A comprehensive examination of the techniques employed by the constitutional systems of Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia, and how these techniques are applied to freedom of expression, freedom of religion, right to equality, and criminal due process rights, in order to reshape the constitutional landscape.
In a comprehensive examination of the constitutional systems of Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, Po Jen Yap contributes to a field that has traditionally focussed on Western jurisdictions. Drawing on the history and constitutional framework of these Asian law systems, this book examines the political structures and traditions that were inherited from the British colonial government and the major constitutional developments since decolonization.
"Po Jen Yap's examination of constitutional review in three Asian jurisdictions is an important expansion of our understanding, not only because it extends the discussion of forms of constitutional review to previously understudied jurisdictions but also because its examination shows how sub-constitutional review can do much of what dialogic or weak-form constitutional review does. This is an important contribution."