Malaysia withdrew from the Rome Statute
Student activists: Academics convinced Rulers with 'biased' paper.
Joe Samad: Malay leaders, post-truth and alternative facts.
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Prof Shad spoke during a forum at University of Malaya on the Rome Statute.
Click here to view the full speech by Tommy Thomas, Attorney General of Malaysia and click here to view the full speech by Datuk Noor Farida Ariffin, ex diplomat.
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Appointment of Chief Justice
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Enforced Disappearances
- Suhakam: Police behind disappearance of Koh and Amri.
- PM: Government to open new investigation after the current Inspector-General of Police retires.
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Chief Justice Richard Malanjum retired
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Constitutional Amendments
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Legislative Reforms
Amendments to NSC Act will give power to King to declare 'Security Zones'.
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Tides and Turbulences Abroad
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Convicted leaders of the Umbrella Movement sentenced to imprisonment or community service.
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Constitutional Court of South Korea: Law banning abortion and punishing doctors performing the abortion procedure with the woman's consent unconstitutional.
Parliament of Egypt: Constitutional amendments that would allow President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi to stay in power until 2030, grant him more power over the judiciary and strengthen the military's role in politics approved.
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Supreme Court of Philippines: The cutting and balling of trees in expansion plans of a popular mall in Baguio City stopped until it complies with environmental requirements.
European Court of Human Rights: Answers from the Russian Government in connection with two claims brought against Russia over the downing of Malaysian airliner MH17 requested.
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Jaclyn L Neo, Arif A Jamal and Daniel PS Goh, eds., Regulating Religion in Asia: Norms, Modes, and Challenges (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
“The overall question that this scholarship explores may be stated as follows: how do legal and religious ideas and institutions, methods and mechanisms, beliefs and believers influence each other, for better and for worse, in the past, present and future?”
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Kevin YL Tan and Bui Ngoc Son, eds., Constitutional Foundings in Southeast Asia (Hart Publishing, 2019).
“This volume focuses on the making, nature, and role of the first modern constitutions at the founding of the modern nation-states in Southeast Asia.”
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Jaclyn L Neo and Bui Ngoc Son, eds., Pluralist Constitutions in Southeast Asia (Hart Publishing, 2019)
“This book examines the presence of ethnic, religious, political, and ideational pluralities in Southeast Asian societies and how their respective constitutions respond to these pluralities.”
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“Beyond the unconstitutional constitutional amendment doctrine, can or should there be a doctrine of an unconstitutional constitution?”
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