Constitutional Convergence in East Asia

Po Jen Yap is a Professor of Law at The University of Hong Kong. He is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and an Attorney at Law in the State of New York, USA. He is the author of Constitutional Dialogue in Common Law Asia (2015) and Courts and Democracies in Asia (2017). Chien-Chih Lin is an Associate Research Professor at Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica (Taiwan). He has published in multiple law journals and edited volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Asia, American Journal of Comparative Law, and International Journal of Constitutional Law. He is the book review editor of the International Journal of Constitutional Law.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Reasons for convergence; 3. Convergence on structured proportionality; 4. Convergence on innovative constitutional remedies; 5. Limits on convergence; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

'This book opens a new page for comparative constitutional study in Asia by providing an innovative political account for constitutional convergence as developed in Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan. It is a must-read for those who seek to understand institutional constraints of constitutional doctrines such as proportionality and constitutional remedies.' Wen-Chen Chang, Dean of the National Chiao Tung University, School of Law; Professor of National Taiwan University, College of Law