Over last two decades, we were witnessing the marked increase of trade and investment in Asia, especially intra-ASEAN and between China-ASEAN, inducing the establishment of many international arbitral institutions and promulgation of arbitration laws in the Member States. In which, Singapore...

This article is written to answer the question of how to apply the ASEAN Protocol of EnhancedDispute Settlement Mechanism (EDSM) 2004 to settle disputes concerning on the interpretationof ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement (ACIA) 2009. ACIA 2009 is a legal instrument which was designed to...

This paper conducts a detailed critical analysis of the dispute settlement mechanisms in ASEAN's external economic agreements with China, Japan and Korea by reviewing the main procedural rules of these mechanisms. The paper also discusses the difference among these agreements, and compares them...

This paper aims to answer the question why until now there is no single case every being brought to ASEAN dispute settlement system, from different angles. First, it analyzes whether there are lacking in the rules and procedures of the ASEAN Dispute Settlement System. Second, explores if the...

The WTO has not been able to recover since the collapse of the Doha Round in July 2008. Several ministerial conferences including the Buenos Aires meeting in December 2017 failed to reach agreement. The US Trump Administration launched a campaign to reform the WTO in 2018 and 2019. This book...

The objective of this work is to answer the questions that “What is the deadlock of ASEAN Dispute Settlement Mechanisms (ASEAN DSMs)?” and “Why can't ASEAN unlock it?” by comparative study between ASEAN DSMs and European Union Dispute Settlement Mechanisms (EU DSMs). A result of this...