Law, Society and Transition in Myanmar

Melissa Crouch is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, Law Faculty, National University of Singapore.Tim Lindsey is Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, the University of Melbourne.

• Part I: The Legal System of Myanmar1. Introduction: Myanmar, Law Reform and Asian Legal Studies Melissa Crouch and Tim Lindsey2. A Short Research Guide to Myanmar’s Legal System Melissa Crouch and Nick Cheesman 3. The Layers of Legal Development in Myanmar Melissa CrouchPart II: The Courts: Past and Present4. Is Burmese Law Buddhist? Transition and Tradition Andrew Huxley5. Bodies on the Line in Burma’s Law Reports, 1892–1922 Nick Cheesman6. Understanding the Myanmar Supreme Court’s Docket: An Analysis of Case Topics from 2007 to 2011 Dominic J Nardi, Jr and Lwin MoePart III: Constitutionalism7. What’s So Bad about Burma’s 2008 Constitution? A Guide for the Perplexed David C Williams8. The Common Law and Constitutional Writs: Prospects for Accountability in Myanmar Melissa Crouch 9. Constitution-making in Myanmar: Insights from World Experience Anna Dziedzic and Cheryl SaundersPart IV: Economic, Political and Business Reforms10. Legislative Foundations of Myanmar’s Economic Reforms Sean Turnell 11. Elections and the Reform Agenda Michael Lidauer and Gilles Saphy 12. A Principled Approach to Company Law Reform in Myanmar Melinda Tun13. The Securities Exchange Law and Prospectus Regulation: Early Sketches of Equity Capital Market Law and Regulation in Myanmar Tun Zaw MraPart V: Law Enforcement, Conflict and Dispute Resolution14. Police Reform and the ‘Civilianisation’ of Security in Myanmar Andrew Selth 15. Legal Perspectives on Industrial Disputes in Myanmar Kyaw Soe Lwin 16. War, Law, Politics: Reflections on Violence and the Kachin Nicholas Farrelly 17. Civilian Protection and the Politics of Humanitarian Action in Kachin State Alistair DB Cook Part VI: Myanmar Law in Regional and Comparative Perspective18. Unlike Any Land You Know About? Myanmar, Reform and the Indonesia Model Tim Lindsey19. The Regional Context of Myanmar’s Democratic Transition: What Role for ASEAN’s New Institutions? Catherine Shanahan Renshaw20. Law and Development in its Burmese Moment: Legal Reform in an Emerging Democracy Andrew Harding

…this volume will serve as a good reference work for scholars interested in Myanmar by highlighting the importance of legal reform in its nascent transition. For legal practitioners, it can give a taste of how principles of common law are implanted into codified laws, the cost of neglecting law reform, and how any legal regime is influenced by those who use it.