Legal Thoughts between the East and the West in the Multilevel Legal Order: A Liber Amicorum in Honour of Professor Herbert Han-Pao Ma

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction to the Book: Interaction and Mutual Enrichment Between the East and the West....Pages 3-13
Introduction of Professor Herbert Ma and the Arc of Taiwan’s Progress....Pages 15-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
The Triumph (?) of Western Law: A Contemporary Perspective....Pages 21-36
How Can We Know What We “Know” About Law and Development? The Importance of Taiwan in Comparative Perspective....Pages 37-46
Judicial Strategies and the Political Question Doctrine: An Investigation into the Judicial Adjudications of the East Asian Courts....Pages 47-73
The Ideas of “Rights” in the “East” and “West” and Their Continued Evolution: A Case Study on Taxpayer’s Rights in Taiwan....Pages 75-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Comparative Discourse in Constitution Making: An Analysis on Constitutional Framers as Dialectic Agent....Pages 93-104
Constitutional Change in Hong Kong and Taiwan in the Late Twentieth Century: A Comparative Perspective....Pages 105-125
Different Patterns of Applying Transitional Constitutionalism Between the Nationalists and the Communists....Pages 127-145
The Presumption of Innocence Principle in the People’s Republic of China and in the West....Pages 147-161
Privacy: A Genealogy in the East and the West....Pages 163-175
Compulsory Motherhood Challenged and Remade in the Name of Choice: Framing the Right to Choose Under Old and New Maternalism....Pages 177-197
The Emergence of the Right to Health in Taiwan: Transplantation from the West and Its Implementation....Pages 199-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
China’s Performance on International Treaties on Trade and Human Rights....Pages 217-238
The Transplantation of “Western” International Law in Republican China....Pages 239-253
From Accepting to Challenging the International Law of the Sea: China and the South China Sea Disputes....Pages 255-276
Human Rights in ASEAN Context: Between Universalism and Relativism....Pages 277-289
Host State’s Regulatory Change for Public Health in the Context of Different FET Formulations: US and China Investment Treaty Practices as Examples....Pages 291-307
Protection of Indigenous Cultural Heritage in Free Trade Agreements: Issues and Challenges from a North-South Perspective....Pages 309-334
On the Establishment of a Regional Permanent Mediation Mechanism for Disputes Among East and Southeast Asian Countries....Pages 335-351
Front Matter....Pages 353-353
The Universality of Good Faith and Moral Behaviour: A Challenge for the Principles of Asian Contract Law....Pages 355-367
Coordinating Matrimonial Property Regimes Across National Borders: Israeli and Comparative Perspectives....Pages 369-393
Risk Assessment in the European Food Safety Authority and Its Lessons for Taiwan....Pages 395-407
The Limit of Regulatory Borrowing: “Cocktail Therapy” Reforms of Food Safety Law in Taiwan....Pages 409-422
Equity Clearing and Settlement Models in the UK and Taiwan: Market Stability and Investor Protection Perspectives....Pages 423-443
Envisaging an East Asian Model of Corporate Governance: A Developmental State Perspective....Pages 445-474
Patent Right in China: Influences from the West and China’s Responses....Pages 475-489
Reinventing Clinical Legal Education: Taiwanese Adaptation of an American Model....Pages 491-504
Front Matter....Pages 505-505
How Confucianism Asserts Itself in Modern ADR Development in East Asia: A Revisit....Pages 507-517
Beyond the “Harmonious Confucian”: International Commercial Arbitration and the Impact of Chinese Cultural Values....Pages 519-542
Significant Differences in International Arbitration in the “East” and the “West”: Myth, Reality, or Lost in Globalization?....Pages 543-553
A Bad Compromise Is Better than a Good Lawsuit: Mutual Influence Between the East and the West on Mediation....Pages 555-573
Taming the Unruly Horse? The New York Convention’s Public Policy Exception to the Enforcement of Arbitral Awards....Pages 575-595
Back Matter....Pages 597-610