TY - JOUR AU - Limsiritong, Nattapat PY - 2016/12/29 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Problems of Law Interpretation under ASEAN Instruments and ASEAN Legal Instruments JF - Connexion: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences JA - CJHS VL - 5 IS - 2 SE - Research article DO - UR - https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/MFUconnexion/article/view/241324 SP - 136-155 AB - <p>The objective of this work is to answer the questions that “<em>What are the problems of law interpretation under ASEAN Instruments and ASEAN Legal Instruments?</em>,<em>”</em> <em>“Why doesn’t the law interpretation of ASEAN Instruments and ASEAN Legal Instruments now work?”</em> and <em>“How to solve its problem and improve the law interpretation of ASEAN Instruments and ASEAN Legal Instruments?”</em> by comparative and qualitative study of the interpretation of legal instruments between ASEAN and European Union (EU).&nbsp; A result of this work found that there are three problems of the law interpretation under ASEAN Instruments and ASEAN Legal Instruments to consider as; (1) Confusion of definition between ASEAN Instruments and ASEAN Legal Instruments, (2) No one is in-charge to interpret ASEAN Instruments and ASEAN Legal Instruments, and (3) Lacking of Rule of interpretation for ASEAN Instruments and ASEAN Legal Instruments.&nbsp; All of these problems also makes the law interpretation under ASEAN Instruments and ASEAN Legal Instrument are non-effective and non-reliable enough to serve ASEAN.&nbsp; Finally in order to solve this problem, ASEAN urgently needs to (1) enact the Rules of Interpretation of ASEAN Instrument and ASEAN Legal Instruments and, (2) establish a legally supported institution to in-charge on law interpretation for ASEAN Instruments and ASEAN Legal Instruments.</p> ER -