New Courts in Asia

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• 1. New Courts in the Asia-Pacific Region: Law, Development and Judicialization PART I: Introducing Economic Courts in Asia 2. Legitimacy and the Vietnamese Economic Courts 3. Reading the Tea Leaves in the Indonesian Commercial Court: A Cautionary Tale, But for Whom? PART II: Introducing Intellectual Property Courts in Asia 4. The Intellectual Property High Court of Japan 5. Specialized Intellectual Property Courts in the People’s Republic of China: Myth or Reality? PART III: Constructing Constitutional Courts 6. A Turbulent Innovation: the Constitutional Court of Thailand, 1998–2006 7. The Constitutional Court and the Judicialization of Korean Politics 8. Institutional Choice and The New Indonesian Constitutional Court 9. The Indonesian Human Rights Court PART IV: Assembling Administrative Courts 10. ‘Shopping Forums’: Indonesia’s Administrative Courts 11. The Genealogy of the Administrative Courts and the Consolidation of Administrative Justice in Thailand 12. Compromising Courts and Harmonizing Ideologies: Mediation in the Administrative Chambers of the People’s Courts of the People’s Republic of China PART V: Analysing Anti-Graft Courts 13. The Politics of Indonesia’s Anti-Corruption Court 14. The Philippines’ Sandiganbayan: Anti-Graft Courts and the Illusion of Self-Contained Anti-Corruption Regimes PART VI: Setting up Special Courts 15. Malaysian Royalty and the Special Court 16. Informed by Ideology: A Review of the Court Reforms in Brunei Darussalam 17. Courts in Xinjiang: Institutional Capacity in China’s Periphery Part VII: Juries, Regulation and Renovation in Japanese Courts 18. Japan’s New Criminal Trials: Origins, Operations and Implications 19. Dollars to Donuts: Japanese Courts and Corporate Accountability Index

'The Routledge series has brought important issues of legal and social change in Asia to the fore, and this book expands upon the corpus... I commend New Courts in Asia to readers and look forward to what the series yet has to offer.' - Nick Cheesman; Asian Criminology (2012).