Centre for Asian Legal Studies

Welcome & Overview


Welcome to the webpage for the Independent Directors in Asia conference, which will be held at NUS Law on 26-27 February 2015.

This Conference builds upon an extremely successful conference organized by Professor Harald Baum from the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law on 17-18 July 2014 in Berlin. At the Berlin conference it became abundantly clear that although there is a significant literature on independent directors generally, the vast majority of it views the issue through an Anglo-American (Western) lens. While independent directors (in various forms) have been transplanted into all of Asia's leading economies, there has been no detailed comparison within Asia of the role that independent directors play (or should play) in Asia's leading economies. The goal of this conference is to extend on the findings from the Berlin conference to produce a book to fill this gap in the literature.

I welcome you to explore this webpage to learn more about the Conference and our book project.

Best regards,

Dan W. Puchniak
Associate Professor
DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE LAW, CENTRE FOR LAW & BUSINESS
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER, CENTRE FOR ASIAN LEGAL STUDIES



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