From the readings in Sections I and II of this chapter, it is evident that the fate of Asian lawyers is closely tied to state transformations.
These political changes include not only revolutions, military coups, and other types of regime changes, but also incremental and recursive changes in a country's political culture and state institutions.
Situated between legal rules and political power, lawyers are frequently found in the frontline of state transformations. The legal professions in many Asian states were created and transformed in the shadows of colonialism and authoritarianism, as well as lawyers' struggles for legal and political ideals such as proceduralism, judicial independence, human rights, and rule of law. This section focuses on this political aspect of the lawyer-state relationship and provides three cases of political mobilization in which lawyers, judges, prosecutors, and other legal actors seek to transform the nature of their states. Some of these struggles led to the democratization of an authoritarian state, as in the case of Taiwan, whereas others retreated or suffered setbacks, as in the cases of Pakistan and Hong Kong.6.8
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- Chua Lynette J., Engel David M.. The Asian Law and Society Reader. Cambridge University Press,2023. — 795 p., 2023