1st Edition

Law Reform in Developing and Transitional States

By Tim Lindsey Copyright 2007
448 Pages
by Routledge

448 Pages
by Routledge

448 Pages
by Routledge

Law reform in developing countries has become an increasingly topical subject in recent years.  A critical issue is why so many law reform projects in developing economies are regarded by their sponsors and recipients as unsuccessful. This informative book: examines examples of law reform projects in post-socialist and post-authoritarian states in Asia identifies common problems... Read more

Part I: THEORETICAL APPROACHES  Legal Infrastructure and Governance Reform in Post-Crisis Asia: The Case of Indonesia Tim Lindsey  Why Law Reform Fails: Indonesia’s Anti-Corruption Reforms Howard Dick  What Kind of Legal System is Necessary for Economic Development? The China Puzzle Donald C. Clarke  The Law Reform Olympics: Measuring the Effects of Law Reform in Transitional Economies (Central Asia, former Soviet Union) Veronica Taylor  Law Reform in Developing Countries Gary Goodpaster  Part II: Case Studies Comparative Law and Legal Transplants between Socialist States: An Historical Perspective (Vietnam, Soviet Union) Pip Nicholson  The Collapse of the World Bank’s Judicial Reform Project in Peru Jeffrey A. Clark, Patricia Armstrong and Robert O. Varenik  Legal Education Reform: The Forgotten Intervention? Assessing the Legal Retraining Model in Transitional Economies (Mongolia) Stewart Fenwick  The Dynamics and Politics of Legal Reform in China: Induction, Deduction and, above all, Pragmatism Randall Peerenboom  State and Law Reform in Indonesia Daniel S. Lev  Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle: Public Law Theory, Civil Society and Governance Reform in Indonesia David Linnan  Competition Laws for Asian Transnational Economies: Adaption to Local Legal Cultures in Vietnam and Indonesia William A.W. Neilson  Labour Law Reform in Namibia: Transplant or Implant? Colin Fenwick  Global Trajectories of Tax Reform: The Discourse of Tax Reform in Developing and Transitional Countries Miranda Stewart  Intellectual Property, Civil Law and the Failure of Law in Indonesia: Can Criminal Enforcement of Economic Law Work in Developing Countries? Simon Butt and Tim Lindsey

Biography

Tim Lindsey is Professor of Asian Law, Director of the Asian Law Centre and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam at the University of Melbourne, Australia.