This book aims to capture the legal landscape in ASEAN particularly pertaining to the first pillar in the guiding principles on the state duty to protect. This study focuses on the first pillar of the UN Framework, the State duty to protect. The State’s role is fundamental: markets and economic actors function within and have their behavior shaped by rules, customs and institutions, even in the case of “free markets” and the “rational” economic actor. These rules, customs and institutions, such as those relating to ownership and the corporate form, are often assumed and go unnoticed, yet are the foundations of the market.