Convergence and Divergence of Private Law in Asia

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.