[TimorLesteStudies] New article: Japanese Legal Assistance: An East Asian Model of Legal Assistance and Rule of Law?

[Bu Wilson]

Pip Nicholson and Teilee Kuong (2014). Japanese Legal Assistance: An East
Asian Model of Legal Assistance and Rule of Law?. Hague Journal on the Rule
of Law, 6, pp 141-177. doi:10.1017/S1876404514001079.

Abstract
Japan offers its aid recipients an approach to legal reform that in some
ways mirrors, and in others diverges, from the Western approaches to rule
of law aid. As a consequence, Japan challenges Western legal assistance
generally, and rule of law aid in particular. More particularly, after
close scrutiny of the history of Japanese ODA and its mode of legal sector
support developed over the last twenty years, we argue that Japanese legal
assistance exhibits a range of traits including: incrementalism;
comparativism; different aid personnel; focus on self-help; budget
restraint; and humility. This approach has attracted robust critics.
Nevertheless, this paper asks the question whether the East Asian model of
rule of law assistance challenges the West's apparent addiction to rule of
law aid.

Dr Bu V.E. Wilson
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