THE AUTHORITATIVE SERIES ON ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY INTEGRATION THROUGH LAW: THE ROLE OF LAW AND THE RULE OF LAW IN ASEAN INTEGRATION
Cambridge University Press, part of the University of Cambridge, publishes peer-reviewed academic works in the humanities, social sciences and STM, today announced the launch of the law series “Integration Through Law: The Role of Law and the Rule of Law in ASEAN Integration.”
The General Editors of the series are Professor J.H.H. Weiler, President of the European University Institute and Dr. Tan Hsien-Li, Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore (CIL, NUS). This series is based on the ASEAN Integration Through Law project running out of CIL, NUS and co-directed by the two editors together with Associate Professor Michael Ewing-Chow, Head of Trade/Investment Law and Policy Group at CIL, NUS.
“We are delighted to partner with CIL in publishing the ‘Integration Through Law’ series. Currently some 30 titles are planned for the next three years,” said Steven Chong, Director of Market Development for Asia, Academic Publishing.
Steven highlighted that “about twelve peer-reviewed titles are scheduled to publish before the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) comes into being on 31 December 2015. We are confident that researchers, practitioners, policy makers, diplomats and private sector executives around the world will use these works to understand the AEC and discover opportunities for trade, development and investment in ASEAN. The mission of the Press is to widely disseminate knowledge of the highest standard and we are grateful to be working with CIL and the general editors to publish this ground-breaking research.”
Works in the series evaluate the community-building processes to date. It also offers a conceptual and policy toolkit for broader Asian thinking and planning of different legal and institutional models of economic and political regional integration in Southeast Asia.
The Asian and Western scholars participating in the project were divided up into six separate thematic strands to examine: (1) the general architecture and aspirations of ASEAN; (2) the governance and management of ASEAN: instruments, institutions, monitoring, compliance and dispute resolution; (3) the legal regimes in ASEAN; (4) the ASEAN Economic Community; (5) ASEAN and the World; and (6) the substantive law of ASEAN. The books will be available for purchase in both paperback and e-book formats.
For more information on the series, please visit http://www.cambridge.org/aitl
About the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) comprises the 10 member states of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam. ASEAN has undertaken intensified integration into the ASEAN Community through the Rule of Law and Institutions in its 2007 Charter.
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About the Centre for International Law
The Centre for International Law (CIL) was established in 2009 at the National University of Singapore’s Bukit Timah Campus in response to the growing need for international law expertise and capacity building in the Asia-Pacific region. CIL is a university-wide research centre that focuses on multidisciplinary research and works with other NUS or external centres of research and academic excellence. CIL collaborates very closely with the NUS Faculty of Law.
About the Project Co-Directors
Professor J.H.H. Weiler is President of the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. Prof. Weiler came to the EUI from New York University (NYU) Law School. At NYU he was University Professor as well as the European Union Jean Monnet Chair, Director of the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, and Co-Director of the Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization. He serves as Editor in Chief of the European Journal of International Law and the International Journal of Constitutional Law. He is also Professor at NUS and Honorary Professor at various universities, including University College London and the University of Copenhagen. Previously, he was law professor at the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School. He is a WTO and NAFTA Panelist. Prof. Weiler is author of numerous articles and books in the fields of international, comparative, and European law. His publications include: The Constitution of Europe – Do the New Clothes Have an Emperor? (Cambridge University Press, 1998, translated into eight languages); The EU, the WTO, and the NAFTA: Towards a Common Law of International Trade? (Academy of European Law, EUI, Florence/Oxford University Press, 2000); and The Worlds of European Constitutionalism (with Gráinne De Búrca) (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is currently completing a monograph The ASEAN Way – A Prolegomena to a Theory of Asian Legal Integration (Cambridge University Press) and a book on The Trial of Jesus. Weiler's research focus is on issues of European integration, ASEAN law and policy, trade and globalization, transnational governance and democracy, and the interface of law and religion.
Dr. Tan Hsien-Li is the Executive Director of the Integration Through Law (ITL) project and Senior Research Fellow at CIL-NUS. Prior to her CIL appointment, she was the Asian Society of International Law Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, NUS. Hsien-Li is also the NUS representative to the ASEAN Universities Network-Human Rights Education Network (AUN-HREN) and the Deputy Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law (Cambridge University Press). From 2007 to 2008, Hsien-Li was an APIC Ushiba Memorial ASEAN Fellow researching Japan’s human security foreign policy and its impact on Southeast Asia. Educated at the law schools of the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Nottingham, and NUS, Hsien-Li researches primarily on public international law, human rights, and peace and security issues in the ASEAN region. Her book, The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights: Institutionalising Human Rights in Southeast Asia, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. She is currently completing three monographs on ASEAN Dispute Settlement Mechanisms, ASEAN and Human Rights, and The Teloi and Ethoi of the ASEAN Way through the Documentary Analysis of ASEAN Instruments (Cambridge University Press).
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