Southeast Asia Law & Policy Forum - June 2019 Newsletter

20 June – Ethnography Methods Course by Prof Tarini Bedi

20 June – Association of Mainland Southeast Asia Scholars AGM, 4:30pm, room 249, all members are welcome (membership is free, you can sign up here and follow our facebook page)

21 June – AMSEAS workshop on China’s Influence in Mainland Southeast Asia -free event but please register (note this is at University of Sydney)

21 June – Women in Asia Early Career Workshop – see here for program

22-23 June – Women in Asia Conference – see here for program

15-16 November – Protecting Rights, Addressing Inequality - This workshop seeks to investigate the history, development and variation of writs as a form of constitutional adjudication, following its transformation from the common law remedies of England to a constitutional means of protecting rights across South Asia, but also in parts of Africa, the Pacific and the Caribbean. Papers will consider the symbolic status of constitutional writs and how the importance of these remedies has changed over time. The constitutional writs have important implications for the protection of rights against the power of the state and for addressing inequality. More broadly, constitutional writs compel a revised narrative of the field of comparative constitutional law and the sources and origins of judicial review. This conference has an intentional concentration on South Asia, with scholars drawn from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. We are delighted to have Justice Madan B Lokur, retired Judge of the Indian Supreme Court and non-resident judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji, also join us.
The Law School, Gilbert & Tobin Centre, and the Southeast Asia Law & Policy Forum are delighted to be partnering with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and its Rule of Law Programme Asia as the key sponsor for this event.
Please register at Eventbrite

Upcoming Visitors

8-21 September – we have 6 academics and PhD students from the University of Indonesia Law School visiting UNSW. If you are interested in contributing to a research methods course during their visit, please let Theunis Roux know.
October – we may have Yance Arizona, a PhD candidate at Leiden University and Indonesian scholar and expert on adat (customary) law, visit us. More on this later

Forum meetings
Some of you will know that in 2015 we began to hold meetings that led to the Southeast Asia Law & Policy Forum. Towards the end of T2, I will plan to organize another meeting for discussion about the forum generally and what ideas people have going forward.

UNSW Southeast Asia Network
Some of you have participated in various meetings we have held that are intentionally interdisciplinary. Scholars from 5 faculties – Built Environment, Law, FASS, Business – have formed the UNSW Southeast Asia Network. We have identified some 60 academics across the university who have had a major focus on Southeast Asia in their research. Watch out for more in this space

Asian Studies Association of Australia - the Best Thesis Prize Award has just closed, but in the coming months applications will be open for an early career book award and a mid-career book award. This is open to any discipline as long as the publication focuses on Asia broadly speaking: http://asaa.asn.au/our-grants/

Asian Law and Society Association - the 2019 Graduate Student Article Award (eg PhD, LLM students) (see more below) - please encourage any of your graduate students who have published an article on law and society in Asia to consider applying for this award [For those of you familiar with LSA, please note this Association is effectively the East Asian Law CRN of the US based Law and Society Association].

Details: The Asian Law & Society Association (ALSA) is delighted to announce that it is accepting nominations for the 2019 ALSA Graduate Student Article Award. Please kindly find below details about the award, and nomination requirements and procedure.

1. Eligibility: To be eligible to be nominated for the award, a paper must meet the following criteria:

A. The author(s) is/are candidate(s)/student(s) who is/are enrolled in a postgraduate degree program, Master degree or Doctoral degree, in an institution of higher education or is/are within one calendar year of graduation from such program;
B. For a co-authored paper, all authors must comply with item A above;
C. The paper was written and completed during the author's/authors' candidature in the above-mentioned postgraduate program;
D. The paper must be written in English;
E. The paper must be on law and society in Asia; and
F. The paper must meet one of the following two criteria:
- i. It was published or has been accepted for publication in a journal (that has an ISSN) or a book (that has an ISBN) within the period of January 1st 2018- June 30th 2019; OR
- ii. It is a paper with full referencing, which (a) has been submitted to a journal (with ISSN) within the period of January 1st 2018- June 30th 2019 for publication consideration and is nominated for the award by a faculty member of an institution of higher education; or (b) was completed within the period of January 1st 2018- June 30th 2019 and is nominated, for the award, by the dean, relevant associate dean, department head, department chair, graduate chair or a comparable counterpart of the relevant department/school/faculty/centre of the institution in which the author(s) is/are enrolled.

2. Authors and nominators need not be members of the Asian Law & Society Association.

3. Nomination: Nominations are to be sent to Mari Hirayama, the Chair of the 2019 ALSA Graduate Student Article Award Committee, at ma07@fc.hakuoh.ac.jp by August 30th 2019 (Tokyo time).
A nomination must include the following:
i. an electronic copy of the paper (in PDF format);
ii. a description (in no more than 250 words) of the merits of the paper;
iii. (if the paper has been published) full citation information of the paper; and
iv. (if the paper has been accepted for publication but has not been published yet) a proof/evidence of the acceptance for publication, which must be in English.

4. Deadline for nominations: August 30th, 2019 (Tokyo time).

5. Self-nomination is accepted for a paper under item 1 F i above (i.e. a paper that was published or has been accepted for publication in a journal (that has an ISSN) or a book (that has an ISBN) within the period of 1 January 2018 - 30 June 2019 but NOT papers under item 1 F ii above.

6. Announcement of the Award: Up to two Awards and up to two Honorary Mentions will be announced in the first week of October 2019.

7. Award Ceremony: An award ceremony will be held at the closing session of the 2019 ALSA Conference (http://alsa.sakura.ne.jp/pg83.html) on December 15th, 2019 at Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. The Asian Law & Society Association regrets that it will not be able to provide any travel grant or subsidy.

8. Free ALSA membership 2020-2021: Award and Honorary Mention recipient(s) will receive free membership in the Asian Law & Society Association for the two calendar years of 2020 and 2021.

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