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Abstract: "Myanmar?s legal system is an understudied area in the academic
field of Asian Legal Studies. This article aims to provide a map of legal scholarship
in Myanmar that can be built on in the future. It identifies the key issues and
arguments that have driven research on law in Myanmar, and the central academics
whose oeuvre of publications have sustained the field. It is organized around four
broad themes: custom, religion, and the law; public law and governance; corporate
law; and the politics of law. It suggests that in order to build the next generation of
legal scholarship, future research on Myanmar law must be grounded in its social,
political, and historical context. This type of research requires the rediscovery of
?law? in Myanmar by engaging with the existing body of social science literature on
Burma Studies more generally."
Source/publisher:
Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3
Date of Publication:
2014-05-27
Date of entry:
2014-08-16
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English
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