Table of Contents

List of contributors, Series editor’s preface, Preface, 1 Introduction: a framework for the analysis of legal institutions in East Asia, 2 The many meanings of the rule of law, 3 Politics postponed: law as a substitute for politics in Hong Kong and China, 4 Market economy and the internationalisation of civil and commercial law in the People’s Republic of China, 5 The political economy of institutional reform in Indonesia: the case of intellectual property law, 6 Law and development in ‘the market place’: an East Asian perspective, 7 The rule of law and corporate insolvency in six Asian legal systems, 8 Corporatism and judicial independence within statist legal institutions in East Asia, 9 Between law and politics: the Malaysian judiciary since independence, 10 Magic memos, collusion and judges with attitude: notes on the politics of law in contemporary Indonesia, 11 A community changes: Taiwan’s Council of Grand Justices and Liberal Democratic reform, 12 ‘Independence’ and the judiciary in the PRC: expectations for constitutional legality in China, 13 Vietnamese legal institutions in comparative perspective: contemporary constitutions and courts considered, Index

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Kanishka Jayasuriya