Asian discourses of rule of law : theories and implementation of rule of law in twelve Asian countries, France, and the U.S. / edited by Randall Peerenboom. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2004. - xxiii, 479 p. ; 24 cm. - RoutledgeCurzon law in Asia .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Varieties of rule of law : an introduction and provisional conclusion -- Rule of law in the United States -- Rule of law in France -- Competing conceptions of rule of law in China -- Concepts of law in Vietnam : transforming statist socialism -- Rule of law within a nonliberal 'communitarian' democracy : the Singapore experience -- Competing conceptions of rule of law in Malaysia -- Debating rule of law in the Hong Kong special administrative region, 1997-2002 -- Indonesia : devaluing Asian values, rewriting rule of law -- Rule of law in India : theory and practice -- Rule of law and aspects of human rights in Thailand : from conceptualization to implementation? -- The Philippine "People Power" Constitution, rule of law, and the limits of liberal constitutionalism -- Rule of law in Korea : rhetoric and implementation -- The effects of rule of law principles in Taiwan -- Rule of law in Japan.

0415326133 (hbk : alk. paper) 0415326125 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Rule of law--Asia.
Rule of law--France.
Rule of law--United States.

KM514 / .A85 2004

340.11 / A8324