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Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of the law of property in Taiwan deals with the issues related to rights and interests in all kinds of property and assets’ immovable, movable, and personal property; how property rights are acquired; fiduciary mechanisms; and security considerations. Lawyers who handle transnational disputes and other matters concerning property will appreciate the explanation of specific terminology, application, and procedure. An introduction outlining the essential legal, cultural, and historical considerations affecting property is followed by a discussion of the various types of property. Further analy...
A collection of essays exploring whether a distinctive Chinese model for law and economic development exists.
The financial markets of Hong Kong and Singapore are leading examples in Asian financial development and regulation. Shanghai, which is developing its Free Trade Pilot Zone, is equally aiming to incorporate a sophisticated service market in order to upgrade, reform and reinvigorate the current economic model of development in China in the aftermath of the global financial and economic crisis. Streamlining administrative regulation is a precondition for its financial market to find root and play a central role in Asia and beyond. Finance, Rule of Law and Development in Asia offers a contextualized approach to the economic and political realities within Asian financial markets, especially in these three different jurisdictions. The volume adopts a comparative and precise account on the prospects and challenges in further developing these financial centres.
This volume makes a timely intervention into a field which is marked by a shift from unipolar to multipolar order and a pluralization of constitutional law. It addresses the theoretical and epistemic foundations of Southern constitutionalism and discusses its distinctive themes, such as transformative constitutionalism, inequality, access to justice, and authoritarian legality. This title has three goals. First, to pluralize the conversation around constitutional law. While most scholarship focuses on liberal forms of Western constitutions, this book attempts to take comparative law's promise to cover all major legal systems of the world seriously; second, to reflect critically on the episte...
Since the adoption of the 1947 Constitution of Japan, the document has become a contested symbol of contrasting visions of Japan. Japanese Constitutional Revisionism and Civic Activism is a volume which examines the history of Japan’s constitutional debates, key legal decisions and interpretations, the history and variety of activism, and activists’ ties to party politics and to fellow activists overseas.
A collection of essays from an impressive group of scholars, this volume disseminates the type of regulation that can be devised and implemented to respond to systemic risk as well as how systemic risk can be regulated in both a domestic and international market.
第一本台灣法律與社會研究指南 法律就在我們身邊,從簡單買一杯咖啡的日常交易,到就業、納稅、租房和企業營運等更複雜的事務,都需要有規範及法律支持。在理想情況下,法律為國家提供了政府行使權力進行統治的指導方針,對個人則提供了保障生命財產和公平交易的法律支援。然而,我們還是到處可見非法或法律的無效:滿街的違建,坊間津津樂道逃稅避稅之法。人們走到警察局、來到法院,無不使出渾身解數表演。法律運作經常轉化為制式而瑣碎的流程,即使每個點都合法,還是無法串連出共同的價值。 每到需...
Provides an intra-Asia comparative perspective of authoritarian legality, with a focus on formation, development, transition and post-transition stages.
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