Overview

There have been an increasing need for greater integration of many Asian economies, either within the confines of ASEAN or on a more geo-economically strategic scale including major Asian jurisdictions like China, Japan, and Korea. A number of key personalities within the regional legal fraternity have advanced views that such integration ought to occur through the harmonization of legal rules, arguing that in doing so, uncertainty and other transaction costs would be reduced and commercial confidence within the region concomitantly increased. This edited volume brings together eminent and promising scholars and practitioners to investigate what convergence and divergence means in their respective fields and for Asia. Interwoven in the details of each tale of convergence is whether and how convergence ought to take place, and in so choosing, what are the attendant consequences for that choice.

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Author:   Gary Low
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9781108475150

ISBN 10:   1108475159
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   24 February 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Gary Low; 2. Uniform law and the production and circulation of legal models Luca Castellani; 3. Convergence, divergence and diversity in financial law: The experience of the UNCITRAL model law and cross-border insolvency Andrew Godwin; 4. The New York convention and the UNCITRAL model law on international commercial arbitration: Existing models for legal convergence in Asia? Michael Hwang; 5. Convergences and divergences: Comparing contractual and organizational models in international regulatory cooperation Fabrizio Cafaggi; 6. Law as a market standard: Voluntary unification in contract and company law Andreas Engert; 7. Is the harmonisation of Asian contract law possible? The example of the European Union Mateja Durovic and Geraint Howells; 8. The presumption of regularity in Chinese corporate contracting: Evidence and the prospect of regional convergence Charles Zhen Qu; 9. Mind the gap: Studying the implementation discrepancy for the ASEAN economic community Sanchita Basu Das; 10. The rule of law as key to the ASEAN legal order: How can it be ensured? Francis Jacobs; 11. How Asian should Asian law be? Ralf Michaels.

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Gary Low is Vice-President (Legal & Regulatory Engagement) for e-commerce platform Lazada Group. He read for law at the LSE (LLB First Class Honours), Oxford (BCL, Distinction), and Maastricht (PhD). He was Justices' Law Clerk of the Supreme Court of Singapore, and shortly thereafter practised shipping and commercial law at Rajah & Tann LLP. Formerly on faculty at Tilburg, Maastricht and SMU, Gary has held visiting appointments at Cornell, Keio and CEU. Before becoming an in-house counsel, he was Deputy Senior State Counsel at the Attorney-General's Chambers.

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