Announcements

7th AsianSIL Biennial Conference  22 to 23 August 2019 (Quezon City, Philippines) CALL FOR PAPERS Theme of the Conference: Rethinking International Law: Finding Common Solutions to Contemporary Civilizational Issues from an Asian Perspective Undeniably, the Asian region now plays a bigger role in the shaping of international law, as it continues to grow in economic, cultural…

The Japan Chapter of the Asian Society of International Law The 10th Anniversary Annual Conference 14 July 2019 Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan   All academics, practitioners, lawyers, and government officials around the world are invited to submit a proposal. Conference Theme: Global Governance at a Critical Moment: Insights from Asia The year 2019 will…

The Asian Society of International Law regrets to announce the passing of its Advisory Council Member, Professor Onuma Yasuaki. Professor Onuma was Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, and Visiting Professor of Cambridge University, University of Paris I, Peking University, Tsinghua University and others. He criticized the fundamental way of traditional West-centric international law,…

The Asian Law Institute (ASLI), in collaboration with NUS Faculty of Law’s Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS), is convening the inaugural Asian Law Junior Faculty Workshop to be held on 13 June 2019 (immediately after the 16th ASLI Conference, which will be held on 11 and 12 June 2019). This workshop aims to attract…

The Asian Law Institute (ASLI) at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law is pleased to issue the Call for Papers for the 16th ASLI conference, which will be held in Singapore on Tuesday, 11 and Wednesday, 12 June 2019. Click here for details on the call for papers and the conference.

    The current Director of the NUS Centre for International Law (CIL), Professor Lucy Reed , will be stepping down at the end of her term in June 2019. Before joining CIL and the Faculty of Law, Professor Reed led the international arbitration group of the international law firm, Freshfields; practised in the Legal…

The Society’s Journal is soliciting submissions for future issues. Articles should be between 8,000 and 12,000 words (excluding footnotes) and be submitted exclusively to the AsianJIL, with publication subject to double-blind peer-review and editorial discretion. For details on style and the submission process, as well as information on how to subscribe, visit www.AsianJIL.org. For enquiries,…

The Asian Journal of Comparative Law (AsJCL) is the leading forum for research and discussion of the law and legal systems of Asia. It embraces work that is theoretical, empirical, socio-legal, doctrinal or comparative that relates to one or more Asian legal systems, as well as work that compares one or more Asian legal systems…

The Society is delighted that Judge Paik Jin-Hyun, our Society’s immediate past President, has been elected as the current President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for the period 2017 to 2020. We convey our warm good wishes and congratulations to Judge Paik on his appointment to this distinguished position! For…

The ASEAN Documents Database is a free, user-friendly, internet resource of selected ASEAN and International Law Documents. About than 600 selected ASEAN documents and 260 International Law documents are now included in the database. Please click here to access the database.