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Social Movements and Constitutionalism in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2019

Ngoc Son BUI
Ngoc Son BUI*
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong [email protected]
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Abstract

This article considers whether the academic inquiry of comparative constitutionalism in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan may be further developed by a full consideration of the relevance of social movements. Integrating social movement theories into comparative constitutional law, this article argues that a more nuanced positive account of the creation and consolidation of constitutionalism in these East Asian polities must be situated within the engagement of social movements in discursive venues for formal and informal constitutional change.

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Asian Journal of Comparative Law , Volume 14 , Supplement S1 , October 2019 , pp. S51 - S75
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Copyright © National University of Singapore, 2019 

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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. My thanks to the Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS) and the Asian Law Institute (ASLI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) for supporting my participation at the conferences entitled ‘The State of Comparative Law in Asia’ and ‘Teaching Comparative Law in Asia’ on 27 and 28 September 2017, which led to my engagement in this special issue.

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