Announcements

The Asian Law Institute (ASLI) is pleased to announce that the 17th ASLI Annual Conference 2020 will be held on 3 and 4 June 2020 at the National Law University, Delhi (NLU Delhi) located in the pristine capital of India – New Delhi. The conference is hosted by NLU Delhi. The theme for the conference…

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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 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.

AsianSIL members can now benefit from a heavily discounted personal subscription to the International & Comparative Law Quarterly. To obtain an annual online and print subscription for £75/$98 AsianSIL members should email journals@nullcambridge.org<mailto:journals@nullcambridge.org> and request the Asian Society of International Law discount rate.

The Asian Society of International Law Young Scholar Prize recognises the best article by a younger scholar published in Volumes 1 to 5 (29 papers) of the Asian Journal of International Law. The winning articles were selected based on significance of question addressed; quality of research; sophistication of theoretical framework; attention to methodology; quality of…

The Paik Choong-Hyun Prize will be awarded by the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL) on a biennial basis and presented at its Biennial Conference. The Prize is designed to honour the memory of Professor Paik Choong-Hyun (1938-2007), who was Professor of International Law at Seoul National University, Korea (1968-2004); Dean of its Law Faculty,…

In Memoriam – Mr R K P Shankardass The Asian Society of International Law regrets to announce the passing of its Executive Council Member, Mr R K P Shankardass. A Senior Advocate with the Supreme Court of India, he has been in professional practice of law, mainly in the area of constitutional, civil, corporate and…