The constitution of Vietnam
Subtitle: a contextual analysis
By: Mark Sidel.
Series: Constitutional systems of the world; Constitutional systems of the world
Publisher: Hart Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781841137391
Subjects: Vietnam; Constitutional law -- Vietnam
Description: This text examines constitutional debate and development in one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing societies in Asia, and will be of use to scholars and students of comparative constitutional law and practitioners interested in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: Key themes in Vietnam's constitutions and constitutional debates; title: The 1946 constitution : a charter for independence and unity; title: The 1959 constitution : a charter for socialism in the North; title: The 1980 constitution : a charter for reunification under socialism; title: The 1992 constitution : a charter for renovation (doi moi); title: Revising the 1992 constitution : debates and decisions after fifteen years of renovation (doi moi); title: Implementing constitutional guarantees : the problem of associational rights; title: The problem of judicial independence in a party-dominated state; title: Enforcing the constitution : the debate over 'constitutional protection' and a constitutional court; title: Afterword : the future of the Vietnamese constitution.