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Multi-Level, Recursive Law and Development: Singapore’s Legal Role in ASEAN

Year of Publication: 2018
Month of Publication: 11
Author(s): Andrew J Harding
Research Area(s): Constitutional and Administrative Law
Journal Name: Asian Journal of Law and Society
Volume Number: 5
Issue Number: 2
Abstract:

“Developed” states tend to reflect their own development experience in their dealings with “less developed” states, encouraging replication of their own solutions and processes. This is “recursive” law and development (LAD). This article examines the role of Singapore in LAD processes in the ASEAN region. It finds that Singapore’s LAD efforts are recursive and focused on rule-of-law and governance training, including especially anti-corruption methods. These are conducted not via a special agency, but via co-operation that is multilevel, multidimensional, and untrumpeted. LAD can learn lessons from this approach.

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