Asian Law Books

New and Published Books

1. Rethinking Law and Development

   The Chinese experience

   Edited by Guanghua Yu

   This book is the result of the collective effort of some of the foremost experts and scholars of Chinese law, Asian law, and Chinese economics and carefully examines the relationship between law and China’s economic development. Serious inquiries and candid opinions of the contributors have made...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Justice, Judocracy and Democracy in India

   Boundaries and Breaches

   By Sudhanshu Ranjan

   This book is an innovative approach to studying ‘judicial activism’ in the Indian context. While discussing the varying roles of the judiciary, it delineates the boundaries of different organs of the State — judiciary, executive and legislature — and highlights the points where these boundaries...

   Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge India
3. The Development of the Chinese Legal System

   Change and Challenges

   Edited by Guanghua Yu

   In recent years the Chinese legal system has undergone many reforms and this book brings the literature up to date, offering a contemporary account of the law and administration in China. This book is the result of collective efforts in analysing the political, economic and social factors which...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
4. Sexual Violence and the Law in Japan

   By Catherine Burns

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   This book provides a detailed examination of judicial decision-making in Japanese cases involving sexual violence. It describes the culture of 'eroticised violence' in Japan, which sees the feminine body as culpable and the legal system which encourages homogeneity and conformity in decision-making...

   Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. Resolving Disputes in the Asia-Pacific Region

   International Arbitration and Mediation in East Asia and the West

   By Shahla F. Ali

   How diverse cultures approach conflict in the context of the integration of global markets is a new arena for research and practice. To date, most of the research on international arbitration has focused exclusively on Western models of arbitration as practiced in Europe and North America. While...

   Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. Public Interest Litigation in Asia

   Edited by Po Jen Yap, Holning Lau

   Series: Routledge Law in Asia

   This edited volume is a timely and insightful contribution to the growing discourses on public law in Asia. Surveying many important jurisdictions in Asia including mainland China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, the book addresses recent developments and experiences...

   Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
7. Asian Approaches to International Law and the Legacy of Colonialism

   The Law of the Sea, Territorial Disputes and International Dispute Settlement

   Edited by Jin-Hyun Paik, Seok-Woo Lee, Kevin Y. L. Tan

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   The chapters in this volume address international legal issues impacted by the legacy of the Asian region’s historical experience with colonialism and its current standing in the international system. This volume provides a perspective on these issues from Asian legal scholars who have embarked on...

   Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge
8. Religious Freedom in India

   Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion

   By Goldie Osuri

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty, biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and secular understanding of India’s religious identity is translatable by Hindu nationalists into discrimination and violence against minoritized religious...

   Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. State, Society and the Market in Contemporary Vietnam

   Property, Power and Values

   Edited by Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Mark Sidel

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   Lively debates around property, access to resources, legal rights, and the protection of livelihoods have unfolded in Vietnam since the economic reforms of 1986. Known as Doi Moi (changing to the new), these have gradually transformed the country from a socialist state to a society in which a...

   Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Legal Pluralism in Indonesia

    Bridging the Unbridgeable

    By Ratno Lukito

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    With the revival of Islamic law and adat (customary) law in the country, this book investigates the history and phenomenon of legal pluralism in Indonesia. It looks at how the ideal of modernity in Indonesia has been characterized by a state-driven effort in the post-colonial era to make the...

    Published June 26th 2012 by Routledge