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This book examines constitutional adjudication in Southeast Asia, focusing on the constitutional courts of Malaysia and Singapore. It examines judicial strategies used for statecraft in Asian courts and shows how these courts can protect a nation's constitutional framework.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Setting the Scene
- 1: Rights Rhetoric
- 2: Constitutional Adjudication and Constitutional Politics
- Part II: A Framework for Constitutional Adjudication
- 3: Constitutional History
- 4: The Separation of Powers
- 5: The Rule of Law
- 6: Courts in Transition
- Part III: Applying Constitutional Adjudication in Practice
- 7: Judicializing Religion
- 8: Balancing Security and Liberty
- Conclusion
About the author
Yvonne Tew is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She has expertise in comparative and U.S. constitutional law as well as law and religion. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She received a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of Cambridge. She has held research fellowships at Columbia Law School and New York University School of Law.
Summary
This book examines constitutional adjudication in Southeast Asia, focusing on the constitutional courts of Malaysia and Singapore. It examines judicial strategies used for statecraft in Asian courts and shows how these courts can protect a nation's constitutional framework.
Additional text
Constitutional Statecraft in Asian Courts is a refreshing work of comparative scholarship in which Yvonne Tew offers insights into constitutional development in Singapore and Malaysia. In so doing, she offers important insights into the comparative study of judiciaries and perspectives on the role of courts and notions of the rule of law that westerners in general and Americans in particular will find challenging and enlightening.
