Legal Thoughts between the East and the West in the Multilevel Legal Order

This book focuses on the interaction and the mutual influences between the East and the West in their legal systems and practices. It does so by highlighting Professor Herbert Han-Pao Ma's achievements and his efforts in bridging the Eastern and the Western legal thoughts and systems together. The book shows that while there are convergences of different legal regimes in many fields of law, diverse legal practices and approaches rooted to various cultural, social, political and philosophical backgrounds do exist and that these differences are not necessarily negative elements in the contemporary legal order. By covering different levels of legal order, including domestic, regional and multilateral, the book goes on to argue that identifying these diversities and addressing the interactions and mutual influences between different regimes should be valuable not only in their mutual enrichment, but also in the enhancement of possible and desirable coordination between different legal systems. Chapters included in the book are authored by leading experts, practitioners and scholars from different jurisdictions with expertise in various fields of law, and different levels of legal order, to discuss a number of issues with particular focus on either one-way or mutual influence between the Eastern and the Western legal systems, practices or philosophies.

Chang-fa Lo is Justice of the Constitutional Court, Taiwan, R.O.C. He is also chairman of the Asia WTO Research Network (AWRN). He was Chair Professor and Lifetime Distinguished Professor at NTU; Dean of NTU Law; Director of Asian Center for WTO and International Health Law and Policy of NTU Law (ACWH). His fields include trade law, public health, competition law and arbitration. He received SJD degree from Harvard. He was appointed by panelist for two WTO cases. He is author/editor of 16 books and about 100 journal papers. Nigel Li is a practicing attorney specializing in dispute resolution and arbitration, media law, human and civil rights, international litigation and constitutional law. He also teaches constitutional law, human rights, ADR and international arbitration. He was Chairman of the Chinese Arbitration Association and President of the Taipei Bar Association. He sits on the Board of the Judicial Reform Foundation. He has involved in numerous Constitutional Court's cases. He received LL.M. degrees from Harvard and NTU. Tsaiyu Lin is professor at NTU College of Law and the Director of ACWH. Professor Lin has actively published books and articles in the areas of WTO laws, international investment Law and international health law. She is also the executive secretary of AWRN and commissioner of Taiwan's International Trade Commission. She is senior member of Editorial Committees of two English journals published by the ACWH. Professor Lin currently advises Taiwan Government on trade and public health issues.