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Call for Papers "Law in a Pluralist Asia: Challenges and Prospects" 7th Annual ASLI Conference Asian Law Institute (ASLI) Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, International Islamic University Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) 25-26 May 2010 __________________________________________________ We are pleased to announce that the Asian Law Institute (ASLI) and the Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, International Islamic University, Malaysia are holding the 7th Annual ASLI conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 25th and 26th May 2010. We look forward to welcoming you at the conference and value your contribution to the ongoing success of this annual conference. The purpose of this annual conference is to bring together scholars of Asian law from within and outside Asia to interact, share ideas and build collegial networks which may facilitate ongoing dialogue and research collaborations. In addition to the paper presentations and Distinguished Lecture, there will be a Research Forum, Poster Presentation and Young Scholars Workshop. We hope that the research forum will be widely used in the 7th conference to bring together collaborators of various projects as discussed at the previous conference. Presenters and non-presenters are encouraged to connect with fellow academics before the conference and start thinking about potential research projects. Two new initiatives this year are the Poster Presentation and the Young Scholars Workshop. The Poster Presentation is modeled on the life sciences and presenters are expected to prepare a poster outlining the key ideas they wish to discuss. Conference delegates will be free to wander around the room and discuss posters that interest them with the respective authors on Day Two of the conference. The Young Scholars Workshop will be run as a seventh parallel session with two senior academics acting as chair and commentator. The conference format remains broadly the same as last year: there will be five rounds of six parallel sessions over two days. The broad theme of the conference is "Law in a Pluralist Asia: Challenges and Prospects." Asia is arguably the most pluralist region in the world and law has a critical role in accommodating and managing this plurality, which exists at so many levels. Within the broad conference theme of "Law in a Pluralist Asia: Challenges and Prospects", five of the parallel sessions will focus on selected sub-themes: (1) religion/religious laws (studying aspects of various religious laws, for example, Islamic(Shariah), Jewish, Hindu, Biblical in their historical contexts and application to modern life, as well as examining the place of religion in national legal systems); (2) norms, values and law (exploring competing social, cultural, religious, traditional norms as well as the balancing of minority and majority interests in society); (3) legal pluralism (examining the historical and contemporary phenomenon of the coexistence of different legal systems within various jurisdictions in Asia ); (4) law and economic development (examining different models of economic development in Asia and how law has a role to play in facilitating economic development and international trade taking into account the different stages of social and political development in Asia; (5) regionalization and law (looking at the role of law in developing regional institutions and common standards as well as the harmonization of legal and regulatory regimes. Session (6) will be a general one to include presentations that address the broad theme but may not fit comfortably within the subthemes, or may cut across subthemes, for example, conflict of law or comparative law. There will be four papers per panel to give presenters and discussants adequate time for fruitful engagement. We encourage participants to focus their papers and address the conference theme and sub-themes. In addition to the general call for individual papers, we would also like to encourage individuals to organise their own panels by coordinating with colleagues, preferably from other ASLI institutions. This will allow for the panels to be more cohesive and will also foster greater collaboration between academics, which is one of the key aims of ASLI. The deadline for submission is Friday, 8 January 2010. Important Deadlines - Submission of Abstract: 8 January 2010 Authors will be notified 15 working days after the deadline on the status of their submission - Deadline for Early Bird Registration and Payment: 26 February 2010 - Submission of Completed Paper: 26 March 2009 - Closing date for Registration and Payment: 26 March 2009 - Conference: 25 to 26 May 2010, Tuesday & Wednesday Conference website: http://law.nus.edu.sg/asli/7th_asli_conf/ Contact: 7th ASLI Conference Secretariat c/o Faculty of Law National University of Singapore Eu Tong Sen Building 469G Bukit Timah Road Singapore 259776 Phone: +65 6516 7499 Fax: +65 6779 0979 Email: [email protected] Web: http://law.nus.edu.sg/asli/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
