Many Asian legal systems have moved to modernise their systems of business law. This has usually meant that laws dealing with corporate debt or corporate insolvency have also been introduced or modernised. A seeming paradox is presented by this apparent commitment to the rule of law as is...

This paper examines insolvency law and practice in six Asian jurisdictions and is based on a socio-cultural study of the perceptions and practices of leading insolvency practitioners, officials and business people. The paper explores specific manifestations of “rule of law” as reflected in...

This is the introductory chapter to a book on Commercial Law in East Asia that examines scholarly interpretations of the role played by commercial law in East Asia's economic rise. Some decades ago, Asian commercial law was largely neglected in the writings of legal scholars. This was because...

The Asian and world financial crisis of the late 1990s has shown the limits of governments as the sole or even the primary contributor to policy debates regarding the development of commercial law and economic development. Non-governmental scholarly and professional groups have an important...