Making We the People - Democratic Constitutional Founding in Postwar Japan and South Korea

Informationen zum Autor Chaihark Hahm is Professor of Constitutional Law at Yonsei University Law School, Seoul, Korea and an editorial board member of I•CON: International Journal of Constitutional Law. He holds law degrees from Yale, Columbia, and Harvard. Sung Ho Kim is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Social Science Research Institute at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He is the author of Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society, which was also published by Cambridge University Press. Klappentext This book examines Japan and Korea's post-World War II constitutional history to challenge enduring assumptions about the nature of constitution-making. Zusammenfassung In 2014! Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo announced the expansion of Japan's war powers! challenging a constitutional precedent that had been in place for seventy years. This book examines the history of Japan and Korea's post-World War II constitution-making! in order to shed light on the countries' modern legacies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The unbearable lightness of the people; 2. War and peace; 3. The ghost of empire past; 4. A room of one's own; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Hahm Chaihark, Hahm Kim Chaihark, Chaihark Hahm, Chaihark (Yonsei University Hahm, Hahm Chaihark, Chae-Hak Ham, Sung Ho Kim, Sung Ho (Yonsei University Kim, Kim Sung Ho
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2015
• EAN: 9781107018822
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01882-2
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy; Comparative Constitutional Law; Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Japan, Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, LAW / Comparative, South Korea, comparative law, Constitution: government & the state, Black & Asian Studies, Constitution: government and the state, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General