With more than 160 paper presentations in 38 different panels on Law & Society in Asia.

17 - 18 September 2021

08.30 - 18.00 (GMT+7)

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Asian Law and Society Association (ALSA) | The ASIAN LAW AND SOCIETY Virtual International Conference Law Crisis and Revival in ASIA
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Agenda

Day 1

Friday, September 17, 2021

08.30 - 09.00 (GMT+7)
Plenary Session : Opening Ceremony
  • Welcoming Remarks
    Asst.Prof.Dr. Pareena Srivanit
    Dean, Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University
    Opening Remarks
    Prof.Dr. Bundhit Eua-arporn
    President, Chulalongkorn University
    Dr. Kay-Wah Chan
    President, Asian Law and Society Association
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  • Prof. Deborah Hensler
    "Doing Law & Society Research Across Borders"

    Prof. Deborah Hensler
    Judge John W. Ford Professor of Dispute Resolution and Director of Law and Policy Lab, Stanford Law school, USA

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  • A3.1 - Law and Informality
    • Chair

      Akira Fujimoto, Nagoya University, Japan

    • Freedom of Religion for “Rice Christians”: Accepting Aid and Multiple Gods

      Esther Erlings, Flinders University, Australia

    • Ethics and Legitimacy of Hypernudge

      Juo-Han CHAO, Nagoya University Graduate School of Law, Aichi, Japan

    • Self-Regulation, Soft Law Instruments and Equality: Examining Hong Kong’s Code of Practice against Discrimination in Employment on the Ground of Sexual Orientation

      Amy Barrow, Macquarie Law School, Australia

    • Order in the Bazaar: The Transformation of Nonstate Law in Afghanistan’s Premier Money Exchange Market

      Nafay Choudhury, Harvard Law School, USA

    • Private Violence in Settler Colonial Societies

      George E. Bisharat, Law UC Hastings College, USA

  • A3.2 - Legal Education and Legal Language Reconsidered
    • Chair

      Tidarat Sinlapapiromsuk, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

    • Legal Education Opportunities for Foreign Students

      Hironao Kaneko, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

    • Law and Digitality: Problematizing Modern Legal Language and Epistemologies

      Salwa Hoque, New York University, USA

    • Impact of Remote Teaching on Legal Education in Vietnam

      Duong Thu Huong, the Institute of Legal Science, Ministry of Justice, Vietnam

  • A3.3 - Religious Faith and the Crisis of Law
    • Chair

      Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

    • “Finding God in Legal Politics: Lessons from Africa to Asia”

      Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

    • “China’s Christian Lawyers: Where Jurisprudence meets Theology and Transformative Politics”

      Terence Halliday, American Bar Foundation, USA

    • “Buddhist Law and the ‘crisis’ of Colonialism”

      Benjamin Schonthal, University of Otago, New Zealand

  • A3.4 - Rights Claiming in South Korea
    • Chair

      Patricia Goedde, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

    • Rights Claiming in South Korea (Cambridge Univ. Press 2021)

      Patricia Goedde, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
      Celeste Arrington, George Washington University, USA
      Lynette Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore
      Sida Liu, University of Toronto, Canada
      Yukyong Choe, Ewha Womans University

  • A3.5 - Containing COVID-19 in Asia: Comparative and Cross-national Studies of Compliance, Accountability, and Enforcement in the Age of the Pandemic (Session II)
    • Chairs

      Hoko Horii, Kobe University, Japan
      Kota Fukui, Osaka University, Japan
      Hiroshi Fukurai, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

    • discussant

      Hiroshi Fukurai, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

    • Responses to the significant policies on Covid-19 pandemic: a perspective from Vietnam

      Le Xuan Tung, Institute of Legal Studies, Ministry of Justice, Vietnam

    • INDIA AND COVID-19: THE LAW ENFORCEMENT SAGA

      Richa Sharma, Gujarat National Law University, India

    • The State Responses to the Pandemic, Case of Indonesian Government

      Mohammad Ikbal Borman, Tadulako University, Indonesia

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  • A4.1 - Urban Development and Challenges in the time of crisis
    • Chair

      Amy HL SHEE, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan

    • The Paradox of Adopting the Growth Paradigm: Reflection of City Management under the Ministerial Regulations on the Comprehensive Plan and the Urban Development Stage of the Provincial Cities in Thailand’s Northeastern Region during the 2010s

      Settawut Bamrungkhul, Hiroshima University, Japan
      Takahiro Tanaka, Hiroshima University, Japan

    • Smart City Development, Regulation and Resilience to Crisis: A Pathway Forwards

      Yuxing He, Australia Capital Territory, Australia

    • Ideas for A User-friendly APP for Home-confined Older Persons

      Amy HL SHEE, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan

    • Corporate Environmental Responsibility for Sustainable Development of Uzbekistan

      Turdiev Bobir Sobirovch, Nagoya University Graduate School of Law, Japan

  • A4.2 - Commercial and Business Law in the Age of Disruption
    • Chair

      Peerapat Chokesusattanaskul, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

    • Lao PDR: Mining Law and Taxation Changes: Company Taxpayer Behavior

      Richard Taylor, Monash University, Australia

    • Achieving the promise through amendment? The (in)effectiveness of the Anti-Monopoly Law of China 2007

      Jing Wang, University of Strathclyde, UK

    • Consumer Fraud with High Investment Return: A Comparative Analysis of Cambodia, Japan and the United States’ existing law and protective mechanism

      Soush Mony Odham, Secretariat of National Counterterrorism Committee, Japan

    • Shareholder's meeting of Limited Liability Companies in Mongolia from comparative perspective of Japan

      Amarbayar Bodibileg, Nagoya University, Japan

  • A4.3 - International Law and Human Rights
    • Chair

      Pawat Satayanurug, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

    • Does International Law Care? The Possibilities and Limits of Care Ethics in International Law

      Henrietta Zeffert, University College Cork, Ireland

    • Incitement to Genocide in Japanese Law

      Junko KOTANI, Shizuoka University, Japan

    • Public participation in the Mekong Cooperation

      Nawaporn Saeneewong Na Ayudhaya, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

    • Rocky Road on the Way Back Home

      Nuthamon Kongcharoen, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

    • 'Re-narrating cultural rights in international human rights law using Asian epistemologies'

      Raghavi Viswanath, the European University Institute, Italy

  • A4.4 - The Dawn of Social Science Approaches to International Law in China (Session I)
    • Chairs

      Matthew S. Erie, University of Oxford, UK
      Yang Liu, Renmin University, China

    • Discussant

      Matthew S. Erie, University of Oxford, UK

    • Development Lost: The Politics of WTO Panel Treaty Interpretation on Development Object and Purpose

      Yang Liu, Renmin University, China

    • The Extraterritorial Effect of Chinese Courts under Deglobalization

      Wang Ziyu, Renmin University, China
      Hou Meng, Renmin University, China

    • How to Peacefully Settle International Investment Disputes: Chinese Outbound Enterprise’s Perception and Management of Legal Risk

      Peng Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

    • “Anti-Litigation” and “litigious” in a Global Perspective: On the Misunderstanding of Comparative Law and the Contribution of Legal Anthropology

      Wang Weichen, Shanghai International Studies University, China

  • A4.5 - Legal Actors and Legal Aid I
    • Chair

      Dr. Kay-Wah Chan, Asian Law and Society Association

    • Pro Bono Is Pro, Low Bono is Low: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Lawyer’s Legal Aid Participation

      Ching-fang Hsu, Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
      Yun-chien Chang, Center for Empirical Legal Studies Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Taiwan

    • A New Way Out for Women Lawyers: An Empirical Study of Taiwan

      Jing-Huey Shao, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

    • Independence of Uzbek Legal Profession as a Civil Society Institute: Disciplinary Process and Admission to the Profession

      Umurgazin Nursultan, Nagoya University, Japan

  • A4.6 - Prosecuting Crime in Asia (Session II -Specific Offences)
    • Chair

      Arushi Garg, University of Sheffield, UK

    • An Intersection between Criminal Law and Consumer Law: Moral and Philosophical Challenges of Prosecuting Illegal Moneylending in Singapore

      Jodi Gardner, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    • Prosecutors, Child Witnesses and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012: Access to Justice and Prosecution of Child Sexual Violence Cases in India

      Shailesh Kumar, University of London, UK

    • A Dynamic Theory of Prosecutorial Roles in Adversarial Trials

      Arushi Garg, University of Sheffield, UK

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  • A5.1 - Comparative Law and Legal Transplant
    • Chair

      Akira Fujimoto, Nagoya University, Japan

    • On The Crisis of Conceiving ‘Asian Law’ – Some Benefits and Pitfalls

      Stephen Samuel, University of Reading, UK

    • Submitting Chinese Capital to Ethiopian Laws

      Miriam Driessen, University of Oxford, UK

    • Legal Educator Abroad and Japanese Lawyers Internationalized Career and Identity

      Akira Fujimoto, , Nagoya University, Japan

    • Perceiving Japan as a Source of Legal Ideas: A View from the Mekong Subregion

      Nobumichi Teramura, University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei

  • A5.2 - Regulating and Promoting AI in Thailand: Ethics, Regulation, and the Law
    • Chair

      Soraj Hongladarom, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

    • “Governance of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Thailand: A Proposal”

      Soraj Hongladarom, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

    • “AI Law: Regulating the Digital Divide”

      Jerd Bandasak, Mahidol University, Thailand

    • “Data Deficits: Data Gathering for AI Development and Imbalance of Technological Power”

      Jompon Pitaksantayothin, Mahidol University, Thailand
      Krisda Saengcharoensap, Rajabhat University, Thailand
      Pokpong Songmuang, Thammasat University, Thailand

  • A5.3 - Dispute Resolution and Administrative Regulation in the New Era
    • Chair

      Shahla Ali, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    • How Change of Government Impacts Administrative Litigation: Evidence from Japan

      Rieko Kage, University of Tokyo, Japan

    • Law Crisis and Revival: Addressing Polarization Through Decentralized Transnational Legal Ordering - the Role of the UNCITRAL Regional Centre in Enhancing Participation in Cross Border Dispute Resolution Rule Design

      Shahla Ali, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    • Can Small Claims Court in Bangladesh be a Possible Tool to Eliminate Delay in the Civil Litigation System?

      Mohammad Abdul Kader, Nagoya University, Japan

    • Taiwan’s Medical Injury Law in Action

      Robert B Leflar, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

  • A5.4 - COVID-19 Response and SME Finance in Asian Countries: Changing Legal Culture in Pandemic
    • Chair

      Yuka Kaneko, Kobe University, Japan

    • “Justice” Sought in the Social Allocation of Pandemic Impact: Japan’s SME Financial Culture

      Yuka Kaneko, Kobe University, Japan

    • Disaster Financial Governance on COVID-19 Pandemic of Korea

      Young-Geun Kim, Korea University Global Institute for Japanese Studies, Korea
      Minjung Jung, Kobe University Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Japan

    • Public Health or Economic Recovery: The Choice of Regulatory Option on Covid-19 in Indonesia

      Rudy, Lampung University, Indonesia

    • What Resilience? Philippine MSMEs in the Time of COVID

      Kristoffer B. Berse, UP Resilience Institute (UPRI), Philippines
      Kirsten Lianne Mae C. Dedase, University of the Philippines, Philippines
      Lianne Angelico C. Depante, University of the Philippines, Philippines

    • Balancing Medical Needs and Economy Policy in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Substantial Changes of Vietnamese Government through Epidemic Waves

      Duong Anh Son, Vietnam National University, Vietnam
      Vu Kim Hanh Dung, Vietnam National University, Vietnam

  • A5.5 - Socio-Legal Perspectives on Constitutional Transition I
    • Chair

      Pat Niyomsilp, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

    • From Rule of Law to Rule by Fear: How Authoritarian Legal Transplant Brings Hong Kong’s Semi-autonomy to the End?

      Yan-ho Lai, SOAS University of London, UK

    • “Let’s make the best out of this opportunity”: The Role of Foreign Advisers as Brokers of the Constitution-Drafting Process under Myanmar’s National Unity Government

      Aung Soe, Myanmar
      Kristina Simion, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australia

    • Emergency powers and Covid-19 in Thailand: Carl Schmitt’s constitutional emergency model reconsidered

      Rawin Leelapatana, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

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  • A6.1 - Covid 19: Socio-legal Adaptation
    • Chair

      Warinthorn Termariyabuit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

    • Assessment of how the government achieves its objectives in response to COIVID-19

      Yuichiro Tsuji, Meiji University, Japan

    • Deterioration of social norms through COVID-19 law

      Masaki Iwasaki, Seoul National University, South Korea

  • A6.2 - Socio-Legal Perspectives on Constitutional Transition II
    • Chair

      Denis De Castro Halis, UNESA, Brazil

    • History of Law and Democratic Struggles in Asia: Resetting the Relationship Between Natural Law and Legal Positivism.

      Denis De Castro Halis, UNESA, Brazil

    • The Road to Sunflower: How do Taiwan’s Courts Deal with Civil Disobedience?

      Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

    • A New Lens on Centralization versus Decentralization in Afghanistan: Searching Beneath the Surface

      M. Bashir Mobasher, American University of Afghanistan, Afghanistan

  • A6.3 - Expanding Legal Assistance: Beyond the Border of Natural and Human-Made Disasters
    • Chair

      Takayuki Ii, Senshu University, Japan

    • COVID-19 as a Natural and Human-Made Disaster: The Case of Japan

      Takayuki Ii, Senshu University, Japan

    • Changing Institutions of the Community-Based Disaster Risk Management: A Comparative Approach to Myanmar and Japan

      Ye Naing Lin, Kobe University, Japan
      Yuka Kaneko, Kobe University, Japan, Kobe University, Japan

    • Community Based Disaster Risk Management approaches in Bangladesh

      Swarnali Chakma, Kobe University, Japan

  • A6.4 - The Dawn of Social Science Approaches to International Law in China (Session II)
    • Chairs

      Matthew S. Erie, Renmin University, China
      Yang Liu, Renmin University, China

    • Discussant

      Yang Liu, Renmin University, China

    • Norm, Power and US Freedom of Navigation (‪1991-2010）‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

      Mingze Li, Tsinghua University, China

    • International Relations/International La in China: A Tale of Lost Tradition

      Huaxia Lai, Peking University, China

    • The Great Power “Being Taught”: China’s Anti-sanction Law with the Enlightenment from U.S.

      Zhenfeng Zhi, Institute, China Academy of Social Sciences, China

    • A Global Cartography of the Non-intervention Principle

      Wang Yilin, the Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland

  • A6.5 - COVID-19 Crisis Gender Equality: Labor Law Perspective
    • Chair

      Bo-Shone Fu, Yu-Fan Chiu, Taiwan

    • The law and society analysis on the conflicts between Work from Home and Epidemic Preventive Family Leave policy

      Bo-Shone Fu, Yu-Fan Chiu, Taiwan

    • Remote Work and Women Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

      Ceren Kasım, University of Göttingen, Germany

    • Gender Pay Gap in Digital Work

      Yu-Fan Chiu, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

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Day 2

Saturday, September 18, 2021

09.00 - 09.45 (GMT+7)
Plenary Session : Keynote Speech
  • Prof. Ji Weidong
    Risks of the AIoT Era and Asian Solutions for Protection of the Personal Data Rights

    Prof. Ji Weidong
    Presiding Chair professor and former Dean of KoGuan law school, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

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  • B2.1 - New Approach to Labor Law
    • Chair

      Panthip Pruksacholavit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

    • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Labor Governance in Asia: Organizing, Legal Mobilization and Decolonialization

      Chaumtoli Huq, CUNY School of Law, USA

    • Migrant Workers and the Right to Organize

      Panthip Pruksacholavit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

    • Labor Dispatch in China

      Vai Io Lo, Bond University, Australia

  • B2.2 - Family Law and Social Changes
    • Chair

      Carol Lin, Taiwan

    • The Crisis of the Reproductive Right in Taiwan--Medicalization and the Anti-abortion Movements

      Carol Lin, Taiwan

    • Divorce for Female Elder Victims of Intimate Partner Violence in China

      Tiantian Zhu, Washington University, USA

    • Gender Preference in Testate Succession: An Empirical Study of Estate Distribution in Wills

      Sieh-Chuen Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

  • B2.3 - Mandatory Pro Bono in Asia
    • Chair

      Helena WHALEN-BRIDGE, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    • Mandatory Pro Bono in Asia

      Helena WHALEN-BRIDGE, National University of Singapore, Singapore
      Setsuo MIYAZAWA, UC Hastings College of Law, USA
      George Baylon RADICS, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  • B2.4 - Legal Professionals and State Power
    • Chair

      Ayako Hirata, Okayama University, Japan

    • Discussant

      Lawrence Liu

    • Local Government Lawyers at the Street-Level Bureaucracy in Japan

      Ayako Hirata, Okayama University, Japan

    • Ethnographic construction of the legal public officials in the central government of Taiwan

      Ting Yu Tsai, Government Procurement of Public Construction Commission (PCC), Taiwan

    • Between Rules and Power: Finding a Place for Lawyers in the Sociology of Professions

      Sida Liu, the University of Toronto, Canada

  • B2.5 - Law and Emotion
    • Chair

      Leon Wolff, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    • Emotions and Disputes: Bullying and Harassment in the Japanese Workplace

      Leon Wolff, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    • Redefining Commonsense Justice: Forced Emotional Support to Toxic Parents in China’s Formal Legal System

      Qian Liu, University of Calgary, Canada

    • Verifying Wrongful Convictions: An Approach from Japan

      Michael H. Fox, Hyogo University, Japan

  • B2.6 - Containing COVID-19 in Asia: Comparative and Cross-national Studies of Compliance, Accountability, and Enforcement in the Age of the Pandemic (Session III)
    • Chairs

      Hoko Horii, Kobe University, Japan
      Kota Fukui, Osaka University, Japan
      Hiroshi Fukurai, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

    • Discussant

      Kunihiko Yoshida, Hokkaido University, Japan

    • Overcoming Vaccine Apartheid and Perpetual Zoonotic Pandemics in Asia: Original Nation Approaches to Inter-National Law (ONAIL) and Prescient Visions for the Preservation of Ecological Health and Diversity

      Hiroshi Fukurai, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

    • Monitoring of COVID-19 Epidemic: A Perspective of Comparative Sociology of Law

      Weidong Ji, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

    • Applying ‘Super-Presidentialist’ Solutions to COVID-19 Pandemic in Central Asia

      Ismatov Aziz, Nagoya University, Japan

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  • B3.1 - Technology and Socio-legal Changes I
    • Chair

      Poomsiri Dumrongvute, Chulalongkorn University

    • Civil liability in Traffic Accidents Caused by Autonomous Driving Vehicles in Japan

      Sadaharu Asai, Nagoya University, Japan

    • Venture Capital Law in Cambodia: engineer the regulatory framework to promote the startup ecosystem

      Tharith Soeun, Keio University, Japan

    • In Surveillance Society - the process of surveillance society

      Ye-Zheng CHAI, Nagoya University, Japan

    • Digitalization of Justice in China: How Fast is the Fast-Train Going?

      Monika Prusinowska, China University of Political Science and Law, China

    • New data ethics for the tech-giants: stop using algorithm to manipulate people

      MA XIN, Nagoya University, Japan

  • B3.2 - Law and Sustainability (Session I: The High-Level View)
    • Chair

      Surutchada Reekie, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

    • “Thailand’s BCG Agenda”

      Orachat Sungkhamanee, NESDC, Thailand

    • “Charting the Landscape of Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance in Thailand: Past, Present and Future”

      Surutchada Reekie, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
      Adam Reekie, Thammasat Univeristy
      Pechladda Pechpakdee, Mahasarakham University

    • “Guideline on the Management of the Social Aspect of Corporate Sustainability”

      Pawat Satayanurug, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

  • B3.3 - Prosecuting Crime in Asia (Session I - General Themes)
    • Chair

      Chitrakshi Jain, Initiative of the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, India

    • The Exercise of Prosecutorial Discretion in Canada, Hong Kong and Selected Commonwealth Asian Countries: Variations on the Same Theme?

      Sébastien Lafrance, Public Prosecution Service of Canada, Canada

    • The Quest for Prosecutorial Independence

      Chitrakshi Jain, Initiative of the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, India
      Aditya Ranjan, Initiative of the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, India
      Jigar Parmar, Initiative of the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, India

    • Prosecutorial Accountability in China

      Yu Mou, University of London, UK

  • B3.4 - COVID-19 and the Rule of Law in Asia: Dialogue in Comparative Perspectives
    • Chair

      Hitoshi Ushijima, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

    • Business freedom and rule of law at the covid-19 time in Taiwan: unique evolution

      Anton Ming-Zhi Gao, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

    • Pandemic as Politics by Other Means: A Normative Framing of the Myanmar Military Junta’s COVID-19 Activities Through International Law

      Jonathan Liljeblad, Australian National University, Australia

    • Covid-19 and the State Liability and Compensation Regimes in South Korea

      Hyun Jung Park, Hanyang University, South Korea
      Melissa H.S. Yoon, Hanyang University, South Korea

    • COVID-19 and the Rule of Law in Japan

      Hitoshi Ushijima, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

  • B3.5 - Containing COVID-19 in Asia: Comparative and Cross-national Studies of Compliance, Accountability, and Enforcement in the Age of the Pandemic (Session I)
    • Chairs

      Hoko Horii, Kobe University, Japan
      Kota Fukui, Osaka University, Japan
      Hiroshi Fukurai, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

    • Discussant

      Hoko Horii, Kobe University, Japan
      Leiden University, the Netherlands

    • The State and Corporate Responses to the Pandemic, Case of Japanese Government

      Kota Fukui, Osaka University, Japan

    • Compliance and complaints in media commentary on Malaysian movement control orders.

      Richard Powell, Nihon University, Japan

    • Legitimacy and Compliance during a pandemic - Experience from Sri Lanka

      Sepalika Welikala, The Open University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka

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  • B4.1 - Legal Actors and Legal Aid II
    • Chairs

      Pareena Srivanit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

    • Lawyer’s identity in Cambodia

      Ean Chhorida, Nagoya University, Japan

    • Legal Advocates in Uzbekistan government: their status and roles in transition

      Murod Ismatov, Nagoya University, Japan

  • B4.2 - Law and Sustainability (Session II - Specific-area Studies)
    • Chairs

      Surutchada Reekie, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

    • “Estimating the Willingness to Pay for Reducing PM2.5 Emissions: A Study of Three Policy Options in Bangkok”

      Kanittha Tambunlertchai, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

    • “Law and Community Solid Waste Management in Provincial Areas: A Case Study in Mahasarakham Municipality”

      Pechladda Pechpakdee, Mahasarakham University, Thailand

  • B4.3 - Family Law and Social Changes II
    • Chair

      Warinthorn Termariyabuit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

    • "The right to know one’s origin" and family law in assisted reproductive technology

      MAHO Tamaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

    • Vietnam’s effective enforcement of the handing over of a child in international parental child abduction cases: acceding to the 1980 Hague Convention

      Nguyen Thi Ngan, Nagoya University, Japan

    • Family members perception of the decision-making process among the elderly with dementia

      Aya Yamaguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan

  • B4.4 - On China’s Conception of the Rule of Law and its Impact on Market Governance
    • Chairs

      Kristie Thomas, Aston Law School, UK
      Qianlan Wu, University of Nottingham, UK

    • China’s regulation of e-commerce and the implications for China’s conception of the rule of law

      Kristie Thomas, Aston Law School, UK

    • "Revisiting Vanke v Baoneng Takeover Battle: Rule of Law or Rule by Law? Regulation of Public Takeovers in China"

      Ewa Kruszewska, University of Essex, UK

    • "State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) Disciplines Under the Emerging Norms of International Agreements: Can They Help Improve the Rule of Law?"

      Luyao, International Law, China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), China

    • The Principle of Good Faith in China’s Rule of Law for Market Governance

      Qianlan Wu, University of Nottingham, UK

  • B4.5 - Images of Criminal Justice in Japan: How Media Reflect and Shape Reality
    • Chair

      Dan Rosen, Chuo University, Japan

    • Seeing through the screens of Japanese criminal procedure: peace and audio-visual recording of interrogations.

      Peter D Rush, Melbourne Law School, Australia

    • Law in Japanese Popular Culture, as Selected by University of Tokyo Students

      Daniel H. Foote, The University of Tokyo, Japan

    • Images of Criminal Justice: Policing (In)security in Akira Kurosawa's 野良犬 (Stray Dog)

      Alison Young, University of Melbourne, Australia

    • Prosecutorial Myth Conduct

      Dan Rosen, Chuo University, Japan

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    • Chair

      Dr. Arm Tungnirun, Chulalongkorn University

    • Lynette Chua, National University of Singapore

    • Pratiksha Baxi, Jawaharlal Nehru University

    • Matthew Erie, University of Oxford

    • Ota Shozo, Meiji University

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    • Chair

      Dr. Kay-Wah Chan
      President, Asian Law and Society Association

    • Presentation of ALSA Awards
    • Business Meeting
    • Presentation of the Host for 2022 Annual Conference
    • Closing Remarks

      Prof. Lynette Chua
      Incoming President, Asian Law and Society Association

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