Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 3: Constitutional Structure

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This is the third in a 4-volume set that provides the definitive account of the major issues of comparative constitutional law in 19 Asian jurisdictions.

Volume 3 looks at the both the formal and functional aspects of constitutional structure in Asia.

It considers formal aspects such as;
- legislative-executive relations
- the court system
- constitutional review (including specialist, ordinary judicial review, and non-judicial institutions of constitutional review)
- central-local relations and federalism
- the role of the political parties
- the role of the military, and
- independent institutions, such as audit, election, and anti-corruption institutions.

It answers questions about the functional aspects of constitutional structure including;
- How do the structural institutions work in practice
- What are the factors influencing their operation These include contextual factors, such as politics, local culture, ethnic diversity, and social structure.

The jurisdictions covered include: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Author Bio

Ngoc Son Bui is Associate Professor of Asian Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, UK.
Mara Malagodi is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Christopher Roberts is Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the LLB Programme, both at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.