introductory chapter for our 13-volume book (Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia, forthcoming in … Arbitration in Asia: Five Perspectives on Law and Practice (Luke Nottage and J. Romesh Weeramantry) - A Passive Player in … overview of economic development and foreign investment in Asia, including the ASEAN sub-region, as well as the most recent …

– and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region – to rebalance private and public interests in the ISA system. However … states in Asia already or potentially negotiating treaties with Australia – including Japan and China – are also unlikely to …

This article considers how private international law in Asia and Hong Kong is developing and should be developed … law with Asia “as a method” – calling for Asian law to be recognised as an equal to its Western counterpart and to be …

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement was signed in February 2016 by 12 Asia-Pacific economies that already … account for 40% of world GDP, including the United States, Japan and Australia. If ratified, economists model significant … practices in Asia and Oceania, including current and possible future TPP states. It shows how many have now weathered occasional …

a comparative sample of countries along a geographical route linking Asia with Europe and vice versa, vaguely … the perspective of the dynamics of the functional systems of world society rather than from a normative legal perspective … world society, such as families (the family system), economics (the economic system), politics (the political system), civil …

since the terrorist attacks on the United States of 11 September 2001. Asia is no exception, although the roots of counter … in Asia are very wide indeed. As such, this article will examine a number of key counter-terrorism legal initiatives at … the regional level in Asia …

, and armed conflict as well as government and civil society responses to the impacts of these markets. In Asia, these … infrastructure development and increased wealth. Traditional crime groups have re-vitalized and new entrepreneurial crime groups have … trafficking) in Asia and worldwide. These developments have triggered extreme responses, such as Philippines' President Duterte …

States across Asia have long engaged in international investment treaty making, and to a lesser extent in investor … BITs and press out in new directions. This paper details Asia's trajectory towards becoming more of a “law maker” by …