In recent years, China's ‘Go Global' policy has encouraged Chinese companies to go abroad to invest; inevitably this increased investment activity has generated a range of tensions and commercial disputes. The legal cultures that have shaped the mind-sets of parties to these commercial...

Many Asian legal systems have moved to modernise their systems of business law. This has usually meant that laws dealing with corporate debt or corporate insolvency have also been introduced or modernised. A seeming paradox is presented by this apparent commitment to the rule of law as is...

This paper examines insolvency law and practice in six Asian jurisdictions and is based on a socio-cultural study of the perceptions and practices of leading insolvency practitioners, officials and business people. The paper explores specific manifestations of “rule of law” as reflected in...