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• Cover; Contents; Preface;
• Chapter 1. Colonialism, Procedural Law, and the Cirebon-Priangan Region; Procedural Law; Cirebon; Priangan Lands; Sources; Case Record; Organization and Time Span; Section I. Preludes 1681-1706/08;
• Chapter 2. Javanese Legal Competence; Padu and Pradata in the Earliest Cirebon Texts; Relevant Sources; Undifferentiated Padu and Pradata Competence; Distinctively Padu; Distinctively Pradata; Padu Affairs Handled by the Jaksa Pipitu; Padu-The Economic Dimension; Pradata Court of Princes and Jaksa; Pradata-The Sovereignty Dimension; 1681-1690-Continuity with an Exception.

• Chapter 3. Court Performance to 1706Pradata; Padu; Padu or Pradata Competence?; Javanese courts-Company Modifications; Change in Venue = Change in Legal Principles; Cirebon; Administrative Settlements at Batavia; Administrative Mediating in the Priangan; Summary; Section II. Dutch Take-Over 1706/08-1728;
• Chapter 4. A Cirebon-Priangan Legal System 1706-1708; Whither Company Rule?; Resolution of 1706; Pangeran Aria Cirebon; Lack of Court Directive; Resolution of 1708; Padu Courts; Pradata Courts; Criminal"" Courts; Civil"" Competence and Administrative Tendencies; Rebirth of Javanese Justice?

• Section IIA. Failure of Padu Legal Procedure 1706-1728
• Chapter 5. Modification of Padu Legal Procedure 1706-1717; Cirebon Residents; Performance-Descriptions; Performance-Actual Cases; Regents' Disputes-Acceptability of Jaksa Authority; Resolution of 1713; "Self-Colonialization"; Alienation of Javanese Litigants; Company Criticism v Company Need; Jaksa Success-Megat Sari v Suba Mangala, 1715; Summary;
• Chapter 6. Demise of Padu Procedure-the 1720s; Van Tets' Innovations in Land Disputes; Resolution of 1719; Resolutions of 1720 and 1723; Death of Pangeran Aria Cirebon; Demise of the Jaksa Pipitu.

• Resolution of 1727Tersmitten as a Patron of Law; Undang Nitih Cirebon; Van Tets and Tersmitten Innovations; Section IIB. Pradata/Criminal Justice;
• Chapter 7. Pradata Competence in "Criminal" Cases; Pradata Judgment; Paepen and Vagabonds; Puspa Nagara Affair, 1717; Kruger's Murder; Pradata Responsibility-Associates; Javanese Law in Company Service; Trials before the Jaksa College; Gobius' Case Against Puspa Nagara; Jaksa Conception of the Case; Summary;
• Chapter 8. Pradata/Criminal Courts 1708-1728; Executive Council; Van Tets' Reform of 1718; Jaksa on the Executive Council, 1718-1721.

• Jaksa ResponsibilitiesCase Examples; Expropriation and Extortion; Lim Hoeko's Murder; Resident as Inquisitor; Islam in Judicial Procedure-The Kalia Affair, 1720; The Executive Council after 1721; Gallows "Tempat Volewijk"; Section III. Consolidation of the Legal System after 1728;
• Chapter 9. Alternatives to Padu Competence 1728-1750; Alternatives to Padu-Toyagama; Alternatives to Padu-Administrative Decisions; The Executive Council and the Legal Administration; Ceribon Land Disputes-Chaos; The Pinjalin Affair in Retrospect;
• Chapter 10. Triumph of the Executive Courts 1750-1792.

A major contribution to the understanding of Indonesian legal history. Hoadley shows how European colonialism skewed local legal institutions to serve colonial ends, and he discusses a fascinating series of cases that illustrate the evolution of this process.

• The judicialization of politics in Asia : towards a framework of analysis / Björn Dressel
• The judicialization of Japanese politics? / Tom Ginsburg and Tokujin Matsudaira
• Causes and conditions for sustainable judicialization of politics in Korea / Jongcheol Kim and Jonghyun Park
• The judiciary, policy, and politics in India / Shylashri Shankar
• Thailand : judicialization of politics or politicization of the judiciary? / Björn Dressel
• Indonesia's Constitutional Court : conservative activist or strategic operator? / Simon Butt
• From judicialization to politicization of the judiciary : the Philippine case / Alejandro N. Ciencia
• The judicialization of politics in Pakistan / Charles Kennedy
• China's Supreme People's Court within the "political-legal system" / Shumei Hou and Ron Keith
• Cambodia's judiciary : heading for political judicialization? / Kheang Un and Sokbunthoeun So
• Malaysia : limited and intermittent judicialization of politics / Chandra Kanagasabai
• Leadership, law, and legitimacy : reflections on the changing nature of judicial politics in Asia / Haig Patapan.

Over the last two decades courts have become major players in the political landscape in Asia. This book assesses what is driving this apparent trend toward judicialization in the region. It looks at the variations within the judicialization trend, and how these variations affect political practice and policy outcomes. The book goes on to examine how this new trend is affecting aspects of the rule of law, democratic governance and state-society relations. It investigates how the experiences in Asia add to the debate on the judicialization of politics globally; in particular how judicial behaviour in Asia differs from that in the West, and the implications of the differences on the theoretical debate.
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• Acknowledgments Translators' Notes Map of Nineteenth-century Korea Introduction Choson Korea in Its Last Century Case 1 An Adulterous Widower Meets a Violent DeathYang Hang-nyon (P'yongyang, P'yongan Province, 1866) Case 2 A Family Activist Confronts a Local MagnateMs. Pak (Yongin, Kyonggi Province, Late Eighteenth Century) Case 3 A Defiant Slave Challenges His Master with DeathYi Pong-dol (Anui, Kyongsang Province, 1842) Case 4 Two Widows FightMadam Chang and Ms. Un (Yech'on, Kyongsang Province, 1842) Case 5 A Heartless Wet Nurse Abuses an InfantMun Chong-ji (Chunghwa, P'yongan Province, 1866) Case 6 A Widower Seeks Private SettlementMs. Chong (Yongch'on, Kyongsang Province, 1889) Case 7 Adultery Leads to MurderMs. Paek (Anak, Hwanghae Province, 1897) Case 8 An Illegal Burial Begets a Son but Kills a RelativeKim Kap-san (Hoeyang, Kangwon Province, 1899) Notes Glossary Bibliography Index.
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This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Choson court (1392-1910). Extending the study of this period, usually limited to elites, into the realm of everyday life, each inquest record includes a detailed postmortem examination and features testimony from everyone directly or indirectly related to the incident. The result is an amazingly vivid, colloquial account of the vibrant, multifaceted sociocultural and legal culture of early modern Korea.
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• Foreword
• Introduction
• Supreme Court of Singapore and the promise of enforceable constitutional conventions
• Malaysian courts and electoral fraud
• Hong Kong courts and constitutional contradictions
• Supreme Court of India and criminality in politics
• The Constitutional Court of Taiwan and calibrated judicial review
• The Constitutional Court of Korea and systemic electoral barriers
• The Constitutional Court of Thailand and partisan judges
• The Supreme Court of Pakistan : accommodation and defiance of military authority
• The Supreme Court of Bangladesh and defensive judicial review
• Democratic values and the conundrum of unconstitutional constitutional amendments
• Conclusion.

What is the relationship between the strength of a country's democracy and the ability of its courts to address deficiencies in the electoral process? Drawing a distinction between democracies that can be characterised as 'dominant-party' (for example Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong), 'dynamic' (for example India, South Korea, and Taiwan), and 'fragile' (for example Thailand, Pakistan , and Bangladesh), this book explores how democracy sustains and is sustained by the exercise of judicial power. In dominant-party systems, courts can only pursue 'dialogic' pathways to constrain the government's authoritarian tendencies. On the other hand, in dynamic democracies, courts can more successfully innovate and make systemic changes to the electoral system. Finally, in fragile democracies, where a country regularly oscillates between martial law and civilian rule, their courts tend to consistently overreach, and this often facilitates or precipitates a hostile take-over by the armed forces, and lead to the demise of the rule of law.
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• 1. Introduction
• Part I. Dominant-Party Democracies: 2. Supreme Court of Singapore and the promise of enforceable constitutional conventions
• 3. Malaysian courts and electoral fraud
• 4. Hong Kong Courts and constitutional contradictions
• Part II. Dynamic Democracies: 5. Supreme Court of India and criminality in politics
• 6. Constitutional court of Taiwan and calibrated judicial review
• 7. Constitutional court of Korea and systemic electoral barriers
• Part III. Fragile Democracies: 8. Constitutional court of Thailand and partisan judges
• 9. Supreme Court of Pakistan: accommodation and defiance of military authority
• 10. Supreme Court of Bangladesh and defensive judicial review
• Part IV. Democratic Values and Courts in Comparative Perspective: 11. Democratic values and the conundrum of unconstitutional constitutional amendments
• 12. Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.
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What is the relationship between the strength of a country's democracy and the ability of its courts to address deficiencies in the electoral process? Drawing a distinction between democracies that can be characterised as 'dominant-party' (for example Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong), 'dynamic' (for example India, South Korea, and Taiwan), and 'fragile' (for example Thailand, Pakistan , and Bangladesh), this book explores how democracy sustains and is sustained by the exercise of judicial power. In dominant-party systems, courts can only pursue 'dialogic' pathways to constrain the government's authoritarian tendencies. On the other hand, in dynamic democracies, courts can more successfully innovate and make systemic changes to the electoral system. Finally, in fragile democracies, where a country regularly oscillates between martial law and civilian rule, their courts tend to consistently overreach, and this often facilitates or precipitates a hostile take-over by the armed forces, and lead to the demise of the rule of law.
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• Introduction : power vs. law in Chinese history
• Urban war at the Yangzi River
• Waitan Garden : law, law enforcement, and lawyer
• Wuhan's showdown at the supreme court
• Xuzhou : a teacher vs. the powerful governments
• Professor Wang's costly battle against local power
• Shanghai and Chongqing : the winner, loser, and prisoners
• Conclusion : urban power groups and the CCP's political survival.

Today 700 million Chinese citizens - more than fifty-four percent of the population - live in cities. The mass migration of rural populations to urban centers increased rapidly following economic reforms of the 1990s, and serious problems such as overcrowding, lack of health services, and substandard housing have arisen in these areas since. China's urban citizens have taken to the courts for redress and fought battles over failed urban renewal projects, denial of civil rights, corruption, and abuse of power.In Power versus Law in Modern China, Qiang Fang and Xiaobing Li examine four important legal cases that took place from 1995 to 2013 in the major cities of Wuhan, Xuzhou, Shanghai, and Chongqing. In these cases, citizens protested demolition of property, as well as corruption among city officials, developers, and landlords; but were repeatedly denied protection or compensation from the courts. Fang and Li explore how new interest groups comprised of entrepreneurs and Chinese graduates of Western universities have collaborated with the CCP-controlled local governments to create new power bases in cities. Drawing on newly available official sources, private collections, and interviews with Chinese administrators, judges, litigants, petitioners, and legal experts, this interdisciplinary analysis reveals the powerful and privileged will most likely continue to exploit the legal asymmetry that exists between the courts and citizens.
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• Introduction : power vs. law in Chinese history
• Urban war at the Yangzi River
• Waitan Garden : law, law enforcement, and lawyer
• Wuhan's showdown at the supreme court
• Xuzhou : a teacher vs. the powerful governments
• Professor Wang's costly battle against local power
• Shanghai and Chongqing : the winner, loser, and prisoners
• Conclusion : urban power groups and the CCP's political survival.

Today 700 million Chinese citizens - more than fifty-four percent of the population - live in cities. The mass migration of rural populations to urban centers increased rapidly following economic reforms of the 1990s, and serious problems such as overcrowding, lack of health services, and substandard housing have arisen in these areas since. China's urban citizens have taken to the courts for redress and fought battles over failed urban renewal projects, denial of civil rights, corruption, and abuse of power.In Power versus Law in Modern China, Qiang Fang and Xiaobing Li examine four important legal cases that took place from 1995 to 2013 in the major cities of Wuhan, Xuzhou, Shanghai, and Chongqing. In these cases, citizens protested demolition of property, as well as corruption among city officials, developers, and landlords; but were repeatedly denied protection or compensation from the courts. Fang and Li explore how new interest groups comprised of entrepreneurs and Chinese graduates of Western universities have collaborated with the CCP-controlled local governments to create new power bases in cities. Drawing on newly available official sources, private collections, and interviews with Chinese administrators, judges, litigants, petitioners, and legal experts, this interdisciplinary analysis reveals the powerful and privileged will most likely continue to exploit the legal asymmetry that exists between the courts and citizens.
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• Foreword
• Asia-Pacific judiciaries : themes and contemporary perspectives / H. P. Lee and Marilyn Pittard
• Independence and accountability of the judiciary : comparative analysis of the theories and the realities with lessons for the Asia-Pacific / Shimon Shetreet
• The judiciary of Bangladesh : its independence and accountability / M. Rafiqul Islam
• Judicial independence, impartiality and integrity in Brunei Darussalam / Ann Black
• The future of judicial independence in China / Lin Feng
• The judiciary in Fiji : a broken reed? / Venkat Iyer
• Hong Kong's judiciary under 'one country, two systems' / Albert H. Y. Chen and P. Y. Lo
• Judicial independence and the rise of the Supreme Court in India / Rehan Abeyratne
• The Indonesian courts : from non-independence to independence without accountability / Nadirsyah Hosen
• Indepedence of the judiciary and securing public trust in Japan / Shigenori Matsui
• The Malaysian judiciary : a Sisyphean quest for redemption? / H. P. Lee and Richard Foo
• Judicial power in Myannmar and the challenge of judicial independence / Melissa Crouch
• The Singapore judiciary : independence, impartiality and integrity / Kevin Y. L. Tan
• Decline and fall of Sri Lanka's judiciary and prospects for resurrection / Suri Ratnapala
• Institutional independence of the judiciary : Taiwan's incomplete reform / Wen-Chen Chang
• The Vanuatu judiciary : a critical check on executive power / Miranda Forsyth
• Independence, impartiality and integrity of the judiciary in Vietnam / Pip Nicholson and Nguyen Hung Quang
• The challenges of judicial independence in the Asia-Pacific / H. P. Lee and Marilyn Pittard.

Judicial independence, integrity and impartiality are crucial to public trust in the judiciary. Justice must also be seen to be dispensed fairly and without fear or favour. In the context of themes and perspectives as well as comparative theories of independence, this book provides a contemporary analysis of the role and independence of judges in 15 countries in the Asia-Pacific. Expert analyses include countries that are governed by authoritarian governments or are beset by dramatic government changes, which undermine judges by attacking and preventing their independence, to more democratic countries where there are strides towards judicial independence. The problems confronting judges and courts are explained and analysed, with the aim of establishing a commonality of standards which can be developed to strengthen and promote the important values of judicial independence, impartiality and integrity. Solutions for the Asia-Pacific region are also proposed.
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