The Online Books Page

Law -- Asia

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Law
• Asia

• Law -- China
• Law -- India
• Law -- Iran
• Law -- Iraq
• Law -- Israel
• Law -- Japan
• Law -- Pakistan
• Law -- Philippines
• Law -- Sri Lanka
• Law -- Vietnam

• Legal systems in Asia

• Umbrella Movement: End Politically Motivated Prosecutions in Hong Kong (in English and Chinese; 2018), by Amnesty International (PDF files at amnesty.org)

• Civil Liberties and Social Order: Consultation Document (1997), by Hong Kong (China) Chief Executive's Office (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Civil Liberties and Social Order: Consultation Document (1997), by Hong Kong (China) Chief Executive's Office (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Umbrella Movement: End Politically Motivated Prosecutions in Hong Kong (in English and Chinese; 2018), by Amnesty International (PDF files at amnesty.org)

• Umbrella Movement: End Politically Motivated Prosecutions in Hong Kong (in English and Chinese; 2018), by Amnesty International (PDF files at amnesty.org)

• The Invisible Hand on Hong Kong's Media (2016), by Reporters Without Borders (PDF with commentary at rdf.org)

• House Rules (2008), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)
• Rules of Procedure of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (2008), by Hong Kong (China) Legislative Council (HTML and PDF in Hong Kong)

• Agriculture and Food Security in China: What Effect WTO Accession and Regional Trade Arrangements? (Canberra: ANU E Press, 2008), ed. by Chunlai Chen and Ronald C. Duncan (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Constitution of the People's Republic of China, by China (HTML at lehmanlaw.com)

• Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1987), ed. by Victor C. Falkenheim (HTML at Project MUSE)

• China Rights Forum (published in New York by Human Rights in China; issues online 1999-2014) (partial serial archives)

• China's Censorship of the Internet and Social Media, the Human Toll and Trade Impact: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session, November 17, 2011 (Washington: GPO, 2012), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)

• Media Freedom in China: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, June 24, 2002 (Washington: GPO, 2002), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at cecc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• China's Forbidden Zones: Shutting the Media out of Tibet and Other "Sensitive" Stories (2008), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• "You Will be Harassed and Detained": Media Freedoms Under Assault in China Ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (2007), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• China's Pursuit of a New World Media Order (in English, Chinese, and French; 2019), by Reporters Without Borders (PDF files with commentary at rsf.org)
• Media Freedom in China: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, June 24, 2002 (Washington: GPO, 2002), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at cecc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party's Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World (Washington: Center for International Media Assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, 2013), by Sarah G. Cook (PDF at ned.org)

• China's Far West, Conditions in Xinjiang One Year After Demonstrations and Riots: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session, July 19, 2010 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at ccec.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party's Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World (Washington: Center for International Media Assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, 2013), by Sarah G. Cook (PDF at ned.org)
• China's Censorship of the Internet and Social Media, the Human Toll and Trade Impact: Hearing Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session, November 17, 2011 (Washington: GPO, 2012), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)

• China's Algorithms of Repression: Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App (in English, Chinese, Arabic, and other languages; New York: Human Rights Watch, 2019), by Maya Wang (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at hrw.org)

• Fight Against Terrorism and Extremism in Xinjiang: Truth and Facts (published in English by the UN OHCHR, redacted, as an appendix to its Assessment of the Human Rights Situtation; 2022), by Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) (PDF at ohchr.org)

• Assessment of Human Rights Concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China (2022), by United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (PDF at ohchr.org)

• Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723-1820 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Beatrice S. Bartlett (multiple formats at Google)

• Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723-1820 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Beatrice S. Bartlett (multiple formats at Google)

• Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords Across Three Indian Empires (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2020), by Nandini Chatterjee (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords Across Three Indian Empires (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2020), by Nandini Chatterjee (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Avis du Comité Consultatif de Jurisprudence Indienne: Publiés Avec une Préface et des Notes (ca. 1897), by French India, ed. by Leon Sorg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Institutes of Hindu Law: or, The Ordinances of Menu, According to the Gloss of Cullúca, Comprising the Indian System of Duties, Religious and Civil (Kolkata: Printed by the Order of the Government; London: Reprinted for J. Sewell and J. Debrett, 1796), ed. by Kullūkabhaṭṭa and William Jones
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; pages might not be all properly ordered
• An Introductory Lecture on the Subject of the Rules of Interpretation in Hindu Law, With Special Reference to the Mimansa Aphorisms As Applied to Hindu Law (third edition; Kolkata: S. L. Sarkar, ca. 1903), by Kishori Lal Sarkar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Laws of Manu, trans. by Georg Bühler (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Mimansa Rules of Interpretation as Applied to Hindu Law (Kolkata: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1909), by Kishori Lal Sarkar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Minor Law Books ("part 1" only part published; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1889), ed. by Julius Jolly, contrib. by Narada and Brhaspati (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• A Code of Gentoo Laws, or, Ordinations of the Pundits, from a Persian Translation, Made from the Original, Written in the Shanscrit Language (London, 1776), trans. by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Institutes of Vishnu, trans. by Julius Jolly (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Sacred Laws of the Aryas, trans. by Georg Bühler
  • Part I: HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Part II: HTML at sacred-texts.com

• A Code of Gentoo Laws, or, Ordinations of the Pundits, from a Persian Translation, Made from the Original, Written in the Shanscrit Language (London, 1776), trans. by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dharma: Three Lectures, by Annie Besant (HTML at anandgholap.net)

• Bahubibahabada: A Discourse on the Hindu Polygamy (in Sanskrit; Kolkata: Printed at the Kavyaprakasha Press, 1872), by Tārānātha Tarkavācaspati Bhaṭṭācārya (page images at HathiTrust)

• Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Dvora E. Weisberg (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords Across Three Indian Empires (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2020), by Nandini Chatterjee (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• The Law of Agency in British India (Kolkata: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1890), by T. A. Pearson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords Across Three Indian Empires (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2020), by Nandini Chatterjee (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Access to Knowledge in India: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development (2011), ed. by Ramesh Subramanian and Lea Bishop Shaver (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Academic)

• The Constitution of India (Dehra Dun: Photolithographed at the Survey of India Offices, 1950), by India (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• Compilation of Proclamations, Notifications, etc. Relating to the Civil Administration and Inhabitants of Mesopotamia (issued while under post-Ottoman, pre-Mandate British rule; covering 1914-1920, published 1919-1920), by Iraq (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Revised Edition of the Ordinances of the Government of Ceylon, 1799-1894 (3 volumes; with an additional 2 volumes of legislative actions up to 1900), by Ceylon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Law at War: Vietnam, 1964-1973 (Washington: Department of the Army, 1991), by George S. Prugh (PDF at US Army CMH)

More items available under narrower terms.