Asia
Insights : Law and legislation
When researching the law
of another country, it is important to start with a relevant research
guide, bibliography, or some other tool for determining the sources
that are available.
Research guides and bibliographies
may be contained in periodical literature or in a chapter of a more
general book.
Modern
Legal Systems Cyclopedia (K.
Redden ed., Buffalo , NY : W.S. Hein 1984- Contains chapters for
each country.
T. Reynolds & A. Flores,
Foreign Law: Current Sources of Codes
and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World (Littleton,
CO: Rothman, 1989- )
Introduction
to Foreign Legal Systems (R.A. Danner and M.H. Bernal,
eds., New York: Oceana, 1994)
Finding
Chinese Law on the Internet (GlobaLex)
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/China.htm
A
Complete Research Guide to the Laws of the People's Republic of
China (PRC)
http://www.llrx.com/features/prc.htm
Internet
Chinese Legal Research Center
http://ls.wustl.edu/Chinalaw/
Update
to Japanese Law via the Internet (LLRX)
http://www.llrx.com/features/japan2.htm
Japanese
Law Links
http://www.law.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~luke/japaneselawlinks.html
Korean
Legal Research Resources on the Internet (Southern Illinois
University)
http://www.law.siu.edu/lawlib/koreanlaw/
Legal
Research Guides for China, Japan, Korean, and Taiwan (
University of Washington )
http://lib.law.washington.edu/eald/eald.html#Legal Research Guides
Asia
Overviews
Asian
Legal Systems: Law, Society and Pluralism in East Asia
(Sydney: Butterworths, 1997)
Law,
Capitalism and Power in Asia : the Rule of Law and Legal Institutions
(London; New York: Routledge, 1999)
Central Asia
Kazakhstan
Selected
Web Sites
World
Law Guide
Kyrgyzstan
Selected
Web Sites
World
Law Guide
Tadzhikistan
Selected
Web Sites
World
Law Guide
Turkmenistan
Selected
Web Sites
World
Law Guide
Uzbekistan
Selected
Web Sites
World
Law Guide
East Asia
China
Selected
Web Sites
ChinaLaw
(University of Maryland)
http://www.qis.net/chinalaw/
Chinese
Law Prof Blog
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/china_law_prof_blog/
Collection
of Links at WashLaw
http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/asia/china.html
Guide
to Law Online: China (good collection of links) http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/china.html
ISINOLAW
(Chinese laws, cases, and other information in Chinese and English)
US-China
Business Council (
documents and information) http://www.uschina.org/ China
Links on WorldLII (links to some English-language translations
of laws)
http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/214.html
World
Law Guide
Hong
Kong
Selected
Web Sites
The
Database of the Laws of Hong Kong
(Bilingual Laws Information System) http://www.justice.gov.hk/index.htm
The
Legal System of Hong Kong (Hong Kong Dept. of Justice)
http://www.info.gov.hk/justice/new/legal/index.htm
Hong
Kong Links on WorldLII
(links to some English-language translations of laws)
http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/218.html
Japan
Overview
Books
Japanese
Law
(2nd ed., New York : Oxford University Press, 1999)
Japanese Legal System (2nd edition, London : Cavendish, 2002)
Japanese Law in Context: Readings in Society, the Economy, and Politics
( Cambridge ( Mass. ): Harvard University Asia Center , 2001)
Selected
Web Sites
Links
on Japanese Law
http://www.law.tohoku.ac.jp/tohokulaw2.html
Japan Law
http://www.japanlaw.com/
Japan
Legal Resources ( Temple University )
http://www.tuj.ac.jp/newsite/main/law/lawresources/
Japan Links on
WorldLII (links to some English-language translations of laws)
http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/232.html
World
Law Guide
Korea,
Republic of
Overview
Books
Introduction
to the Law and Legal System of Korea
([ Seoul ] : Kyung Mun Sa Pub. Co. , c1983)
Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia
(Buffalo, NY, USA : W.S. Hein, 1984-).
Selected
Web Sites
Collection
of Links at WashLaw
http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/asia/sokorea.html
Korea Links on
WorldLII
(links to some English-language translations of laws)
http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/260.html
World
Law Guide
Mongolia
Selected
Web Sites
World
Law Guide
Taiwan
Selected
Web Sites
World
Law Guide
Southeast Asia
Cambodia
Selected
Web Sites
World
Law Guide
Indonesia
Selected
Web Sites
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