Asian Law and Society Virtual International Conference: Law Crisis and Revival in Asia
September 17 - 18, 2021
Hosted by Chulalongkorn University
Registration: https://www.zipeventapp.com/e/Law-Crisis-and-Revival-in-AsiaFriday, September 17, 2021
08.30 - 09.00(GMT+7)
Session: A1

Plenary Session: Opening Ceremony- Welcoming Remarks- Opening Remarks

09.00 - 09.45(GMT+7)
Session: A2
9.45 – 9.50
(GMT+7)9.50 – 10.00(GMT+7)10.00 - 11.30(GMT+7)
Session: A3

Plenary Session: Keynote Speech“Doing Law and Society Research Across Borders”

11:30 – 13:00(GMT+7)

Photo Session
A 10 minutes break
A3.1
Law and Informality

A3.2
Legal Education and
Legal Language
Reconsidered

A3.3
Religious Faith andthe Crisis of Law

A3.4
Rights Claiming inSouth Korea

A3.5
Containing COVID-19
in Asia: Comparativeand Cross-national
Studies of Compliance,
Accountability, andEnforcement in theAge of the Pandemic(Session II)

Networking
12:00 – 13:00 (GMT+7): ALSA Board Meeting (for ALSA Board members only)13.00 - 14.30(GMT+7)
Session: A4

14.30 – 14.45(GMT+7)14.45 - 16.15(GMT+7)
Session: A5

16.15 -16.30(GMT+7)16.30 - 18.00(GMT+7)
Session: A6

A4.1
Urban Development
and Challenges inthe time of crisis

A4.2
Commercial andBusiness Law in theAge of Disruption

A4.3
International Law
and Human Rights

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

A4.5
Legal Actors and Legal
Aid I

A 15 minutes break
A5.1
Comparative Law
and Legal
Transplant

A5.2
Regulating andPromoting AI in
Thailand: Ethics,
Regulation, and the
Law

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

A5.4
COVID-19
Response and SME
Finance in AsianCountries: Changing
Legal Culture in
Pandemic

A5.5
Socio-Legal
Perspectives onConstitutional
Transition I

A 15 minutes breakA6.1
Covid 19: Sociolegal Adaptation

A6.2
Socio-Legal
Perspectives onConstitutional
Transition II

A6.3
Expanding Legal
Assistance: Beyond
the Border of
Natural and HumanMade Disasters

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

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

A4.6
Prosecuting Crimein Asia (Session II Specific Offences)

Saturday, September 18, 2021
09.00 - 09.45(GMT+7)
Session: B1

Plenary Session: Keynote Speech“Risks of the AIoT Era and Asian Solutions for Protection of the Personal Data Rights”

09.45 – 10.00(GMT+7)10.00 - 11.30(GMT+7)
Session: B2

A 15 minutes break

11:30 – 13:00(GMT+7)13.00 - 14.30(GMT+7)
Session: B3

14.30 – 14.45(GMT+7)

B2.1
New Approach toLabor Law

B2.2
Family Law andSocial Changes I

B2.3
Mandatory Pro
Bono in Asia

B2.4
Legal Professionals
and State Power

B2.5
Law and Emotion

Networking
B3.1
Technology andSocio-legal Changes
I

B3.2
Law andSustainability(Session I: The
High-Level View)

B3.3
Prosecuting Crimein Asia (Session I General Themes)

B3.4
COVID-19 and theRule of Law in
Asia: Dialogue in
Comparative
Perspectives

A 15 minutes break

B.3.5
Containing COVID-19
in Asia: Comparativeand Cross-national
Studies of Compliance,
Accountability, andEnforcement in theAge of the Pandemic(Session I)

B2.6
Containing
COVID-19 in Asia:
Comparative andCross-national
Studies ofCompliance,
Accountability, andEnforcement in theAge of thePandemic (Session
III)14.45 - 16.15(GMT+7)
Session: B4

16.15 – 16.30(GMT+7)16.30 - 17.30(GMT+7)
Session: B5
17.30 - 18.00(GMT+7)
Session: B6

B4.1
Legal Actors andLegal Aid II

B4.2
Law andSustainability(Session II Specific-area
Studies)

B4.3
Family Law andSocial Changes II

B4.4
On China’s
Conception of theRule of Law and its
Impact on Market
Governance

B4.5
Images of Criminal
Justice in Japan: How
Media Reflect andShape Reality

A 15 minutes break
Plenary Session: Current Trends and Challenges in the Study of Law and Society in Asia

Plenary Session: Business Meeting and Closing Ceremony

Friday, September 17, 2021
08.30 - 09.00(GMT+7)
Session: A1
Plenary
Session:Opening
Ceremony

Topic

Welcoming Remarks
by Asst.Prof.Dr. Pareena Srivanit, Dean, Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University
Opening Remarksby Prof.Dr. Bundhit Eua-arporn, President, Chulalongkorn University and
Dr. Kay-Wah Chan, President, Asian Law and Society Association

09.00 - 09.45(GMT+7)
Session: A2

Plenary Session: Keynote Speechby Prof. Deborah Hensler, Judge John W. Ford; Professor of Dispute
Resolution, and Director of Law and Policy Lab at Stanford Law
school, USA

10.00 - 11.30(GMT+7)
Session: A3

A3.1 - Law and Informality
Chair: Akira Fujimoto, Nagoya University, Japan
Esther Erlings, Flinders University, Australia
Juo-Han CHAO, Nagoya University Graduate School of Law, Aichi,Japan
Amy Barrow, Macquarie Law School, Australia

Nafay Choudhury, Harvard Law School, USA
George E. Bisharat, Law UC Hastings College, USA

Doing Law and Society Research Across Borders

Freedom of Religion for “Rice Christians”:
Accepting Aid and Multiple Gods
Ethics and Legitimacy of Hypernudge
Self-Regulation, Soft Law Instruments andEquality: Examining Hong Kong’s Code of Practiceagainst Discrimination in Employment on the
Ground of Sexual Orientation
Order in the Bazaar: The Transformation of
Nonstate Law in Afghanistan’s Premier Money
Exchange Market
Private Violence in Settler Colonial Societies

A3.2 - Legal Education and Legal Language Reconsidered
Chair: Tidarat Sinlapapiromsuk, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Hironao Kaneko, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Salwa Hoque, New York University, USA
Duong Thu Huong, the Institute of Legal Science, Ministry of Justice,
Vietnam
A3.3- Religious Faith and the Crisis of Law

Legal Education Opportunities for Foreign Students
Law and Digitality: Problematizing Modern Legal
Language and Epistemologies
Impact of Remote Teaching on Legal Education in
VietnamChair: Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA“Finding God in Legal Politics: Lessons fromAfrica to Asia”
Terence Halliday, American Bar Foundation, USA“China’s Christian Lawyers: Where Jurisprudence
meets Theology and Transformative Politics”
Benjamin Schonthal, University of Otago, New Zealand“Buddhist Law and the ‘crisis’ of Colonialism”
A3.4 - Rights Claiming in South Korea
Chair: Patricia Goedde, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
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

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

A3.5 - Containing COVID-19 in Asia: Comparative and Cross-national Studies of Compliance, Accountability, andEnforcement in the Age of the Pandemic (Session II)
Hoko Horii, Kobe University, Japan
Kota Fukui, Osaka University, Japan
Hiroshi Fukurai, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

chairsHiroshi Fukurai, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Le Xuan Tung, Institute of Legal Studies, Ministry of Justice,
VietnamRicha Sharma, Gujarat National Law University, India
Mohammad Ikbal Borman, Tadulako University, Indonesia

discussantResponses to the significant policies on Covid-19
pandemic: a perspective from Vietnam
INDIA AND COVID-19: THE LAWENFORCEMENT SAGAThe State Responses to the Pandemic, Case ofIndonesian Government

11:30 – 13:00(GMT+7)

Networking
12:00 – 13:00 (GMT+7): ALSA Board Meeting (for ALSA Board members only)

13.00 - 14.30(GMT+7)
Session: A4

A4.1 - Urban Development and Challenges in the time of crisis
Chair: Amy HL SHEE, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan
Settawut Bamrungkhul, Hiroshima University, Japan
Takahiro Tanaka, Hiroshima University, Japan

Yuxing He, Australia Capital Territory, Australia
Amy HL SHEE, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan
Turdiev Bobir Sobirovch, Nagoya University Graduate School ofLaw, Japan
A4.2 - Commercial and Business Law in the Age of Disruption

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
Smart City Development, Regulation and Resilience
to Crisis: A Pathway Forwards
Ideas for A User-friendly APP for Home-confinedOlder Persons
Corporate Environmental Responsibility for
Sustainable Development of Uzbekistan

Chair: Peerapat Chokesusattanaskul, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Richard Taylor, Monash University, Australia
Lao PDR: Mining Law and Taxation Changes:
Company Taxpayer Behavior

Jing Wang, University of Strathclyde, UK
Soush Mony Odham, Secretariat of National Counterterrorism
Committee, Japan
Amarbayar Bodibileg, Nagoya University, Japan

Achieving the promise through amendment? The(in)effectiveness of the Anti-Monopoly Law ofChina 2007
Consumer Fraud with High Investment Return: A
Comparative Analysis of Cambodia, Japan and theUnited States’ existing law and protective
mechanism
Shareholder's meeting of Limited Liability
Companies in Mongolia from comparative
perspective of Japan

A4.3 - International Law and Human Rights
Chair: Pawat Satayanurug, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Henrietta Zeffert, University College Cork, Ireland
Junko KOTANI, Shizuoka University, Japan
Nawaporn Saeneewong Na Ayudhaya, Chiang Mai University,
ThailandNuthamon Kongcharoen, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Raghavi Viswanath, the European University Institute, Italy

Does International Law Care? The Possibilities andLimits of Care Ethics in International Law
Incitement to Genocide in Japanese Law
Public participation in the Mekong Cooperation
Rocky Road on the Way Back Home
'Re-narrating cultural rights in international humanrights law using Asian epistemologies'

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
Matthew S. Erie, University of Oxford, UK
Yang Liu, Renmin University, China
Wang Ziyu, Renmin University, China
Hou Meng, Renmin University, China
Peng Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Wang Weichen, Shanghai International Studies University, China

discussantDevelopment Lost: The Politics of WTO Panel
Treaty Interpretation on Development Object andPurposeThe Extraterritorial Effect of Chinese Courts underDeglobalization
How to Peacefully Settle International Investment
Disputes: Chinese Outbound Enterprise’s
Perception and Management of Legal Risk
“Anti-Litigation” and “litigious” in a Global
Perspective: On the Misunderstanding ofComparative Law and the Contribution of Legal
Anthropology

A4.5 - Legal Actors and Legal Aid I
Chair: Dr. Kay-Wah Chan, Asian Law and Society Association
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
Jing-Huey Shao, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Umurgazin Nursultan, Nagoya University, JapanPro Bono Is Pro, Low Bono is Low: Qualitative andQuantitative Analysis of Lawyer’s Legal Aid
Participation
A New Way Out for Women Lawyers: An
Empirical Study of Taiwan
Independence of Uzbek Legal Profession as a Civil
Society Institute: Disciplinary Process andAdmission to the Profession

A4.6 - Prosecuting Crime in Asia (Session II -Specific Offences)
Chair: Arushi Garg, University of Sheffield, UK
Jodi Gardner, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Shailesh Kumar, University of London, UK

Arushi Garg, University of Sheffield, UK
14.45 - 16.15(GMT+7)
Session: A5

An Intersection between Criminal Law andConsumer Law: Moral and Philosophical
Challenges of Prosecuting Illegal Moneylending in
Singapore
Prosecutors, Child Witnesses and the Protection ofChildren from Sexual Offences Act 2012: Access toJustice and Prosecution of Child Sexual ViolenceCases in India
A Dynamic Theory of Prosecutorial Roles inAdversarial Trials

A5.1 - Comparative Law and Legal Transplant
Chair: Akira Fujimoto, Nagoya University, Japan
Stephen Samuel, University of Reading, UK

On The Crisis of Conceiving ‘Asian Law’ – Some
Benefits and Pitfalls
Miriam Driessen, University of Oxford, UK
Submitting Chinese Capital to Ethiopian Laws
Akira Fujimoto, Nagoya University, Japan
Legal Educator Abroad and Japanese Lawyers
Internationalized Career and Identity
Nobumichi Teramura, University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
Perceiving Japan as a Source of Legal Ideas: A
View from the Mekong Subregion
A5.2 - Regulating and Promoting AI in Thailand: Ethics, Regulation, and the Law
Chair: Soraj Hongladarom, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Soraj Hongladarom, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Jerd Bandasak, Mahidol University, Thailand
Jompon Pitaksantayothin, Mahidol University, Thailand
Krisda Saengcharoensap, Rajabhat University, Thailand“Governance of Artificial Intelligence Technologies
in Thailand: A Proposal”“AI Law: Regulating the Digital Divide”“Data Deficits: Data Gathering for AI Development
and Imbalance of Technological Power”

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
Rieko Kage, University of Tokyo, Japan
Shahla Ali, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Mohammad Abdul Kader, Nagoya University, Japan

Robert B Leflar, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

How Change of Government Impacts
Administrative Litigation: Evidence from Japan
Law Crisis and Revival: Addressing
Polarization Through Decentralized Transnational
Legal Ordering - the Role of the UNCITRALRegional Centre in Enhancing Participation in Cross
Border Dispute Resolution Rule Design
Can Small Claims Court in Bangladesh be a
Possible Tool to Eliminate Delay in the Civil
Litigation System?
Taiwan’s Medical Injury Law in Action

A5.4 - COVID-19 Response and SME Finance in Asian Countries: Changing Legal Culture in Pandemic
Chair: Yuka Kaneko, Kobe University, Japan
Yuka Kaneko, Kobe University, Japan
Young-Geun Kim, Korea University Global Institute for JapaneseStudies, Korea
Minjung Jung, Kobe University Graduate School of International
Cooperation Studies, Japan
Rudy, Lampung University, Indonesia
Kristoffer B. Berse, UP Resilience Institute (UPRI), Philippines
Kirsten Lianne Mae C. Dedase, University of the Philippines,
Philippines“Justice” Sought in the Social Allocation ofPandemic Impact: Japan’s SME Financial Culture
Disaster Financial Governance on COVID-19
Pandemic of Korea
Public Health or Economic Recovery: The Choiceof Regulatory Option on Covid-19 in Indonesia
What Resilience? Philippine MSMEs in the Time of
COVID

Lianne Angelico C. Depante, University of the Philippines,
Philippines
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
Yan-ho Lai, SOAS University of London, UK

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

Rawin Leelapatana, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

16.30 - 18.00(GMT+7)
Session: A6

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

From Rule of Law to Rule by Fear: How
Authoritarian Legal Transplant Brings Hong
Kong’s Semi-autonomy to the End?
“Let’s make the best out of this opportunity”: The
Role of Foreign Advisers as Brokers of theConstitution-Drafting Process under Myanmar’s
National Unity Government
Emergency powers and Covid-19 in Thailand: Carl
Schmitt’s constitutional emergency modelreconsidered

A6.1 - Covid 19: Socio-legal Adaptation
Chair: Warinthorn Termariyabuit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Yuichiro Tsuji, Meiji University, Japan
Assessment of how the government achieves its
objectives in response to COIVID-19
Masaki Iwasaki, Seoul National University, South Korea
Deterioration of social norms through COVID-19
law
A6.2 - Socio-Legal Perspectives on Constitutional Transition II
Chair: Denis De Castro Halis, UNESA, Brazil
Denis De Castro Halis, UNESA, Brazil

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

Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica,
TaiwanM. Bashir Mobasher, American University of Afghanistan,
Afghanistan

The Road to Sunflower: How do Taiwan’s Courts
Deal with Civil Disobedience?
A New Lens on Centralization versus
Decentralization in Afghanistan: Searching Beneaththe Surface

A6.3 - Expanding Legal Assistance: Beyond the Border of Natural and Human-Made Disasters
Chair: Takayuki Ii, Senshu University, Japan
Takayuki Ii, Senshu University, Japan
COVID-19 as a Natural and Human-Made Disaster:
The Case of JapanYe Naing Lin, Kobe University, Japan
Changing Institutions of the Community-BasedYuka Kaneko, Kobe University, Japan
Disaster Risk Management: A Comparative
Approach to Myanmar and Japan
Swarnali Chakma, Kobe University, Japan
Community Based Disaster Risk Management
approaches in Bangladesh
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
Yang Liu, Renmin University, China
DiscussantMingze Li, Tsinghua University, China
Norm, Power and US Freedom of Navigation(1991-2010）
Huaxia Lai, Peking University, China
International Relations/International La in China: A
Tale of Lost Tradition
Zhenfeng Zhi, Institute, China Academy of Social Sciences, China
The Great Power “Being Taught”: China’s Antisanction Law with the Enlightenment from U.S.
Jiachen Li, China Academty of Social Science, China (co-author)
Wang Yilin, the Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
A Global Cartography of the Non-intervention
Principle

A6.5 - COVID-19 Crisis Gender Equality: Labor Law Perspective
Chair: Bo-Shone Fu, Yu-Fan Chiu, Taiwan
Bo-Shone Fu, Yu-Fan Chiu, Taiwan

Ceren Kasım, University of Göttingen, Germany
Yu-Fan Chiu, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

The law and society analysis on the conflicts
between Work from Home and Epidemic
Preventive Family Leave policy
Remote Work and Women Workers during the
COVID-19 Pandemic
Gender Pay Gap in Digital Work

Saturday, September 18, 2021
09.00 - 09.45(GMT+7)
Session: B1

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

10.00 - 11.30(GMT+7)
Session: B2

B2.1 - New Approach to Labor Law
Chair: Panthip Pruksacholavit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Chaumtoli Huq, CUNY School of Law, USA

Panthip Pruksacholavit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Vai Io Lo, Bond University, Australia
B2.2 - Family Law and Social Changes I
Chair: Carol Lin, Taiwan
Carol Lin, Taiwan
Tiantian Zhu, Washington University, USA
Sieh-Chuen Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Yun-chien Chang and Su-Li Her (co-author)
B2.3 - Mandatory Pro Bono in Asia

Topic
Risks of the AIoT Era and Asian Solutions forProtection of the Personal Data Rights

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Labor
Governance in Asia: Organizing, Legal
Mobilization and Decolonialization
Migrant Workers and the Right to Organize
Labor Dispatch in China

The Crisis of the Reproductive Right in Taiwan-Medicalization and the Anti-abortion Movements
Divorce for Female Elder Victims of Intimate
Partner Violence in China
Gender Preference in Testate Succession: An
Empirical Study of Estate Distribution in Wills

Chair: Helena WHALEN-BRIDGE, , National University of Singapore, Singapore
Helena WHALEN-BRIDGE, National University of Singapore,
Mandatory Pro Bono in Asia
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
Lawrence Liu
Ayako Hirata, Okayama University, Japan
Ting Yu Tsai, Government Procurement of Public Construction
Commission (PCC), Taiwan
Sida Liu, the University of Toronto, Canada

discussantLocal Government Lawyers at the Street-Level
Bureaucracy in Japan
Ethnographic construction of the legal public
officials in the central government of Taiwan
Between Rules and Power: Finding a Place for
Lawyers in the Sociology of Professions

B2.5 - Law and Emotion
Chair: Leon Wolff, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Leon Wolff, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Qian Liu, University of Calgary, Canada

Michael H. Fox, Hyogo University, Japan

Emotions and Disputes: Bullying and Harassment in
the Japanese Workplace
Redefining Commonsense Justice: Forced
Emotional Support to Toxic Parents in China’s
Formal Legal System

Verifying Wrongful Convictions: An Approachfrom Japan
B2.6 - Containing COVID-19 in Asia: Comparative and Cross-national Studies of Compliance, Accountability, andEnforcement in the Age of the Pandemic (Session III)
Hoko Horii, Kobe University, Japan
chairs
Kota Fukui, Osaka University, Japan
Hiroshi Fukurai, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Kunihiko Yoshida, Hokkaido University, JapandiscussantHiroshi Fukurai, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Overcoming Vaccine Apartheid and Perpetual
Zoonotic Pandemics in Asia: Original Nation
Approaches to Inter-National Law (ONAIL) andWeidong Ji, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Ismatov Aziz, Nagoya University, Japan
11:30 – 13:00(GMT+7)

Networking

13.00 - 14.30(GMT+7)
Session: B3

B3.1 - Technology and Socio-legal Changes I
Chair: Poomsiri Dumrongvute, Chulalongkorn University
Sadaharu Asai, Nagoya University, Japan
Tharith Soeun, Keio University, Japan

Ye-Zheng CHAI, Nagoya University, Japan
Monika Prusinowska, China University of Political Science and Law,China
MA XIN, Nagoya University, Japan

Prescient Visions for the Preservation of Ecological
Health and Diversity
Monitoring of COVID-19 Epidemic: A Perspectiveof Comparative Sociology of Law
Applying ‘Super-Presidentialist’ Solutions to
COVID-19 Pandemic in Central Asia

Civil liability in Traffic Accidents Caused byAutonomous Driving Vehicles in Japan
Venture Capital Law in Cambodia: engineer the
regulatory framework to promote the startup
ecosystem
In Surveillance Society - the process of surveillancesociety
Digitalization of Justice in China: How Fast is theFast-Train Going?
New data ethics for the tech-giants: stop using
algorithm to manipulate people

B3.2 - Law and Sustainability (Session I: The High-Level View)
Chair: Surutchada Reekie, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Orachat Sungkhamanee, NESDC, Thailand“Thailand’s BCG Agenda”

Surutchada Reekie, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Adam Reekie, Thammasat Univeristy
Pechladda Pechpakdee, Mahasarakham University
Pawat Satayanurug, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand“Charting the Landscape of Environmental, Social
and Corporate Governance in Thailand: Past,
Present and Future”“Guideline on the Management of the Social Aspectof Corporate Sustainability”

B3.3 - Prosecuting Crime in Asia (Session I - General Themes)
Chair: Chitrakshi Jain, Initiative of the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, India
Sébastien Lafrance, Public Prosecution Service of Canada, Canada
The Exercise of Prosecutorial Discretion in Canada,Hong Kong and Selected Commonwealth AsianCountries: Variations on the Same Theme?
Chitrakshi Jain, Initiative of the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, India
The Quest for Prosecutorial Independence
Aditya Ranjan, Initiative of the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, India
Jigar Parmar, Initiative of the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, India
Yu Mou, University of London, UK
Prosecutorial Accountability in China
B3.4 - COVID-19 and the Rule of Law in Asia: Dialogue in Comparative Perspectives
Chair: Hitoshi Ushijima, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan
Anton Ming-Zhi Gao, National TsingHua University, Taiwan
Jonathan Liljeblad, Australian National University, Australia
Hyun Jung Park, Hanyang University, South Korea
Melissa H.S. Yoon, Hanyang University, South Korea
Hitoshi Ushijima, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

Business freedom and rule of law at the covid-19
time in Taiwan: unique evolution
Pandemic as Politics by Other Means: A Normative
Framing of the Myanmar Military Junta’s COVID19 Activities Through International Law
Covid-19 and the State Liability and Compensation
Regimes in South Korea
COVID-19 and the Rule of Law in JapanB.3.5 - Containing COVID-19 in Asia: Comparative and Cross-national Studies of Compliance, Accountability, andEnforcement in the Age of the Pandemic (Session I)
Hoko Horii, Kobe University, Japan
chairs
Kota Fukui, Osaka University, Japan
Hiroshi Fukurai, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Hoko Horii, Kobe University, Japan / Leiden University, thediscussantNetherlands
Kota Fukui, Osaka University, JapanThe State and Corporate Responses to thePandemic, Case of Japanese Government
Richard Powell, Nihon University, Japan
Compliance and complaints in media commentaryon Malaysian movement control orders.
Sepalika Welikala, The Open University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
Legitimacy and Compliance during a pandemic Experience from Sri Lanka
14.45 - 16.15(GMT+7)
Session: B4

B4.1 - Legal Actors and Legal Aid II
Chair: Pareena Srivanit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Ean Chhorida, Nagoya University, Japan
Hiroharu Saito, University of Tokyo, Japan
Murod Ismatov, Nagoya University, Japan

Lawyer’s identity in Cambodia
The impact of lawyer fees on lawyer partisanship:
the reciprocity norm may matter
Legal Advocates in Uzbekistan government: theirstatus and roles in transition

B4.2 - Law and Sustainability (Session II - Specific-area Studies)
Chair: Surutchada Reekie, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Kanittha Tambunlertchai, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand“Estimating the Willingness to Pay for Reducing
PM2.5 Emissions: A Study of Three Policy Options
in Bangkok”

Pechladda Pechpakdee, Mahasarakham University, Thailand“Law and Community Solid Waste Management in
Provincial Areas: A Case Study in Mahasarakham
Municipality”

B4.3 Family Law and Social Changes II
Chair: Warinthorn Termariyabuit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
MAHO Tamaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan"The right to know one’s origin" and family law inassisted reproductive technology
Nguyen Thi Ngan, Nagoya University, Japan
Vietnam’s effective enforcement of the handing
over of a child in international parental childabduction cases: acceding to the 1980 Hague
Convention
Aya Yamaguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Family members perception of the decision-making
process among the elderly with dementia
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
Kristie Thomas, Aston Law School, UK

Ewa Kruszewska, University of Essex, UK
Luyao, International Law, China University of Political Science andLaw (CUPL), China
Qianlan Wu, University of Nottingham, UK

China’s regulation of e-commerce and theimplications for China’s conception of the rule oflaw"Revisiting Vanke v Baoneng Takeover Battle: Ruleof Law or Rule by Law? Regulation of Public
Takeovers in China""State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) Disciplines Under
the Emerging Norms of International Agreements:
Can They Help Improve the Rule of Law?"
The Principle of Good Faith in China’s Rule of Law
for Market GovernanceB4.5 - Images of Criminal Justice in Japan: How Media Reflect and Shape Reality
Chair: Dan Rosen, Chuo University, Japan
Peter D Rush, Melbourne Law School, Australia
Seeing through the screens of Japanese criminal
procedure: peace and audio-visual recording ofinterrogations.
Daniel H. Foote, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Law in Japanese Popular Culture, as Selected by
University of Tokyo Students
Alison Young, University of Melbourne, Australia
Images of Criminal Justice: Policing (In)security in
Akira Kurosawa's 野良犬 (Stray Dog)Dan Rosen, Chuo University, Japan
Prosecutorial Myth Conduct
16.30 - 17.30(GMT+7)
Session: B5

Plenary Session: Current Trends and Challenges in the Study of Law and Society in Asia
Arm Tungnirun, Chulalongkorn University: Moderator
Lynette Chua, National University of Singapore (Southeast Asia)
Pratiksha Baxi, Jawaharlal Nehru University (South Asia)
Matthew Erie, University of Oxford (China)
Oto Chozo, Meiji University (Japan)

17.30 - 18.00
GMT+7)
Session: B6

Plenary Session: Business Meeting and Closing Ceremony:
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 Remark
Prof. Lynette Chua, Incoming President, Asian Law and Society Association