East Asian Law

by Lucie Cheng
East Asian Law
Author: Lucie Cheng
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1134431791
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This work explores the tension in East Asia between the trend towards a convergence of legal practices in the direction of a universal model and a reassertion of local cultural practices. The trend towards convergence arises in part from 'globalisation', from 'rule of law programs' promulgated by institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the Asian Development Bank, and from widespread migration in the region, whilst the opposing trend arises in part from moves to resist such 'globalisation'. This book explores a wide range of issues related to this key problem, covering China in particular, where resolving differences in conceptions about the rule of law is a key issue as China begins to integrate itself into the World Trade Organisation regime.

Contemporary Chinese Law

by Jerome Alan Cohen
Contemporary Chinese Law
Author: Jerome Alan Cohen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2013-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780674594821
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Recently scholars have become increasingly aware that the study of Chinese law can provide new insight into the forces actually at work in Chinese society in different epochs. In an effort to encourage and facilitate the study of this subject, the thirteen essays of this volume deal with the methodology of studying the legal system of the People's Republic, describe the available research materials, and analyze the problems presented in making the materials of Chinese law intelligible to Western readers. They also review foreign works on Chinese law and explore the difficulties involved in translation and in comparing the Chinese system to our own and to that of the Soviet Union. Mr. Cohen's thoughtful introduction provides an excellent survey of the worldwide development of studies of Chinese law. It also delineates the nature of the essays that he and the eleven other scholars have contributed to the volume.

East Asia’s Renewed Respect for the Rule of Law in the 21st Century

by Setsuo Miyazawa
East Asia’s Renewed Respect for the Rule of Law in the 21st Century
Author: Setsuo Miyazawa
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2015-03-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004274200
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This volume showcases the most recent research on the future of the legal and judicial landscape in East Asia and its renewed respect for the rule of law in the 21st century. The book features research on emerging judicial stratifications in the legal profession; war crimes and their legacies in the post-colonial era; citizens' participation in the justice system; gender, law, legal culture and profession as well as environmental justice.

Routledge Handbook of Asian Law

by Christoph Antons
Routledge Handbook of Asian Law
Author: Christoph Antons
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2016-11-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317337409
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Law and legal institutions in East Asia's high-growth episodes -- Conclusion: East Asia, law and development, and today's developing countries -- Chapter 4: A new China model for the era post global financial crisis: Legal dimensions -- Introduction -- The East Asian model, its progeny and their problems -- The emerging post Washington, post Beijing consensus (PWBC) -- Implications of the PWBC for the China model -- The decision in light of the PWBC -- The implications of the decision for legal reforms -- Conclusion

Pluralism, Transnationalism and Culture in Asian Law

by Gary F Bell
Pluralism, Transnationalism and Culture in Asian Law
Author: Gary F Bell
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2018-02-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9814786675
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This book stems from a symposium held at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore in honour of the pioneer in the field of legal pluralism, Professor M.B. Hooker. It gathers essays from admirers and friends who add their own contributions on legal pluralism, transnationalism and culture in Asia. The book opens with an account of M.B. Hooker colourful and prolific career. The authors then approach legal pluralism through legal theory, legal anthropology, comparative law, law and religion, constitutional law, even Islamic art, thus reflecting the broad approaches of Professor Hooker's scholarship. While most of the book focuses mainly on Southeast Asia, it also reaches out to all of Asia up to Israel, and even includes a chapter comparing Indonesia and Egypt.

The Asian Law and Society Reader

by Lynette J. Chua
The Asian Law and Society Reader
Author: Lynette J. Chua
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2023-02-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108872530
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The first reader on Asian law and society scholarship, this book features reading selections from a wide range of Asian countries – East, South, Southeast and Central Asia – along with original commentaries by the three editors on the theoretical debates and research methods pertinent to the discipline. Organized by themes and topical areas, the reader enables scholars and students to break out of country-specific silos to make theoretical connections across national borders. It meets a growing demand for law and society materials in institutions and universities in Asia and around the world. It is written at a level accessible to advanced undergraduate students and graduate students as well as experienced researchers, and serves as a valuable teaching tool for courses focused on Asian law and society in law schools, area studies, history, religion, and social science fields such as sociology, anthropology, politics, government, and criminal justice.

A New East Asia

by Kazuko Mōri
A New East Asia
Author: Kazuko Mōri
Publisher: NUS Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2007
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789971693824
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East Asia is normally identified as a group of countries lying along the western edge of the Pacific Ocean, but in recent years scholars have begun thinking about a new East Asia that is a community rather than a set of sovereign states. This regional community is a theoretical notion variously defined on the basis of economic or political relations, philosophical orientations, language or other criteria, with each standard producing a different set of boundaries. This book looks at the new East Asia from a Northeast Asian perspective, considering it both as a theoretical construct and a practical reality.The authors are Asian Studies specialists, mainly from Japan but with contributions from Korea and the United States, and they consider the trade and economic interaction, diplomacy, and security arrangements of East Asia. Prepared as part of a five-year research program conducted by Waseda University's 21st Century Center of Excellence for the Creation of Contemporary Asian Studies, the essays are published here in English for the first time