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Understanding Trade Lawby Michael J. Trebilcock
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00This book provides a short, straightforward account of the basic structure and principles of international trade law written by one of the leading authorities in this field. The book covers, in a series of short chapters, all the major issues in international trade law, including dispute settlement; the Most Favoured Nation Principle; preferential trade agreements; the National Treatment Principle; contingent protection laws (anti-dumping, countervailing duties and safeguards); trade and agriculture; trade and services; trade and investment; trade-related intellectual property rights; trade policy and domestic health; safety, environmental and labour regulation; and trade policy and developing countries. Each chapter sets out the basic provisions... more...
Law and Labour Market Regulation in East Asiaby Sean Cooney; Tim Lindsey; Richard Mitchell; Zhu Ying
RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 195.00This edited collection examines the labour laws of seven industrializing East Asian Societies - China, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, The Philippines and Vietnam - and discusses the variation in their impact across the whole region. more...
East Asian Lawby Lucie Cheng; Arthur Rosett; Margaret Woo
RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 180.00This book explores the tension in East Asia between the trend towards a convergence of legal practices in the direction of a universal model and a reassertion of local cultural practices. more...
Competition Policy in the East Asia Pacific Regionby Erlinda Medalla
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 44.95This book draws together a collection of papers on competition policy that were presented at the Twenty-Eighth Conference of the Pacific Area Forum on Trade and Development (PAFTAD), held in Manila on 16-18 September 2002. more...
Judicial Review in New Democraciesby Tom Ginsburg
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 31.00This book examines three countries in Asia, where law is traditionally viewed as a tool of authoritarian rulers, to determine why new democracies adopt constitutional courts that constrain governments. Ginsburg argues that judicial review is a solution to the problem of uncertainty in constitutional design. more...
Law And Development In East And South-east Asiaby Christoph Antons
Taylor & Francis 2002; US$ 195.00An examination of prospects for commercial law reform in Asia, considering Japan and Singapore as role models for Asian developmentalism, and development related business laws in China, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines. more...
Copyright Law and the Information Society in Asiaby Kung-Chung Liu; Christopher Heath
Hart 2006; US$ 133.20The book takes a look at the six most important current topics arising from copyright law in the information society, and for each topic provides an in-depth introduction that compares the approaches taken in Europe and the US. Each topic is introduced by an expert, and the issues are then analysed in separate country reports representing nine Asian jurisdictions: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. The six topics are: The Expansion of Copyright Law and its Social Justification: Introduction by Reto Hilty, Max Planck Institute, Munich Internet Trade, Digital Works and Parallel Imports: Introduction by Christopher Heath, European Patent Office, Munich The Collective Exercise of... more...
Support for Victims of Crime in Asiaby Wing-Cheong Chan
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 69.95Examines developments in support for victims of crime in Asia. It shows how, contrary to the widely-held belief that Asian jurisdictions shy away from a rights based approach, there has been considerable progress in support for victims of crime. more...
Transforming Corporate Governance in East Asiaby Curtis Milhaupt; Kon-Sik Kim; Hideki Kanda
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 44.95This book examines the most important recent corporate governance changes in East Asia and the challenges still to be overcome with focused, in-depth legal analysis on specific issues facing the separate systems in the wake of the voluminous reforms and market changes of the past decade. more...
Administrative Law and Governance in Asiaby Tom Ginsburg; Albert H.Y. Chen
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 47.95This book examines administrative law throughout Asia, exploring the profound changes in many legal regimes that have occurred. It shows how many states have shifted towards a more market-oriented regulatory state model, involving a greater role for judges and law-like processes, and explores the profound implications of this for policy-making. more...









