Towards a Rules-Based Community: An ASEAN Legal Service

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Part of Integration through Law The Role of Law and the Rule of Law in ASEAN Integration

Authors:
Jean-Claude Piris, Piris Consulting, SPRL
Walter Woon, National University of Singapore

Date Published: March 2015
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9781107495265

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In 2007, ASEAN adopted the ASEAN Charter, which stated its ambition to become a 'rules-based' community respecting the rule of law. In order to fulfil this objective, it is vital that the necessary legal infrastructure has effective legal support. This book helps readers to understand the need for and role of such a legal service. To begin with, it explores the way ASEAN and its various institutions have evolved. The current situation with respect to the making of rules and settlement of disputes is then analysed, drawing not only on published primary and secondary materials, but also on the experience of diplomats, officials and legal officers. Finally, the authors draw on their practical experiences, as former attorney-general of an ASEAN member state and former head of the European Council legal service, to make recommendations on how an ASEAN Legal Service might be organised.
- Analyses the development of ASEAN with respect to the making of rules and settlement of disputes: gives readers an understanding of 'the ASEAN way' and how this impacts on ASEAN's ambition to become a rules-based community respecting the rule of law
- Documents the practice of ASEAN in negotiating agreements and settling disputes: insider view from one of the authors who is a diplomat and former attorney-general of an ASEAN member state
- Makes recommendations on the functions and structure of an ASEAN legal service: draws heavily on the authors' practical experiences as a former attorney-general of an ASEAN member state and a former head of a legal service of the European Council
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Product details
- Date Published: March 2015
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107495265
- length: 238 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 139 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.38kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Note on the authors
General editors' preface
Preface
List of boxes
List of abbreviations
1. ASEAN as an organisation
2. Towards an ASEAN community
3. The ASEAN legal service
Executive summary
Annex: major ASEAN agreements and declarations
Index.
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Authors
Jean-Claude Piris, Piris Consulting, SPRL
Jean-Claude Piris is President of Piris Consuting (European and Public International Law), a retired French Conseiller d'Etat, a former diplomat to the UN and former Director of Legal Affairs at the OECD, and was Director General of the Legal Service of the Council of the European Union for over 20 years. He has written several books with Cambridge University Press, most recently The Future of Europe: Towards a Two-Speed EU? (2012).
Walter Woon, National University of Singapore
Walter Woon is currently David Marshall Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore, the Dean of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education and President of the Goethe Institute Singapore. He was formerly Attorney-General of Singapore, ambassador to the European Communities and several European countries, a member of the High-Level Task Force to draft the ASEAN Charter and a nominated Member of Parliament. Professor Woon specialises in company law, criminal law and international law.