Law and Politics of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in Asia

Rehan Abeyratne is Associate Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a co-editor of Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges (2021) as well as the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Asian Parliaments.Ngoc Son Bui is Associate Professor of Asian Laws at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law. He is the author of Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World (2020) and Confucian Constitutionalism in East Asia (Routledge, 2016).

• Introduction Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments as Constitutional Politics Part I: Discursive Model The Politics Of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment in Japan:The Case of The Pacifist Article 9 ‘State Form’ in the Theory and Practice of Constitutional Change in Modern China Unconstitutional Constitution in Vietnamese DiscoursePart II: Denotive Model The Law and Politics of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in Malaysia Amending Constitutional Standards of Parliamentary Piety in Pakistan? Political and Judicial Debates Limiting Constituent Power? Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments and Time-Bound Constitution Making in NepalPart III: Decisive Model Beyond Unconstitutionality: The Public Oversights of Constitutional Revision in Taiwan Thailand’s Unamendability: Politics of Two Democracies Constitutional Politics Over (Un)Constitutional Amendments: The Indian Experience The Politics of Unconstitutional Amendment in BangladeshPart IV. Commentaries The Power of Judicial Nullification in Asia and the World Is the ‘Basic Structure Doctrine’ a Basic Structure Doctrine? Eternity Clauses as Tools for Exclusionary Constitutional Projects Why There? Explanatory Theories and Institutional Features Behind Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in Asia