Towards a Rules-Based Community: An ASEAN Legal Service

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 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.

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• 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.