Po Jen Yap, Constitutional Dialogue in Common Law Asia (Oxford University Press, 2015)†
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Abstract
Over the last two decades, scholars have theorized new models of constitutional review that avoid conferring on the courts the final word on constitutional understandings. Scholars have identified this form of constitutionalism variously as the “Commonwealth model of constitutionalism,”1 “weak-form judicial review,”2 the “parliamentary bill of rights model,”3 and “dialogic judicial review.”4 Discussions of this model of review, however, have focused primarily on Commonwealth systems in the West—such as Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the Australian Capital Territory, and the State of Victoria in Australia—with little attention paid to Asia. Po Jen Yap’s new book, Constitutional Dialogue in Common Law Asia, fills this void by exploring a dialogic model of judicial review in three Asian common law systems: Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. Yap argues that dialogic review is the most attractive approach to constitutional review, both normatively and pragmatically, and his work raises thought-provoking questions about the extent to which the dialogic model is the “constitutional ideal”5 for these Asian legal systems.
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| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.013 |
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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