Inter-Asian Law

Matthew S. Erie (J.D., Ph.D.) is an associate professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law and a member of the University of Oxford Law Faculty. He practiced law in Beijing and New York City before entering academia. A comparativist and anthropologist by training, he has taught law in the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, Cambodia, Pakistan, and China. Ching-Fu Lin is Professor and Director at Institute of Law for Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Trained as both a lawyer and an engineer, he teaches international law and global governance, law and technology, global health law, food law and policy, and artificial intelligence law and policy.

• Introduction: the emergence of inter-Asian law Matthew S. Erie and Ching-Fu Lin; Part I. Commercial Law: From Firms to International Economic Law: 1. Faux convergence in Asian corporate governance: unmasking the illusion of Anglo-American transplants Gen Goto and Dan W. Puchniak; 2. Inter-Asia's company towns Trang (Mae) Nguyen; 3. International commercial alternative dispute resolution in Asia: charting the new inter-Asian dynamics Tran Hoang Tu Linh; 4. Transforming the ASEAN way in inter-Asian law: the RCEP and beyond Pasha Hsieh; Part II. Constitutional Law: Judicial Practices, Inter-Court Dialogue, and Democratic Resilience: 5. Judicial rhetoric and constitutional comparativism: two Asian case studies Yvonne Tew; 6. An inter-Asian approach to religion-state relations? Deepa Das Acevedo; 7. Imagine to re-imagine: bringing Inter-Asian law to abortion Gauri Pillai; 8. Withstanding the rise of illiberalism: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic responses in Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore Yi-Li Lee and Wen-Chen Chang; Part III. Law's Movements: Transnational Networks, Religious Donors, and Institutional Co-Learners: 9. The travels and travails of Chinese law in Inter-Asia Matthew S. Erie; 10. Decolonisation, inter-regionalism, and Islam: Indonesia's new criminal code as Inter-Asian law Theodora Putri and Veronica L. Taylor; 11. Lay participation in legal decision making in Asia in a global context Valerie Hans; Part IV. Emerging Problems: Between Technology and Authoritarianism: 12. AI governance in East Asia: mapping the contexts and dynamics of interaction Ching-Fu Lin; 13. The 'Smart City' debate: exploring Asian models of smart cities through Japan–ASEAN cooperation Yoshiko Naiki; 14. In the shadow of sovereignty: multiple pathways of Inter-Asian legal influence of China on Hong Kong Jacques deLisle; 'A Beginning' Matthew S. Erie and Ching-Fu Lin.

'Comparative law was long done among, and with, European (and US) laws; Asia was merely an 'other'. This book – coedited by two eminent experts, and written by Asian scholars – provides an antidote to Eurocentrism and Asian essentialism. It shows Asian law in its multitude, and comparative law at its best. Ralf Michaels, Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law