Examining practice, interrogating theory : comparative legal studies in Asia / / edited by Penelope (pip) Nicholson and Sarah Biddulph.
Legal transplantation and reform in the name of globalisation is central to the transformation of Asian legal systems. The contributions to Examining Practice, Interrogating Theory: Comparative Legal Studies in Asia analyse particular legal changes in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand,...
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nijhoff eBook titles 2008
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Penelope (Pip) Nicholson and Sarah Biddulph
- Preface Comparing in Circles / Pierre Legrand
- 1 Expanding the Circle: Comparative Legal Studies in Transition / Sarah Biddulph and Pip Nicholson
- 2 Developing a Decentred Analysis of Legal Transfers / John Gillespie
- 3 Legal Culture ‘Repacked’: Drug Trials in Vietnam / Pip Nicholson
- 4 The Field of Crime Control and Social Order: Prospects for Criminal Procedure Reform in China / Sarah Biddulph
- 5 Addressing Extreme Working Hours in China: the Contributions of Regulation Theory / Sean Cooney
- 6 Completing Teubner: Foreign Irritants in China’s Clinical Legal Education System and the ‘Convergence’ of Imaginations / Michael W. Dowdle
- 7 When Words FailSyariah Law in Indonesia: Revival, Reform or Transplantation? / Tim Lindsey
- 8 Desecularising Malaysian Law? / Amanda Whiting
- 9 Policing Religion: Discursive Excursions into Singapore’s Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act / Jothie Rajah
- 10 The Eclipse of the Astrologers: King Mongkut, His Successors, and the Reformation of Law in Thailand / Andrew J. Harding
- Index / Penelope (Pip) Nicholson and Sarah Biddulph.