Legal innovations in Asia : judicial lawmaking and the influence of comparative law - Haley, John Owen; Takenaka, Toshiko; University of Washington. Asian Law Center (Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar, 2014)
The role of courts in'making' Islamic law : South and Southeast Asia / Clark B. Lombardi -- Limitations on the termination of fixed-term employment contracts: Judicially created rules and their codification in Japanese law / Ryuichi Yamakawa -- Goddess of justice without a blindfold : How do Japanese judges treat pro se litigants? / Kyoko Ishida -- Part IV: Legal transplants and the influence of Japanese law in Asia -- The influence of Japanese law on Taiwan law / Tay-sheng Wang -- Corporate law and corporate law scholarship in Korea: A comparative essay / Kon Sik Kim -- Judicial innovation in Chinese corporate law / Donald Clarke -- The influence of US and Japanese laws upon Indonesian law / Kurnia Toha -- Part V: Legal innovations in intellectual property -- A change of leadership in patent policy and law development? The active role played by Japanese courts in Japan's patent term extension reform / Toshiko Takenaka -- Ethics rather than rights: Reconsidering'transmit rather than create' : Toward a new understanding of Korea's intellectual property rights tradition / Hyung Doo Nam -- What are the challenges awaiting the Thai government if the Bayh-Dole Act is adopted in Thailand? / Orakanoke Phanraksa -- Public health and pharmaceutical patent protection in Indonesia: The implementation of the TRIPS safeguards and other strategies to increase access to essential medicines / Tomi Suryo Utomo.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: University of Washington. -- Asian Law Center; Law -- East Asia; Law -- Asia; Law -- East Asia -- History; Law -- Asia -- History; Judge-made law -- East Asia; Judge-made law -- Asia; Comparative law