Welcome to CRN33-EALS!
Collaborative Research Network 33 - East Asian Law and Society
ABOUT
CRN33-EALS
Law
and society in East Asia are currently in the midst of rapid and fundamental
changes. This provides fertile grounds for socio-legal research.
Using the momentum provided by these changes, the Collaborative Research
Network East Asian Law and Society (CRN-EALS) was formed within the Law and Society Association
(LSA) to provide a forum for promoting research on East Asian law and society,
and disseminating its findings to a wider community of
socio-legal scholarship. Both Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia are
covered under CRN- EALS. Its members are made up of scholars researching
on East Asia, and others wishing to enrich their research and theories with
findings from the region. As of May 2010, CRN-EALS has over 200 members.
CRN-EALS
organizes sessions at the annual meetings of the LSA. Papers on any
aspects or issues of law and society in East Asia are welcome. CRN- EALS
is also envisioned to grow into an institutional base for the holding of
regional LSA meetings on a regular basis. With this vision, it has held
its Inaugural East Asian Law and
Society Conference in Hong Kong on 5-6 February 2010,
jointly with the Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong and will hold its second East Asian Law and Society
Conference on 30 September – 1 October 2011 at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. The Inaugural East Asian Law and Society Conference
2010 was a success. Over 150 delegates
from many places around the world (such as China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan,
Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, France, U.K., Sweden, Switzerland, USA and
Canada etc.) have participated. CRN-EALS
looks forward to seeing another successful conference in Seoul, Korea in 2011.
The
organizers of CRN-EALS are: Setsuo Miyazawa (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan), Kay-Wah
Chan (Macquarie University, Australia), and Yoshitaka Wada (Waseda
University, Japan).
Activities
of CRN-EALS are organized by its Planning
Committee, which is made up of members from different countries.
MEMBERSHIP
ENQUIRIES
For
membership enquiries, please contact:
Dr Mayumi Saegusa
(Lund University, Sweden).
NEWS
& INFORMATION
CRN-EALS
will hold its second East
Asian Law and Society Conference on 30 September
– 1 October 2011 at Yonsei University in Seoul,
Korea. Further details
will soon be available on this webpage.
CRN-EALS
has organized eight (8)
sessions for the annual meeting of the LSA held in Chicago
on 27-30 May 2010. It has also held a
Business Meeting on 28 May 2010. After
the Business Meeting, CRN-EALS had a dinner function.
The Inaugural East
Asian Law and Society Conference (Changing
Socio-Legal Landscapes in East Asia: Common Trends and Local Variations)
has been successfully held at the University of Hong Kong on 5-6 February
2010. For details about the
Conference, please see its website.
Web-Master:
Christopher Manning (Macquarie University, Australia)