Globalisation, Lawyers and the State

10 See generally on the French tradition of protest, Patrick Pelloux, Histoire d’urgences (2000).

11 Henri Astier, ‘Does French ‘people power’ rule OK?’ BBC News 14 November 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7094525.stm.

12 See eg ‘Amnesty condemns Malaysian arrest’ BBC News 15 January 2000,http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/604678.stm; ‘Lawyers march for Anwar defender’ BBC News 4 December 1998, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/asia-pacific/227775.stm; ‘Anwar sex case flawed’ BBC News 10 July 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/827154.stm; ‘Lawyers fight back’ BBC News 25 March 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/690346.stm.

13 See generally ‘Malaysia’s lingering ethnic divide’ BBC News 3 December 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr.fr/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7121534.stm. See also ‘Malaysia Hindu activists arrested’ BBC News 23 November 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7109849.stm; ‘Malaysia police break up rally’ BBC News 25 November 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7111646; ‘Scores charged over Hindu rally’ BBC News 28 November 2007.http://new.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7117251.stm; ‘Malaysia charges ethnic Indians’ BBC News 4 December 2007, http;//new.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7126804.stm.

14 See generally ‘Malaysia: Islam and multi-culturalism’ BBC News 7 February 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-1/hi/asia-pacific/4232451.stm. See also the remarks of a non-Muslim MP, Fong Po Kuan in ‘Pressure on multi-faith Malaysia’ BBC News 16 May 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4965580.stm. See a positive view of developments in Greg Sheridan, ‘Malaysia evolution going by unnoticed’ Weekend Australian 17-18 2008, 22.

15 See ‘Pressure on multi-faith Malaysia’ BBC News 16 May 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4965580.stm.

16 See ‘Malaysia PM issues demo warning’ BBC News 27 November 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7114854.stm.

17 See ‘Police chief guilty of Anwar assault’ BBC News 14 March 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/676669.stm; ‘Black eye for justice’ BBC News 15 March 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/678217.stm; ‘Anwar’s brother: threats forced sex confession’ BBC News 30 June 1999, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/382110.stm.

18 See generally Gill H Boehringer, ‘Philippine ‘Elections’? Democracy subverted’ (2007) 32(3) Alternative Law Journal 172; ‘Terror Behind Sham Democracy’, www.bulatlat.com June 24-30 (2007) VII(20); ‘Resistance to Killings as Arroyo falters’, www.bulatlat.com August 19-25 (2007) VII(28).

19 See http://nupl.wordpress.com/. See the report of the Founding Congress, www.arkibongbayan.org/2007-09sept16-nuplcongressept16.htm.

20 See generally www.supremecourt.gov.ph/publications/summit/index.php.

21 For the text of the rules of the Writ of Amparo, see http://philippines.ahrchk.net/pdf/writofAmparo.pdf ; and see www.hrsolidarity.net/mainfile.php/2007vol17no06/2595/.

22 See generally Isaac Balbus, Dialectics of Legal Repression: Black Rebels before the American criminal courts (1973).

23 Vera Butler, ‘The Dialectics of Change: From Imperialism to Hegemonism’ Australian Socialist (2007-2008) 16(4) 18,19. See also Boaventura De Sousa Santos and Cesar A Rodriguez-Garavito (eds), Law and Globalization from Below (2005); Alison Brysk (ed), Globalization and Human Rights (2002); Tony Evans, The Politics of Human Rights (2001); Costas Douzinas, The End of Human Rights: Critical Legal Thought at the Turn of the Century (2000).

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