VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

By focusing on two recent developments, we argue that rule of law principles can provide a general yardstick to evaluate even these norm-building processes that occur beyond the state. First, in various discourses on governance in contexts beyond...

Since 1948, the Constitution of the Republic of Korea has been amended nine times. In these decades, the country saw periods of being a democratic state and of being a dictatorship before once again turning into a democracy, which has become very...

Between the 1870ies and the outbreak of the Pacific war in 1937 Japan and China undertook fundamental changes in their traditional legal systems by way of legislation strongly following continental Europen models. These changes were not based on...

The Indonesian legal system is often described as an ‘unguided chaos’. It is characterised by Indonesia’s cultural diversity and different legal sources and traditions. On the one hand the system is based on indigenous law on the other hand it...