The American discussion of legal oversight over the democratic process approaches the
role of courts gingerly. Every constitutional decision addressing the structure of democracy …

The fall of Soeharto in 1998 was accompanied by calls for radical reform of the oppressive
New Order through which he had ruled and, in particular, its legal system. It was also …

The celebration of the seventy-fifth birthday of Professor William Jones, long one of the
leading China-law scholars and educators in the United States, provides an appropriate …

Indonesia's recent constitutional prohibition on retrospective prosecution and whether the
Bali bombing and East Timor trials are a justifiable exception to the principle of non …

This analysis of the institutional design and actual performance of constitutional review in
five newly democratized nations in East Asia shows that during the last two decades the …

This book grows out of a conference held at Kyushu University in 2008, entitled “Law and
Development at a Crossroads: Asian Alternatives to Universal Schemes?” As the title …

My dissertation investigates the democratization of Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan, small states in
the Sino-Russian sphere of influence. Taking Mongolia as a primary case, I ask why an …

Ombuds,“temsilci” ve man,“insan” kelimelerinin birleşmesinden meydana gelen ve temsilci
kişi anlamı taşıyan ombudsman, dünyada ilk olarak İsveç'te ortaya çıkmış ve vatandaşlardan …

The argument that Asia has found a different path to modernity and to economic
development from that taken by the West holds sway in different parts of the region. Given its …

Law reform is generally considered to be a Good Thing, corruption even more obviously a
Bad Thing. When good governance became an urgent policy priority in Asia after the …