[CALS Researcher Toh Ding Jun Completes Research Visit to Melbourne Law School]

The Centre for Asian Legal Studies is delighted to announce that our Researcher, Toh Ding Jun, has successfully completed a two-week visiting stint to the Melbourne Law School (MLS) as part of the MLS’ Visiting Scholars Program. He was in residence from 15 to 26 September 2025 and was hosted by Professor Andrew Godwin, Joint Associate Director of the Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law (MCCL) and Associate Director (Asian Commercial Law) of the Asian Law Centre (ALC).

During his stay in Melbourne, Ding Jun participated in an internal research workshop where he presented his working paper titled ‘An Analysis of China’s Pre-Reorganisation Regime Under the New Enterprise Bankruptcy Law 2026’. This workshop was attended by faculty members from MLS, as well as researchers, postgraduate students, and research affiliates from both ALC and MCCL.

In his presentation, Ding Jun shared findings from research he has conducted since last year, analysing that analysing how China’s new Enterprise Bankruptcy Law – while framed as part of broader market-oriented reforms – continues to permit strong administrative intervention. He argued that such intervention is likely to persist, particularly in cases implicating social stability or posing risks to regional economic development.

Ding Jun was also invited by Ashurst’s Melbourne Office to give a talk titled ‘Recent Developments in Singapore’s Restructuring Landscape’ on Thursday, 25 September 2025. In this session, he traced the evolution of Singapore’s restructuring framework since the 2010s and shared his views on recent reform proposals concerning Singapore’s judicial management and schemes of arrangement regimes. The talk was well-attended by senior practitioners and concluded with a lively Q&A session.

The Centre congratulates Ding Jun on the successful completion of his visiting stint and thanks Professor Godwin, the MLS and Ashurst for their generous hospitality and collegial engagement throughout his stay in Melbourne.