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Groundwater Law and Management in India: From an Elitist to an Egalitarian Paradigm (2021)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2021). Groundwater Law and Management in India: From an Elitist to an Egalitarian Paradigm. In S. A. Khan, T. G. Puthucherril, & S. R. Paul (Eds.), From Elite to Egalitarian: The Changing Landscape of Groundwater Law in India (337-347). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2617-3_24

Groundwater law has been structured around a direct relationship between access to land and control over groundwater since the middle of the nineteenth century. The premises for the existing legal framework are not suited to today’s conditions. The p... Read More about Groundwater Law and Management in India: From an Elitist to an Egalitarian Paradigm.

英国刑事法律中关于性侵儿童案件的基本问题 (Rules and Principles on Sexual Offences against Children in the UK) (2021)
Book Chapter
Mou, Y. (2021). 英国刑事法律中关于性侵儿童案件的基本问题 (Rules and Principles on Sexual Offences against Children in the UK). In H. Wu (Ed.), 刑事法学研究 (Criminal Law Studies) (130-179). China University of Political Society and Law Press

性侵未成年人案件涉及刑事规范的多个层面，既包括刑事实体法中相关的性犯罪构成问题，也包括证据法中侵害事实的证明问题，以及在确定构成性犯罪以后，如何有效地对侵害人进行危险性评估及相应的管理与惩戒等问题。本文以英国的刑事法律制度为例，深入介绍和分析英国刑事... Read More about 英国刑事法律中关于性侵儿童案件的基本问题 (Rules and Principles on Sexual Offences against Children in the UK).

Restitution of conjugal rights and the dissenting female body: The Rukhmabai Case (2020)
Book Chapter
Sharma, K. (2020). Restitution of conjugal rights and the dissenting female body: The Rukhmabai Case. In S. Bonnerjee (Ed.), Subaltern Women’s Narratives: Strident Voices, Dissenting Bodies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003121220-18

Trial transcripts remain an under utilised source through which colonial women’s lived experiences as well as their narratives of resistance can be recovered. This paper aims to explore Indian Hindu women’s resistance to attempts to control their bod... Read More about Restitution of conjugal rights and the dissenting female body: The Rukhmabai Case.

The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution? (2019)
Book Chapter
Caldwell, E. (2019). The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution?. In W. Alford, J. Cohen, & C.-F. Lo (Eds.), Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation (155-172). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0350-0_10

This chapter contributes to the growing literature on international human rights and National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in Taiwan. Despite decades of debate, Taiwan has never established a NHRI that complies with international human rights no... Read More about The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution?.

The Right to Sanitation – Multiple Dimensions and Challenges (2019)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2019). The Right to Sanitation – Multiple Dimensions and Challenges. In P. Cullet, S. Koonan, & L. Bhullar (Eds.), Right to Sanitation in India – Critical Perspectives (75-110). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199489855.003.0004

The right to sanitation has been recognized for many years by the Supreme Court of India and high courts. Its recognition is not in question but there is a lack of a comprehensive legal framework that can contribute to making the right a reality on t... Read More about The Right to Sanitation – Multiple Dimensions and Challenges.

Selfhood and Archipelago in Indonesia: A Case for Human Polyversality (2017)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2017). Selfhood and Archipelago in Indonesia: A Case for Human Polyversality. In O. Sircar, & P. Jain (Eds.), New Intimacies / Old Desires: Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times (235-252). Zubaan Books; Chicago University Press

Chinese Constitutionalism: Five-Power Constitution (2017)
Book Chapter
Caldwell, E. (2017). Chinese Constitutionalism: Five-Power Constitution. In R. Grote, F. Lachenmann, & R. Wolfrum (Eds.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law. Oxford University Press

Water Law in India (2017)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2017). Water Law in India. In C. Antons (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Asian Law (323-338). Routledge

Enforcing Socioeconomic Rights: Everyday Agency, Resistance and Community Resources Among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong (2016)
Book Chapter
Tan, C. G. (2016). Enforcing Socioeconomic Rights: Everyday Agency, Resistance and Community Resources Among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong. In J. Elias, & L. Rethel (Eds.), The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia (218-236). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316402092.011

There are currently over 320,000 full-time, live-in migrant domestic workers (MDWs) in Hong Kong, the vast majority of whom are from Southeast Asia. In recent years, women from the Philippines and Indonesia have constituted 48 per cent and 49 per cen... Read More about Enforcing Socioeconomic Rights: Everyday Agency, Resistance and Community Resources Among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong.

'Renquan' - Chinese Human Rights: An' Import' from the West or a Chinese 'Export'? (2016)
Book Chapter
Kobayashi, Y. (2016). 'Renquan' - Chinese Human Rights: An' Import' from the West or a Chinese 'Export'?. In L. König, & B. Chaudhuri (Eds.), The Politics of the Other in India and China: Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts (179-192). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315724300-24

Introduction Human rights, renquan, is not an indigenous Chinese term.1 In fact, renquan is a borrowed term from Japan that entered into China with Nationalist leaders bringing back new ideals after their return to China from exile in Japan (Angle, 2... Read More about 'Renquan' - Chinese Human Rights: An' Import' from the West or a Chinese 'Export'?.

India in Climate Change – the view from Tokyo (2015)
Book Chapter
Kobayashi, Y. (2015). India in Climate Change – the view from Tokyo. In K. Sullivan (Ed.), Competing Visions of India in World Politics: India’s Rise Beyond the West (49-65). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137398666_4

This chapter first examines Indo-Japanese relations to place the relationship in a wider context and then moves on to examine how Tokyo views New Delhi in relation to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It introduces the ‘China pr... Read More about India in Climate Change – the view from Tokyo.