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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.

How A "Lawless" China Made Modern America: An Epic Told in Orientalism, a review of Teemu Ruskola, Legal Orientalism: China, The United States and Modern Law (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013) pp. 338 $39.95 (2015)
Journal Article
Tan, C. G. (2015). How A "Lawless" China Made Modern America: An Epic Told in Orientalism, a review of Teemu Ruskola, Legal Orientalism: China, The United States and Modern Law (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013) pp. 338 $39.95. Harvard law review, 128(6), 1677-1704

Socialist Rule of Law in the 21th Century China (2015)
Journal Article
Zhu, S. (2015). Socialist Rule of Law in the 21th Century China. Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 7(1), 75-81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-015-0004-8

The 18th Congress of Chinese Communist Party in 2012 and two important decisions adopted subsequently in the 3rd and 4th Plenum in 2013 and 2014 respectively, opened new prospects for China’s reform generally and the legal reform specifically. In com... Read More about Socialist Rule of Law in the 21th Century China.

Sanitation Law and Policy in India: An Introduction to Basic Instruments (2015)
Book
Cullet, P., & Bhullar, L. (Eds.). (2015). Sanitation Law and Policy in India: An Introduction to Basic Instruments. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199456703.001.0001

The past couple of decades have witnessed an increased interest in sanitation in India. In contrast to the policy perspectives on sanitation, however, there is a lack of awareness about its legal dimensions. This book contributes to fill this gap by... Read More about Sanitation Law and Policy in India: An Introduction to Basic Instruments.

Inter-Sectoral Water Allocation and Conflicts – Perspectives from Rajasthan (2015)
Journal Article
Cullet, P., Bhullar, L., & Koonan, S. (2015). Inter-Sectoral Water Allocation and Conflicts – Perspectives from Rajasthan. Economic and political weekly, 50(34), 61-69

Inter-sectoral allocation of water has become an increasingly important and contentious issue in India. Yet, the law and policy frameworks for allocation or re-allocation of water to different uses, or within a category of use, remain underdeveloped.... Read More about Inter-Sectoral Water Allocation and Conflicts – Perspectives from Rajasthan.

Groundwater Law in India – Towards a Framework Ensuring Equitable Access and Aquifer Protection (2014)
Journal Article
Cullet, P. (2014). Groundwater Law in India – Towards a Framework Ensuring Equitable Access and Aquifer Protection. Journal of Environmental Law, 26(1), 55-81. https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqt031

Groundwater law in India gives individual landowners overwhelming control over groundwater. This is inappropriate in a context where groundwater is now the main source of water for the realisation of the human right to water. This also fails to provi... Read More about Groundwater Law in India – Towards a Framework Ensuring Equitable Access and Aquifer Protection.