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"Contents" [2014] ELECD 826; in Haley, O. John; Takenaka, Toshiko (eds), "Legal Innovations in Asia" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014) v

Book Title: Legal Innovations in Asia

Editor(s): Haley, O. John; Takenaka, Toshiko

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783472789

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Contents
List of contributors viii
Foreword xi
Dongsheng Zang

Introduction 1
John O. Haley and Toshiko Takenaka

PART I ASIAN LAW CENTER: THE FIRST HALF CENTURY

1.1 The first decades, 1961­2000 7
John O. Haley
1.2 Navigating law's "Asian Century" 22
Veronica L. Taylor
1.3 The Asian Law Center: An evolution 48
Jon Eddy

PART II THE ROLE OF COMPARATIVE LAW IN LEGAL
INNOVATIONS

2.1 Comparison of law, transfer of legal concepts, and creation
of a legal design: The case of Japan 61
Harald Baum

PART III ROLE OF COURTS IN JAPAN AND LEGAL
INNOVATIONS: JAPAN, CHINA, AND ISLAMIC ASIA

3.1 Judicial lawmaking and the creation of legal norms in Japan:
A dialogue 77
John O. Haley and Daniel H. Foote
3.2 The Supreme Court of Japan and online pharmacies 123
Shigenori Matsui
3.3 Civil procedure and anti-modern myths in the "Harmonious
Society": China and pre-war Japan compared 146
Dongsheng Zang


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3.4 Judicial activism in China 164
Vai Io Lo
3.5 The role of courts in "making" Islamic law: South and
Southeast Asia 180
Clark B. Lombardi
3.6 Limitations on the termination of fixed-term employment
contracts: Judicially created rules and their codification in
Japanese law 197
Ryuichi Yamakawa
3.7 Goddess of justice without a blindfold: How do Japanese
judges treat pro se litigants? 212
Kyoko Ishida

PART IV LEGAL TRANSPLANTS AND THE INFLUENCE OF
JAPANESE LAW IN ASIA

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