Inaugural East Asian Law and Society Conference

Changing Socio-Legal Landscapes in East Asia:

Common Trends and Local Variations

Dates:	5-6 February 2010
Venue:	The University of Hong Kong
Organizers:	CRN East Asian Law and Society (Law and Society Association) and Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong

The Collaborative Research Network (CRN) East Asian Law and Society has successfully held its inaugural East Asian Law and Society Conference on 5-6 February 2010 in the dynamic and vibrant city of Hong Kong, at the University of Hong Kong.

CRN East Asian Law and Society 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 this CRN.  It welcomes scholars researching on East Asia, and others wishing to enrich their research and theories with findings from the region. CRN East Asian Law and Society has a vision to grow into an institutional base for the holding of regional LSA meetings on a regular basis. The inaugural conference in Hong Kong is organized with this vision.

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 at the Inaugural East Asian Law and Society Conference. For details on the sessions (themes, panelists, and papers), please see the Final Program.

For photographs taken during the Conference, please see the EALS Conference Photographs.

Conference Planning Committee

Co-Chairs:

Setsuo Miyazawa (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)

Kay-Wah Chan (Macquarie University, Australia)

Hiroshi Fukurai (University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.)

(Representative of the University of Hong Kong) Richard W.S. Wu (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Other Committee Members:

(in alphabetical order according to surnames)

Eric Feldman (University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)

Tom Ginsburg (University of Chicago, U.S.A.)

Haesook Kim (Long Island University, U.S.A.)

Shu-Chin Grace Kuo (National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan)

Ilhyung Lee (University of Missouri, U.S.A.)

Xiaonan Liu (China University of Political Science and Law, P.R.C.)

Mami HiraikeOkawara (Takasaki City University of Economics, Japan)

Yoshitaka Wada (Waseda University, Japan)

Hyunah Yang (Seoul National University, Korea)