This article explores the legalization characteristics of the investment rules of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Measured against orthodox and external benchmarks, ASEAN's investment regime is relatively limited. We make the following two arguments in this article. First,...

This article first conceptualizes the ASEAN Investment Regime (AIR) as an Interstate Cooperative Regime (ICR), defined as a stable interstate cooperative nexus on a particular regulative subject, comprising the regulation of foreign investment in this particular case. It then seeks to explain...

This Article observes that the recent jurisprudence between international trade and investment law is converging in a way which the free market value and public interests are duly reconciled. The Article contends that such jurisprudential convergence is structurally preordained yet historically...