
Publications
The Journal’s scope is twofold, covering strictly legal topics as well as developments at the intersection between political science, governance studies and law. What unites all articles, comments, essays, case-notes, reviews and research material, however, is the common aim to explore the foundations and boundaries of norm-based orders, the challenges – big and small – in the implementation of the rule of law and the constant tension between law and power.
The Journal’s mission is to provide a forum for debates in constitutional and administrative law, criminal and procedural law, anti-corruption and compliance, human rights, geopolitics and international law as well as regional integration. It combines perspectives from Europe and Asia, including transnational and comparative perspectives. Contributors to the Journal are scholars and practitioners from diverse fields and backgrounds, enhancing the Journal’s interdisciplinary scope.
The European-Asian Journal of Law & Governance is the product of a common effort involving the editors in charge of developing the Journal’s content, anonymous peer-reviewers from many universities in various European and Asian countries, the editorial board and the editorial staff in Bangkok.
We hope you enjoy reading our Journal, we would be thankful for your feedback and we invite you to let us know if you have suggestions for topics to be covered or improvements.
All Issues
EAJLG Issue 2016
Articles
Setting the Course for Thailand? – Content, Structure and Impact of the 2016 Constitution Bill
Henning Glaser
Thoughts on the Publication of the Biography of General Ne Win: Four Quotes and Some Comparative Comments
Myint Zan
The Rule-of-Law Challenge to Environmental Conservation in Myanmar
Jonathan Liljeblad
Politicization of Constitutional Courts in Asia: Institutional Features, Contexts and Legitimacy
Jiunn-rong Yeh
Constitutional Adjudications of the Supreme Court of Japan
Yasuo Hasebe
Searching for the Leak: Press Freedom vs. Criminal Prosecution in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
Lasse Schuldt
Commentaries
Domestic and International Actors
Jonathan Bogais
Crisis? What crisis? Mekong water resources management in 2016 and beyond
Philipp Magiera
The Taiwan Question after the 2016 Elections: Significance for Cross-Straits Relations
Chin-peng Chu
The Future Cross-Strait Relations: Challenges and Opportunities of the DPP Government
Chin-peng Chu
External Challenges in the Russia-South Korea Defense Relationship
Anthony V. Rinna
Beyond the Panama Papers: Leaks Activism and the Struggle for Information Control
Arne Hintz
Special feature
Expert Opinions on Law and Politics: The Constitutional Referendum 7 August 2016 in Thailand
Translation
Thai Constitutional Court Ruling No. 18-22/2555 (2012)
Thai Constitutional Court Ruling No. 15/2555 (2012)
Book release
Norms, Interests, and Values: Conflict and Consent in the Basic Constitutional Order, ed. Henning Glaser, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2015 (CPG Series of Comparative Constitutional Law, Politics and Governance, Vol. 2)
EAJLG Issue 2014
Essay
Interpretations of the Constitutional Court and the Developments of the Rule of Law and Democratic
Constitutionalism in Taiwan
Yueh-sheng Weng
Articles
Constitutional Rights in Multiethnic States – The Case of Malaysia
Claudia Derichs
Constitutionalism as Development
Jörg Menzel
Priorities and Prospects of the New Politics of Transformation in Malaysia
Noor Sulastry Yurni Ahmad
Research material
Thai Constitutional Court Ruling No. 52/2546, 30th of December 2003
Book Release
Constitutionalism and Good Governance: Eastern and Western Perspectives
EAJLG Issue 2013 - 2
Articles
The Attempt to Adopt a Mixed-Member Proportional Election System in Thailand: The Near Miss of the Constitution Drafting Committee and Constitution Drafting Assembly in 2007
Michael H. Nelson
Electoral Reforms and their Impact on Democracy in Southeast Asia
Patrick Ziegenhain
The United Nations and the Efforts to Define Terrorism
Daniela Gotzel
Research report
University Students Drop Out: Experience in a Thai University
Ruthaychonnee Sittichai
Research material
Thai Constitutional Court Ruling No. 33/2555, 28th of March 2012
Thai Constitutional Court Ruling No. 33/2555, 18th of May 2012
EAJLG Issue 2013 - 1
Articles
Constitutional Development in Canada
John D. Whyte
The System of the government in Poland
Boguslaw Banaszak
Establishing Regional Courts: A Quest for Judicial Independence in Vietnam
Nguyen Van Quang
Formalization of Islamic Law Into National Law in Indonesia: Between Dogma, Democracy and Human Rights
Heru Susetyo
The Rule of Law: Governance & the States of India
Stellina Jolly, P. D. Kaushik
Societal Security and Labour Migration in the Context of the ASEAN Charter and the Roadmap for an ASEAN Community: Comparisons With, and Lessons on Societal Security, Labour Migration and Regional Integration From the European Union
Noreha Hashim
Fundamental Principles Underpinning Fiscal and Monetary Legislation: Towards a More Inclusive Conception of Public Goods and Bads
Prachoom Chomchai
Case
Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Kingdom of Thailand: Ruling No. 6/2543
Translation provided by: German Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG)
Book review
The State in Myanmar, by Robert Taylor
Myint Zan
EAJLG 2011 - Special Issue
Articles
Evolution of Taiwan’s Constitutional Court from 1948 to 2011: Emergence of an Active but Divided Court
Jau-Yuan Hwang
Constitutional Patriotism as an Identity – A Study on the Feasible Approach Toward Taiwan’s Democratic Consolidation
Wen Cheng Chen
A Centurial Review of Administrative Litigation Law of ROC: Taiwan’s Perspective
Chien-Liang Lee
The Binding Force of the Chinese Constitution as a Source of Legitimacy
Libin Xie
Democratization of the Administration – From the Top Down and/or From the Bottom Up
Toru Mori
EAJLG Issue 2011 - 1
Editorial
Special Article
Levels of the Rule of Law: On the Possibility of Exporting a Western Achievement
Dieter Grimm
Essays
Principles of Fiscal and Monetary Legislation: A Preliminary Perspective
Prachoom Chomchai
Looking Back Before the Election of 2011: Thailand’s Constitutional Referendum the Election of 2007
Michael H. Nelson
“Property Entails Obligations”: Land and Property Law in Germany
Fabian Thiel
Articles
Proceeding Principles and Guarantees in the Law of the European Union
Bartosz Makowicz
Freedom of Expression in the German Basic Law
Gunnar Pohl
Cases and Case Notes
Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Kingdom of Thailand: Ruling No.12-13/2551
Translation provided by: German Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG)
Remarks on Ruling of the Thai Constitutional Court No. 12-13/2551: “Cookery Show”
Kittisak Prokati
Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Kingdom of Thailand: Ruling No.15/2553
Translation provided by: German Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG)
Portrait
The Advocate and Practitioner of the Idea of Guardian of the Constitution („HÜTERDERVERFASSUNG“): Prof.Yueh-ShengWeng’s Contributions to the Development of Democratic Constitutionalism in Taiwan
Chien-Liang Lee
Editorial Board
Henning Glaser, Editor in Chief
Thammasat University
Moritz Bälz
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
Siegfried Broß
Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg
Björn Dressel
Australian National University
Tom Ginsburg
University of Chicago
Chien-Liang Lee
National Taiwan University
Peter Leyland
London Metropolitan University
Thammasat University
Bartosz Makowicz
European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder
Michael Nelson
CPG, Thammasat University
Worachet Pakeerut
Thammasat University
Kittisak Prokati
Thammasat University
Mark R. Thompson
City University of Hong Kong
Seog-Yun Song
Seoul National University
National Taiwan University
Miroslaw Wyrzykowski
Warsaw University
Libin Xie
China University of Political Science and Law Beijing
Patrick Ziegenhain
Trier University
Submissions
The European-Asian Journal of Law & Governance welcomes submissions of high quality. Submissions must be in English and may include articles, comments, essays, case-notes and reviews within the Journal’s thematic scope. Unsolicited submissions can be sent to: eajlg@cpg-online.de.
Unsolicited submissions are reviewed in a double-blind peer-review procedure after a first screening by the Journal’s editors. The review of an article usually takes between four to six weeks. The Journal reserves the right to review texts for as long as necessary to reach a publication decision and to return articles unpublished if they do not meet the Journal’s standards.
The Journal receives submissions with the understanding that the content is original, unpublished material and has not been submitted for publication elsewhere, whether in print or in electronic form. Authors intending to republish articles, or to use previously published material as part of an article, must indicate this intention at the time they accept the invitation to publish or, in the case of unsolicited articles, at the time of submission.
The Journal reserves the right to edit submissions. Authors are granted the opportunity to review corrections before publication.
The European-Asian Journal of Law & Governance retains the copyright over its publications, including each full issue and the individual pieces. Republications of any material originally published in the Journal require the permission of the Journal’s editors.
Technical and citation requirements
Authors submit their manuscripts as a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) via email to submissions@eajlg.de. Authors must use American English spelling (-ize, not -ise). Manuscripts should be saved in plain formatting, i.e. without automatic hyphenation, automatic indexing of section headings, or activated hyperlinks or macros.
Footnotes contain the abbreviated first names and the full last names of authors/editors, book and/or article name, journal name, additional publication information (i.e. editors, volume number, edition number), case names, court information, place and year of publication. Each citation must refer to a specific page number.
General references must be cited as “See generally”. References to prior or subsequent footnotes use the format “supra/infra note 12”. Subsequent citations to the same source must be signaled by Ibid.
Citation examples:
- N. Petersen, Proportionality and Judicial Activism, Cambridge 2017, at p. 39.
- D. Grimm, Values in German Constitutional Law, in: D. Davis et al. (eds.), An Inquiry into the Existence of Global Values, Oxford 2015, pp. 199 – 214, at p. 211.
- M. Heger, Terrorist Attacks Against the Natural Environment: A Phantom or a Real Danger, German Law Journal, Vol. 13 No. 09 (2012), pp. 1066-1074, at p. 1069.
- ECtHR, Republican Party of Russia v. Russia, judgment of 12 April 2011, Application No. 12976/07, at para. 52.

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