Asian Law

The Routledge Handbook of Asian Law is a cutting-edge and comprehensive resource which surveys the interdisciplinary field of Asian Law. Written by an international team of experts, the chapters within cover issues as diverse as family law and Islamic courts, decentralisation and the revival of trad..

Securities Dispute Resolution in China..

This book presents a definition of emergency powers and their evolution on the Indian sub-continent with particular focus on Bangladesh. This work identifies the flaws, deficiencies and lacunae of the constitutional provisions concerning emergency measures in Bangladesh. Comparisons are also made wi..

This groundbreaking book reshapes our understanding of the economic, political, and legal changes in China since 1978 within the global context and is crucial reading for scholars of Asia, law, criminology, and sociology...

In recent years the Chinese legal system has undergone many reforms and this book brings the literature up to date offering a contemporary account of the law and administration in China. The book covers some of the most pressing issues in Chinese law, including the reform of the banking sector, envi..

This book examines the meaning of locality in urban India through studies of social, spatial and historical associations between peoples and places...

This volume provides the first sustained analysis examining legal transplantation into East Asia. In addition to developing theoretical insights, the project provides a textured account of the political, economic and legal discourses guiding commercial law reforms in Vietnam..

This book examines the lives of women in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where Islamic law was introduced in 1999. It outlines how women have had to face the formalisation of conservative understandings of sharia law in regulations and new state institutions. They have responded by forming non-gove..

This book examines the lives of women in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where Islamic law was introduced in 1999. It outlines how women have had to face the formalisation of conservative understandings of sharia law in regulations and new state institutions. They have responded by forming non-gove..

This book utilizes both traditional texts and archeologically excavated materials to explore how the influential Qin legal institutions developed. Firstly, it investigates the socio-political conditions which led to the production of written law. It considers how the functions of written law influen..