Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Asian Law is a cutting-edge and comprehensive resource which surveys the interdisciplinary field of Asian Law. Written by an international team of experts, the chapters within cover issues as diverse as family law and Islamic courts, decentralisation and the revival of traditional forms of law, discourses on the rule of law, human rights, corporate governance and environmental protection
The volume is divided into five parts covering:
Asia in Law, and the Humanities and Social Sciences;
The Political Economy of Law in Asia - Law in the Context of Asian Development;
Asian traditions and their transformations;
Law, the environment, and access to land and natural resources;
People in Asia and their rights.
Offering an overview of the full spectrum of Law in Asia, the Handbook is an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, lawyers, graduate and undergraduate students studying this ever-evolving field.
Contents
Part I: Asia in Law, the Humanities and Social Sciences
1. Introduction
2. Law, Networks, Mobility: Nineteenth Century Provocations
Part II: The Political Economy of Law in Asia - Law in the Context of Asian Development
3. East Asia and the Study of Law and Development
4. A New China Model for the Post Global Financial Crisis Era: Legal Dimensions
5. Constitutions, Constitutional Practice and Constitutionalism in East Asia
6. The Vietnamese Courts and Reform Dynamics
7. The Role of Lawyers in South and East Asia
8. The Political Determinants of Corporate Reorganization in China
9. Clusters and Links in Asian Intellectual Property Law
10. Innovation Governance Competition: Comparing India's and China's Electronic Commerce Development Strategies
11. Foreign Investment Law: Asian investment and the growth of regional investment agreements
Part III: Asian traditions and their transformations
12. National Control over Local Lawmaking in Indonesia
13. Forestry Law, Masyarakat Adat, and Struggles for Inclusive Citizenship in Indonesia
14. Legal and cultural landscapes: cultural and intellectual property concepts and the 'safeguarding' of intangible cultural heritage in Southeast Asia
Part IV: Law, the environment and access to land and natural resources
15. Transnational Sustainability Certification as a New Extraterritoriality?
16. The Regulation of Innovation in Agriculture and Sustainable Development in India and Southeast Asia
17. Institutionalising Property: New Land Law in a New Nation-State
18. Water Law in India
Part V: People in Asia and their rights
19. Islamic Courts or Courts for Muslims? Shari'a and the State in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
20. Indigenous Peoples: Indigeneity, Indigeny or Indigenism?
21. Lèse-majesté, Asian style: Crisis of Monarchy in Pre-war Japan and Present-Day Thailand
22. The construction of ethnicity in colonial law and its legacy: The example of the Peranakan Chinese in Indonesia
