Constitutional Remedies in Asia

ISBN-13: 9781138351127 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 182 str.

Po Jen Yap

Opis

Examining cases from Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India and the Philippines, this collection looks at 4 major constitutional remedies that have been adopted in these jurisdictions and the implications thereof. It demonstrates the blurring of the lines between the judicial and legislative branches alongside the rise of modern Asian states.

O autorze

Po Jen Yap is a Professor at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Faculty of Law, where he specialises in Constitutional and Administrative law. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LLB degree and he obtained LLM qualifications from both Harvard Law School and University College London. He also has a PhD degree from the University of Cambridge. He is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and an Attorney at Law in the State of New York (USA). He is the author and editor of over 50 books, book chapters, journal articles, and case commentaries. His first sole-authored monograph Constitutional Dialogue in Common Law Asia, published in 2015, was awarded HKU's University Research Output Prize in 2016. He is also the recipient of HKU's 2016 Outstanding Young Researcher Prize. His second sole-authored monograph Courts and Democracies in Asia was published in late 2017.