Law and Development and the Global Discourses of Legal Transfers

John Gillespie is Professor of Law at and Director of the Asia-Pacific Business Regulation Group at the Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University. He specializes in Asian comparative law, law and development theory and regulatory theory. Pip Nicholson is Director of the Comparative Legal Studies Program and Associate Director (Vietnam) at the Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. She specializes in law and development, comparative legal studies and socialist transforming Vietnam.

• 1. Interpreting legal transfers: the implications for law and development John Gillespie and Pip Nicholson; Part I. Theorising Legal Transfers Towards an Interpretative Analysis: 2. Relocating global legal scripts in local networks of meaning John Gillespie; 3. International and domestic selective adaptation: the case of Charter 08 Pitman Potter; 4. Rights and regulation as a framework for exploring reverse legal transfers: hegemony and counter-hegemony in the Bolivian water sector Bronwen Morgan; Part II. Re-interpreting Universalised Standards of Practice: TRIPS and Human Rights Norms: 5. The transfer of pharmaceutical patent laws: the case of India's Paragraph 3(d) Christopher Arup; 6. Between rhetoric and reality: the use of international human rights norms in law reform debates in China Sarah Biddulph; Part III. Re-interpreting the Rule of Law as Transfer: 7. Between global norms and domestic realities: judicial reforms in China Randall Peerenboom; 8. Official discourses and court-oriented legal reform in Vietnam Pip Nicholson and Simon Pitt; 9. Constructing law from development: cause lawyers, generational narratives, and the rule of law in Thailand Frank Munger; Part IV. Re-interpreting Global Family and Religious Norms: 10. Family law transfers from Europe to Africa: lessons for the methodology of comparative legal research Mark Van Hoecke; 11. Resistible force meets malleable object: the story of the 'introduction' of norms of gender equality into Japanese employment practice Frank Upham; 12. Discordant voices on the status of Islam under the Malaysian constitution Elsa Satkunasingam; 13. Unpacking a global norm in a local context: an historical overview of the epistemic communities that are shaping Zakat practice in Malaysia Kerstin Steiner.