Title: Graham Greenleaf, Asian Data Privacy Laws: Trade and Human Rights Perspectives
Abstract: This monograph, Asian Data Privacy Laws: TradeandHuman Rights Perspectives, is an extraordinary work of scholarship. It is extremely interesting and important because it focuses on countries not just of the common law tradition, but also countries of the civil law traditions often ignored or overlooked by lawyers in the English-speaking world. In Asia, largely for historical reasons and because of the colonial empires, the world is divided substantially between the common law and the civil law tradition. This presented an immediate challenge for writing this book. Of the 26 jurisdictions in Asia that this book sets out to analyse, half of them are countries that operate in the world of Napoleon and his Code and the civil law tradition with its somewhat more authoritarian approach to law and to rights under the law than the common law provides. Furthermore, the author grapples with jurisdictions using languages that he did not speak. Therefore, the author had to master not only a different legal system, and legal tradition, but also the local laws on privacy protection. He had to also get his mind around the different languages involved. Those who helped with the translations involved are acknowledged in the monograph. They provided the bridge to understanding what would otherwise have been elusive.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-02-01
Language: en
Type: article
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