ASEAN Consumer Law Harmonisation and Cooperation
Achievements and Challenges

The first Western-language research monograph detailing significant developments in key areas of consumer law and policy across Southeast Asia.

Luke Nottage (Author), Justin Malbon (Author), Jeannie Paterson (Author), Caron Beaton-Wells (Author)

9781108725828, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 September 2019

488 pages, 2 b/w illus. 3 tables
21.5 x 13.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.67 kg

'[an excellent example of how comparative law] scholarship can incisively deconstruct unfamiliar legal systems and make them more accessible to a wider audience ... [that] clearly exposes and explains the challenges which each system faces on its own terms ... an admirable achievement.' The Hon T. F. Bathurst AC, Chief Justice Of New South Wales, reproduced with permission at: https://japaneselaw.sydney.edu.au/2019/11/guest-blog-launch-by-bathurst-cj-of-asian-law-books/

This is the first Western-language research monograph detailing significant developments in consumer law and policy across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), underpinned by a growing middle class and implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community from 2016. Eight chapters examine consumer law topics within ASEAN member states (such as product safety and consumer contracts) and across them (financial and health services), as well as the interface with competition law and the nature of ASEAN as a unique and evolving international organisation. The authors include insights from extensive fieldwork, partly through consultancies for the ASEAN Secretariat, to provide a reliable, contextual and up-to-date analysis of consumer law and policy development across the region. The volume also draws on and contributes to theories of law and development in multiple fields, including comparative law, political economy and regional studies.

1. Introduction: backdrop and overarching perspectives
2. Theoretical perspectives on ASEAN and consumer law developments
3. Product safety law: fragmented regulation and emergent product liability regimes
4. Regulating consumer contracts in ASEAN: variation and change
5. Consumer financial services: what role for ASEAN?
6. Professional health services: ASEAN's trade liberalisation agenda
7. Integration with competition policies, laws and institutions: opportunities for ASEAN consumer protection
8. Key reflections and future directions.

Subject Areas: Contract law [LNCJ], Commercial law [LNCB], Company, commercial & competition law [LNC], Comparative law [LAM]