Law and legal institutions of Asia
Subtitle: traditions, adaptations and innovations
By: edited by E. Ann Black and Gary F. Bell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780521116497
Subjects: Law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: China : legal reform in an emerging socialist market economy / Jiangyu Wang; title: Hong Kong : maintaining a common law legal system in a non-Western culture / Benny Y.T. Tai; title: Taiwan : external influences mixed with traditional elements to form its unique legal system / Chang-fa Lo; title: Japan : the importance and evolution of legal institutions at the turn of the century / Kent Anderson and Trevor Ryan; title: Korea : bridging the gap between Korean substance and Western form / Youngjoon Kwon; title: Vietnam : the past 25 years, the present and the future / Dang Xuan Hop; title: Malaysia : the undermining of its fundamental institutions and the prospects for reform / Tsun Hang Tey; title: Indonesia : the challenges of legal diversity and law reform / Gary F. Bell; title: Brunei Darussalam : ideology and law in a Malay sultanate / E. Ann Black; title: Singapore : a strategist legal laboratory /  Kevin Y.L. Tan; title: The Philippines : native culture, transplanted institutions and women's rights / Elizabeth Aguiling-Pangalangan.