The Developing World of Arbitration: A Comparative Study of Arbitration Reform in the Asia Pacific

This edited collection studies the recent emergence of Asia Pacific jurisdictions and looks at how they are developing into regional or international arbitration centres thanks to various reform efforts and initiatives.

This book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of the ways in which arbitration laws and practices are recently reformed in the Asia Pacific jurisdictions.

Leading contributors across the Asia Pacific region analyse twelve major jurisdictions representing varying patterns and degrees of development, whether top-down, bottom-up, or a hybrid. Setting the arbitration systems and reforms of each investigated jurisdiction in the context of its economic, political, and judicial dynamic, this book presents a first-time cross-jurisdiction comparative and contextual study of the developing world of arbitration in the Asia Pacific and contributes to the comparative international arbitration jurisprudence from a more Eastern perspective.

This book also aims to identify an Asia Pacific model of arbitration modernisation as distinct from the West and predicts the future trajectories of development and challenges in East-West arbitration competition.

This book will be an invaluable addition to the library of any academic and legal practitioner working on international arbitration.

table of content

Introduction: Towards a Model of Arbitration Reform in the Asia Pacific

Anselmo Reyes and Weixia Gu

1. China’s Arbitration Modernisation Under Judicial Efforts and Marketisation Waves

Weixia Gu

2. Balancing Procedural and Substantive Arbitration Reforms: Advancing International Arbitration Practice in Hong Kong

Shahla Ali

3. Cautious Optimism for Arbitration Reform in Taiwan

Nigel NT Li, Angela Y Lin and Jeffrey CF Li

4. Arbitration Reform in Japan: Reluctant Legislature and Institutional Challenges

Nobumichi Teramura and Luke Nottage

5. Arbitration Reform in Korea: At the Threshold of a New Era

Joongi Kim

6. Arbitration Reform in Malaysia: Adopting the Model Law

Lam Ko Luen

7. Making Arbitration Work in Singapore

Chan Leng Sun, SC

8. Philippine Arbitration Reform: Fresh Breathing Space from Congested Litigation

Arthur P Autea

9. Arbitration in Indonesia: Largely Dependable Recognition and Enforcement

Simon Butt

10. Arbitration Law and Practice in Vietnam: Fundamental Changes Over the Past 20 Years and Potential for the Future

Dang Xuan Hop

11. Arbitration Reform in India: Challenges and Opportunities

Hiro Naraindas Aragaki

12. The Reform of Commercial Arbitration in Australia: Recent and Prospective Developments

Leon Trakman