The Development (or Lack Thereof) of Law and Economics in Singapore

Zhang Wei ()
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Zhang Wei: Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore

Asian Journal of Law and Economics, 2025, vol. 16, issue 1, 35-43

Abstract: In this article, I briefly reviewed the status of the law and economics movement in Singapore. I probed three spheres to describe this status, namely, academia, teaching and judiciary. In short, law and economics is of very little influence in Singapore both intellectually and practically. However, the unpromising position of law and economics is not unique to Singapore, as substantiated by several other pieces in this volume. Therefore, a serious pondering over the underlying cause is probably warranted. Robert Cooter’s call for efforts in the third, content, enterprise of law and economics might help move law and economics closer to the center stage of legal scholarship and practice in Asia.

Keywords: law and economics in Singapore; Singapore judiciary; Singapore law schools; content enterprise of law and economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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