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Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 2: Constitutional Amendments

Edited by: Ngoc Son Bui, Mara Malagodi

ISBN13: 9781509949731

To be Published: August 2024

Publisher: Hart Publishing

Country of Publication: UK

Format: Hardback

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This is the second in a 4-volume set that provides the definitive account of the major issues of comparative constitutional law in Asian jurisdictions.

Volume 2 looks at constitutional amendments and offers answers to questions about the formal rules for amending the constitution such as:

Who initiates an amendment proposal?
How is the amendment proposal adopted?
How are the amendments codified?

and the neo-institutional questions regarding amendment practices such as;

Why is the constitution amended?
Who engages in the amendment process?
How does the amendment affect the political system and the society?

Volume 2 covers 17 Asian jurisdictions including: Bangladesh, Cambodia, mainland China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, North Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Thailand.

Subjects:: Constitutional and Administrative Law, Other Jurisdictions , Asia

Contents:: 1. Introduction, Ngoc Son Bui (University of Oxford, UK); Part I: East Asia; 2. Constitutional Amendment in Japan? 'Unfeasible' Amendments versus 'Unnoticed' Amendments, Akiko Ejima (Meiji University, Japan); 3. From Political Pact to People's Document: Constitutional Amendments in South Korea, Jeong-In Yun (Korea University); 4. Amendments of the Socialist Constitution of Kim Jong-un Regime in North Korea, Jeong Won Park (Kookmin University, South Korea); 5. Legal Regulations For Amendments To The Constitution of Mongolia and Practical Application, Gunbileg Boldbaatar (National University of Mongolia); 6. Constitutional Amendments in The People's Republic Of China, Ryan Martínez Mitchell (Chinese University of Hong Kong); 7. Law and Politics of the Constitutional Amendments in Taiwan, Chien-Chih Lin (Academia Sinica, Taiwan); 8. Amending the Hong Kong Basic Law: Within and Outside the Rules, Pui-Yin Lo (University of Hong Kong); Part II: Southeast Asia; 9. The Dynamics of Constitutional Amendment in Malaysia, Andrew Harding (National University of Singapore); 10. The Quest For 'More Perfect Forms of Government' In Singapore: Role of Constitutional Amendments In Institutional Design And The Management Of Political Change, Eugene K B Tan (Singapore Management University); 11. Constitutional Amendment in Myanmar: Constitutional Change and the Trajectory of Political Transition, Jonathan Liljeblad (Australian National University); 12. Parrying Amendments: The Philippines' Multitiered System of Constitutional Change, Bryan Dennis G Tiojanco (University of Tokyo, Japan) and Paolo S. Tamase (University of the Philippines); 13. Between Sacred and a Hard Place: Amendment Rules in Indonesia's 1945 Constitution, Abdurrachman Satrio (Universitas Trisakti, Indonesia); 14. Thailand's 2017 Constitution: Constitutional Amendment in the Binary-Star Scenario, Rawin Leelapatana (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand); 15. From Post-Conflict Coalitions to Regime Consolidation: Constitutional Amendments in Cambodia, Benjamin Lawrence (National University of Singapore); Part III: South Asia; 16. The Struggle of Constitutional Amendments in India, Sarbani Sen (Jindal Global Law School, India); 17. Amendment Rules, Politics and Debates in Bangladesh, Jashim Ali Chowdhury (University of Hull, UK); 18. The Law and Politics of Constitutional Amendment in Sri Lanka, Mario Gomez (International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka); Part IV: Theory and Comparison; 19. Constitutional Amendments in Asia: A Contextual Approach to Comparison, Mara Malagodi (University of Warwick, UK); 20. Comparative Constitutional Amendment in Asia, Ngoc Son Bui (University of Oxford, UK)