Kay McArdle
• Women against women? : rural women leaders' role in addressing gender-based violence in China / Gao Wei
• Law, inequalities and diverse vulnerabilities : client-perpetrated violence against female sex workers in Hong Kong / Suanne Yuk-Ping Choi
• Conclusion / Amy Barrow and Joy L. Chia.

While gender-based violence occurs in all societies irrespective of the level of development or cultural setting, whether in conflict or peacetime, the challenges for legal responses to gender-based violence are particularly acute in Asia. This book addresses the lack of academic discourse on gender-based violence in Asia beyond domestic violence, by demonstrating that gendered violence exists within many different contexts and is perpetuated by multiple actors. Bringing together scholars, legal practitioners and human rights advocates, the book examines the intersections between gender, violence and the state in Asian contexts. It considers the role of state institutions in perpetuating and preventing violence based on gender and identity, and thus contributes to growing scholarship around due diligence standards under international law. Analyzing both physical and structural gender-based violence, it scrutinizes how such violence exists within a landscape shaped by distinct cultural norms, laws and policies, and grapples with how to practically translate international human rights standards about state responsibility into these complex domestic environments. Contributors from diverse backgrounds draw on case studies and empirical research to ground this academic scholarship in lived experiences of individuals and their communities in Asia. By bridging the divide between policy, laws and practice to offer a unique insight into both theoretical and practical responses to how gender-based violence is understood within communities and state institutions in Asian countries, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Asian studies, Gender Studies and Law.
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