Routledge Handbook of Asian Law

This handbook is a cutting-edge and comprehensive resource which surveys the interdisciplinary field of Asian Law. Written by an international team of experts, articles cover issues as diverse as gender equality, the religious revival, discourses on the rule of law, human rights, Corporate governance and environmental protection.

The volume is divided into five sections covering:

• Asia in Law and the Humanities and Social Sciences

• Law in the Context of Asian Development

• Asian traditions and their transformations

• Law, the environment and access to natural resources

• People in Asia and their rights

Offering an overview of the full spectrum of Law in Asia, the Handbook is an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, lawyers, graduate and undergraduate students studying this ever-evolving field.

Christoph Antons holds a Chair in Law in the School of Law, Faculty of Business and Law, at Deakin University in Melbourne. He is Chief Investigator of the ‘IP in Asia’ project at CCI and an External Associate of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich, Germany. He is the author of Intellectual Property Law in Indonesia (Kluwer, 2000), editor of Law and Development in East and Southeast Asia (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions and Intellectual Property Law in the Asia-Pacific Region (Kluwer, 2009), The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: Comparative Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region (Kluwer, 2011) and co-editor (with Michael Blakeney and Christopher Heath) of Intellectual Property Harmonisation within ASEAN and APEC (Kluwer, 2004) and (with Volkmar Gessner) of Globalisation and Resistance: Law Reform in Asia since the Crisis (Hart, 2007).