The 21st century has seen Asia emerge as the key global hub for international economic agreements. From the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) to the recent China-EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment to China’s wide ranging Belt and Road Initiative, increasingly great swathes of the global economy being governed by agreements based in Asia. To what extent are these treaties repeating paradigms established elsewhere? Are Asia approaches to rulemaking emerging? Are some Asian actors emerging as the makers of new international norms? And are some willing to break existing rules, whether made in Asia or elsewhere? https://cil.nus.edu.sg/event/cil-usali-investment-law-reform-conference-2021/