ABSTRACT
The Asian financial crisis presents opportunities for further collaborative endeavour. These possibilities are beginning to be recognized in governmental bodies such as APEC and the Asian Development Bank. This theme is explored in this chapter. This area could also serve as the focus for further comparative research and analysis by socio-legal scholars interested in economic phenomena such as the process of economic law reform in Asia and its relationship to economic crisis and economic development. There is a major opportunity for ‘retooling’ legal institutions and bodies of commercial law across the Asian region. The chapter seeks to approach the task of analysis through a number of Asian socio-legal stories as they may tell us much about the issues facing the region and which remain to be fully explored by socio-legal researchers interested in economic law issues.
