Convergence and Divergence of Private Law in Asia

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.

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.