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Tim Lindsey1 and which Jayasuriya (2002) identifies as constituting the ‘Post Washington Consensus’(PWC), the mutation of a pre-crisis ‘Washington Consensus’ that focused more on economic, rather than legal, institutions. However, while this very general reading of the institutional and statutory subject matter covered by the rubric ‘strengthening of legal infrastructure’may be more or less agreed, there is no such consensus as to exactly how it might best be implemented. Instead, there are diverse approaches that often show few direct links to the large body of contested literature in this field, particularly among donor agencies.

This chapter will therefore reflect on the problems encountered in implementing legal infrastructure reform, in light of the current theory and recent experience in East Asia. Obviously, this is too broad a topic to cover in a single chapter and so the chief focus will be the ambitious raft of legal …