Critics agree that much of Southeast Asia desperately needs judicial reform and rule of law. Yet, there is remarkably little comparative scholarship on law and legal institutions in the region. In this blog, I'll follow constitutional developments in Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
is one of the more recent in Routledge's excellent "Law in Asia" series. This volume, edited by Tom Ginsberg and Albert H.Y. Chen, is also one of the most interesting in the series, dealing primarily with powers of judicial review in administrative and constitutional contexts.
