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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813255903321

Titolo

New courts in Asia / / edited by Andrew Harding and Penelope (Pip) Nicholson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-18271-X

1-135-18272-8

1-282-57606-2

9786612576065

0-203-86284-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (444 p.)

Collana

Routledge law in Asia

Classificazione

86.09

86.15

Altri autori (Persone)

HardingAndrew <1950->

NicholsonPenelope

Disciplina

349.5

Soggetti

Courts - East Asia

Justice, Administration of - East Asia

Courts - Southeast Asia

Justice, Administration of - Southeast Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; 1 New courts in Asia: Law, development and judicialization; Part I Introducing economic courts in Asia; 2 Legitimacy and the Vietnamese Economic Court; 3 'Reading the tea leaves' in the Indonesian Commercial Court: A cautionary tale, but for whom?; Part II Introducing intellectual property courts in Asia; 4 The Intellectual Property High Court of Japan; 5 Specialized intellectual property courts in the People's Republic of China: Myth or reality?; Part III Constructing constitutional courts

6 The Constitutional Court of Thailand, 1998-2006: A turbulent innovation7 The Constitutional Court and judicialization of Korean politics; 8 Institutional choice and the new Indonesian Constitutional Court; 9 The Indonesian human rights court; Part IV Assembling administrative courts; 10 'Shopping forums': Indonesia's administrative



courts; 11 Genealogy of the administrative courts and consolidation of administrative justice in Thailand; 12 Compromising courts and harmonizing ideologies: Mediation in the administrative chambers of the people's courts in the People's Republic of China

Part V Analysing anti-graft courts13 The politics of Indonesia's anti-corruption court; 14 The Philippines' Sandiganbayan: Anti-graft courts and the illusion of self-contained anti-corruption regimes; Part VI Setting up special courts; 15 Malaysian royalty and the Special Court; 16 Informed by ideology: A review of the court reforms in Brunei Darussalam; 17 Courts in Xinjiang: Institutional capacity in China's periphery; Part VII Juries, regulation and renovation in Japanese courts; 18 Japan's new criminal trials: Origins, operations and implications

19 Dollars to donuts: Japanese courts' new role as corporate regulatorIndex

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses court-oriented legal reforms across Asia with a focus on the creation of 'new courts' over the last 20 years. Contributors discuss how to judge new courts and examine whether the many new courts introduced over this period in Asia have succeeded or failed. The 'new courts' under scrutiny are mainly specialist courts, including those established to hear cases involving intellectual property disputes, bankruptcy petitions, commercial contracts, public law adjudication, personal law issues and industrial disputes.The justification of the trend to 'judicialize'