Shaping the Future of Commercial Law in Asia: Making Great Ideas Work
Startup Failure
by Professor Elizabeth Pollman
Happening 16 April 2025, 5pm SGT
Jointly launched by the University of Chicago’s Center on Law and Finance, the Singapore Management University’s Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative, and the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law with the purpose of facilitating academic and policy discussions that can lead to the improvement of insolvency systems around the world.
The Asian Corporate Law Forum (ACLF) aims to be the preeminent organisation in the world for scholarship on corporate law and governance in Asia. The ACLF’s primary objective is to generate ground-breaking scholarship on Asian corporate law and governance to advance the understanding of corporate law and governance in Asia and around the world.
A Global Platform Created to Serve the International Insolvency Community by Promoting Cooperation and Cutting-Edge Research in Insolvency and Restructuring Law
To drive transformative change through futures-focused interdisciplinary legal research that offers cutting edge solutions to sustainability challenges.
We need to talk about… Regulating AI in International Arbitration
Welcome to the Centre for Commercial Law in Asia (CCLA)
CCLA aims to advance commercial growth in Asia marked by
sustainability, inclusion and innovation, through excellent research.
We conduct and facilitate research in all areas of commercial law, with focus on its application, development and impact in Asia.
We aim to be a platform for generating great ideas and making these great ideas work, by promoting academic debates and active engagement, with government, practice and industry at international, regional and national levels.
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Publication: Reinventing Insolvency Law in Emerging Economies
Read our new book Reinventing Insolvency Law in Emerging Economies (Cambridge University Press)
King's Law Journal, Volume 35, Issue 1 (2024)
Read our Special Issue of King's Law Journal, Volume 35, Issue 1 (2024), containing eight articles, each exploring the theme of 'innovation and reform in the law of trusts'. (King's Law Journal)
Publication: Trusts and Private Wealth Management
Read our new book Trusts and Private Wealth Management: Developments and Directions (Cambridge University Press)
Publication: COVID-19 and International Business and Economic Law
Read this new publication COVID-19 and International Business and Economic Law (Academy Publishing)
Publication: Convergence and Divergence of Private Law in Asia
Find out more about Convergence and Divergence of Private Law in Asia, edited by Gary Low (Cambridge University Press)
