Public Interest Litigation in Asia

Po Jen Yap is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, and a Co-Deputy Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law. He holds an LLB from National University of Singapore and LLMs from Harvard and University College London.Holning Lau is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his JD from the University of Chicago.

• 1. Public Interest Litigation in Asia: an overview, Po Jen Yap and Holning Yau 2. The Development of Public Interest Litigation in China, Hualing Fu and Richard Cullen 3. Locus Standi and Public Interest Litigation in Hong Kong: a comparative study, Po Jen Yap 4. Public Interest Litigation in India: a quest to achieve the impossible? Surya Deva 5. Public Interest Litigation in Malaysia: executive control and careful negotiation of the frontiers of judicial review, Tsun Hang Tey 6. Limitations on Public Interest Litigation in Singapore: internalizing political ideology and institutionalizing judicial self-restraint, Tsun Hang Tey 7. Public Interest Litigation in South Korea, Tae-Ung Baik 8. Public Interest Litigation in Taiwan: strategy for law and policy changes in the course of democratization, Wen-Chen Chang