THE THAI LEGAL SYSTEM EASILY EXPLAINED Thai Law for Foreigners... Introduces you to the history and development of Thai law, the structure of Thai government and the Thai court system. Explains legal procedures in Thailand for both criminal and civil matters, how to choose a lawyer, Thai lawyer's ethics and how to work with lawyers and interpreters. Answers questions on family and personal matters such as Thai citizenship, engagement and dowry, prenuptial agreement, wedding ceremony, making a will, and divorce procedures. Gives information on living in Thailand such as renting a house, working with Thai employees, knowing your rights if you are arrested, things to be aware of and much more. Contains lots of useful information in the reference section and a glossary of the English and Thai legal terms used in the book. This book will help you save time, money and the frustration of doing research to find out what you need to know about Thai law. It is written in plain language for common people to understand in both English and Thai.
This book applies a sustainable development framework to the planning and managing of an intermediate size city in a developing region of a developing nation, and assesses the potential of such a framework to effectively guide the city's development. It identifies issues and recommends approaches to assist local governments to enhance their capacity, improve their management efficiency, and facilitate a course toward sustainable development. The focus is on the many intermediate size cities emerging in Asia and elsewhere as the nucleus of new urbanization and more efficient urbanization management, instead of on the few primate mega-cities. The entire book studies one city and region from multiple perspectives, allowing multiple comparisons. This reflects the unique composition of the book's contributors, representing fifteen disciplines, four universities, and three countries. The book is intended for those interested in applications of sustainability to the management of urban growth and development at the local level, including development professionals, elected officials, academic researchers and teachers, and university students.
Hardcover:
356 pages
Company: Springer
(2002-10-31)
ISBN: 140200818X List Price: $143.00 Amazon Price: $143.00 Used Price: $79.92
Unlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as Thailand was called until 1939) shared a great deal in common with both colonized states and imperial powers: its sovereignty was qualified by imperial nations while domestically its leaders pursued European colonial strategies of juridical control in the Muslim south. The creation of family law and courts in that region and in Siam proper most clearly manifests Siam's dualistic position.
Demonstrating the centrality of gender relations, law, and Siam's Malay Muslims to the history of modern Thailand, Subject Siam examines the structures and social history of jurisprudence to gain insight into Siam's unique position within Southeast Asian history. Tamara Loos elaborates on the processes of modernity through an in-depth study of hundreds of court cases involving polygyny, marriage, divorce, rape, and inheritance adjudicated between the 1850s and 1930s. Most important, this study of Siam offers a novel approach to the question of modernity precisely because Siam was not colonized yet was subject to transnational discourses and symbols of modernity. In Siam, Loos finds, the language of modernity was not associated with a foreign, colonial overlord, so it could be deployed both by elites who favored continuation of existing domestic hierarchies and by those advocating political and social change.
Author: Tamara Loos
Hardcover:
240 pages
Company: Cornell University Press
(2006-01-05)
ISBN: 0801443938 List Price: $39.95 Amazon Price: $39.95 Used Price: $39.93
Author: Somchai Phatharathananunth
Paperback:
272 pages
Company: University of Hawaii Press
(2006-01-30)
ISBN: 8791114853 List Price: $29.00 Amazon Price: $29.00
Between 1880 and 1930 Thai law was modernised. Using the French civil code as their model, the kings of Siam recast traditional Thai law into western form. This book describes Thai law as it was before 1880. For at least five-hundred years-- perhaps nearer a thousand years the Thai have used written lawbooks. During the last twenty years Thai scholars have systematically searched for these lawbooks through the book chests of monasteries. As a result there is now a very large number of legal manuscripts available for study. In this book six experts describe the new discoveries and assess how far our view of traditional Thai law has to change. The essays have a regional focus, dealing with the Northern Thai traditions of Lanna, the provincial cities of central Thailand, the Southern Kingdom based on Nakhon Si Thammarat, the law texts of Laos, the new discoveries in Burma and finally with Bangkok and its famous Three Seals Code
Author: Andrew Huxley
Paperback:
211 pages
Company: Orchid Press
(2006-09-25)
ISBN: 9748299864 List Price: $18.00 Amazon Price: $11.42 Used Price: $11.42
In the immediate aftermath of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, several countries went through political transformations. Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand all underwent political reform and democratization. Malaysia, although also hit by the financial crisis, remained authoritarian. Is there a connection between economic crises and political change? Once the crisis abates do changes stick? Why did political reform happen in some places and not in Malaysia? Several factors are useful in explaining the variation in political transitions: IMF involvement, popular protests, the nature of political opposition, and elite alliances at the highest levels of government all help determine the success or failure of democratization efforts.
Author: Amy L. Freedman
Hardcover:
208 pages
Company: Palgrave Macmillan
(2006-11-14)
(2006-11-14)
ISBN: 1403968578 List Price: $65.00 Amazon Price: $52.30 Used Price: $35.00
This book offers wide-ranging insights into the organizing capacities of workers in Asia today. Nine case studies examine workers' responses to class relations through independent unions, non-government organizations (NGOs) and more (dis)organized struggles.
Author: Jane Hutchison
Paperback:
208 pages
Company: Routledge
(2001-05-04)
ISBN: 0415250609 List Price: $47.95 Amazon Price: $35.20 Used Price: $22.99
This book argues that democratization is inherently international: states democratize through a process of socialization to a liberal-rational global culture. This can clearly be seen in Taiwan and Thailand, where the elites and attentive public now accept democracy as universally valid. But in China, the ruling communist party resists democratization, in part because its leaders believe it would lead to China's "permanent decentering" in world history. As China's power increases, the party could begin restructuring global culture by inspiring actors in other Asian countries to uphold or restore authoritarian rule.
Author: Daniel Lynch
Paperback:
320 pages
Company: Stanford University Press
(2006-07-07)
(2006-07-07)
ISBN: 0804761043 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $18.96
Ever since the collapse of the Thai bath, the event that sparked the East Asian financial crisis in 1997, foreign investors have been concerned about a lack of transparency in Thai business and politics and have repeatedly called for fundamental reforms. It was against this background that the Thai parliament passed major changes to the electoral system in 2000, just weeks before the January 2001 election. Reflecting on the twists and turns of reform in Thailand over the years, this volume provides the first in-depth scholarly analysis of the success of the recent electoral reforms. This is an important resource for those interested in Thai politics and its impact on the wider Asian political scene.
Hardcover:
320 pages
Company: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
(2002-04-02)
ISBN: 8787062941 List Price: $22.00 Amazon Price: $22.00 Used Price: $14.50
The Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest summarizes and describes the laws of a given jurisdiction. These jurisdictions include: the United States; U.S. States and Possessions; U.S. Codes (Copyright, Patent, Trademark); Canada; Canadian Provinces; the European Union; and other countries. Each digest is revised annually by a law firm or academic researcher which is, in most cases, based in that jurisdiction. Digest content follows a hierarchical classification plan of: categories; topics; sub headings; catch lines; and cross references. The digest makes extensive use of statutory citations and presents many legal forms in facsimile.
Author: Revision by Tilleke & Gibbins Consultants Limited, of Bangkok, Thailand, and Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Paperback:
60 pages
Company: LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell
(2007-06-12)
(2007-06-12)
ISBN: 1603661492 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $24.95
As we enter the 21st century, many countries of the South are in a state of economic crisis, with once optimistic visions of the future cruelly dashed by rising mass poverty, inequality, and hunger. At the same time, working people in the North find their living standards declining. Dark Victory reveals the roots of these global trends in a sweeping strategy of global economic rollback unleashed by the US to shore up the North's domination of the international economy and reassert corporate control.
Bello argues that lower barriers to imports, removal of restrictions on foreign investments, privatization of state-owned activities, reduction in social welfare spending, and wage cuts and devaluation of local currencies--all conditions of structural adjustment loans from the North-have had disastrous consequences. Hailed as a classic study of global poverty, Dark Victory is now reissued with a new epilogue by the authors.
Author: Walden Bello, Shea Cunningham, Kheng Poh Li
Paperback:
267 pages
Company: Food First
(1999-03)
ISBN: 0935028749 List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $19.95 Used Price: $1.95
The Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest summarizes and describes the laws of a given jurisdiction. These jurisdictions include: the United States; U.S. States and Possessions; U.S. Codes (Copyright, Patent, Trademark); Canada; Canadian Provinces; the European Union; and other countries. Each digest is revised annually by a law firm or academic researcher which is, in most cases, based in that jurisdiction. Digest content follows a hierarchical classification plan of: categories; topics; sub headings; catch lines; and cross references. The digest makes extensive use of statutory citations and presents many legal forms in facsimile.
Author: Revision by Tilleke & Gibbins, Thailand and Vietnam.
Paperback:
64 pages
Company: LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell
(2007-06-12)
(2007-06-12)
ISBN: 1603661441 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $24.95
This book breaks from tradition in exploring the developing relationship between statelessness and migration. International lawyers, refugee and migrant worker advocates will be drawn to the argument that migration law is setting the parameters of the framework for international protection. Statelessness used to be associated with state succession, mass denationalisation and refugee flows in the twentieth century. However, the rise in irregular migration is producing new forms of statelessness. Neither customary international law, international conventions on statelessness, refugees and migrant workers nor general human rights instruments provide effective protection for these contemporary groups of stateless persons. Women and children are among the most unprotected. The discussion on the gendered construction of statelessness will interest those involved in gender studies. The analysis of the interface between citizenship, migration and other domestic laws and! policies of Burma and Thailand will provoke discussion among human rights advocates working on these two countries. The book concludes that it is imperative to develop international law limits on state powers in immigration matters.
Author: Lay Lee Tang
Hardcover:
300 pages
Company: Brill Academic Pub
(2005-09-01)
ISBN: 9004146482 List Price: $134.00 Amazon Price: $128.98 Used Price: $118.66
Author: USA International Business Publications
Paperback:
300 pages
Import
Company: Intl Business Pubns USA
(2007-02-07)
ISBN: 1433049171 List Price: Amazon Price:
Author: B. Hartwig, Stefan Tangermann
Hardcover:
65 pages
Import
Company: Wissenschaftsverlag Vauk Kiel
(1987-12)
ISBN: 3817500092 List Price: Amazon Price:
Author: Apirat Petchsiri
Hardcover:
208 pages
Company: Fred B Rothman & Co
(1987-02)
ISBN: 0837710545 List Price: $48.57 Amazon Price: Used Price: $45.00
Author: National Environmental Law Association of Australia
Unknown Binding:
452 pages
Company: The Association in association with the Environmental Law and Policy Unit, Faculty of Law, University of Adelaide
(1991)
ISBN: 0646075896 List Price: Amazon Price:
That too often ambiguous commodity, intellectual property, was declared one of the primary goals of foreign economic policy in the mid-1980s by the United States. In the resulting tangle of economic politics and policies, issues of compliance, effectiveness, domestic pressures and foreign policy, and U.S. stature all arose. Intellectual property protection, as Uphoff claims, allows insight into both international trade policy and the economic costs and advantages of this process. Case studies focus on each of the ASEAN governments' decisions on how to respond to American pressure over copyrights and patents. Research, based on existing publications and interviews with government officials and scholars, is both timely and illuminating.
Author: Elisabeth Uphoff
Paperback:
67 pages
Company: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications
(1991-02-01)
(1991-02-01)
ISBN: 0877271240 List Price: $12.00 Amazon Price: $12.00 Used Price: $22.36
Author: Ronald L Krannich
Microfilm:
139 pages
Import
Company: Ohio University Press
(1978)
ISBN: 0896800733 List Price: Amazon Price: Used Price: $24.00
Author: USA International Business Publications
Paperback:
300 pages
Import
Company: Intl Business Pubns USA
(2007-02-07)
ISBN: 1433047187 List Price: Amazon Price:
This book takes as its focus the current supervisory and regulatory framework for bank supervision in Thailand and the Thai authorities' efforts to modernise and restructure the Thai banking system. It examines the obstacles to this restructuring, which include the current economic difficulties in Thailand and the East Asia region as well as more fundamental historical, cultural and socio-economic factors that underpin Thai society. The book looks at the numerous banking statutes put in place in Thailand in the past sixty years, including legislation of the 1980s in response to problems involving fraud, insider dealing and solvency concerns. It examines how historically ambiguous structures of governmental responsibility and power, and a heavy emphasis on government discretion in regulation, have so far inhibited the effectiveness of this extensive body of legislation in developing a sound modern banking system. There follows an in-depth analysis of the 1997--1998 Thai Banking Crisis and ways in which lessons can be learned to avoid similar crises in future. The author argues for a greater degree of transparency in the regulatory process to bring it into line with internationally accepted standards, for increased supervisory implementation and enforcement by Thai governmental authorities, and for the ultimate depoliticisation of the bank regulatory and supervisory processes.
This book scrutinizes the development policies behind the evolution of various arrangements for international petroleum exploitation. By studying examples of the principal categories of petroleum arrangements in four representative developing countries (Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil and China), this study examines in particular the issues of recent trends and new directions in contractual development and environmental sustainability that are reflected in both the structure and substance of the modern petroleum contracts that have emerged since the 1950s. Modern petroleum contracts are generally able to achieve a greater commerciality and mutuality of interests, but they have failed to produce a necessary balance between resources extraction and environmental sustainability. The future direction for petroleum agreements is that they must explicitly recognize the inherent interdependence of commercial viability and sustainable development.
Ha Pham Kim Nhung, her husband and six children fled their Saigon home destined for the United States to join Ha's mother. After a harrowing, two-week overland trek through Vietnam and Cambodia, the family finally made their way to the refugee camps in Thailand only to find the conditions in the camp nearly intolerable. This is the powerful and poignant story of their six months' struggle to escape the Communists in Vietnam. The family traveled through the killing fields of Cambodia only to find themselves in the Para refugee camps in Thailand, with their dehumanizing conditions. But all the while the family maintained their strength and love for one another and ultimately joined Ms. Ha's mother in the United States.
Author: Kim Ha
Hardcover:
246 pages
Company: McFarland & Company
(1997-01)
ISBN: 078640244X List Price: $35.00 Amazon Price: Used Price: $250.00
Author: USA International Business Publications
Paperback:
300 pages
Import
Company: Intl Business Pubns USA
(2007-02-07)
ISBN: 1433049295 List Price: Amazon Price:
Author: USA International Business Publications
Paperback:
300 pages
Import
Company: Intl Business Pubns USA
(2007-02-07)
ISBN: 1433049368 List Price: Amazon Price:
"A timely assessment of what Thailand has hitherto achieved in its efforts to improve corporate governance and a realistic look at how it can grapple with the remaining challenges on its agenda." - Olarn Chaipravat, Fiscal Policy Research Institute, Thailand "A well-crafted work by Thai scholars who take readers on a journey from the pre- to the post-Asian financial crisis. Looking from the current standpoint, this book serves as a reflection on the developments in Thailand's first major efforts on corporate governance which have since moved Thailand away from that turbulent period." - Chalee Chantanayingyong, Securities and Exchange Commission, Thailand
Hardcover:
144 pages
Company: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
(2005-12-23)
ISBN: 9812303316 List Price: $47.90 Amazon Price: $30.45 Used Price: $30.45
Author: Thailand
Unknown Binding:
38 pages
Company: Office of the National Education Commission, Office of the Prime Minister
(1999)
ISBN: 9748086933 List Price: Amazon Price:
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THE THAI LEGAL SYSTEM EASILY EXPLAINED Thai Law for Foreigners... Introduces you to the history and development of Thai law, the structure of Thai government and the Thai court system. Explains legal procedures in Thailand for both criminal and civil matters, how to choose a lawyer, Thai lawyer's ethics and how to work with lawyers and interpreters. Answers questions on family and personal matters such as Thai citizenship, engagement and dowry, prenuptial agreement, wedding ceremony, making a will, and divorce procedures. Gives information on living in Thailand such as renting a house, working with Thai employees, knowing your rights if you are arrested, things to be aware of and much more. Contains lots of useful information in the reference section and a glossary of the English and Thai legal terms used in the book. This book will help you save time, money and the frustration of doing research to find out what you need to know about Thai law. It is written in plain language for common people to understand in both English and Thai.
Author: Pasuk Phongpaichit, Sangsit Phiriyarangsan, Nualnoi Treerat
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This book applies a sustainable development framework to the planning and managing of an intermediate size city in a developing region of a developing nation, and assesses the potential of such a framework to effectively guide the city's development. It identifies issues and recommends approaches to assist local governments to enhance their capacity, improve their management efficiency, and facilitate a course toward sustainable development. The focus is on the many intermediate size cities emerging in Asia and elsewhere as the nucleus of new urbanization and more efficient urbanization management, instead of on the few primate mega-cities. The entire book studies one city and region from multiple perspectives, allowing multiple comparisons. This reflects the unique composition of the book's contributors, representing fifteen disciplines, four universities, and three countries. The book is intended for those interested in applications of sustainability to the management of urban growth and development at the local level, including development professionals, elected officials, academic researchers and teachers, and university students.
Unlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as Thailand was called until 1939) shared a great deal in common with both colonized states and imperial powers: its sovereignty was qualified by imperial nations while domestically its leaders pursued European colonial strategies of juridical control in the Muslim south. The creation of family law and courts in that region and in Siam proper most clearly manifests Siam's dualistic position. 
Author: Somchai Phatharathananunth
Between 1880 and 1930 Thai law was modernised. Using the French civil code as their model, the kings of Siam recast traditional Thai law into western form. This book describes Thai law as it was before 1880. For at least five-hundred years-- perhaps nearer a thousand years the Thai have used written lawbooks. During the last twenty years Thai scholars have systematically searched for these lawbooks through the book chests of monasteries. As a result there is now a very large number of legal manuscripts available for study. In this book six experts describe the new discoveries and assess how far our view of traditional Thai law has to change. The essays have a regional focus, dealing with the Northern Thai traditions of Lanna, the provincial cities of central Thailand, the Southern Kingdom based on Nakhon Si Thammarat, the law texts of Laos, the new discoveries in Burma and finally with Bangkok and its famous Three Seals Code
This book offers wide-ranging insights into the organizing capacities of workers in Asia today. Nine case studies examine workers' responses to class relations through independent unions, non-government organizations (NGOs) and more (dis)organized struggles.
Author: Nadirsyah Hosen
The Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest summarizes and describes the laws of a given jurisdiction. These jurisdictions include: the United States; U.S. States and Possessions; U.S. Codes (Copyright, Patent, Trademark); Canada; Canadian Provinces; the European Union; and other countries. Each digest is revised annually by a law firm or academic researcher which is, in most cases, based in that jurisdiction. Digest content follows a hierarchical classification plan of: categories; topics; sub headings; catch lines; and cross references. The digest makes extensive use of statutory citations and presents many legal forms in facsimile.
As we enter the 21st century, many countries of the South are in a state of economic crisis, with once optimistic visions of the future cruelly dashed by rising mass poverty, inequality, and hunger. At the same time, working people in the North find their living standards declining. Dark Victory reveals the roots of these global trends in a sweeping strategy of global economic rollback unleashed by the US to shore up the North's domination of the international economy and reassert corporate control. 
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127 pages
The Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest summarizes and describes the laws of a given jurisdiction. These jurisdictions include: the United States; U.S. States and Possessions; U.S. Codes (Copyright, Patent, Trademark); Canada; Canadian Provinces; the European Union; and other countries. Each digest is revised annually by a law firm or academic researcher which is, in most cases, based in that jurisdiction. Digest content follows a hierarchical classification plan of: categories; topics; sub headings; catch lines; and cross references. The digest makes extensive use of statutory citations and presents many legal forms in facsimile.
This book breaks from tradition in exploring the developing relationship between statelessness and migration. International lawyers, refugee and migrant worker advocates will be drawn to the argument that migration law is setting the parameters of the framework for international protection. Statelessness used to be associated with state succession, mass denationalisation and refugee flows in the twentieth century. However, the rise in irregular migration is producing new forms of statelessness. Neither customary international law, international conventions on statelessness, refugees and migrant workers nor general human rights instruments provide effective protection for these contemporary groups of stateless persons. Women and children are among the most unprotected. The discussion on the gendered construction of statelessness will interest those involved in gender studies. The analysis of the interface between citizenship, migration and other domestic laws and! policies of Burma and Thailand will provoke discussion among human rights advocates working on these two countries. The book concludes that it is imperative to develop international law limits on state powers in immigration matters.
Ha Pham Kim Nhung, her husband and six children fled their Saigon home destined for the United States to join Ha's mother. After a harrowing, two-week overland trek through Vietnam and Cambodia, the family finally made their way to the refugee camps in Thailand only to find the conditions in the camp nearly intolerable. This is the powerful and poignant story of their six months' struggle to escape the Communists in Vietnam. The family traveled through the killing fields of Cambodia only to find themselves in the Para refugee camps in Thailand, with their dehumanizing conditions. But all the while the family maintained their strength and love for one another and ultimately joined Ms. Ha's mother in the United States.
Author: Fiona Haines
"A timely assessment of what Thailand has hitherto achieved in its efforts to improve corporate governance and a realistic look at how it can grapple with the remaining challenges on its agenda." - Olarn Chaipravat, Fiscal Policy Research Institute, Thailand "A well-crafted work by Thai scholars who take readers on a journey from the pre- to the post-Asian financial crisis. Looking from the current standpoint, this book serves as a reflection on the developments in Thailand's first major efforts on corporate governance which have since moved Thailand away from that turbulent period." - Chalee Chantanayingyong, Securities and Exchange Commission, Thailand