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Law as Social Engineering in Singapore: `Smart' Laws in the
Intelligent Island
Abstract:
The development of Singapore law has been an outcome of its
peculiar history, geography and politics. The ideology of
social discipline has profoundly affected this development: law
has been seen primarily as an instrument of social engineering
rather than as the expression of a particular balance of
principles defined politically or culturally and regarded as
the embodiment of justice. The development of the region's
legal systems along the lines of Singapore's is unlikely
because of the growth of democracy movements.