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Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 3: Constitutional Structure

Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 3: Constitutional Structure

Author: Ngoc Son Bui; Mara Malagodi; Christopher Roberts
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509949779

Published In: December 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This is the third in a 4-volume set that provides the definitive account of the major issues of comparative constitutional law in 19 Asian jurisdictions.

Volume 3 looks at the both the formal and functional aspects of constitutional structure in Asia. It considers formal aspects such as:

legislative-executive relations
the court system
constitutional review (including specialist, ordinary judicial review, and non-judicial institutions of constitutional review)
central-local relations and federalism
the role of the political parties
the role of the military, and
independent institutions, such as audit, election, and anti-corruption institutions

It answers questions about the functional aspects of constitutional structure including:

How do the structural institutions work in practice?
What are the factors influencing their operation? These include contextual factors, such as politics, local culture, ethnic diversity, and social structure

The jurisdictions covered include: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Introduction, Ngoc Son Bui (University of Oxford, UK), Mara Malagodi (University of Warwick, UK), and Christopher Roberts (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Part I: East Asia

1. Changing Constitutional Structures in Japan, Akiko Ejima (Meiji University, Japan)

2. Constitutional Structure of South Korea: Law and Politics, Jeong-In Yun (Korea University)

3. Principles and Characteristics of the State Organ System (Power Structure) under the North Korean Socialist Constitution, Jeong Won Park (Kookmin University, South Korea)

4. Constitutional Structure of Mongolia: Legal Regulation and Practice, Gunbileg Boldbaatar (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

5. Constitutional Structure of The People's Republic of China, Ryan Martínez Mitchell (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

6. A Patchwork Constitutional Structure in Taiwan, Chien-Chih Lin (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

7. China's Hong Kong and Hong Kong, China: More than a City under 'One Country, Two Systems', Pui-Yin Lo (University of Hong Kong)

8. The Macau Special Administrative Region at Halftime: An Assessment of the First 25 Years of Reconstruction under the People's Republic of China, Jason Buhi (Barry University, USA)

Part II: Southeast Asia

9. Malaysia: Government Structure and Unification in a Divided Polity, Andrew Harding (University of Reading, Malaysia)

10. “The Main Thing About The Constitution Is That It Must Work”: Good Governance and Managing the Pace of Political Change Through Institutional Design, Eugene K B Tan (Singapore Management University)

11. Constitutional Structure in Myanmar: Unresolved Legacies for a Constitutional Future, Jonathan Liljeblad (Australian National University)

12. Philippine Constitutional Structure: Text and Practice, Bryan Dennis G Tiojanco (University of Tokyo, Japan)

13. Between Two Worlds: Indonesia and the Spectre of the Dharmic-Infused Constitutional Structure, Abdurrachman Satrio (Trisakti University, Indonesia)

14. The Separation of Powers under a Royalist Regime: Lessons from Thailand's Binary-Star Scenario, Rawin Leelapatana (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

15. Constitutional Structure of The Lao People's Democratic Republic, Kazuo (Kaz) Fukuda (Kansai Gaidai University, Japan)

Part III: South Asia

16. From Colonial Legacy to Modern Praetorianism – Pakistan's Constitutional Structure, Sadaf Aziz and Marva Khan Cheema (University of Lahore, Pakistan)

17. The Failure of Bangladesh's Constitutional Design, Jashim Ali Chowdhury (University of Hull, UK)

18. Striking a Constitutional Balance in Sri Lanka, Mario Gomez (International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka)

Part IV: Comparison and Conclusion

19. Comparative Constitutional Structure in Asia, Ngoc Son Bui (University of Oxford, UK), Mara Malagodi (University of Warwick, UK), and Christopher Roberts (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)