Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 3: Constitutional Structure - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509949771 ISBN 13: 9781509949779

Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK), 2025

Synopsis

This is the third in a four-volume set that provides the definitive account of the major issues of comparative constitutional law in Asia.

Volume 3 looks at the both the formal and functional aspects of constitutional structure in 18 Asian jurisdictions. It considers formal aspects such as:

- legislative-executive relations;
- the court system;
- constitutional review (including specialist, ordinary judicial review, and non-judicial institutions of constitutional review);
- central-local relations and federalism;
- the role of the political parties;
- the role of the military; and
- independent institutions, such as audit, election, and anti-corruption institutions.

It also answers questions about functional aspects of constitutional structure including:

- How do these structural institutions work in practice?
- What are the factors, such as political dynamics, local culture, ethnic diversity, and social structure, influence their operation?

The jurisdictions covered are: Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand.

About this title

About the Authors

Ngoc Son Bui is Professor of Asian Laws at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, UK.

Mara Malagodi is Reader in Law at the School of Law, University of Warwick, UK.

Christopher Roberts is Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the LLB Programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK)
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509949771
• ISBN 13: 9781509949779
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Mara Malagodi, Ngoc Son Bui, Christopher Roberts