The book outlines how constitutionalism has developed in East Asia over a long period, considers different scholarly work on the ease or difficulty of integrating Western constitutionalism into countries with a Confucian outlook, and examines the prospects for such integration going forward. Throughout, the book covers detailed aspects of Confucianism and the workings of constitutions in practice.

Introduction 1. Classical Confucian Constitutionalism 2. Imperial Confucian Constitutionalism 3. Modern Confucian Constitutionalism 4. Towards an East Asian Model of Constitutionalism

Bui Ngoc Son is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Asian Legal Studies of the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore.