This book brings together critical legal analyses of ongoing global issues in the digital age by international lawyers in Asia. Digital revolution is the key to understanding the contemporary human society. In this book, the authors critically redefine the mainstream thinking and ideas of contemporary international legal issues that the global community is facing. Given the rapidly shifting global legal landscape and framework, they shed light on the theoretical and practical questions in international law and reexamine their global context. Such independent and forward-looking approach suggests the ideas to shaping the global common good in the future human society.

In both theory and practice, this book is a useful guide to Asian law, politics, economy, and business providing a fair and balanced point of view.

Comprises innovative ideas of Asian international law scholars and practitioners on contemporary global issues Provides the latest and critical viewpoints of contemporary global politics and economy Analyzes global legal issues in the digital age going beyond traditionally held Western viewpoints

Autorentext
Eric Yong Joong Lee is President of YIJUN Institute of International Law and Full Professor of International Law at Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea. He is also chief editor of two globally recognized academic magazines such as Journal of East Asia and International Law & China and WTO Review. Dr. Lee obtained his A.B. (political science) and M.P.A. (public policy) from the University of Washington and Seoul National University, respectively. He continued to study international law at Leiden University for LL.M. and completed his Ph.D. (Dr. iur) in that field under the supervision of Professor Peter Malanczuk at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Professor Lee, Analyst of international law based on international relations, is Expert in international organization, international dispute settlement, and inter-Korean relations. His current academic interests focus on the Korean Peninsula peace process, nuclear energy law, global supply chain of COVID-19 vaccine, etc.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Harmonizing Public and Private International Law: Implications of the Apple vs. Samsung IP Litigation / Observations in the Field of Intellectual Property.- The Applicability of Artificial Intelligence in International Law.- Law and Development.- Regulator-led Resolution in Mass Finance Mis-selling.- A Critical Evaluation of the War on Terror.- Asia and New International Economic Order.- International Space Station / Space Resource Exploration and Utilization Act.- China's Exclusionary Rule of Illegally Obtained Evidence: A Comparative Study with the International Criminal Court.- Maritime Title in South China Sea.- A Generic Construction of the Right System for Population Ageing.- Human Rights Accountability of Transnational Corporations.- The Hague Conference on Private International Law.- New International Law Theory.- Sea-Level Rise and the Law of the Sea.- Human Rights-Based Approach to Science, Technology and Development.- Conclusion.