Description

With comparative case studies from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, this monograph offers a fresh, descriptive and normative perspective on law and religion. This presentation of the original Law and Religious Market Theory employs an interdisciplinary approach that sheds light on this subject for scholars in legal and sociological disciplines. It sets out the precise nature of religious competition envisaged by the current legal regimes in the three jurisdictions and analyses how certain restrictions on religious practices may facilitate normatively desirable market dynamics.

About The Speaker

Jianlin grew up in Singapore and Taiwan. He obtained his LLB from National University of Singapore, and his LLM and JSD from the University of Chicago. He is qualified to practice in Singapore and New York. He joined the Melbourne Law School in July 2017 after starting his academic career at the University of Hong Kong in 2011. Bilingual in English and Chinese, Jianlin has nearly thirty scholarly publications, including a monograph with Cambridge University Press, and articles with Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Law & Social Inquiry, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 北 大 法 律 评 论 , among many others. Utilizing a combination of comparative perspectives and economic analysis, he has written widely on topics such as law & religion, natural resources & property law, corporate & securities law, government procurement regulation, and tax law.