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)