Public Interest Litigation in Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Yap, Po Jen; Lau, Holning

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume is a timely and insightful contribution to the growing discourses on public law in Asia. Surveying many important jurisdictions in Asia including mainland China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, the book addresses recent developments and experiences in the field of public interest litigation. The book offers a comparative perspective on public law, asking crucial questions about the role of the state and how private citizens around Asia have increasingly used the forms, procedures and substance of public law to advance public and political aims.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136907197
• Artikelnr.: 43073135

Autorenporträt

Po Jen Yap is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, and a Co-Deputy Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law. He holds an LLB from National University of Singapore and LLMs from Harvard and University College London. Holning Lau is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his JD from the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Public Interest Litigation in Asia: an overview, Po Jen Yap and Holning
Yau 2. The Development of Public Interest Litigation in China, Hualing Fu
and Richard Cullen 3. Locus Standi and Public Interest Litigation in Hong
Kong: a comparative study, Po Jen Yap 4. Public Interest Litigation in
India: a quest to achieve the impossible? Surya Deva 5. Public Interest
Litigation in Malaysia: executive control and careful negotiation of the
frontiers of judicial review, Tsun Hang Tey 6. Limitations on Public
Interest Litigation in Singapore: internalizing political ideology and
institutionalizing judicial self-restraint, Tsun Hang Tey 7. Public
Interest Litigation in South Korea, Tae-Ung Baik 8. Public Interest
Litigation in Taiwan: strategy for law and policy changes in the course of
democratization, Wen-Chen Chang