1. Southeast Asian Constitutional Foundings: A Constitutional-History Perspective
Kevin YL Tan and Bui Ngoc Son
2. Keeping Close to Shore: Preserving Colonial Legacies in the 1935 Philippine Constitution
Leia Castañeda Anastacio
3. The Origins of the 1945 Indonesian Constitution
Koichi Kawamura
4. Timor-Leste’s Post-Revolutionary Constitution: From Foundations to Practice
Leigh-Ashley Lipscomb
5. The Making of Myanmar’s 1947 Constitution: Geography, Ethnicity, and Law
Maitrii Aung-Thwin
6. A Foreign Commission for Domestic Needs: The Constitutional Founding of Malaysia
H Kumarasingham
7. Foundational Moments: The ‘Singapore Constitution’
Kevin YL Tan
8. The Making of Brunei’s 1959 Constitution
BA Hussainmiya
9. Not Meant to Last: Vietnam’s First Constitution
Stein Tønnesson
10. The Lao Constitution of 1947/1949: Creating a Nation-State
Martin Stuart-Fox
11. The First Constitution-Making in Cambodia: Colonialism, Modernism, Nationalism and the Implications
Teilee Kuong
12. The 1932 Compromise Constitution: Matrix of Thailand’s Permanent Constitutional Instability
Eugenie Mérieau

An excellent resource for scholars and students working in the field of Asian legal and constitutional studies.
The study of constitutionalism in Asia is one of the most important, fascinating and challenging subjects of contemporary legal study. The continent is immensely diverse in its political ideology, religion, culture, language, economic development and colonial history. It has produced a great multitude of constitutional traditions, from authoritarian regimes to mixed communitarian and liberal constitutional models, and from regimes involving the military and monarchy to secular and theocratic constitutions. At the same time, its experience with courts and constitutions spans the gamut from rights-based to dialogical and good governance approaches, particularly where good government is sought through political process and public avenues rather than through the courts. With respect to judicial review and human rights, Asia provides a rich resource in examining how universal standards and local particularities interact. This series seeks to build on the growing academic interest in Asian constitutionalism by interrogating the normative, historical, empirical and conceptual dimensions of constitutionalism, through the lens of the Asian experience. It is expansive in scope and coverage and includes comparative studies between two or more Asian countries; comparisons between Asian and non-Asian jurisdictions; and critical single jurisdiction case studies. The series provides an excellent resource for scholars and students working in the field of Asian legal and constitutional studies, and comparative constitutional law more generally.