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Whereas the study of comparative law has commonly assumed that law flows from North to South and West to East, Inter-Asian Law breaks new ground in proposing an analytical framework for an emerging field of comparative law that explores the legal interactions-historical and contemporary-between and among Asian jurisdictions.
List of contents
Introduction: the emergence of inter-Asian law Matthew S. Erie and Ching-Fu Lin; Part I. Commercial Law: From Firms to International Economic Law: 1. Faux convergence in Asian corporate governance: unmasking the illusion of Anglo-American transplants Gen Goto and Dan W. Puchniak; 2. Inter-Asia's company towns Trang (Mae) Nguyen; 3. International commercial alternative dispute resolution in Asia: charting the new inter-Asian dynamics Tran Hoang Tu Linh; 4. Transforming the ASEAN way in inter-Asian law: the RCEP and beyond Pasha Hsieh; Part II. Constitutional Law: Judicial Practices, Inter-Court Dialogue, and Democratic Resilience: 5. Judicial rhetoric and constitutional comparativism: two Asian case studies Yvonne Tew; 6. An inter-Asian approach to religion-state relations? Deepa Das Acevedo; 7. Imagine to re-imagine: bringing Inter-Asian law to abortion Gauri Pillai; 8. Withstanding the rise of illiberalism: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic responses in Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore Yi-Li Lee and Wen-Chen Chang; Part III. Law's Movements: Transnational Networks, Religious Donors, and Institutional Co-Learners: 9. The travels and travails of Chinese law in Inter-Asia Matthew S. Erie; 10. Decolonisation, inter-regionalism, and Islam: Indonesia's new criminal code as Inter-Asian law Theodora Putri and Veronica L. Taylor; 11. Lay participation in legal decision making in Asia in a global context Valerie Hans; Part IV. Emerging Problems: Between Technology and Authoritarianism: 12. AI governance in East Asia: mapping the contexts and dynamics of interaction Ching-Fu Lin; 13. The 'Smart City' debate: exploring Asian models of smart cities through Japan-ASEAN cooperation Yoshiko Naiki; 14. In the shadow of sovereignty: multiple pathways of Inter-Asian legal influence of China on Hong Kong Jacques deLisle; 'A Beginning' Matthew S. Erie and Ching-Fu Lin.
About the author
Matthew S. Erie (J.D., Ph.D.) is an associate professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law and a member of the University of Oxford Law Faculty. He practiced law in Beijing and New York City before entering academia. A comparativist and anthropologist by training, he has taught law in the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, Cambodia, Pakistan, and China.Ching-Fu Lin is Professor and Director at Institute of Law for Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Trained as both a lawyer and an engineer, he teaches international law and global governance, law and technology, global health law, food law and policy, and artificial intelligence law and policy.
