1st Edition

Confucian Constitutionalism in East Asia

By Bui Ngoc Son Copyright 2016
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

Western liberal constitutionalism has expanded recently, with, in East Asia, the constitutional systems of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan based on Western principles, and with even the socialist polities of China and Vietnam having some regard to such principles. Despite the alleged universal applicability of Western constitutionalism, however, the success of any constitutional system depends in... Read more

Introduction  1. Classical Confucian Constitutionalism  2. Imperial Confucian Constitutionalism  3. Modern Confucian Constitutionalism  4. Towards an East Asian Model of Constitutionalism

Biography

Bui Ngoc Son is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Asian Legal Studies of the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore.