List of tablesList of contributorsAcknowledgementsPreface1 The Creation of Greater Malaysia: Law, Politics, Ethnicity, and Religion Kevin Y. L. Tan2 Malaysia's Blocked Social Contract DebateRueban Ratna Balasubramaniam3 Dimensions of Ketuanan Melayu in the Malaysian Constitutional FrameworkWilson T. V. Tay4 'Nazrinian' Monarchy in Malaysia: The Resilience and Revival of a Traditional InstitutionAndrew Harding5 The Particular in the Universal: Negotiating the Right to Education and Cultural-Linguistic Rights of Minority Children in East MalaysiaJaclyn L. C. Neo6 Legal Pluralism in Malaysia: The Case of Iban Native Customary Rights in SarawakYogeswaran Subramaniam7 Religion, Conversions, and Custody: Battles in the Malaysian Appellate CourtsDian A. H. Shah8 The Rise of 'Islamic' Sexual Morality and State Power in MalaysiaTan Beng Hui9 Justice and Enforcement Agencies Personnel in Malaysia and their Views on Domestic Violence, Marriage, and Religion Noraida Endut and Intan Hashimah Mohamed Hashim10 Political and Religious Hegemony via the Suppression of Expression: Book Banning and Film Censorship in MalaysiaAzmi Sharom and Saw Tiong GuanIndex

"This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary examination of law and legal institutions in Malaysia. It examines legal issues from historical, social, and political perspectives, and discusses the role of law in relation to Malaysian multiculturalism, religion, politics, and society. It shows how the Malaysian legal system is at the heart of debates about how to deal with the country's problems, which include ethnic and religious divisions, uneven and unsustainable development, and political authoritarianism; and it argues that the Malaysian legal system has much to teach other plural polities, nations within the common law tradition, and federal states"--Page 4 of cover