List of contributors Preface 1. New Courts in the Asia-Pacific Region: Law, Development and Judicialization - Andrew Harding and Pip Nicholson PART I: Introducing Economic Courts in Asia 2. Legitimacy and the Vietnamese Economic Courts - Pip Nicholson with Minh Duong 3. Reading the Tea Leaves in the Indonesian Commercial Court: A Cautionary Tale, But for Whom? - David K. Linnan PART II: Introducing Intellectual Property Courts in Asia 4. The Intellectual Property High Court of Japan - Shigenori Matsui 5. Specialized Intellectual Property Courts in the People’s Republic of China: Myth or Reality? - Connie Carter PART III: Constructing Constitutional Courts 6. A Turbulent Innovation: the Constitutional Court of Thailand, 1998–2006 - Andrew Harding 7. The Constitutional Court and the Judicialization of Korean Politics - Tom Ginsburg 8. Institutional Choice and The New Indonesian Constitutional Court - Hendrianto 9. The Indonesian Human Rights Court - Mark Cammack PART IV: Assembling Administrative Courts 10. ‘Shopping Forums’: Indonesia’s Administrative Courts - Adriaan Bedner 11. The Genealogy of the Administrative Courts and the Consolidation of Administrative Justice in Thailand - Peter Leyland 12. Compromising Courts and Harmonizing Ideologies: Mediation in the Administrative Chambers of the People’s Courts of the People’s Republic of China - Michael Palmer PART V: Analysing Anti-Graft Courts 13. The Politics of Indonesia’s Anti-Corruption Court - Benjamin H. Tahyar 14. The Philippines’ Sandiganbayan: Anti-Graft Courts and the Illusion of Self-Contained Anti-Corruption Regimes - Raul C. Pangalangan PART VI: Setting up Special Courts 15. Malaysian Royalty and the Special Court - H. P. Lee 16. Informed by Ideology: A Review of the Court Reforms in Brunei Darussalam - Ann Black 17. Courts in Xinjiang: Institutional Capacity in China’s Periphery - Pitman B. Potter Part VII: Juries, Regulation and Renovation in Japanese Courts 18. Japan’s New Criminal Trials: Origins, Operations and Implications - Kent Anderson and David T. Johnson 19. Dollars to Donuts: Japanese Courts and Corporate Accountability - Veronica L. Taylor Index
Biography
Harding:
Constitutional Landmarks in Malaysia: the First 50 Years
(2007)Access to Environmental Justice: a Comparative Study (2007)
Comparative Law in the 21st Century (2002)
Law, Government and the Constitution in Malaysia (1996)
Nicholson:
Pip Nicholson and Sarah Biddulph (eds) (2008) Examining Practice and Interrogating Theory: Comparative Legal Studies in Asia, Brill, Leiden (Hardback) US$148.00
Nicholson, P. (2007), Borrowing Court Systems: The Experience of Socialist Vietnam, Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden (Hardback) US$194.00
Nicholson, P. and Gillespie, J. (eds.) (2005), Asian Socialism & Legal Change: The Dynamics of Vietnamese and Chinese Reform, Asia-Pacific Press, Canberra (Hardcopy) AUS$42.00
'The Routledge series has brought important issues of legal and social change in Asia to the fore, and this book expands upon the corpus... I commend New Courts in Asia to readers and look forward to what the series yet has to offer.' - Nick Cheesman; Asian Criminology (2012).
