Tan Hsien-Li is the Executive Director of the 'ASEAN: Integration Through Law' project at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, which investigates the role of law and the rule of law in Asian legal integration.

• 1. Charting the human rights institutionalisation process in Southeast Asia; 2. Enough of 'Asian values': roots of the ASEAN states' reticence towards human rights; 3. Self-determination and democracy: the human rights experiences of five ASEAN states; 4. Instituting the Regional Rights Regime: the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights and the role of civil society; 5. Human rights understanding between the ASEAN region and the United Nations: convergence, regional cohesion and national responsibility; 6. The unexplored aspect of human rights: what ASEAN needs to understand about the right to development; 7. Sustaining AICHR's substantive empowerment: implementation, integration, and international law.