My review of Adolf Peter’s book on EU sustainability law and supply chains has been published in the Asian International Arbitration Journal. I think it is worth your time, so I reproduce it here.
Tag: Commercial law
When my dissertation came out late last year, a few colleagues asked why a work so focused on Singapore, where English is the language of the law, was written in German. Well, it was a German doctorate, plus the dissertation was intended as a contribution to the debate on commercial courts in Germany. That’s why.
Still, they had a point, so I put together an English summary: ‘Should a Dispute Be Brought to the Singapore International Commercial Court or to Arbitration?’
I’m pleased to share that it has now been published in this year’s Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess International (ZZP Int (29) 2024, pp. 258 – 312). If the topic interests you, do have a look.
Hear ye, hear ye! The fifth edition of Handbuch Vertriebsrecht (Handbook of Distribution Law), edited by Martinek, Semler and Flohr, has been published. It’s a tome of 3,155 (plus LXXVII) pages that once again provides a systematic and detailed presentation of this area of law, both nationally (from a German perspective) and internationally. One of the new additions from my pen is a chapter on Singapore, which deals comprehensively with its commercial agency, authorised dealer, franchise and competition laws.
A lawyer shall not live by arbitration alone (at least not this one). As much as I enjoy arbitration, I also enjoy advising clients in an area of law that has, over time, become a professional hobbyhorse: economic administrative law. This is the area of law that empowers or requires government agencies to monitor or intervene in the private sector. The economic administrative law of Singapore, in German: das Wirtschaftsverwaltungsrecht von Singapur. Repeat after me.
Singapore has adopted the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records, in a bid to get electronic bills of lading (eBOL) off the ground after previous efforts failed. The Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration has published the original English version of my article on the new law. Transportrecht, the transportation law journal, has published the German version.
Anfang 2015 wurde der Singapurische Internationale Handelsgerichtshof (Singapore International Commercial Court oder SICC) eröffnet. Das Gericht ist als Teil des singapurischen Supreme Court für internationale Handelssachen zuständig und vereint schiedsgerichtliche und gerichtliche Elemente. Singapur will damit seine Position als internationales Streitschlichtungszentrum ausbauen.