This volume fills a gap in studies of the effects of globalisation and the role of law in processes of globalization by creating an 'area study'.

Studies the effects of globalisation and the rold of law in the processes of globalisation in East and South Asian societies.

1. IntroductionCHRISTOPH ANTONS AND VOLKMAR GESSNERPART 1: ASIAN CAPITALISM(S) AND LAW REFORM: GLOBALISATION AND RESISTANCE2. Legalisation and the Varieties of CapitalismVOLKMAR GESSNER3. Transnationalisation of Law, Globalisation and Legal Pluralism: a Legal Anthropological PerspectiveFRANZ VON BENDA-BECKMANN AND KEEBET VON BENDA-BECKMANN4. Law Reform in the 'Developmental States' of East and Southeast Asia: From the Asian Crisis to September 11, 2001 and BeyondCHRISTOPH ANTONS5. Politics, Ideology and Legal System Reform in Northeast AsiaJOHN K M OHNESORGEPART 2: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM, THE RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS6.Southeast Asia, 1997-2003: Two Case Studies on the Politics of Law and DevelopmentANDREW HARDING7. Law, Terror and the Indian Legal OrderOLIVER MENDELSOHN8.Role/Rule of Law in China ReconsideredJIANFU CHENPART 3: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM AND DECENTRALISATION9. Between Global Forces and Local Politics: Decentralisation and Reorganisation of Village Government in IndonesiaFRANZ AND KEEBET VON BENDA-BECKMANNPART 4: COMMERCIAL LAW REFORM10.Foiling the Financial Hegemons: Limits to the Globalisation of Corporate Insolvency Regimes in Indonesia, Korea and ChinaTERENCE C HALLIDAY AND BRUCE G CARRUTHERS