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Digital Finance Law
Common and Civil Law

The book undertakes a comparative study of civil and common law jurisdictions such as Australia, India, Japan, Singapore, UK, EU, and the USA. It explores how each jurisdiction is at various stages of developing its digital economy and providing banking and financial regulations for crypto-digital assets such as tokens. It also highlights the potential for global regulatory change and collaboration, such that there is a robust, efficient, and harmonised framework of standards, codes and law. The book asserts that blockchain technology will be a disruptive force to commercial law and will be important to taxation and...
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Commercial and Arbitration Law of the Digital Economy

International trade and investment are increasingly being challenged by technology, with is rapid transformation to the digital economy. This important and timely book argues that it is necessary to establish a principles-based approach to governing the development and use of new, emerging and critical technologies. Chapters discuss the application of smart contracts, arbitration, as well as mergers and acquisitions. Significantly, the book discussed important areas of intellectual property, particularly patents and trademarks, and how international legal instruments have directed national law-making are also explored...
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The Digital Economy and International Trade.

The Digital Economy and International Trade, authored by an eminent specialist in transnational commercial and private law, is a timely book exploring a developing and evolving area of law related to the role of the digital economy in international trade, making a direct call for the need to internationalise the law regulating transnational data flows, which are the backbone of today’s diversified value and supply chains. This book furnishes a comparison of several bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements, addressing the data-related shortcomings of these instruments and providing a pathway forward. Additionally...
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Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection & the Law

This book provides a comparison and practical guide of the data protection laws of Canada, China (Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan), Laos, Philippines, South Korea, United States and Vietnam. The book builds on the first book Data Protection Law. A Comparative Analysis of Asia-Pacific and European Approaches, Robert Walters, Leon Trakman, Bruno Zeller. As the world comes to terms with Artificial Intelligence (AI), which now pervades the daily lives of everyone. For instance, our smart or Iphone, and smart home technology (robots, televisions, fridges and toys) access our personal data at an unprecedented level...
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Data Protection Law


This book provides a comparison and practical guide for academics, students, and the business community of the current data protection laws in selected Asia Pacific countries (Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand) and the European Union. The book shows how over the past three decades the range of economic, political, and social activities that have moved to the internet has increased significantly. This technological transformation has resulted in the collection of personal data, its use and storage across international boundaries at a rate that governments have been unable to keep pace. The book...
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National Identity and Social Cohesion in a Time of Geopolitical and Economic Tension

This book aims to enrich the thinking and discussion in relation to the importance that citizenship, immigration, rights and private laws play in the modern world. This is in a time when social cohesion and national identity is being challenged. It will explore the impact these laws have had on Australia, European Union (EU) and Slovenia. Identity and social cohesion are contested concepts and can invoke different responses. The challenges states and the EU are likely to face in retaining and even strengthening their respective identities and social cohesion from continued geopolitical shocks, security, economic volatility...
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Cybersecurity and Data Laws of the Commonwealth

The book has been authored by a highly regarded international legal scholar and practitioner in transnational commercial and private law. The book highlights how the legal landscape for data protection, cross-border data flows and cybersecurity law is highly diverse and fragmented amongst all commonwealth countries. The book focuses on addressing the gaps in data, cybersecurity and national arbitration law of these countries. This is because, data and cybersecurity underpin digital trade and investment. The aim of this book is to promote more engagement and collaboration between commonwealth countries, to ensure they...
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Contemporary Issues in Finance and Insolvency Law Volume 1

There is increasing regulatory interdependence amongst Central, East and South East Asian, European and North American financial markets, and these markets account for over one-third of the world’s population and global financial markets. As Asian markets become more integral to global financial economy, more cohesive, compatible and integrated insolvency and restructuring laws are essential. This two-volume work reviews why we should internationalise current cross-border insolvency and how we could restructure laws to address inadequacies. The two volumes evaluate international regulatory reforms directed at detecting...
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Contemporary Issues in Finance and Insolvency Law Volume 2

There is increasing regulatory interdependence amongst Central, East and South East Asia, European and North American financial markets, and these markets account for over one-third of the world’s population and global financial markets. As these Asian markets become more integral to global financial economy, more cohesive, compatible and integrated insolvency and restructuring laws are essential. This two-volume work reviews why we should internationalise current cross-border insolvency and how we could restructure laws to address inadequacies. The two-volume work evaluates international regulatory reforms directed at...
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National and Transnational Arbitration, Data Flows & Data Protection, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Insolvency-Restructuring, Contracts – Conferences (UNCITRAL)

Selected Journals –  Book Chapters See Research Gate and SSRN

Journals

 

 Robert Walters, International Arbitration and the Energy Sector: the Fair and Equitable Principle

International Arbitration Law Review 2023

Bruno Zeller Robert Walters Australian Dairy Industry Policies – Protecting Domestic Sustainability? A comparative analysis

International trade Law and Regulation Vol28, issue 1,2022

Robert Walters, Close out Netting Provisions – Their Current Value in a Time of International Uncertainty! 

International Company and Commercial Law Review – Sweet & Maxwell 2020

Robert Walters, Insolvency and Data Protection Law

Business law Review Wolters Kluwer 2021

Leon Trakman, Robert Walters, Bruno Zeller, International Arbitration in Data Protection and Privacy Law – is it Relevant?

Transnational Dispute Management, 2019

Robert Walters, Harsha Rajwanshi Reconciling “Confidentiality” in Data Protection, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence in International Arbitration

Yearbook of private International Law. De Gruyter 2023

Book Chapter

 

Robert Walters, Australian, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Laws- Thomas Reuters

Book chapter for Gujarat National Law University -India – Book 

Leon Trakman, Robert Walters, Bruno Zeller, The Proposed European and Australian Free trade Agreement: And the Importance for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, 491-512 in Marc Bundenburg, European Yearbook of International Economic Law, 

Springer 2017 Pages 491-511

Interviews

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