Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia

✍ Scribed by Rosalind Dixon, Tom Ginsburg (eds)

• Publisher: Edward Elgar
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 364
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Comparative constitutional law is a field of increasing importance around the world, but much of the literature is focused on Europe, North America, and English-speaking jurisdictions. The importance of Asia for the broader field is demonstrated here in original contributions that look thematically at issues from a general perspective, with special attention on how they have been treated in East Asian jurisdictions.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
1. Introduction 1
Rosalind Dixon and TomGinsburg
PART I CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN,AMENDMENTAND
INTERPRETATION
2. Participation in constitutional design: Asian exceptionalism 23
Justin Blount and TomGinsburg
3. Constitutional courts in East Asia 47
TomGinsburg
4. Judicial engagement 80
Cheryl Saunders
5. Weak-form reviewand its constitutional relatives:AnAsian
perspective 102
Mark Tushnet and Rosalind Dixon
PART II CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE
6. The structure of legislative–executive relations: Asia in
comparative perspective 123
José Antonio Cheibub and Fernando Limongi
7. Classical and post-conflict federalism: Implications for Asia 163
Sujit Choudhry
8. Constitutions and emergency regimes in Asia 200
VictorV. Ramraj
PART III CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
9. The comparative constitutional lawof freedom of expression
in Asia 227
Adrienne Stone, Rishad Chowdhury and Martin Clark
10. The right to property in Asia 250
TomAllen
11. Equality in Asia 277
Kate O’Regan and Madhav Khosla
12. Comparative constitutional lawand religion in Asia 316
Ran Hirschl
Index 339