ASEAN's Liberalization of Legal Services: The Singapore Case
This article examines the liberalization of legal services in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (“ASEAN”) within the framework of the ASEAN Economic Community and ASEAN’s free trade agreements. Although trade in legal services is important to ASEAN’s goal as a “single market and production base,” the article challenges the weaknesses of ASEAN’s legal services liberalization. It then explores Singapore’s experiment on the regulations of foreign law firms and foreign lawyers, which have become substantially liberalized in the past decade. The article argues that while Singapore may serve as a positive example, ASEAN countries should be cautious of the gap between Singapore’s legal framework and the actual practice of foreign law firms. By analyzing the Singaporean concepts of Formal Law Alliances, Joint Law Ventures and Qualifying Foreign Law Practices, the article provides recommendations for ASEAN governments and legal communities for liberalization in the legal services sector.
INTERNATIONALIZING LEGAL EDUCATION: A COOPERATIVE TOOL IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD
The term “globalization” has been applied to everything from economics and technology to social media and market trends. Its use has become somewhat of a cliche1, and it is almost impossible to read a treatment of globalization that does not acknowledge the ambivalence and hyperbole surrounding the term. The phrase “globalization of legal education” has the power to conjure visions of sophisticated lawyers-in-the-making jockeying for positions in transnational mega firms, or interning at international courts and dreaming of combating injustice on an international scale. It has been posited that a working knowledge of the global legal landscape is as indispensible to today’s legal graduate as a working knowledge of digital technological advances.2 Can law really be taught at a global scale, or is it still the province of domestic authority? A global lawyer may work in numerous jurisdictions, or at least one different from where they were taught. How does their education prepare them for that possibility? Can a global lawyer work in foreign jurisdictions in matters of private law? Is the “globalization of legal education” just a marketing equivocation for classes conducted in a common language, or about the international legal regime – or is there something substantively and pedagogically distinctive about the endeavor? How should global legal education translate into practice in 2015? This paper endeavors to explore the intersection between globalization of law and globalization of legal education.
La inseguridad jurídica en normas de contratación estatal
It is established by different studies that the issue of government procurement has been marred by several factors, the test objective to publicize these factors, we take as starting point the constant conflict between the branches of government to try and organize this subject; will collect and analyze diverse regulatory and case material in order to achieve evidence and demonstrate the different concepts of constant change that produces excessive regulation of the subject procurement and is in turn causing rapid changes that result in legal uncertainty for our law on the Contract Status.