Central Asian law
Subtitle: an historical overview : a Festschrift for the ninetieth birthday of Herbert Franke
By: edited by Wallace Johnson, Irina A. Popova.
Contributors: Johnson, Wallace Stephen, 1932-; Popova, I. F.; International Institute for Asian Studies.
Series: Society for Asian Legal History monograph series -- no. 1
Publisher: Society for Asian Legal History, the Hall Center for the Humanities, the University of Kansas
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lawrence, Ks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Franke, Herbert, -- 1914-; Law -- Asia, Central; Customary law -- Asia, Central; Law -- Asia; Customary law -- Asia
Other titles: Festschrift for the ninetieth birthday of Herbert Franke; Law in Central Asia
Notes: Papers presented at a conference entitled "Law in Central Asia : an Historical Overview", held October 13-17, 2003 in Leiden, The Netherlands, with the support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) of the University of Leiden.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: Some reflections on multinationality : the example of former empires in East Asia -- Herbert Franke; title: Customary law in the ancient Turkic states of Central Asia -- S.G. Klyashtornyi; title: The administrative and legal regulations of the Tang emperors for the frontier territories -- Irina F. Popova -- Muslim law in Central Asia / -- Ashirbek Muminov; title: Eighteen steppe laws : a source for the study of medieval Mongolian -- Alexei Nasilov; title: Customary law in Waigal Valley, Eastern Afghanistan -- Schuyler Jones; title: Disputes over land-use in Qing Outer Mongolia -- Veronika Veit; title: Communist and post-Communist Mongolian law and pasture land -- Morris Rossabi; title: Some characteristics of penal legislation among the Mongols -- Françoise Aubin; title: From colonization to Bolshevization : some political and legislative aspects of molding a "Soviet Islam" in Central Asia -- Bakhtiyar M. Badadjanov; title: Law and custom among the Uyghur in Xinjiang -- Ildikó Bellér-Hann; title: Constitutional regimes and clan politics in Central Asia -- Janna Khegai; title: Islam and universalism in family law : a comparative study of the contemporary Iranian and Turkish civil codes -- Hisae Nakanishi; title: Public discussion on the 'state of law' and contemporary political regimes in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus -- Irina Morozova; title: Parliamentary law-making in Central Asia -- Claire Weber.