Routledge Handbook of Asian Law

Christoph Antons is a Professor of Law at Deakin University, Geelong, Australia; Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation; Affiliated Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition; Senior Fellow, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, Germany.

• Part I: Asia in Law, the Humanities and Social Sciences 1. Introduction2. Law, Networks, Mobility: Nineteenth Century ProvocationsPart II: The Political Economy of Law in Asia – Law in the Context of Asian Development3. East Asia and the Study of Law and Development4. A New China Model for the Post Global Financial Crisis Era: Legal Dimensions5. Constitutions, Constitutional Practice and Constitutionalism in East Asia6. The Vietnamese Courts and Reform Dynamics7. The Role of Lawyers in South and East Asia8. The Political Determinants of Corporate Reorganization in China9. Clusters and Links in Asian Intellectual Property Law10. Innovation Governance Competition: Comparing India’s and China’s Electronic Commerce Development Strategies11. Foreign Investment Law: Asian investment and the growth of regional investment agreements Part III: Asian traditions and their transformations12. National Control over Local Lawmaking in Indonesia13. Forestry Law, Masyarakat Adat, and Struggles for Inclusive Citizenship in Indonesia 14. Legal and cultural landscapes: cultural and intellectual property concepts and the ‘safeguarding’ of intangible cultural heritage in Southeast AsiaPart IV: Law, the environment and access to land and natural resources15. Transnational Sustainability Certification as a New Extraterritoriality? 16. The Regulation of Innovation in Agriculture and Sustainable Development in India and Southeast Asia 17. Institutionalising Property: New Land Law in a New Nation-State18. Water Law in IndiaPart V: People in Asia and their rights19. Islamic Courts or Courts for Muslims? Shari’a and the State in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore20. Indigenous Peoples: Indigeneity, Indigeny or Indigenism? 21. Lèse-majesté, Asian style: Crisis of Monarchy in Pre-war Japan and Present-Day Thailand22. The construction of ethnicity in colonial law and its legacy: The example of the Peranakan Chinese in Indonesia