Central Asian Law

Alkon, Cynthia. “The Increased Use of Reconciliation in Criminal Cases in Central Asia: A Sign of Reform or Cause for Concern?” 19th International Conference of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law (2005), http://www.isrcl.org/.

Sections: Introduction; Why is Reform needed?; The Current State of the Law in Central Asia Regarding the Use of Reconciliation; Current Reconciliation Practices; Conclusion

Boyle, L. R. “Three’s Company: Examining the Third-Party Problem through an Analysis of Bridas S.A.P.I.C. V. Government of Turkmenistan.” Houston Law Review 45, no. 1 (2008): 261-86.

Sections: Introduction; Overview of International Arbitration; Statement of the Case; Analysis

Clouatre, Douglas. “Turkmenistan.” In Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia, edited by Herbert M. Kritzer, 1663-69. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.

Sections: Country Information, History, Turkmenistan Government and Judiciary, Legal Structure of Turkmenistan Courts, Privatization Law, Individual Rights in Turkmenistan, Legal Training, Impact of the Law

Galemba, David. “The Authoritarian Roadblock on Post-Soviet Central Asia’s Long Road to Religious Freedom.” Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion 8 (2007): 1-33.

Sections: Introduction; Historical Overview of Religion in Central Asia; The Authoritarian Roadblock: Paranoid Leaders and their Constraint on Religious Freedom; The Endless Cycle: Oppression Begets Extremism Begets Oppression; Conclusion

Kangas, Roger D. “Legal Reform in Central Asia: Battling the Influence of History.” In In the Tracks of Tamerlane: Central Asia’s Path to the 21st Century, edited by Daniel L. Burghart and Theresa Sabonis-Helf, 65-91. Washington, DC: Center For Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, 2004.

Sections: Legal Antecedents (The Pre-Russian Legacy; Russian and Soviet-era Law); Respective Frameworks of Legal Regimes
in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, The Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan); Basic Dilemmas and Reform Efforts (Challenges; Efforts at Reform); Conclusion

Kelly, Christina M. “The United States and Turkmenistan: Striking a Balance between Promoting Religious Freedom and Fighting the War against Terrorism.” Pace International Law Review 15, no. 2 (2003): 481-511.

Sections: Introduction; Turkmenistan; The International Religious Freedom Act; Turkmenistan is a Country of Particular Concern and Should Be So Designated; Conclusion

“Central Asia.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law, edited by Jonathan Brown. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012.

Sections: Introduction to Region, Kazakhstan, The Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Bibliography

O’Shea, Brian J. “Out of Gas in Turkmenistan: The Stalled Commercial Law Reform of a Post-Soviet State.” International Lawyer 35 (2001): 1051-68.

Sections: Introduction; The Main Determinants of Turkmenistan’s Transition; Commercial Law Regime; Doing Business in Turkmenistan Today;

Shaver, Lynn. “The Revocation of Dual Citizenship in Turkmenistan.” Human Rights Brief 11, no. 1 (2003): 5-7.

Sections: Background; Niyazov’s Elimination of “Betrayers of the Motherland”; Revocation of the 1993 Dual Citizenship Agreement; Compliance with Turkmen and International Law; Conclusion

Sievers, Eric W. “The Caspian, Regional Seas, and the Case for a Cultural Study of Law.” Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 13, no. 2 (2001): 361-415.

Sections: The Largest Lake on the Planet; A Traditional American Analysis; A Cultural Analysis; Conclusion: Caspian Black Boxes and Black Gold