The book under review is the fourth publication in the Routledge Law in Asia series. A distinguishing feature of the series so far has been its emphasis on issues of public law within Asia. This is particularly valuable because, although the focus on the economic rise of Asia has resulted in a burst of scholarship on economic and commercial aspects of Asian jurisdictions, a similar level of interest in Asian public law scholarship is yet to emerge fully.

In April 2014, a conference was held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, to mark the 80th birthday of Lord Leonard Hoffmann, widely recognised as one of the greatest jurists of our time. This volume brings together as a festschrift edited versions of the papers delivered at that conference. All are written by academics with current or former ties to the University of Oxford, the institution with which Lord Hoffmann's legal career is inextricably linked. For it was to The Queen's College, Oxford that Lord Hoffmann travelled as a Rhodes scholar from his native South Africa in 1954 to study for the BAin Jurisprudence and Bachelor of Civil Law—subsequently winning the Vinerian Scholarship for his performance in the final examinations and being appointed Stowell Civil Law Fellow at University College—and it was to Oxford that he returned as a Visiting Professor when he retired from the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords in 2009.

Crime and Punishment in Indonesia explores the sometimes arbitrary demarcation of moral and legal boundaries within an unequal society, together with the interplay between religion and legal positivism. Crime and Punishment in Indonesia considers the historical, political, and moral debates central to modern law reform in the world’s largest Muslim country, which features a pluralistic legal system that combines a Dutch civil law heritage with Islamic Law and adat (regional customary law).