Law, legal culture and politics in the twenty first century

Preface / IM SANTOW

Part I : The Common Law

Administering Insolvent Companies : International Comparisons / SAUL FRIDMAN

The High Court of Australia and the House of Lords 19032003 / W.M.C. GuMMow

Civil Procedure and the Common and Civil Law / J.A. JoLowicz

Reception of Law and Civil Law Traditions / HIROSHI MATSUO

Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism / IVAN SHEARER

Part II : Philosophy of Law! Social Philosophy

Corrective Justice and the Paradox of Future Individuals / CHRISTOPHER BIRCH

Collective Rights and Individual Interests / TOM CAMPBELL

Le principe de prcaution / ROLAND DRAGO

Comparative Corporate Governance and Russia Coming Full Circle / JENNIFER HILL

The Future of Human Rights Does it have one? / MICHAEL KIRBY

Our paradoxical Legal System and its Courts / KARIN LEMERCIER

Justice in Legal Doctrine / ALEKSANDER PECZENIK

The Form and Content of a Precedent Methodology / ROBERT S. SUMMERS

Part III : Legal Culture and Law

Socio-legal Thought and Legal Modernization in Contemporary China A Case Study of the Jurisprudence of Zhu Suli / ALBERT H.Y. CHEN

To have the Cake and Eat it Too? China and the Rule of Law / JIANFU CHEN Codifying International Law in an Era of Clashing Civilisations and Legal Cultures. The Sisyphean Labours of the International Law Commission / EDWARD MCWHINNEY

The Fugitive Disentitlement Doctrine in Hague Convention Proceedings : An Equitable Arrow in the Judicial Quiver / ERIC SMITHBURN

With the Law the Land shall be built : The Case of Changing Norms Seriously / KLAUS A. ZIEGERT

Part IV : Asian Pacific Cultures / Comparative Constitutionalism

Proportionality, Tradition and Constitutional Framework : Borrowing Foreign Legal Notions in Australian Public Law / MARGARET ALLARS

The Harmonisation of Law in China How to resolve the Problem of Regional Conflicts of Law / HAN DEPEI

Comparative Constitutional Law : Reflections on the Past and Concerns about the Future / GUENTHER DOEKER-MACH

The Constitution of Vietnam and the Issue of Human Rights and Rights of Citizens / HOANG VAN HAO

Australia and East Asia a Solid Bond / TOMMY KOH

Cultural Diversity and Cultural Human Rights / ADAM LOPATKA

The Subsidiarity Principle in European Community Law and the Irish Abortion Case / GABRIEL A. MOENS

Globalisation, the Market Economy and Human Rights / CAO Duc THAI

China's Long Road to Sovereignty / WANG GUNGWU

Judges and Judicial Power under the Hong Kong Basic Law / PETER WESLEY-SMITH

Part V : Alice Erh-Soon-Tay

A Tribute to Professor Alice Tay / MURRAY GLEESON

The Making of an Intellectual / JULIA HORNE

List of Publications of Alice Erh-Soon-Tay

Contributors