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• Regulatory reform in international air transport
• legal aspects of commercial space activities
• aviation safety and security
• liability in international civil aviation
• Euro-Asian relationship of the future - space activities, aviation.
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The 90s will be a turning point for international air transport and for space activities. Trends in civil aviation and outer space policies show the need to join forces to promote common interests, leading to the strengthening of the "region" as a basis of co-operation. As international air transport benefits from progressive liberalization, at the same time ever greater regional co-operation between governments as well as between airlines is emerging. The European Communities offer a most interesting example of both trends, provoking similar initiatives in other areas of the world, among them East Asia. With respect to commercial space activities, more especially those in the field of space transportation, a similar need for regional and even world-wide co-operation is arising. In order to contribute to the promotion of a balanced regional approach in both civil aviation and outer space activities, the Graduate Institute of European Studies at Tamkang University and the International Institute of Air and Space Law at Leiden University organized a major international conference, entitled "The Highways of Air and Outer Space over Asia", in May 1991. The present work is the result of that conference. It is a collection of articles by the most qualified academics and practitioners from Asia, North America and Europe, covering topical subjects in the field of international civil aviation and outer space activities such as regulatory reform, aviation safety and security, liability in international air transport, the future Euro-Asian aviation relationship, the commercialization of outer space and cooperation between Europe and Asia with respect to outer space activities, with special emphasis on the relationships between Asia on the one hand and Europe and the United States on the other.
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There are many indications that the 20th century will be the "Asian century" with several countries there approaching rapid and sustained economic development to be fuelled by neighbouring investor countries. This book provides a manual for investors interested in setting up joint ventures in the Far East and presents the legal nuts and bolts of that process with respect to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. A final item argues for alternatives to traditional dispute resolution methods, and should assist drafters of such contracts. Matters addressed systematically are: the selection of a joint venture vehicle, control of a joint venture company, tax incentives, acquisition of real property, government authorizations, legal procedures for termination and legal status of dispute resolution methods. This book presents the work of the International Bar Associations's Committee on Business Organizationa, convened in Hong Kong in 1991.
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• Some Introductory Remarks: Judicial Review: The Need for International Cooperation
• M. Scheltema. Judicial Review in Japan
• M. Kobayakawa. Judicial Review of Administrative Action in England and Japan: A Comparative Perspective
• T. Fuke. Administrative Litigation System in China
• S. Ying. Judicial Review of Administrative Actions in China and Japan
• Yong Zhang. An Overview of Legislation and Its Supervisory System in China
• Yong Zhang. The Problems and Characteristics of Judicial Review in Malaysia
• A. Harding. Judicial Review in Indonesia
• P. Effendie Lotulung. Administrative Courts in an Executive-Dominated State: The Case of Indonesia
• A. Bedner. Legal Protection Against Decisions of Public Authorities in the Netherlands
• J. Dekker, Th.G. Drupsteen. Settling of Disputes in Administrative Law in The Netherlands: Some Practical Problems
• B. Schueler. Judicial Review in the Federal Republic of Germany
• L.A. Weber. Commentary - Comparisons on the Functions of the Judicial Review System in East and Southeast Asia
• Yong Zhang. Laws Concerning Judicial Review.
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Looking at the development and status quo of judicial review in East and Southeast Asia, this text answers the questions of whether the system of judicial review of administrative action functions in these countries in the same way as in Western countries, and whether this system functions in the same way in countries that adopt the principle of concentration of powers and the principle of separation of powers. Together with papers on judicial review in the Netherlands and Germany, and references to English law, the legal systems discussed constitute a heterogeneous group of developed and developing economies, continental and Anglo-Saxon systems of law and capitalist and socialist legal orders. The research and comparisons presented here form a resource for any scholar and lawyer interested in contemporary Asian law, or in the many facets of comparative administrative law.
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Contributed articles presented at conference.

For about half a century now, South Asia has enjoyed independence and constitutional rule, but many countries have inherited a plural legal system as a legacy of colonialism. In all five countries of the region constitutional guarantees of equality and non-discrimination are confounded by discriminatory personal laws that institutionalise gender inequality. Contributors to this volume address this problem from the perspective of countries that are statedly democratic and secular, as well as those that are theocratic, and from the experience of maintaining plural legal systems. Specifically, the questions they pose are: has the adoption of secular constitutions in these countries, with guaranteed human rights, made any difference to the legal status of women? What impact, if any, does the adoption of a secular constitution have on the regime of personal laws? Has the transition from colonialism to constitutionalism in the era of human rights made any difference to the rights of women? Has the adoption of constitutions that recognise equal rights made any difference to the institutionalised private/public divide?
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• Methodological problems
• Democratic transitions and rule of law
• Economic transition between market and rights.

• Towards a global constitutional gene pool / Cheryl Saunders
• Emergence of Asian constitutionalism : features in comparison / Jiunn-Rong Yeh
• Plenary session I : constitutional governance and global economic crisis
• Liberal democracy in state of emergency : seen by standing on the shoulders of Carl Schmitt / Hong Sik Cho
• Images of the market : is competitive de-regulation inescapable? / Yasuo Hasebe
• Philippine constitutional framework for economic emergency : expanding the welfare state, restricting the national security apparatus / Raul C. Pangalangan
• Constitutionalism in times of economic strife : developments in Singapore / Kevin YL Tan
• Economic crisis and political crisis in Thailand : past and present
• Plenary session II : interfaces of international human rights law and domestic constitution
• An isolated nation with global-minded citizens : bottom-up transnational constitutionalism in Taiwan / Wen-Chen Chang
• International human rights law and domestic constitutional law : internationalisation of constitutional law in Hong Kong / Albert H.Y. Chen
• Reception and resistance : globalisation, international law and the Singapore Constitution / Li-ann Thio.

• Part I Introduction.
• Chapter 1 Introduction: China and Vietnam Compared Professor Albert Chen University of Hong Kong and Professor John Gillespie.
• Chapter 2 Sequencing Chinese Legal Development Professor Randall Peerenboom. Part II Debating legal development in China and Vietnam.
• Chapter 3 Legal Thought and Legal Development in the People's Republic of China Professor Albert Chen.
• Chapter 4 The Juridification of State Regulation in Vietnam Professor John Gillespie. Part III Developing an Administrative Law System. Introduction: Professor Michael Dowdle.
• Chapter 5 Towards Regulatory Neutrality in a Party-State? A Review of Administrative Law Reforms in China Assistant Prof Dr Zheng Ge.
• Chapter 6 Achievements and challenges in developing an administrative law system in contemporary Vietnam Professor Vu Doan Ket and Matthieu Salomon. Part III Public access to justice. Introduction: Nicholas Booth.
• Chapter 7 Access to Justice in China: Potentials, Limits and Alternatives Professor Fu Hualing.
• Chapter 8 Publication and Public Access: the largely inaccessible Vietnamese court decision Associate Professor Pip Nicholson. Part IV Commercial regulatory reforms. Introduction: Professor Donald Clarke.
• Chapter 9 Commercial Regulatory Reform in China during Transition: An Alternative Path to the Regulatory State Assistant Prof Dr Leng Jing.
• Chapter 10 Vietnam: The development of commercial regulation in Vietnam Associate Professor Melanie Beresford. Part V The evolving role of legal education Introduction: Professor Jerry Cohen.
• Chapter 11 China's Lawyers and their Training: Enduring Influences and Disconnects Professor Alison Conner.
• Chapter 12 Legal Education in Vietnam: To Change or Not to Change? Bui Bich Thi Lien. Part VII Legal diffusion: the role of non-state actors in shaping the regulatory environment. Introduction: Professor Michael Dowdle.
• Chapter 13 China: Business Lobbying in China in Comparative Perspective Associate Professor Scott Kennedy.
• Chapter 14 By-passing the state: Non-state regulation in Vietnam Nguyen Hung Quang. Conclusion: Reflections on legal development in China and Vietnam Professor Albert Chen and Professor John Gillespie.
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This book provides a comprehensive, comparative assessment of legal developments in China and Vietnam, examining similarities and differences, and highlighting the factors likely to promote, change or resist the spread of the Chinese model.
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• The defining characteristics of the legal family in East Asia / Wen-Yeu Wang and Yen-Lin Agnes Chiu
• Codification in the 21st century : a view from Korea / Keechang Kim
• Codification and decodification : the state of the civil and commercial codes in Indonesia / Gary F. Bell
• Law codification in East Asia today : Japanese and Indian examples / Jean-Louis Halpérin
• Codification in East Asia : commercial law / Kon Sik Kim
• A report on commercial codification in China, with a focus on general provisions / Qiao Liu, Xiang Ren and Zhenxing Zhang
• The evolution of commercial law in the People's Republic of China (PRC) / Jianbo Lou
• China : exploring an alternative of Commercial Code in the course of civil codification / Xianchu Zhang
• The Commercial Code in Japan / Tomotaka Fujita
• Taiwan's national report : codification in East Asia : commercial law / Ming-Jye Huang and Wang-Ruu Tseng
• The codification of administrative law : general consideration / Ryuji Yamamoto
• The codification of Chinese administrative procedural law / Zhong-le Zhan
• La codification en matière administrative au Japon / Junko IIJIMA
• The codification of administrative law in South Korea / Seong Wook Heo
• Rule of law in Taiwan : transplantation and codification / Chien-liang Lee
• Codification of civil law in East Asia : a general report / Yeong-chin Su
• Civil law codification in China : its characteristics, social functions and future / Shiyuan Han
• A commentary on private international law in East Asia : from the perspective of Chinese law / Jin Huang and Zhengxin Huo
• The recent development of private international law in Taiwan / Rong-chwan Chen.

This book looks at codification from a broad, international perspective, discussing general themes as well as various legal fields. Since codification is a subject of intense current interest in East Asia, this second volume on codification is dedicated to the sub-theme of codification and legal transplant in this area, focusing on China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. It includes two papers that discuss development of codification in East Asia and Korea in particular. It is also comprised of two reports that draw comparative lessons from Japan, India and Indonesia. In addition, this volume consists of four general reports and 19 national reports that guide readers through the knowledge of codification of commercial law, administrative law, civil law and private international law in East Asia. This book is developed from papers presented at the 2012 Thematic Conference of the International Academy of Comparative Law.
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• Part I. Language: 1. Negotiating differences: India's language policy Benjamin B. Cohen
• 2. Constitution and language in post-independence Central Asia William Fierman
• Part II. Urban/Rural: 3. Dreams of redemption: localist strategies of political reform in the Philippines Paul Hutchcroft
• 4. Constitutional rights and dialogic process in socialist Vietnam: protecting rural-to-urban migrants' rights without a constitutional court Huong Nguyen
• Part III. Ethnicity and Race: 5. Asymmetrical federalism in Burma David C. Williams
• 6. Hu wants something new: discourse and the deep structure of Minzu policies in China Gardner Bovingdon
• Part IV. Religion: 7. Sectarian visions of the Iraqi state: irreconcilable differences? Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi
• 8. Constitutionalism and religious difference in Israel (and a brief passage to Malaysia) Ran Hirschl
• Part V. Gender and Sexuality: 9. Australia's gendered constitutional history and future Kim Rubenstein and Christabel Richards-Neville
• 10. Islamic feminism(s): promoting gender egalitarianism and challenging constitutional constraints Asma Afsaruddin
• 11. India, Nepal, and Pakistan: a unique South Asian constitutional discourse on sexual orientation and gender identity Sean Dickson and Steve Sanders.
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In many countries, social differences, such as religion or race and ethnicity, threaten the stability of the social and legal order. This book addresses the role of constitutions and constitutionalism in dealing with the challenge of difference. The book brings together lawyers, political scientists, historians, religious studies scholars, and area studies experts to consider how constitutions address issues of difference across 'Pan-Asia', a wide swath of the world that runs from the Middle East, through Asia, and into Oceania. The book's multidisciplinary and comparative approach makes it unique. The book is organized into five sections, each devoted to constitutional approaches to a particular type of difference - religion, ethnicity/race, urban/rural divisions, language, and gender and sexual orientation - in two or more countries in Pan Asia. The introduction offers a framework for thinking comprehensively about the many ways constitutionalism interacts with difference.
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• Introduction: Constitutions and difference : ideology and institutions / Susan H. Williams
• Negotiating differences : India's language policy / Benjamin B. Cohen
• Constitution and language in post-independence Central Asia / William Fierman
• Dreams of redemption : localist strategies of political reform in the Philippines / Paul D. Hutchcroft
• Constitutional rights and dialogic process in socialist Vietnam : protecting rural-to-urban migrants' rights without a constitutional court / Huong Thi Nguyen
• Asymmetrical federalism in Burma / David C. Williams
• Hu wants something new : discourse and the deep structure of minzu policies in China / Gardner Bovingdon
• Sectarian visions of the Iraqi state : irreconcilable differences? / Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi
• Constitutionalism and religious difference in Israel (and a brief passage to Malaysia) / Ran Hirschl
• Australia's gendered constitutional history and future / Kim Rubenstein and Christabel Neville-Richards
• Islamic feminism(s) : promoting gender egalitarianism and challenging constitutional constraints / Asma Afsaruddin
• India, Nepal, and Pakistan : a unique south Asian constitutional discourse on sexual orientation and gender identity / Sean Dickson and Steve Sanders.

In many countries, social differences, such as religion or race and ethnicity, threaten the stability of the social and legal order. This book addresses the role of constitutions and constitutionalism in dealing with the challenge of difference. The book brings together lawyers, political scientists, historians, religious studies scholars, and area studies experts to consider how constitutions address issues of difference across 'Pan-Asia', a wide swath of the world that runs from the Middle East, through Asia, and into Oceania. The book's multidisciplinary and comparative approach makes it unique. The book is organized into five sections, each devoted to constitutional approaches to a particular type of difference - religion, ethnicity/race, urban/rural divisions, language, and gender and sexual orientation - in two or more countries in Pan Asia. The introduction offers a framework for thinking comprehensively about the many ways constitutionalism interacts with difference.
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• Acknowledgements Foreword List of Contributors Part I Financial Centres in Asia: Law & Policy The Rise of Singapore as International Financial Centre: Political Will, Industrial Policy, and Rule of Law Jiangyu Wang Inside the Singapore Financial Centre Dora Neo Hong Kong: Evolution and Future as a Leading International Financial Centre Douglas W. Arner Level Playing Field as an Institutional Challenge to China as a Socialist Market Economy Xianchu Zhang Regulating Internationalization of Currency: Comparative Experience in Asia Weitseng Chen A Small Difference in Wording, but a Big Difference in Rule-making: A Retrospective and Prospective View on the Development of China's Economic Zones Jiaxiang Hu Finance, Rule of Law and Human Rights in China Matthias Vanhullebusch
• Part II Governing Financial Markets in Asia: Innovation and Financial Products Positioning Singapore as an International Centre for Fund-raising Alexander F. H. Loke A People's Market of Hong Kong: Facilitating Crowdfunding of SMEs David C. Donald, George Mok & Adrian Fong New Risk Management Requirements in Hong Kong's Corporate Governance Code: "More than Just a Box to Tick" Angus Young & Coral Huo Regulating P2P Lending in China: Industrial Landscape and Regulatory Approaches Wei Shen Regulating China's Internet Money Market Funds: An Economic Perspective Xiaoye Jin Liberalizing Capital Market Entry in China: Building a Registration System Jing Leng Part III Financial Crimes in Asia: Anti-Corruption Enforcement Anti-Corruption Enforcement in Singapore Thong Chee Kun & Muslim Albakri Cracking the Whip on Financial Crimes in Singapore Hamidul Haq Role of the Criminal Law in Maintaining Hong Kong as an International Financial Centre Simon N. M. Young Anti-Corruption Law and Enforcement in Hong Kong: Keeping it Clean Michael I. Jackson Index.
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The financial markets of Hong Kong and Singapore are leading examples in Asian financial development and regulation. Shanghai, which is developing its Free Trade Pilot Zone, is equally aiming to incorporate a sophisticated service market in order to upgrade, reform and reinvigorate the current economic model of development in China in the aftermath of the global financial and economic crisis. Streamlining administrative regulation is a precondition for its financial market to find root and play a central role in Asia and beyond. Finance, Rule of Law and Development in Asia offers a contextualized approach to the economic and political realities within Asian financial markets, especially in these three different jurisdictions. The volume adopts a comparative and precise account on the prospects and challenges in further developing these financial centres.
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• The rise of Singapore as international financial centre : political will, industrial policy, and rule of law / Jiangyu Wang
• Inside the Singapore financial centre / Dora Neo
• Hong Kong : evolution and future as a leading international financial centre / Douglas W. Arner
• Level playing field as an institutional challenge to China as a socialist market economy / Xianchu Zhang
• Regulating internationalization of currency : comparative experience in Asia / Weitseng Chen
• A small difference in wording, but a big difference in rule-making : a retrospective and prospective view on the development of China's economic zones / Jiaxiang Hu
• Finance, rule of law and human rights in China / Matthias Vanhullebusch
• Positioning Singapore as an international centre for fund-raising / Alexander F.H. Loke
• A people's market of Hong Kong : facilitating crowdfunding of SMEs / David C. Donald, George Mok and Adrian Fong
• New risk management requirements in Hong Kong's corporate governance code : "more than just a box to tick" / Angus Young and Coral Huo
• Regulating P2P lending in China : industrial landscape and regulatory approaches / Shen Wei
• Regulating China's internet money market funds : an economic perspective / Xiaoye Jin
• Liberalizing capital market entry in China : building a registration system / Jing Leng
• Anti-corruption enforcement in Singapore / Thong Chee Kun and Muslim Albakri
• Cracking the whip on financial crimes in Singapore / Hamidul Haq
• Role of the criminal law in maintaining Hong Kong as an international financial centre / Simon N.M. Young
• Anti-corruption law and enforcement in Hong Kong : keeping it clean / Michael I. Jackson.

The financial markets of Hong Kong and Singapore are leading examples in Asian financial development and regulation. Shanghai, which is developing its Free Trade Pilot Zone, is equally aiming to incorporate a sophisticated service market in order to upgrade, reform and reinvigorate the current economic model of development in China in the aftermath of the global financial and economic crisis. Streamlining administrative regulation is a precondition for its financial market to find root and play a central role in Asia and beyond. Finance, Rule of Law and Development in Asia offers a contextualized approach to the economic and political realities within Asian financial markets, especially in these three different jurisdictions. The volume adopts a comparative and precise account on the prospects and challenges in further developing these financial centres.
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Contributed articles presented in the Second Prof. N R Madhava Menon SAARCLAW Mooting Competition and Law Students Conference, organized by Lloyd Law College, Greater Noida, in collaboration with SAARCLAW and Menon Institute of Legal Advocacy Training, held in 2017

• Introduction / Junji Nakagawa
• China's approach towards investment agreements and its interests involved in international investment rule-making / Wei Yin
• Investment dispute-settlement trends between Far-East and Ibero-America / Alejandro Garcia Jiménez
• Defending the undefendable : Asia's sovereignist battles against easy access to investment treaty arbitration / Relja Radvić
• Will Asia breathe life into a multilateral investment court? : thoughts on the feasibility and design of a new, stand-alone court / Celine Lévesque
• Rethinking the role of labour provisions under Asian international investment regime : a possible linkage with FTAAP? / Zheng Lizhen
• In the habit of giants : fair and equitable treatment and structural risk factors in conglomerate-led newly industrialized countries / Soo-Hyun Lee
• Objective criteria and ratione legis condition in the definition of investment : global trends and the Chinese practice / G. Matteo Vaccaro-Incisa
• The ASEAN comprehensive investment agreement approach to due process : does arbitral case law matter? / Fulvio Maria Palombino and Giovanni Zarra
• The role of non-disputing contracting party's expression of intention in investment arbitration : observation on the PRC letters in the saga of Sanum v. Laos / Tianshu Zhang.

With changes to the international investment law landscape and Asian countries now actively developing their network of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and free trade agreements (FTAs), this volume studies issues relating to Asian perspectives on international investment law and forecasts the future of Asian contribution to its science and practice. The book discusses the major factors that have been driving Asian countries to new directions in international investment rule-making and dispute settlement. It also looks at whether Asian countries are crafting a new model of international investment law to reflect their specific socio-cultural values. Finally, the book examines whether there are any `Asian' styles of international investment rule-making and dispute settlement, or if individual Asian countries are seeking specific national `models' based on economic structure and geopolitical interests. This unique collection is exceptionally useful to students, scholars and practitioners of international investment law, international trade law and public international law.
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• Constitutional remedies in Asia : an overview / Po Jen Yap
• Back to the future : on prospective invalidation in the Indonesian Constitutional Court / Stefanus Hendrianto
• Bangladesh's inconsistency with the doctrine of prospective invalidation / M Jashim Ali Chowdhury
• Sunsetting suspension orders in Hong Kong / Swati Jhaveri
• Pragmatism and the use of suspension orders by Indonesian's Constitutional Court / Fritz Edward Siregar
• Conditional constitutionality and conditional unconstitutionality in Indonesia / Simon Butt
• An alternative to annulment : remedial interpretation in Hong Kong / Francis Ho-Chai and Jiang Zixin
• Structural injunctions and public interest litigation in India / Chintan Chandrachud
• Dissecting quasi-legislative judicial directives of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh / MD Rizwanul Islam
• Integrated diversity : a pluralist argument for the Philippine writ of continuing mandamus / Bryan Dennis Gabito Tiojanco.

Many jurisdictions in Asia have vested their courts with the power of constitutional review. Traditionally, these courts would invalidate an impugned law to the extent of its inconsistency with the constitution. In common law systems, such an invalidation operates immediately and retrospectively; and courts in both common law and civil law systems would leave it to the legislature to introduce corrective legislation. In practice, however, both common law and civil law courts in Asia have devised novel constitutional remedies, often in the absence of explicit constitutional or statutory authorisation. Examining cases from Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines, this collection of essays examines four novel constitutional remedies which have been judicially adopted - Prospective Invalidation, Suspension Order, Remedial Interpretation, and Judicial Directive - that blurs the distinction between adjudication and legislation.
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• Shareholder activism in Germany / Andreas Engert
• Shareholder activism in Japan : chick sexing or tautology? / Akira Tokutsu
• Shareholder activism in China : a special case for a state-affiliated service center for medium and small investors / Ruoying Chen
• Shareholder activism in Korea : The Cases of PSPD and NPS / Kyung-Hoon Chun
• Disclosure of substantial shareholdings in stock corporations : a German and European perspective / Gregor Bachmann
• Disclosure of substantial holdings in China : a realm of order or a realm of chaos? / Li Guo
• Disclosure of substantial shareholdings : a Korean perspective / Sunseop Jung
• Selected issues in German takeover law : mandatory bids, minimum pricing rules / Dirk A. Verse
• Characteristics of the Japanese tender offer system and its rationale / Masakazu Shirai
• Korean takeover laws : focusing on the control premium / Yon Mi Kim
• Anti-takeover defensive measures in Japan / Masafumi Nakahigashi, Alan K. Koh, Dan W. Puchniak
• Hostile takeovers in China : recent developments and regulatory challenges / Robin Hui Huang, Juan Chen, Pin Lyu
• Pre- and post-bid defenses in Korea : overview and recent doctrinal development / Ok-Rial Song

• Introduction: Regulating religion in Asia
• Regulatory markers / Arif A. Jamal
• Conceptualizing the regulation of religion : a preliminary framework for inquiry / Jaclyn L. Neo
• The role of authority and sanctity in state-religion conflicts / Shai Wozner and Gilad Abiri
• Jurisdictional versus official control : regulating the Buddhist saṅgha in South and Southeast Asia / Benjamin Schontal
• Defining and regulating religion in early independent Indonesia / Kevin W. Fogg
• Principled pluralism, relational constitutionalism and regulating religion within Singapore's secular democratic model / Thio Li-ann
• Legal regulation of religion in Vietnam / Bui Ngoc Son
• Regulating Buddhism in Myanmar : the case of deviant Buddhist sects / Nyi Nyi Kyaw
• The bureaucratization of religious education in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Mirjam Kunkler
• Managing religious competition in China : regulating provisions of charitable activities by religious organizations / Jianlin Chen and Loveday J. Liu
• Regulating religion through administrative law : religious conversion in Malaysia beyond fundamental rights / Matthew Nelson and Dian Shah
• Legal pluralism, patronage secularism and the challenge of prophetic Christianity in Singapore / Daniel Goh
• Equality in secularism : contemporary debates on social stratification and the Indian constitution / M. Mohsin Alam Bhat
• Regulating the state and the hawza : legal pluralism and the ironies of Shi'i law / Haider Ala Hamoudi.

In recent years, law and religion scholarship has increasingly emphasized the need to study the interaction of legal and religious ideas and institutions, norms and practices. The overall question that this scholarship explores may be stated as follows: how do legal and religious ideas and institutions, methods and mechanisms, beliefs and believers influence each other, for better and for worse, in the past, present and future? This volume engages this area of scholarship by examining how law regulates religion, and how religion responds to such regulations. It examines underlying norms influencing state regulation of religion, and challenges emerging from such regulation. Importantly, this volume will go beyond the conventional enquiries that draw upon the Anglo-European approaches and experiences, and emphasize instead Asian perspectives in order to expand and build upon existing understandings about the complex relationship between law and religion.
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• Introduction: 1. Proportionality in Asia joining the global choir Po Jen Yap
• Part I. Structured Proportionality: 2. More structure, more deference proportionality in Hong Kong Rehan Abeyratne
• 3. Proportionality in Taiwan American-German fusion Chien-Chih Lin
• 4. Proportionality in South Korea contextualizing the cosmopolitan rights grammar Yoon Jin Shin
• Part II. Anemic / Ad Hoc Proportionality: 5. Proportionality doctrine in Malaysia: new dawn or 'Merely Obiter'? Benjamin Joshua Ong
• 6. Judicial review of restrictions on constitutional rights in Japan highly ad hoc, contextualized, and deferential Shigenori Matsui
• 7. Against the currents the indonesian constitutional court in an age of proportionality Stefanus Hendrianto
• 8. Manifest disproportionality and the constitutional court of Thailand Narongdech Srukhosit: Part III. Doctrinal Equivalents of Proportionality: 9. Reasonableness as proportionality more intrusive scrutiny in civil-political matters than socioeconomic ones? Md. Rizwanul Islam
• 10. Importing proportionality through legislation a Philippine experiment Bryan Dennis, Gabito Tiojanco, Ronald Ray and Katigbak San Juan
• Conclusion: 11. Is there a doctrine of proportionality in Asia (or anywhere)? Mark Tushnet.
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This is the first book that focusses on how proportionality analysis - a legal transplant from the West - is applied by courts around Asia, and it explores how a country's commitment to democracy and the rule of law is fundamental to the success of the doctrine's judicial enforcement. This book will appeal to lawyers, political scientists, and students of law and political science who seek to understand how proportionality analysis is blossoming and, in some cases, flourishing in Asia.
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• 1. Introduction Gary Low
• 2. Uniform law and the production and circulation of legal models Luca Castellani
• 3. Convergence, divergence and diversity in financial law: The experience of the UNCITRAL model law and cross-border insolvency Andrew Godwin
• 4. The New York convention and the UNCITRAL model law on international commercial arbitration: Existing models for legal convergence in Asia? Michael Hwang
• 5. Convergences and divergences: Comparing contractual and organizational models in international regulatory cooperation Fabrizio Cafaggi
• 6. Law as a market standard: Voluntary unification in contract and company law Andreas Engert
• 7. Is the harmonisation of Asian contract law possible? The example of the European Union Mateja Durovic and Geraint Howells
• 8. The presumption of regularity in Chinese corporate contracting: Evidence and the prospect of regional convergence Charles Zhen Qu
• 9. Mind the gap: Studying the implementation discrepancy for the ASEAN economic community Sanchita Basu Das
• 10. The rule of law as key to the ASEAN legal order: How can it be ensured? Francis Jacobs
• 11. How Asian should Asian law be? Ralf Michaels.
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There have been an increasing need for greater integration of many Asian economies, either within the confines of ASEAN or on a more geo-economically strategic scale including major Asian jurisdictions like China, Japan, and Korea. A number of key personalities within the regional legal fraternity have advanced views that such integration ought to occur through the harmonization of legal rules, arguing that in doing so, uncertainty and other transaction costs would be reduced and commercial confidence within the region concomitantly increased. This edited volume brings together eminent and promising scholars and practitioners to investigate what convergence and divergence means in their respective fields and for Asia. Interwoven in the details of each tale of convergence is whether and how convergence ought to take place, and in so choosing, what are the attendant consequences for that choice.
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• 1. Introduction Gary Low
• 2. Uniform law and the production and circulation of legal models Luca Castellani
• 3. Convergence, divergence and diversity in financial law: The experience of the UNCITRAL model law and cross-border insolvency Andrew Godwin
• 4. The New York convention and the UNCITRAL model law on international commercial arbitration: Existing models for legal convergence in Asia? Michael Hwang
• 5. Convergences and divergences: Comparing contractual and organizational models in international regulatory cooperation Fabrizio Cafaggi
• 6. Law as a market standard: Voluntary unification in contract and company law Andreas Engert
• 7. Is the harmonisation of Asian contract law possible? The example of the European Union Mateja Durovic and Geraint Howells
• 8. The presumption of regularity in Chinese corporate contracting: Evidence and the prospect of regional convergence Charles Zhen Qu
• 9. Mind the gap: Studying the implementation discrepancy for the ASEAN economic community Sanchita Basu Das
• 10. The rule of law as key to the ASEAN legal order: How can it be ensured? Francis Jacobs
• 11. How Asian should Asian law be? Ralf Michaels.
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There have been an increasing need for greater integration of many Asian economies, either within the confines of ASEAN or on a more geo-economically strategic scale including major Asian jurisdictions like China, Japan, and Korea. A number of key personalities within the regional legal fraternity have advanced views that such integration ought to occur through the harmonization of legal rules, arguing that in doing so, uncertainty and other transaction costs would be reduced and commercial confidence within the region concomitantly increased. This edited volume brings together eminent and promising scholars and practitioners to investigate what convergence and divergence means in their respective fields and for Asia. Interwoven in the details of each tale of convergence is whether and how convergence ought to take place, and in so choosing, what are the attendant consequences for that choice.
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• Introduction. Human dignity, human rights, and cultural change in Asia Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu
• 1. Human dignity in Indian constitutional adjudication Pritam Baruah
• 2. The development of individual dignity in Japan: Overcoming constraints in law, family and society Keigo Obayashi
• 3. Constitutional discourse on human dignity in South Korea: A critical appraisal Chaihark Hahm
• 4. Human dignity in the jurisprudence of the Taiwan constitutional court Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu
• 5. The dignity Factor: Interpreting the Philippine constitution J. R. Robert Real
• 6. Human dignity in the jurisprudence of the Indonesian constitutional court Nadirsyah Hosen
• 7. Dignity as a constitutional value in Hong Kong: Toward a contextual approach? Kelley Loper
• 8. Human dignity and relational constitutionalism in Singapore Li-ann Thio
• 9. Personal dignity under Chinese constitutional law Xiaobo Zhai
• 10. Virtue, dignity, and constitutional democracy: A Confucian perspective Sungmoon Kim
• 11. Buddhist philosophical approaches to human dignity Anton Sevilla-Liu
• 12. Dignity and status in ancient and medieval India Timothy Lubin
• 13. Human dignity, Pancasila, and Islam: contexts and contestations in Indonesia Etin Anwar
• 14. Catholicism and human dignity in the Philippines Jonathan T. Chow
• 15. Protestantism and human dignity in South Korea JinHyok Kim
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Using interdisciplinary methods, this book is a pioneering exploration of Asian understandings of human dignity and human rights. It encompasses rigorous scrutiny of dignity jurisprudence in major Asian apex courts, detailed philosophical analysis of dignity in religious traditions, and contextualized socio-political analysis of religious dignity discourse in several Asian societies. This is an innovative systematic survey of how human dignity is understood in Asia, demonstrating how those understandings converge and diverge with other parts of the world. Synthesising legal, philosophical, and sociological expertise, this volume furthers the dialogue between Asia and the West, and advances debates on whether human rights are universal or particular to any one region. As many of the world's liberal democracies are challenged by polarization and populism, this comparative study of human dignity broadens our horizons and offers a potential alternative to a rigidified social imagination.
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• Introduction. Human dignity, human rights, and cultural change in Asia Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu
• 1. Human dignity in Indian constitutional adjudication Pritam Baruah
• 2. The development of individual dignity in Japan: Overcoming constraints in law, family and society Keigo Obayashi
• 3. Constitutional discourse on human dignity in South Korea: A critical appraisal Chaihark Hahm
• 4. Human dignity in the jurisprudence of the Taiwan constitutional court Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu
• 5. The dignity Factor: Interpreting the Philippine constitution J. R. Robert Real
• 6. Human dignity in the jurisprudence of the Indonesian constitutional court Nadirsyah Hosen
• 7. Dignity as a constitutional value in Hong Kong: Toward a contextual approach? Kelley Loper
• 8. Human dignity and relational constitutionalism in Singapore Li-ann Thio
• 9. Personal dignity under Chinese constitutional law Xiaobo Zhai
• 10. Virtue, dignity, and constitutional democracy: A Confucian perspective Sungmoon Kim
• 11. Buddhist philosophical approaches to human dignity Anton Sevilla-Liu
• 12. Dignity and status in ancient and medieval India Timothy Lubin
• 13. Human dignity, Pancasila, and Islam: contexts and contestations in Indonesia Etin Anwar
• 14. Catholicism and human dignity in the Philippines Jonathan T. Chow
• 15. Protestantism and human dignity in South Korea JinHyok Kim
• Index.
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Using interdisciplinary methods, this book is a pioneering exploration of Asian understandings of human dignity and human rights. It encompasses rigorous scrutiny of dignity jurisprudence in major Asian apex courts, detailed philosophical analysis of dignity in religious traditions, and contextualized socio-political analysis of religious dignity discourse in several Asian societies. This is an innovative systematic survey of how human dignity is understood in Asia, demonstrating how those understandings converge and diverge with other parts of the world. Synthesising legal, philosophical, and sociological expertise, this volume furthers the dialogue between Asia and the West, and advances debates on whether human rights are universal or particular to any one region. As many of the world's liberal democracies are challenged by polarization and populism, this comparative study of human dignity broadens our horizons and offers a potential alternative to a rigidified social imagination.
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• Preface List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors
• 1 Decentering Law and Empire: Law-Making, Local Normativities, and the Iberian Empires in Asia Manuel Bastias Saavedra 2 Village Normativities and the Portuguese Imperial Order: The Case of Early Modern Goa Angela Barreto Xavier 3 The Principales of Philip II: Vassalage, Justice, and the Making of Indigenous Jurisdiction in the Early Colonial Philippines Abisai Perez Zamarripa 4 Catholics and Non-Christians in the Archbishopric of Goa Provincial Councils, Conversion, and Local Dynamics in the Production of Norms (16th-18th Centuries) Patricia Souza de Faria 5 "Que los indios no puedan vender sus hijas para contraer matrimonio": Understanding and Regulating Bridewealth and Brideservice in the Spanish Colonial Period of the Philippines Marya Svetlana T. Camacho 6 The Janus Face of Normativities in a Global Mirror: Viewing 16th-Century Marriage Practices in Japan from Christian and Japanese Traditions Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva 7 On Gentilidade as a Religious Offence: A Specificity of the Portuguese Inquisition in Asia? Miguel Rodrigues Lourenco 8 Theology in the Dark: The Missionary Casuistry of Japan Jesuits and Dominicans during the Tokugawa Persecution (1616-1622) Romulo da Silva Ehalt 9 Finding Norms for the Chinese Mission: The Hat Controversy in the Canton Conference of 1667/1668 Marina Torres Trimallez 10 Time as Norm: The Ritual Dimension of the Calendar Book and the Translation of Multi-Temporality in Late Imperial China Fupeng Li Index.
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Norms beyond Empire seeks to rethink the relationship between law and empire by emphasizing the role of local normative production. While European imperialism is often viewed as being able to shape colonial law and government to its image, this volume argues that early modern empires could never monolithically control how these processes unfolded. Examining the Iberian empires in Asia, it seeks to look at norms as a means of escaping the often too narrow concept of law and look beyond empire to highlight the ways in which law-making and local normativities frequently acted beyond colonial rule. The ten chapters explore normative production from this perspective by focusing on case studies from China, India, Japan, and the Philippines. Contributors are: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Marya Svetlana T. Camacho, Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva, Romulo da Silva Ehalt, Patricia Souza de Faria, Fupeng Li, Miguel Rodrigues Lourenco, Abisai Perez Zamarripa, Marina Torres Trimallez, and Angela Barreto Xavier.
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• 1. Introduction to understanding and comparing access to justice Helena Whalen-Bridge
• Part I. Access to Justice in Asia: 2. Pro bono, legal aid, and the struggle for justice in China Hualing Fu
• 3. Access to justice in India: Managing multiple mechanisms in a restrictive practice environment Sarasu Esther Thomas
• 4. Access to justice in Indonesia: Searching for meaning Yunita with Linda Yanti Sulistiawati
• 5. Access to justice and lawyer independence in Japan Hiroshi Otsuka and Setsuo Miyazawa
• 6. Improving access to justice in Malaysia: Introspection, purpose, and dynamism Seh Lih Long
• 7. Political lawyers and the legal occupation in Myanmar Alice Dawkins and Nick Cheesman
• 8. Alternative lawyering versus pro bono in the Philippines: From challenging an authoritarian government to working with the state George Radics and Alpha Pontanal
• 9. Access to justice in Singapore: A government and lawyer dynamic Helena Whalen-Bridge
• 10. Public interest lawyering in South Korea: Standing on the shoulders of giants Takgon Lee and Jaewon Kim
• 11. A hub, a knot, and a powerhouse: The legal aid foundation and access to justice in Taiwan Ching-Fang Hsu and Yong-Ching Tsai
• 12. Lawyers and democratic centralism in Vietnam Nguyen Hung Quang
• Part II. Comparative Perspectives on Access to Justice: 13. Access to justice and an islamic ethic of justice Arif A. Jamal
• 14. Lawyering in Indonesia's religious courts: Legal aid, procedural justice, and pragmatism Euis Nurlaelawati
• 15. Access to justice and legal aid in the Syariah courts in Malaysia: A colourful but threadbare patchwork system Kerstin Steiner--16. The Syariah court of Singapore: Achieving a more formal access to justice Ahmad Nizam Abbas
• 17. Access to justice in Israel: Rights, legal aid and pro bono in a lawyer dominant system Limor Zer-Gutman and Michal Ofer Tsfoni
• 18. Vuk'uzenzele - Arise and Act: Lawyers and access to justice in South Africa Helen Kruuse.
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To a disturbing degree, we are at the mercy of our time and place. While law may provide relief for some of life's troubles, that requires access to justice. Accessibility is the focus of this volume, which expands analysis of access to justice beyond the US and the UK to Asia and other comparative jurisdictions. Chapters characterise access to justice dynamics in these jurisdictions by addressing how access is understood, how it is achieved or not achieved, and how the jurisdiction should improve. The book addresses some issues seldom addressed in analyses of western jurisdictions, such as paid mandatory legal services and mandatory public interest activities, and provides English translations of relevant regulations. The book expands our understanding of access to justice with a comparative perspective, one that allows readers to identify relationships between access and its constitutive environment.
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