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• [1] Kasat-Khārātchakān
• [2] Tūangœ̄n-thō̜ngthin
• [3] Thabīan-Thō̜ng
• [4] Bō̜risat-Pokkhlō̜ng
• [5] Pokkhlō̜ng-Pongkan prathēt
• [6] Mahāwitthayālai-Yā
• [7] Ratthammanūn-Rǣ
• [8] Rǣngngān-Wichāchīp, ʻāchīp
• [9] Wichāchīp ʻāchip-Wēnkhư̄n
• [10] Khāo-Khrư̄angbǣp

Collection of all current Thai laws arranged alphabetically by subject; includes brief history of each law

Provisional constitution for the administration of the Kingdom of Thailand in 1991

• Part 1: Branches of government: historical introduction. From absolute monarchy to one-fifth monarchy
• Between reformations: 1932 to 1997
• Reformation unravelling: since 1997
• The importance of performance
• Part 2: The heart of Thai politics. Hierarchy, protection and patronage
• Identities and nationalism
• Part 3: The rule and role of law. The rule of law: Western conceptions
• The role of law: Thai conceptions.

This introductory book on Thai politics and the rule of law explains why chronically unstable Thailand struggles to mediate and adjudicate its political disputes. It focuses on the continuities between the pre-1932 and post-1932 periods. Since the shift to constitutional monarchy in 1932, the power of the monarch and military has endured, the legislature, electorate and, until recently, judiciary have been comparatively powerless, and constitutions and laws have been comparatively unimportant. Historical continuities are also evident in the persistence of hierarchical thinking and ethno-nationalism, both of which have inhibited open debates about governance. And the rule of law does not always apply, owing to different principles underlying western and traditional Siamese law and the emergence of a distinctively Thai legal culture and consciousness. Thailand's governance was re-cast ambitiously in the 1890s, 1932 and 1997. Since 1997, governing Thailand and developing Thailand's economy have become harder. So political disputes have become more acute and the absence of a national consensus on dispute settlement mechanisms more obvious. Until governance is again re-cast, Thailand's political instability and cycle of coups will continue.
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• 1. Introduction: Is Thailand a Constitutional Monarchy? I. The Purpose and General Argument of the Book: Why the Thai Constitution Matters II. The Issue of Royal Prerogatives in a Constitutional Monarchy: Text, Conventions and Doctrines III. Sacred Monarchy vs. the Rule of Law: The Interplay of Law and Religion Mediated through Kingship IV. Constitutional Bricolage: The Indeterminacy of Legal Transplants and their Political Re-assignments V. Outline of the Chapters
• PART I IMPORTING THE MODERN CONSTITUTION 2. Siam's First Constitutions: The Rise and Fall of the Sacred Monarchy I. The Hindu-Khmer Origins of the Traditional Constitution II. The 1889, 1926 and 1932 Draft Constitutions: The Bonapartist and British Tropes III. The 1932 Constitutions: The Soviet/Chinese and Prussian/Japanese Influences 3. Legal Positivism and Buddhist Kingship: Establishing the King as the Source of the Constitution I. Hindu-Buddhist Theories: The Devaraja and Dharmaraja Kings II. The European Influence: Importing Doctrines of Royal Absolutism III. From the European Doctrine of 'Royal Octroy' to the King's Granted Rattathammanun 4. From the Sacred Monarchy to the Sacred Constitution I. Royal Despotism, Theocracy and Sacred Law II. Royal Reforms: The Westernisation of Law and Kingship III. Royal Vetoes and Amnesties versus the Sacred Constitution
• PART II IMPORTING THE STATE OF EMERGENCY 5. Thailand's Cold War Constitutions: Constitutions for the Military I. The 1947-1949 Constitutions: The Royalist Restoration and the Rejection of the British Model II. The 1959, 1968 and 1972 Constitutions: Military Dictatorship and the Gaullist Inspiration III. The 1974-1991 Constitutions: The US Influence on Military Dictatorship under Royal Command? 6. Revolutionary Legality and Buddhist Kingship: Theorising the King's Extra-Constitutional Powers in Times of Crisis I. From Kelsen's Revolutionary Legality to Thai-Style Democracy II. From Bagehot's Three Conventional Powers of the Monarch to the Invention of Thai Constitutional Customs III. Revolutionary Legality Revised: The Doctrine of Shared Sovereignty between the King, the Military and the People 7. From Military Dictatorship to Military Dictatorship under (Sacred) Royal Command I. The Monarchy against the Military: Practices of Royal Constitutional Veto II. The Monarchy on Top of the Military: Royally Sanctioned Military Coups and Amnesty Laws for Coup-Makers III. The Monarchy above the Military: Direct Royal Interventions against Military Juntas
• PART III IMPORTING CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE 8. Thailand's Post-Cold War Constitutions: Constitutions for the Judiciary I. The 1997 Constitution: The Transformative 'Global South' Constitution II. The 2007 Constitution: Juristocracy under US Inspiration? III. The 2017 Constitution: Juristocracy and Military Dictatorship under Royal Command 9. The Rule of Law and Buddhist Kingship: Turning the Constitutional Court into a Substitute King I. From the Rejection of the British Practice of the Royal Prerogative to the Creation of a Constitutional Court Ruling in the Name of the King II. From US-Style Judicial Activism to 'Judicialisation': Transferring the King's Extra-Constitutional Powers to the Constitutional Court III. From Global Discourses on the Rule of Law and Good Governance to the Doctrine of Dharmaraja Governance 10. From Judicialisation at the King's Request to Juristocracy under Royal Command I. Judicialisation at the King's Request: Practices of Direct and Indirect Royal Vetoes II. More Judicialisation at the King's Request: The Constitutional Court Defines 'DKHS' and its Customs III. Royal Constitutional Vetoes, Lese-Majeste and 'DKHS': The Affirmation of the Royal Prerogative 11. Conclusion: Democracy with the King as Head of State: The Bricolage of Thai Constitutional Identity I. Summary of the Book's Contribution: Bricolage as a Process and Method in Comparative Constitutional Law II. Taking Textual Provisions Seriously: On the Royal Prerogative and Constitutional Conventions III. Taking Local Doctrine Seriously: On the Power of Legal Ideas and the Use of Religion to Localise Legal Transplants IV. Taking Constitutional Practices Seriously: On Political Precedents and the Performativity of Constitutional Story-telling V. Epilogue: Thailand and the Possibility of Decentring Comparative Constitutional Law.
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This book analyses the unique constitutional system in operation in Thailand as a continuous process of bricolage between various Western constitutional models and Buddhist doctrines of Kingship. Reflecting on the category of 'constitutional monarchy' and its relationship with notions of the rule of law, it investigates the hybridised semi-authoritarian, semi-liberal monarchy that exists in Thailand. By studying constitutional texts and political practices in light of local legal doctrine, the book shows that the monarch's affirmation of extraordinary prerogative powers strongly rests on wider doctrinal claims about constitutionalism and the rule of law. This finding challenges commonly accepted assertions about Thailand, arguing that the King's political role is not the remnant of the 'unfinished' borrowing of Western constitutionalism, general disregard for the law, or cultural preference for 'charismatic authority', as generally thought. Drawing on materials and sources not previously available in English, this important work provides a comprehensive and critical account of the Thai 'mixed constitutional monarchy' from the late 19th century to the present day.
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Thai activists risk their lives on remote Indonesian islands to find justice and freedom for enslaved fishermen who feed the world's appetite for seafood. Bangkok-based Patima Tungpuchayakul has committed her life to helping these men return home. Facing illness, death threats, and corruption, Patima's fearless determination for justice inspires the world

• Introduction / Andrew Harding
• Thai legal history : a brief literature review / Rawin Leelapana, Andrew Harding, and Eugénie Mérieau
• Thammasat, custom, and royal authority in Siam's legal history / Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit
• The history of the initial royal command : a reflection on the legal and political contexts of kingship and the modern State in Siam / Kongsatja Suwanapech
• Buddhist influence on the ancient Siamese legal system, from Ayutthaya to the 21st Century / Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang
• A history of the Thai lèse-majesté law / Eugénie Mérieau
• Blood curse and belonging in Thailand : law, Buddhism and legal consciousness / David M. Engel
• British judges in the Supreme Court of Siam / Surutchada Reekie and Adam Reekie
• The fundamental misconception in the drafting of the Thai Civil and Commercial Code of 1925 / Munin Pongsapan
• The modernisation of Thai criminal law : From the 1908 Penal Code to the 1956 Criminal Code / Kanaphon Chanhom
• Thai trust law : a legal import rooted in pragmatism / Surutchada Reekie and Narun Popattanachai
• The history of Thai family laws : strong women and weak gender equality under the law / Apinop Atipiboonsin
• The origins of Thailand's bureaucratic state and the consolidation of administrative justice / by Peter Leyland
• Siam and the standard of civilisation in the nineteenth century / Krisdakorn Wongwuthikun and Naporn Popattanacha
• The Thai-style democracy in post-1932 Thailand and its challenges : a quest for nirvana of constitutional Saṃsāra in Thai legal history before 1997 / Rawin Leelapatana
• Permutations of the basic structure : Thai constitutionalism and the democratic regime with the king as head / Henning Glaser
• The 1991-2 judicial crisis : personalities or principles? / Duncan McCargo
• Without account : coups, amnesties and justice in Thailand / Tyrell Haberkorn

This is the first book to provide a broad coverage of Thai legal history in the English language. It deals with pre-modern law, the civil law reforms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the constitutional developments post-1932. It reveals outstanding scholarship by both Thai and international scholars, and will be of interest to anyone interested in Thailand and its history, providing an indispensable introduction to Thai law and the legal system. The civil law reforms are a notable focus of the book, which provides material of interest to comparative lawyers, especially those interested in the diffusion of the civil law.
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• 1. Introduction Andrew Harding
• 2. Thai legal history: a brief literature review Rawin Leelapana, Andrew Harding and Eugenie Merieau
• Part I. Traditional law and its modern resonances: 3. Thammasat, custom and royal authority in Siam's legal history Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit
• 4. The history of the initial royal command: a reflection on the legal and political contexts of kingship and the modern state in Siam Kongsatja Suwanapech
• 5. Buddhist influence on the ancient Siamese legal system, from Ayutthaya to the twenty-first century Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang
• 6. A history of the Thai Le`se-Majeste law Eugenie Merieau
• 7. Blood curse and belonging in Thailand: law, Buddhism and legal consciousness David M. Engel
• Part II. Foreign influence and the reform period: 8. British judges in the supreme court of Siam Surutchada Reekie and Adam Reekie
• 9. The fundamental misconception in the drafting of the Thai civil and commercial code of 1925 Munin Pongsapan
• 10. The modernisation of Thai criminal law: from the 1908 penal code to the 1956 criminal code Kanaphon Chanhom
• 11. Thai trust law: a legal import rooted in pragmatism Surutchada Reekie and Narun Popattanachai
• 12. The history of Thai family laws: strong women and weak gender equality under the law Apinop Atipiboonsin
• 13. The origins of Thailand's bureaucratic state and the consolidation of administrative justice Peter Leyland
• 14. Siam and the standard of civilisation in the nineteenth century Krisdakorn Wongwuthikun and Naporn Popattanachai
• Part III. Constitutional conflicts 1932-2017: 15. The Thai-style democracy in post-1932 Thailand and its challenges: a quest for nirvana of constitutional samsara in Thai legal history before 1997 Rawin Leelapatana
• 16. Permutations of the basic structure: Thai constitutionalism and the democratic regime with the king as head Henning Glaser
• 17. The 1991-1992 judicial crisis: personalities or principles? Duncan McCargo
• 18. Without account: coups, amnesties and justice in Thailand Tyrell Haberkorn
• Glossary
• Index.
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This is the first book to provide a broad coverage of Thai legal history in the English language. It deals with pre-modern law, the civil law reforms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the constitutional developments post-1932. It reveals outstanding scholarship by both Thai and international scholars, and will be of interest to anyone interested in Thailand and its history, providing an indispensable introduction to Thai law and the legal system. The civil law reforms are a notable focus of the book, which provides material of interest to comparative lawyers, especially those interested in the diffusion of the civil law.
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• Basic concepts and principles of criminal law
• The function of criminal law in society
• Actus reus and mens rea
• Excusatory and justificatory defenses
• Attempts
• Secondary party liability
• Offenses causing death
• Nonfatal offenses against the person
• Offenses relating to the security of the Kingdom
• Offense of theft
• Other property offenses
• Modes of judicial proof and rules of evidence

This book is centered around the major issues relating to criminal law in Thailand and aims to offer a detailed and systematic overview of the Thai criminal justice system. It is designed as a traditional textbook of criminal law which provides a succinct focused coverage of all the relevant aspects of laws, judgments, and legal reforms in a concise and readable form. Although all topics have been previously treated in the Thai language, this is the first and most comprehensive work in the English language about Thai criminal law. The book covers not only the legal system, starting from the Penal Code of 1908 and emphasizing the substantial changes that have been introduced in the past decades, but also the deep influence of doctrine and case law. It is built up in several layers, starting from the general rule, to gradually examine the more specific ones. The book begins with the elementary legal concepts to be learned by the reader, by defining the fundamental principles underlying the Thai criminal system and outlining its objectives. It then extensively describes the main offences under the Thai Penal Code and classifies those breaches of law which are crimes from those which are merely illegal without being criminal. .
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• Introduction: Legalism and the revival of treason
• Privileged caste?
• Bench and throne
• Challenges to the judiciary
• Against the crown?
• Computer compassings
• Against the state
• Crimes of Thaksin
• Courting constitutionalism
• Conclusion: The trouble is politics

Fighting for Virtue investigates how Thailand's judges were tasked by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in 2006 with helping to solve the country's intractable political problems-and what happened next. Across the last decade of Rama IX's rule, Duncan McCargo examines the world of Thai judges: how they were recruited, trained, and promoted, and how they were socialized into a conservative world view that emphasized the proximity between the judiciary and the monarchy. McCargo delves into three pivotal freedom of expression cases that illuminate Thai legal and cultural understandings of sedition and treason, before examining the ways in which accusations of disloyalty made against controversial former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra came to occupy a central place in the political life of a deeply polarized nation. The author navigates the highly contentious role of the Constitutional Court as a key player in overseeing and regulating Thailand's political order before concluding with reflections on the significance of the Bhumibol era of "judicialization" in Thailand. In the end, posits McCargo, under a new king, who appears far less reluctant to assert his own power and authority, the Thai courts may now assume somewhat less significance as a tool of the monarchical network.
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• Law-making and the Three Seals Code
• Introduction to the Thammasat
• Introduction to the Palace Law
• Glossary
• Publication history.

Cambodia's Second Kingdom is an exploration of the role of nationalist imaginings, discourses, and narratives in Cambodia since the 1993 reintroduction of a multiparty democratic system. Competing nationalistic imaginings are shown to be a more prominent part of party political contestation in the Kingdom of Cambodia than typically believed. For political parties, nationalistic imaginings became the basis for strategies to attract popular support, electoral victories, and moral legitimacy. Astrid Noren-Nilsson uses uncommon sources, such as interviews with key contemporary political actors, to analyze Cambodia's postconflict reconstruction politics. This book exposes how nationalist imaginings, typically understood to be associated with political opposition, have been central to the reworking of political identities and legitimacy bids across the political spectrum. Noren-Nilsson examines the entanglement of notions of democracy and national identity and traces out a tension between domestic elite imaginings and the liberal democratic framework in which they operate.
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• Introduction
• From absolute monarchy to one-fifth monarchy
• Between reformations : 1932 to 1997
• Reformation unravelling : since 1997
• The importance of performance
• Hierarchy, protection and patronage
• Identities and nationalism
• The rule of law : western conceptions
• The role of law : Thai conceptions
• Conclusions

This introductory book on Thai politics and the rule of law explains why chronically unstable Thailand struggles to mediate and adjudicate its political disputes. It focuses on the continuities between the pre-1932 and post-1932 periods. Since the shift to constitutional monarchy in 1932, the power of the monarch and military has endured, the legislature, electorate and, until recently, judiciary have been comparatively powerless, and constitutions and laws have been comparatively unimportant. Historical continuities are also evident in the persistence of hierarchical thinking and ethno-nationalism, both of which have inhibited open debates about governance. And the rule of law does not always apply, owing to different principles underlying western and traditional Siamese law and the emergence of a distinctively Thai legal culture and consciousness. Thailand's governance was re-cast ambitiously in the 1890s, 1932 and 1997. Since 1997, governing Thailand and developing Thailand's economy have become harder. So political disputes have become more acute and the absence of a national consensus on dispute settlement mechanisms more obvious. Until governance is again re-cast, Thailand's political instability and cycle of coups will continue.
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• Preface Introduction: Legalism and Revival of Treason
• 1. Privileged Caste?
• 2. Bench and Throne
• 3. Challenges to the Judiciary
• 4. Against the Crown?
• 5. Computer Compassings
• 6. Against the State
• 7. Crimes of Thaksin
• 8. Courting Constitutionalism Conclusion: The Trouble Is Politics Notes Index.
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Fighting for Virtue investigates how Thailand's judges were tasked by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in 2006 with helping to solve the country's intractable political problems-and what happened next. Across the last decade of Rama IX's rule, Duncan McCargo examines the world of Thai judges: how they were recruited, trained, and promoted, and how they were socialized into a conservative world view that emphasized the proximity between the judiciary and the monarchy. McCargo delves into three pivotal freedom of expression cases that illuminate Thai legal and cultural understandings of sedition and treason, before examining the ways in which accusations of disloyalty made against controversial former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra came to occupy a central place in the political life of a deeply polarized nation. The author navigates the highly contentious role of the Constitutional Court as a key player in overseeing and regulating Thailand's political order before concluding with reflections on the significance of the Bhumibol era of "judicialization" in Thailand. In the end, posits McCargo, under a new king, who appears far less reluctant to assert his own power and authority, the Thai courts may now assume somewhat less significance as a tool of the monarchical network.
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• Preface Introduction: Legalism and Revival of Treason
• 1. Privileged Caste?
• 2. Bench and Throne
• 3. Challenges to the Judiciary
• 4. Against the Crown?
• 5. Computer Compassings
• 6. Against the State
• 7. Crimes of Thaksin
• 8. Courting Constitutionalism Conclusion: The Trouble Is Politics Notes Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Fighting for Virtue investigates how Thailand's judges were tasked by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in 2006 with helping to solve the country's intractable political problems-and what happened next. Across the last decade of Rama IX's rule, Duncan McCargo examines the world of Thai judges: how they were recruited, trained, and promoted, and how they were socialized into a conservative world view that emphasized the proximity between the judiciary and the monarchy. McCargo delves into three pivotal freedom of expression cases that illuminate Thai legal and cultural understandings of sedition and treason, before examining the ways in which accusations of disloyalty made against controversial former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra came to occupy a central place in the political life of a deeply polarized nation. The author navigates the highly contentious role of the Constitutional Court as a key player in overseeing and regulating Thailand's political order before concluding with reflections on the significance of the Bhumibol era of "judicialization" in Thailand. In the end, posits McCargo, under a new king, who appears far less reluctant to assert his own power and authority, the Thai courts may now assume somewhat less significance as a tool of the monarchical network.
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• Preface Introduction: Legalism and Revival of Treason
• 1. Privileged Caste?
• 2. Bench and Throne
• 3. Challenges to the Judiciary
• 4. Against the Crown?
• 5. Computer Compassings
• 6. Against the State
• 7. Crimes of Thaksin
• 8. Courting Constitutionalism Conclusion: The Trouble Is Politics Notes Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Fighting for Virtue investigates how Thailand's judges were tasked by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in 2006 with helping to solve the country's intractable political problems-and what happened next. Across the last decade of Rama IX's rule, Duncan McCargo examines the world of Thai judges: how they were recruited, trained, and promoted, and how they were socialized into a conservative world view that emphasized the proximity between the judiciary and the monarchy. McCargo delves into three pivotal freedom of expression cases that illuminate Thai legal and cultural understandings of sedition and treason, before examining the ways in which accusations of disloyalty made against controversial former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra came to occupy a central place in the political life of a deeply polarized nation. The author navigates the highly contentious role of the Constitutional Court as a key player in overseeing and regulating Thailand's political order before concluding with reflections on the significance of the Bhumibol era of "judicialization" in Thailand. In the end, posits McCargo, under a new king, who appears far less reluctant to assert his own power and authority, the Thai courts may now assume somewhat less significance as a tool of the monarchical network.
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• Buajan's injury narrative
• Chiangmai : a history of globalizations
• State law and the law of sacred centers
• Injury practices in a transformed society
• Litigation
• Justice
• Ming's injury narrative.

Diverse societies are now connected by globalization, but how do ordinary people feel about law as they cope day-to-day with a transformed world? Tort, Custom, and Karma examines how rapid societal changes, economic development, and integration into global markets have affected ordinary people's perceptions of law, with a special focus on the narratives of men and women who have suffered serious injuries in the province of Chiangmai, Thailand.This work embraces neither the conventional view that increasing global connections spread the spirit of liberal legalism, nor its antithesis that backlash to interconnection leads to ideologies such as religious fundamentalism. Instead, it looks specifically at how a person's changing ideas of community, legal justice, and religious belief in turn transform the role of law particularly as a viable form of redress for injury. This revealing look at fundamental shifts in the interconnections between globalization, state law, and customary practices uncovers a pattern of increasing remoteness from law that deserves immediate attention.
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• Family, law, and colonial modernity in Thailand
• Transnational justice
• Colonial law and Buddhist modernity in the Malay Muslim south
• The imperialism of monogamy in family law
• Crisis of wifedom
• Nationalism and male sexuality
• Subjects of history.

Unlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as Thailand was called until 1939) shared a great deal in common with both colonized states and imperial powers: its sovereignty was qualified by imperial nations while domestically its leaders pursued European colonial strategies of juridical control in the Muslim south. The creation of family law and courts in that region and in Siam proper most clearly manifests Siam's dualistic position. Demonstrating the centrality of gender relations, law, and Siam's Malay Muslims to the history of modern Thailand, Subject Siam examines the structures and social history of jurisprudence to gain insight into Siam's unique position within Southeast Asian history. Tamara Loos elaborates on the processes of modernity through an in-depth study of hundreds of court cases involving polygyny, marriage, divorce, rape, and inheritance adjudicated between the 1850s and 1930s. Most important, this study of Siam offers a novel approach to the question of modernity precisely because Siam was not colonized yet was subject to transnational discourses and symbols of modernity. In Siam, Loos finds, the language of modernity was not associated with a foreign, colonial overlord, so it could be deployed both by elites who favored continuation of existing domestic hierarchies and by those advocating political and social change.
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• Human rights treaties and Thailand
• The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and Thailand
• The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and Thailand
• The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and Thailand
• The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and Thailand
• The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, Or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) and Thailand
• The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and Thailand
• The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and Thailand
• The International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED) and Thailand
• The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CMW) and Thailand
• Orientations.

In this study titled The Core Human Rights Treaties and Thailand, Vitit Muntarbhorn examines the relationship between Thailand and the nine key human rights Conventions, known as the Core Human Rights Treaties, in addition to their Protocols. These agreements cover a range of civil, political, economic, social and cultural issues, in addition to the rights of specific groups. The study offers a mirror for reflection, testing the linkage between international standards and national implementation in a dynamic and challenging context.
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• Law-making and the Three Seals Code
• The Thammasat
• The palace law of Ayutthaya.

This book contains the first academic translations of key legal texts from the Ayutthaya era (1351-1767), along with an essay on the role of law in Thai history. The legal history of Southeast Asia has languished because few texts are accessible in translation. The Three Seals Code is a collection of Thai legal manuscripts surviving from the Ayutthaya era. The Palace Law, probably dating to the late fifteenth century, was the principal law on kingship and government. The Thammasat, a descendant of India's dharmasastra, stood at the head of the Code and gave it authority. Here these two key laws are presented in English translation for the first time along with detailed annotations and analyses of their content. The coverage of family arrangements, court protocol, warfare, royal women, and ceremonial conduct in the Palace Law presents a detailed portrayal of Siamese kingship, reaching beyond terms such as devaraja, thammaraja, and cakravartin. Close analysis of the Thammasat questions the assumption that this text has a long-standing and fundamental role in Thai legal practice. Royal lawmaking had a large and hitherto unappreciated role in the premodern Thai state. This book is an important contribution to Thai history, Southeast Asian history, and comparative legal studies.
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• Introduction
• General rules of civil law
• The law of obligations
• Contractual obligations
• Specific contracts
• Delictual obligations
• Quasi-contractual obligations
• The regulation of property
• Family law
• Law of inheritance.

Elements of Thai Civil Law is meant to serve as an introduction to the study of legal concepts and legal principles that apply to Thai civil law. It is designed to provide a concise and systematic overview of the norms regulating legal relationships between private persons in a clear and straightforward style that is understandable to readers unused to legal phraseology. Each chapter gives a detailed analysis of a particular area of Thai civil law as well as numerous examples of the main issues encountered in a legal practice. Subject coverage includes: the law of obligations, property law, family law and succession.
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