Nobumichi Teramura is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Asian Studies, University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD), and Affiliate at Centre for Asian and Pacific Law in the University of Sydney (CAPLUS), specialising in business law, with a particular interest in arbitration, private international law, contract law, and Asian law. He has taught private international law and commercial law as Lecturer at the Adelaide Law School in Australia (2019). He has lectured at the College of Law of De La Salle University in the Philippines in 2016, 2017, and 2019 on international arbitration and trade law. He has teaching and research experience in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, and the Philippines. He is active in developing institutional academic links among these countries, not only for himself, but also for his colleagues and students, to contribute to promoting legal dialogue among countries in the Asia-Pacific. Luke Nottage is Professor ofComparative and Transnational Business Law at Sydney Law School, specialising in arbitration, contract law, consumer product safety law, and corporate governance, with a particular interest in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. He is founding Co-director of the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL) and Associate Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney. He is also Managing Director of Japanese Law Links Pty Ltd. and Special Counsel with Williams Trade Law. Luke has consulted for law firms world-wide as well as ASEAN, the European Commission, OECD, UNCTAD, UNDP and the Governments of Japan and Saudi Arabia. He is also a Rules Committee member of ACICA and on the Panel of Arbitrators for the AIAC (KLRCA), BIAC, CAAI, JCAA, KCAB, NZIAC, SCIA, TAI and THAC. His other 19 books include five on international dispute resolution. Bruno Jetin is Associate Professor at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) where he was Director of the Instituteof Asian Studies (2018-2022). Prior to joining UBD, he was a research fellow at the Institute for Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC, CNRS-MAEE, Bangkok) and Associate Professor at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord where he was Deputy Director and then Acting Director (2010-2012) of the Research Center in Economics. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Sorbonne Paris Nord. His current research areas include ASEAN and the Belt and Road Initiative, foreign investment and corruption in Asia-Pacific, income distribution and growth. He is also an expert in the automobile industry and the electric car and is a member of the steering committee of the GERPISA-International Network.