This panel brings together a selection of chapters from the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Asia, which covers East Asia, Southeast Asia, and much of South Asia from a regional and interdisciplinary perspective.
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CONSTITUTIONALISM IN CONTEXT I
The papers on this panel, drawn from the forthcoming volume Constitutionalism in Context (CUP 2018), offer contextual and interdisciplinary perspectives on issues and jurisdictions at the cutting edge of the study of constitutionalism. Each chapter introduces the reader to a jurisdiction in a context-rich way, then proceeds to explore an emerging issue at length in...
CONSTITUTIONALISM IN CONTEXT II
The papers on this panel, drawn from the forthcoming volume Constitutionalism in Context (CUP 2018), offer contextual and interdisciplinary perspectives on issues and jurisdictions at the cutting edge of the study of constitutionalism. Each chapter introduces the reader to a jurisdiction in a context-rich way, then proceeds to explore an emerging issue at length in...
THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF CHINESE CONSTITUTIONALISM
This panel investigates the changing landscape of Chinese constitutionalism from three aspects: the rise of the Supreme People’s Court in protecting property rights, the establishment of the National Supervisory Commission and the unconstitutional constitutional changes regarding market economic institutions.
RESEARCH METHODS IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
This panel surveys a variety of research methods in constitutional law, both old and new, from multiple disciplines. The papers on this panel will appear in Research Methods in Constitutional Law: A Handbook (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2019).
Constitutional Inertia and Regime Pluralism in Asia
This paper discusses the fate of constitutional democracy and constitutional authoritarianism in several East Asian regimes.
Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments: Taiwan
Major differences in the finality and impact of judicial review from country to country have led scholars to distinguish between “hard“ and “soft“ forms of judicial review. However, hard review does not give courts the last word: even in systems of nominally hard review, the government usually retains the ability to effectively override the courts...