CONTENTS:
Notes on contributors vii;
Preface x;
1.Varieties of rule of law: an introduction and provisional conclusion;
RANDALL PEERENBOOM,
2. Rule of law in the United States BRIAN Z.TAMANAHA 54,
3. Rule of law in France LAURENT PECH 76,
4. Competing conceptions of rule of law in China RANDALL PEERENBOOM 109,
5. Concept of law in Vietnam: transforming statist socialism JOHN GILLESPIE 142,
6. Rule of law within a non-liberal ‘communitarian’ democracy: the Singapore experience;
LI-ANN THIO 180,
7. Competing conceptions of rule of law in Malaysia H.P.LEE 222,
8. Debating rule of law in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 1997–2002,
ALBERT H.Y.CHEN AND ANNE S.Y.CHEUNG 246,
9. Indonesia: devaluing Asian values, rewriting rule of law TIM LINDSEY 28,
10. Rule of law in India: theory and practice UPENDRA BAXI 318,
11. Rule of law and aspects of human rights in Thailand: from conceptualization to implementation:
VITAT MUNTARBHORN 340,
12. The Philippine “People Power” Constitution, rule of law, and the limits of liberal
constitutionalism RAUL C.PANGALANGAN 365,
13. Rule of law in South Korea: rhetoric and implementation HAHM CHAIHARK 379,
14. The effects of rule of law principles in Taiwan SEAN COONEY 41,
15. Rule of law in Japan JOHN O.HALEY AND VERONICA TAYLOR 440.
Index 469.