Law Reform in Developing and Transitional States

by Lindsey; Tim

• ISBN13: 9780415378598
• ISBN10: 0415378591
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Parallels between Asian models and models in developing states elsewhere in the world are strong. The scope of the book has therefore been developed to avoid suggestion that the issues covered are somehow peculiarly 'Asian'- indeed, it is shown that cultural relativist approaches to Asia are unsustainable.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Preface	p. xix
Glossary	p. xxiii
Theoretical Approaches	p. 1
Legal infrastructure and governance reform in post-crisis Asia: the case of Indonesia	p. 3
Why law reform fails: Indonesia's anti-corruption reforms	p. 42
What kind of legal system is necessary for economic development? The China puzzle	p. 65
The law reform olympics: measuring the effects of law reform in transitional economies	p. 83
Law reform in developing countries	p. 106
Case Studies	p. 141
Comparative law and legal transplants between socialist states: an historical perspective	p. 143
The collapse of the World Bank's judicial reform project in Peru	p. 159
Legal education reform - the forgotten intervention? Assessing the legal retraining model in transitional economies	p. 180
The dynamics and politics of legal reform in China: induction, deduction and, above all, pragmatism	p. 196
State and law reform in Indonesia	p. 236
Like a fish needs a bicycle: public law theory, civil society and governance reform in Indonesia	p. 268
Competition laws for Asian transnational economies: adaption to local legal cultures in Vietnam and Indonesia	p. 291
Labour law reform in Namibia: transplant or implant?	p. 317
Global trajectories of tax reform: the discourse of tax reform in developing and transitional countries	p. 344
Intellectual property, civil law and the failure of law in Indonesia: can criminal enforcement of economic law work in developing countries?	p. 391
Index	p. 413
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