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• Impact of globalization on international legal practice
• Background and legal framework of arbitration in East Asia and the West
• The emergence of arbitral institutions in East Asia
• A survey of arbitration and settlement in international commercial disputes in Asia
• Case statistics and case studies on conciliated arbitration awards
• Conclusion: Reconciling global harmonization and cultural diversity in the context of international arbitration in East Asia.

How diverse cultures approach conflict in the context of the integration of global markets is a new arena for research and practice. To date, most of the research on international arbitration has focused exclusively on Western models of arbitration as practiced in Europe and North America. While such studies have accurately reflected the geographic foci of international arbitration practice in the late twentieth century, the number of international arbitrations conducted in East Asia has recently been growing steadily and on par with growth in Western regions. Resolving Disputes in the Asia-Pacific Region presents empirical research about the attitudes and perceptions of over 115 arbitrators, judges, lawyers and members of the rapidly expanding arbitration community in China, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Singapore, and Malaysia as well as North America and Europe. The book covers both international commercial arbitration and "alternative" techniques such as mediation, providing an empirical analysis of how both types of dispute resolution are conducted in the East Asian context. The book examines the history and cultural context surrounding preferred methods of dispute resolution in the East Asian region and sheds light on the various approaches to international arbitration across these diverse regions. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international arbitration and dispute resolution, comparative and Asian law, as well as anyone dealing with potential conflict in international business relationships in East Asia.
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• 1. Introduction
• Part I. Judicial Reform Enterprise: 2. History and context
• 3. Nature of reforms and critique
• 4. Theories of reform
• 5. Empirical evidence
• Part II. Evaluation: 6. Development evaluation
• 7. Evaluating judicial reform
• Part III. Case Studies of the Asian Reform Experience: 8. ADB's judicial reform experience in Asia: 1990-2007
• 9. AUSAID'S program in Papua New Guinea: 2003-7
• 10. Voices of the Asian Pacific experience
• 11. Conclusions
• Annex A. Frameworks of measurement
• Annex B. Empirical methodology and justification
• Annex C. AUSAID inventory of documents
• Annex D. Sample extracts of PNG newspapers: 2003-4.
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Despite the disappointing results of fifty years of judicial reform, evidence from Asia suggests that a shift in justice reform efforts could result in important progress being made. Livingston Armytage argues that reform should focus on promoting fairness and equity, as opposed to economic growth and good governance. Justice is constitutive to human wellbeing and cannot be trumped by economics. Finding a balance between utility and aggregate wellbeing on the one hand and equity and individual wellbeing on the other is at the crux of this important book.
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• Introduction
• History and context
• Nature and critique of reforms
• Theories of reform
• Empirical evidence
• Evaluating aid
• Evaluating judicial reform
• ADB's judicial reform experience in Asia : 1990-2007
• AusAID's program in Papua New Guinea, 2003-2007
• Voices of the Asia Pacific experience
• The way forward.

Despite the disappointing results of fifty years of judicial reform, evidence from Asia suggests that a shift in justice reform efforts could result in important progress being made. Livingston Armytage argues that reform should focus on promoting fairness and equity, as opposed to economic growth and good governance. Justice is constitutive to human wellbeing and cannot be trumped by economics. Finding a balance between utility and aggregate wellbeing on the one hand and equity and individual wellbeing on the other is at the crux of this important book.
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• Contents: Preface
• Overview
• Part I Post-TRIPS Issues in Intellectual Property Law-Making: Intellectual property in ASEAN: a survey
• Intellectual property in China: a review
• Harmonization of intellectual property laws in ASEAN
• Intellectual property law-making in developing countries in the new century
• Asian perspectives on post-TRIPS issues in intellectual property
• A comparative review of intellectual property in East Asia and Africa. Part II The Backlash Against Further Extension of Intellectual Property: Intellectual property enforcement in Asia
• The economics of intellectual property enforcement in Asia: who should pick up the bills?
• Free-trade agreements as surrogates for 'TRIPS plus'
• Do Asian nations take intellectual property rights seriously?
• Intellectual property and the 'WIPO development agenda'
• Intellectual property and the 'digital divide'
• Towards alternative policy frameworks
• References
• Index.
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This book critically reviews the recurrent debate on Intellectual Property law and policy in developing countries carried out in the last decade. It identifies the still unresolved policy issues and proposes alternative approaches that resonate with the needs for transformation of the economic and social reality of developing countries. Focusing on emerging economies in Asia, the work draws the wider lessons to be learnt by researchers, policy makers, legislators and the business sector in general and concludes by putting forward proposals for reform.
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• Contents: Preface
• Overview
• Part I Post-TRIPS Issues in Intellectual Property Law-Making: Intellectual property in ASEAN: a survey
• Intellectual property in China: a review
• Harmonization of intellectual property laws in ASEAN
• Intellectual property law-making in developing countries in the new century
• Asian perspectives on post-TRIPS issues in intellectual property
• A comparative review of intellectual property in East Asia and Africa. Part II The Backlash Against Further Extension of Intellectual Property: Intellectual property enforcement in Asia
• The economics of intellectual property enforcement in Asia: who should pick up the bills?
• Free-trade agreements as surrogates for 'TRIPS plus'
• Do Asian nations take intellectual property rights seriously?
• Intellectual property and the 'WIPO development agenda'
• Intellectual property and the 'digital divide'
• Towards alternative policy frameworks
• References
• Index.
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This book critically reviews the recurrent debate on Intellectual Property law and policy in developing countries carried out in the last decade. It identifies the still unresolved policy issues and proposes alternative approaches that resonate with the needs for transformation of the economic and social reality of developing countries. Focusing on emerging economies in Asia, the work draws the wider lessons to be learnt by researchers, policy makers, legislators and the business sector in general and concludes by putting forward proposals for reform.
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• Towards a global constitutional gene pool / Cheryl Saunders
• Emergence of Asian constitutionalism : features in comparison / Jiunn-Rong Yeh
• Plenary session I : constitutional governance and global economic crisis
• Liberal democracy in state of emergency : seen by standing on the shoulders of Carl Schmitt / Hong Sik Cho
• Images of the market : is competitive de-regulation inescapable? / Yasuo Hasebe
• Philippine constitutional framework for economic emergency : expanding the welfare state, restricting the national security apparatus / Raul C. Pangalangan
• Constitutionalism in times of economic strife : developments in Singapore / Kevin YL Tan
• Economic crisis and political crisis in Thailand : past and present
• Plenary session II : interfaces of international human rights law and domestic constitution
• An isolated nation with global-minded citizens : bottom-up transnational constitutionalism in Taiwan / Wen-Chen Chang
• International human rights law and domestic constitutional law : internationalisation of constitutional law in Hong Kong / Albert H.Y. Chen
• Reception and resistance : globalisation, international law and the Singapore Constitution / Li-ann Thio.

• Introduction / Junji Nakagawa
• China's approach towards investment agreements and its interests involved in international investment rule-making / Wei Yin
• Investment dispute-settlement trends between Far-East and Ibero-America / Alejandro Garcia Jiménez
• Defending the undefendable : Asia's sovereignist battles against easy access to investment treaty arbitration / Relja Radvić
• Will Asia breathe life into a multilateral investment court? : thoughts on the feasibility and design of a new, stand-alone court / Celine Lévesque
• Rethinking the role of labour provisions under Asian international investment regime : a possible linkage with FTAAP? / Zheng Lizhen
• In the habit of giants : fair and equitable treatment and structural risk factors in conglomerate-led newly industrialized countries / Soo-Hyun Lee
• Objective criteria and ratione legis condition in the definition of investment : global trends and the Chinese practice / G. Matteo Vaccaro-Incisa
• The ASEAN comprehensive investment agreement approach to due process : does arbitral case law matter? / Fulvio Maria Palombino and Giovanni Zarra
• The role of non-disputing contracting party's expression of intention in investment arbitration : observation on the PRC letters in the saga of Sanum v. Laos / Tianshu Zhang.

With changes to the international investment law landscape and Asian countries now actively developing their network of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and free trade agreements (FTAs), this volume studies issues relating to Asian perspectives on international investment law and forecasts the future of Asian contribution to its science and practice. The book discusses the major factors that have been driving Asian countries to new directions in international investment rule-making and dispute settlement. It also looks at whether Asian countries are crafting a new model of international investment law to reflect their specific socio-cultural values. Finally, the book examines whether there are any `Asian' styles of international investment rule-making and dispute settlement, or if individual Asian countries are seeking specific national `models' based on economic structure and geopolitical interests. This unique collection is exceptionally useful to students, scholars and practitioners of international investment law, international trade law and public international law.
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• Introduction
• The Mekong River Basin
• Legal and institutional framework
• A retrospective look at tributary watercourse law in the Mekong and other selected legal regimes
• Mekong tributaries : selected case studies
• The Mekong : the archetypal disserved river basin
• A flawed vision? : deficiencies in the Mekong legal regime
• Conclusion: Demarginalizing tributaries and shifting the Mekong legal and policy paradigm : a proposal for the way ahead.

In Following the Proper Channels: Tributaries in the Mekong Legal Regime, Bennett Bearden offers in-depth policy and legal analyses of the marginalization of tributaries in the context of the 1995 Agreement on the Cooperation for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong River Basin, law of international watercourses, hydrosovereignty, and the national economic development interests of the Mekong riparians. As a problem-based study, enlightening conclusions are made based on the increasingly state-centric nature of water resources management in the Mekong region through pursuit of national agendas in the unilateral and bilateral development of tributaries. The overarching legal and hydropolicy issue is whether states can simultaneously pursue hydrosovereignty on tributaries and ensure the Mekong legal regime's efficacy to achieve holistic water resources management and basin-wide governance.
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