ASEAN is at an exciting phase of its development. It has started to grapple with the meaning, implications and the implementation issues pertaining to the newly adopted ASEAN Charter. Concurrently, ASEAN is working intensively on integrationrelated economic issues for the creation of the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015. This is the first book which contains an indepth analysis of aspects of the new ASEAN Charter and the trade in goods and the comprehensive investment agreements ASEAN has recently completed. The book deals with the key areas of legal personality conferred on ASEAN by the Charter; the legislation and other measures required by ASEAN member states to comply with the Charter; and the plan, progress and related issues relating to ASEAN's new trade in goods and comprehensive investment agreements. The book also highlights policy issues for consideration by ASEAN policy-makers. The book is edited by S. Tiwari, the former Head of the International Law Division in Singapore's Attorney-General's Chambers and currently a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at ISEAS. He was extensively involved in many aspects of ASEAN-related work, including negotiating and drafting of its key trade, investment and dispute settlement-related instruments.