An article by Barry Wain, writer-in-residence at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, based on his presentation at the conference, A Dialogue On The Rule Of Law, organised by the SMU and NUS law schools with the Singapore Academy of Law. ?Since its founding in 1967, Asean has preferred informality and loose arrangements rather than treaties and formal agreements...There is a disturbing lack of interest, or self-delusion, about the absence of the rule of law regionally.?
The Straits Times