The book “Law Reforms Around the World: Perspectives from National and International Law” edited by STL Professor Asif H. Qureshi has now been published by the leading global publisher Routledge Press. The book is based on a conference organized at STL in 2022 involving some 36 academics, professionals and international civil servants drawing from legal experiences in countries from Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, Latin America and the USA including the AIIB, IMF and the UN International Law Commission. An important chapter in the book titled “Mapping of World Law Reform Institutions” was jointly written by Manyun LI, Zhuangxu LI and Minghao HU from the class of 2021 of STL.
Book Link: https://www.routledge.com/Law-Reforms-Around-the-World-Perspectives-from-National-and-International/Qureshi/p/book/9781032359861
Professor Asif H. Qureshi is a leading authority in Public International Law and International Economic Law, with decades of academic teaching, scholarly research, and global consultancy expertise. He has critically evaluated received wisdom, spearheaded ground-breaking research, empowered learners, and contributed to global policy development across a diverse and constantly evolving international landscape. He joined STL in 2021. Between 2012 and 2021 he was a tenured Professor at Korea University, Korea. Prior to that, he was a tenured Professor at the University of Manchester, UK. He is a barrister attached to Quadrant Chambers in London, UK and has served as a consultant to various governments and international organizations.
This book takes a holistic approach to national and international Law Reform including the very apparatus of Law Reform existing in Common Law and Civil jurisdictions as well as at the international level. Law Reform focuses on the codification and progressive development of law. The book encapsulateswhatLaw Reform needs, emphasizing thesignificance of creating a discreet space for Law Reform that is occupied with normative self-generation, self-correction, and self-adaptation in the very anatomy of law and the architecture of legal systems. Professor Asif H. Qureshinotes that this ‘living dynamic trait’ should be a hallmark of the genetic material in the modern-day institution of law. This edited volume sheds light on Law Reform in its domestic, comparative, regional, and international settings. It examines the process of Law Reform and explains the need for a constant appraisal to keep its wheels optimally operational. The book takes a holistic approach to understanding Law Reform and calls for such an approach in the very process of Law Reform. It begins by looking at Law Reform processes from a theoretical perspective. Thereafter, it sheds light on domestic Law Reform processes in civil and common law legal systems. This is followed by a focus on Law Reform at the international level with a critical appraisal of the UN International Law Commission (ILC), drawing on its performance in international economic and environmental law. Included in this consideration is also the role played in Law Reform by the IMF, World Trade Organization/World Intellectual Property Organization, Multilateral Development Banks, and the African Union Commission on International Law.
Established in 2008, STL has assembled an outstanding multinational faculty of scholars, and its curriculum and educational model are forward-looking and focused on the needs of practice. STL has always been dedicated to cultivating high-end foreign-related legal talents with international vision and global competitiveness, who are capable of meeting the challenges of the new world. This volume follows the development trend of the worldwide legal practice, should appeal to students, serious scholars, policy makers, judges, and the community of national and international lawyers interested in bringing effective reform in the national and international arenas. This book will serve as an important reference in the area of national and international law reform and contribute to the global debate in this discreet but important discipline.
Written by：CHEN Shiyu, CHEN Ruyue
