Description: ""Whereas the study of comparative law has commonly assumed that law flows from North to South and West to East, Inter-Asian Law breaks new ground in proposing an analytical framework for an emerging field of comparative law that explores the legal interactions-historical and contemporary-between and among Asian jurisdictions.""-- Provided by publisher.
Brief description: Matthew S. Erie (J.D., Ph.D.) is an associate professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law and a member of the University of Oxford Law Faculty. He practiced law in Beijing and New York City before entering academia. A comparativist and anthropologist by training, he has taught law in the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, Cambodia, Pakistan, and China.
Review Quotes: 'Comparative law was long done among, and with, European (and US) laws; Asia was merely an 'other'. This book - coedited by two eminent experts, and written by Asian scholars - provides an antidote to Eurocentrism and Asian essentialism. It shows Asian law in its multitude, and comparative law at its best. Ralf Michaels, Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law