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The Law and Politics of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in Asia book cover

1st Edition

The Law and Politics of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in Asia

Edited By Rehan Abeyratne, Ngoc Son Bui Copyright 2022
318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explains how the idea and practice of UCA are shaped by, and inform, constitutional politics through various social and political actors, and in both formal and informal amendment processes, across Asia.  This is the first book-length study of the law and politics of unconstitutional constitutional amendments in Asia. Comprising ten case studies from across the continent, and... Read more

 

Introduction

  1. Rehan Abeyratne & Ngoc Son Bui, Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments as Constitutional Politics

    2. Part I: Discursive Model　

  2. Koichi Nakano, The Politics Of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment in Japan:The Case of The Pacifist Article 9

  3. Ryan Mitchell, ‘State Form’ in the Theory and Practice of Constitutional Change in Modern China

  4. Bui Ngoc Son, Unconstitutional Constitution in Vietnamese Discourse

    5. Part II: Denotive Model　　

  5. HP Lee and Yvonne Tew, The Law and Politics of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in Malaysia

  6. Matthew J Nelson, Amending Constitutional Standards of Parliamentary Piety in Pakistan? Political and Judicial Debates

  7. Mara Malagodi, Limiting Constituent Power? Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments and Time-Bound Constitution Making in Nepal

    8. Part III: Decisive Model　

  8. Jiunn-Rong Yeh, Beyond Unconstitutionality: The Public Oversights of Constitutional Revision in Taiwan

  9. Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang, Thailand’s Unamendability: Politics of Two Democracies

  10. Surya Deva, Constitutional Politics Over (Un)Constitutional Amendments: The Indian Experience

  11. Ridwanul Hoque, The Politics of Unconstitutional Amendment in Bangladesh

    12. Part IV. Commentaries　

  12. Richard Albert, The Power of Judicial Nullification in Asia and the World

  13. Andrew Harding, Is the ‘Basic Structure Doctrine’ a Basic Structure Doctrine?

  14. Silvia Suteu,　Eternity Clauses as Tools for Exclusionary Constitutional Projects

  15. Yaniv Roznai, Why There? Explanatory Theories and Institutional Features Behind Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in Asia

　

Biography

Rehan Abeyratne is Associate Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a co-editor of Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges (2021) as well as the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Asian Parliaments.

Ngoc Son Bui is Associate Professor of Asian Laws at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law. He is the author of　Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World　(2020) and　Confucian Constitutionalism in East Asia　(Routledge, 2016).

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