Recently, there has been much discussion in Singapore about the dearth of initial public offerings (‘IPOs’) and undervaluation of the share prices of many listed companies on the Singapore Exchange. Committees have been set up to address this issue. Some reasons have been postulated and good solutions have been provided. But there may be fundamental structural issues that are harder to resolve.
The book of which my chapter forms part is entitled ‘Power-Sharing in the Global South: Patterns, Practices and Potential’, and the book in turn forms part of an original series entitled ‘Federalism and Internal Conflict’, published by Palgrave, and edited by two well-known experts on federalism, Soren Keil and Eva Maria Belser, both of Fribourg University’s Institute of Federalism. The series is inspired by the work of Arendt Lijphart.
Aspects of individual liberty are considered in two recent articles, with some implications for the role played by law in working through the practical implementation of liberty in society. ‘Other People’s Liberties’ published in Ratio Juris questions whether the undeniable advantages of liberty to an individual are readily transferable to a number of individuals, relating together within a society. ‘Overcoming von Wright’s Anxiety’ published in Theoria attempts to deal with an enduring anxiety experienced by Georg Henrik von Wright throughout his engagement with deontic logic across the course of his professional life, over the apparent reducibility of permission to an absence of obligation.