Published in November 2016 by Lexis Nexis
November 2023
China-US Relations on the Eve of a Technological, Social and Geopolitical “Unconformity”
Published in China and the World (World Scientific publications)
This paper compares the ongoing ascent of AI to a geological unconformity, constituting a potential break or watershed in the continuum of human events, with significant implications for the Sino-US relationship, the geopolitical landscape, and global society as a whole. It touches on some of the constituent technical components underpinning the development of AI capabilities and highlights how the full flowering of AI may irrevocably alter the global chessboard and the notion of control for both the US and China.
Available online at: https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2591729323750019
November 2022
Finding Equilibrium Amid the Deep Disruption of the “Geopolitical Metaverse”: Implications for the Sino-US Relationship and ASEAN
Published in China and the World Vol. 05, No. 01n04, 2230001 (2022) (World Scientific publications)
Available online at: https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2591729322300014
October 2022
Disparate perceptions muddy US–China relations
East Asia Forum
(Available on-line 15 October 2022)Available at: https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2022/10/15/disparate-perceptions-muddy-us-china-relations/
March 2022
Commentary - "The EU answer to great power competition", Bitas, Basil C.
East Asia Forum
(Available on-line 16 March 2022)Available at: “https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2022/03/16/the-eu-answer-to-great-power-competition/#more-738858”
December 2021
“Sino-US Relationship: Avoiding a Strategic Cul-de-Sac to Reduce the Probability of Future Conflict”, Bitas, Basil C.
News and Commentaries Section, China and the World, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2021), p. 1-9, World Scientific
(Available on-line December 2021)Excerpt: Perceptions influence behavior. This dynamic is true of individuals and perhaps even more so of states. History is replete with examples where perceptions and associated grievances, however deeply and often erroneously felt, led to strategic cul-de-sacs followed by intemperate action and conflict.
Available at: “https://doi.org/10.1142/S2591729321100088”
August 2021
“The Quad in relation to China and ASEAN: Geopolitical Irritant, Stabilizing Shock Absorber, or Springboard to the Future?”, Bitas, Basil C.
China and the World: Ancient and Modern Silk Road, Vol. 4, No 3, pp. 1-33, World Scientific (Available on-line August 2021, hard copy September 2021)
Available at: “https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S2591729321500152”
July 2021
Book Review - “A Clear View of the Law: Making Sense of Legal Complexity,” by Professor Low Kee Yang (Candid Creation Publications, 2021), Bitas, Basil C.
Singapore Law Gazette – Book Shelf, Community Law – July 2021.
Available at: “https://lawgazette.com.sg/author/basil-c-bitas/”
Or at: ” https://lawgazette.com.sg/lifestyle/book-shelf/a-clear-view-of-the-law/”
January/February 2021
“ASEAN and the Belt and Road Initiative - Connectivity through Law and Commerce”, Bitas, Basil C., as General Editor and Individual Contributor
Academy Publishing, 338 pages.
Available at: “https://store.lawnet.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=ASEAN%20and%20the%20Belt%20and%20Road%20Initiative”
Available Internationally at: AmazonBook Reviews of ASEAN and the Belt and Road Initiative: Connectivity through Law and Commerce
Professor Heng Wang – Law Faculty of the University of New South Wales
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3968931 (full draft text submitted to Oxford Academic – Journal of international Economic Law (2021)).
https://academic.oup.com/jiel/article-abstract/24/4/799/6445013?redirectedFrom=PDF (formal link and excerpt from Oxford Academic – Journal of International Economic Law, Volume 24, Issue 4, December 2021, pp. 799-803).Ms Rachel Eng – Managing Partner, Eng and Co. LLC
Ms Rachel Y. Tay – Partner, Price Waterhouse Coopers
https://lawgazette.com.sg/lifestyle/book-shelf/asean-and-the-belt-and-road-initiative/September 2020
“We are All Stakeholders in an AI-supplemented World: Sino-US Rivalry and the Management of a Globally Transformative Technology”, Bitas, Basil C., Harjani, Manoj
China and the World: Ancient and Modern Silk Road, Vol. 3, No 4, World Scientific (Available on-line September 2020, hard copy December 2020)
Available at: “https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S2591729320500145”
January 2020
"ASEAN amid China’s Vision of the Belt and Road and the US Strategy for the Indo-Pacific: Building a Strategic Bridge to Two Great Power Initiatives", Bitas, Basil C.
China and the World: Ancient and Modern Silk Road, Vol. 3, No 1, World Scientific (Available on-line January 2020, hard copy March 2020)
Available at: “https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S2591729319500263”
April 2018
"The Belt and Road Initiative in the ASEAN Context", (Chapters 1, 2 and 3), Bitas, Basil C., in Essentials of the Laws of the Belt and Road Countries - EU, ASEAN
International Academy of the Belt and Road (Hong Kong) and Zhejiang University Press (Hangzhou).
Available at: “https://www.purpleculture.net/essentials-of-the-laws-of-the-belt-and-road-countries-eu-asean-p-27322/”November 2016
"Comparative Legal Systems", Bitas, Basil C.
Sole author, Published by Lexis Nexis, 205 pages.
October 2016
"Blue Book on the Dispute Resolution Mechanism for the Belt and Road", Bitas, Basil C.
(as a contributor to a 14-person working group), International Academy of the Belt and Road, 620 pages.
December 2014
“Legal Convergence, Transnational Rule-Making and Regional Integration in ASEAN – from ‘Open Regionalism’ to ‘Open Legal Architecture’, Bitas, Basil C.
LAWASIA Journal, pp. 1-21.
Available at: “https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/lawasiaj2014&div=5&id=&page=”
March 2014
“Comparative Theory, Judges and Legal Transplants: A Practical Lesson from Singapore and Its Relevance to Transnational Convergence", Bitas, Basil C.
Singapore Academy of Law Journal.Vol. 26, pp. 50-67.
Available at: “https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3244&context=sol_research”
Cited by the then Hon. Chief Justice of Australia, Robert French AC, in his speech entitled “Convergence of Commercial Laws – Fence Lines and Fields”, delivered at the “Doing Business Across Asia – Legal Convergence in an Asian Century Conference”, 22 January 2016, Singapore.
September 2013
“Australia’s Proposed Exercise in Contract Law Reform – International Convergence and Regional Implications”, Bitas, Basil C.
Singapore Academy of Law Journal, Vol. 25, pp. 379-394.
Available at: “https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3224&context=sol_research”
September 2012
“Comparative Law and 21st Century Legal Practice – An Evolving Nexus”, Bitas, Basil C.
Singapore Academy of Law Journal, Vol. 24, pp 319-338.
March 2011
“AMACA PTY v ELLIS – A Common Law View of Causation, Science, and Statistical Evidence in the Courtroom”, Bitas, Basil C.
Singapore Academy of Law Journal, Vol. 23, pp.307-322.
Available at: “https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2988&context=sol_research”
Fall 2008
“Tobacco Control and the Role of Litigation: A Survey of Issues in Law, Policy, and Economics”, Bitas, Basil C.
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review, Vol. 16, pp. 1- 41 (co-authored with Professor Pedro P. Barros, Professor of Economics, Faculdade Nova de Lisboa and CEPR (London)).
Winter 2008
“Probability in the Courtroom (Chapter 25)”, Bitas, Basil C., in Handbook of Probability: Theory and Applications, edited by Professor Tamas Rudas.
Sage Publications, Inc.