The opening ceremony, the keynote speech, and all four semi-plenary sessions, taking place on Day 1 (May 13), will be held in “hybrid” format. This means there will be provision for a domestic audience to attend the session in-person on our Taipei campus, while participants based outside Taiwan will be able to join us virtually. All the concurrent panels that follow the above events, as well as the Association for Asian Constitutional Studies Member Meetings and the closing ceremony, will take place entirely virtually. Please download the PDF conference program here.
*The Forum is now open to non-Taiwan based internatioal participants who are not paper presenters. If you would like to attend the Forum virtually, please register here. The registration will be closed on May 8th.
*For Taiwan-based audience, please complete your registration through the IIAS website.
*Please click on panel titles to access detailed information of the panel.
Day 1: May 13th, 2022 (Friday)
8:40
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9:00
Registration
9:00
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9:20
Opening Address
3F – 1st Conference Room
Chien-Liang Lee (李建良)
Director and Distinguished Research Professor, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Andrew Harding
President of the Association for Asian Constitutional Studies and Professor, National University of Singapore
James C. Liao (廖俊智)
President of Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Tzong-Li Hsu (許宗力)
Chief Justice and President of Judicial Yuan, R.O.C. (Taiwan)
9:20
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10:15
Keynote Speech: The Grand Process: Taiwan’s Same-sex Marriage Settlement in Constitutional Dialogism
3F – 1st Conference Room
Jiunn-Rong Yeh (葉俊榮)
Chair Professor, National Taiwan University
10:15
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10:30
Break
10:30
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12:00
Semi-plenary Session I: Free Speech in Asia
3F – 1st Conference Room
Tzu-Yi Lin (林子儀)
Former Justice of Taiwan Constitutional Court and
Adjunct Research Professor, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Adrienne Stone
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne
Li-ann Thio
Chair Professor, National University of Singapore
Yasuo Hasebe
Professor, Waseda University
Semi-plenary Session II: Constitutional Remedies in Asia
3F – 2nd Conference Room
Wen-Chen Chang (張文貞)
Professor, National Taiwan University and
Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Law
Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang
Lecturer, Chulalongkorn University
Kevin YL Tan
Adjunct Professor, National University of Singapore
Akiko Ejima
Professor, Meiji University
12:00
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13:30
Lunch
13:30
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15:00
Semi-plenary Session III: Courts and Social Change in Asia
3F – 1st Conference Room
Dennis Te-Chung Tang (湯德宗)
Former Justice of Taiwan Constitutional Court and
Wang Shao-Yu Chair Professor, Soochow University
Chaihark Hahm
Professor, Yonsei University
Lasse Schuldt
Assistant Professor, Thammasat University
Albert H.Y. Chen
Cheng Chan Lan Yue Professor and
Chair of Constitutional Law, University of Hong Kong
Semi-plenary Session IV: Democratic Recession and Populism in Asia
3F – 2nd Conference Room
Yeong-Chin Su (蘇永欽)
Former Vice President of Judicial Yuan, R.O.C. (Taiwan), and
Chair Professor, National Chengchi University
Andrew Harding
Professor, National University of Singapore
Raul C. Pangalangan
Former Judge of the International Criminal Court and
Professor, University of the Philippines
Mario Gomez
Executive Director, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka
15:00
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15:15
Coffee Break
Panel
Title
Chair
15:15
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16:35
Panel A1
virtual
Ya-Wen Yang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Hoang Anh Nguyen
“State of Epidemic Emergency in the Law of Vietnam in Comparison to Some Countries in the World”
Yuichiro Tsuji
“Remedy for Victims with COVID-19 in Japan”
Phan Thi Lan Huong
“Enforcement Measures in State Emergency Cases – Emerging Legal Issues During COVID-19 in Vietnam”
Md Tarik Morshed
“Balancing Individual Rights and Public Health Power in Times of National Crisis: Reflections on Asian Approaches”
Panel B1
virtual
Cheng-Yi Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Akihiko Morita
“State Sovereignty in Question”
Paulus Wisnu Yudoprakoso
“Digital Transformation of Democracy in Indonesia Based on Constitution in the Disruption Era of Fourth Industrial Revolution”
Boldizsár Szentgáli-Tóth & Rand Hussaini
“The Asian Approach: Legal Personhood of Artificial Intelligence”
Panel C1
virtual
Yun-Chien Chang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Jianlin Chen
“Law, Politics and Economics of Regulating Religious Fraud: China, Taiwan and Hong Kong”
Sumit Sonkar
“Policing Interfaith Marriages: Constitutional Infidelity of the Love Jihad Ordinance”
Rung-Guang Lin
“Paternalism and ‘Inadvertent Insensitivity’: Aspects of State Regulation of Religion in Taiwan Unfavorable to Religious Autonomy”
Ari Wirya Dianata
“The strong rights vis a vis The fragile people’: Asking The Judiciary Power in Protecting FoRB Right in Indonesia”
Panel D1
virtual
Wen-Chen Chang
National Taiwan University
Akiko Ejima
“Can We Constitutionally Compare the Countermeasures against the COVID-19 Pandemic?”
Wen-Chen Chang & Chun-Yuan Lin
“Paradoxical Relationship Between Emergency Constitution, Normal Constitutional and Special Emergency Laws”
Jong-Chol An & Seokmin Lee
“How Much the Rule of Law and “Cultural Norms” Shaped the Legal Response to COVID-19?: South Korean Case”
Yi-Li Lee
“The Impact of COVID-19 on Electoral Process and Human Rights: An International Human Rights Law Perspective”
Panel E1
virtual
M. Ehteshamul Bari
Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
M. Ehteshamul Bari
“Subversion of the Rule of Law and Violation of Human Rights: The New Norm in Bangladesh”
Uday Shankar
“COVID–19 and the Right to Health: Indian Perspective”
Pritam Dey
“Accountable Lawmaking: Parliamentary Oversight of Delegated Legislation During the Pandemic”
16:35
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16:50
Break
Panel
Title
Chair
16:50
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18:10
Panel A2
virtual
Yu-Jie Chen
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Pasquale Viola & Nguyen Tien Duc
“Environmental Constitutionalism: Assessing China and Vietnam’s Eco-Socialism within the Asian Context”
Mohammad Javad Shafaghi
“Constitutionalism of Workers’ Rights in The Constitutions of Iran, Turkey and South Korea with a Look at International Documents”
Chao-Chin Chan
“Dignity of Human vs. Dignity of Person: A philosophical Understanding of Human”
Pavel Doubek
“Challenges for Torture Prevention in Asia Pacific – Taiwan’s Experience”
Panel B2
virtual
Yen-Tu Su
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Han Zhu
“The Criminalization of Rights Advocacy NGOs in Xi’s China: Politicizing the Law and Legalizing the Crackdown”
Ikmal Hisham Md Tah
“Disability Human Rights: The Emergence of Civil Society Organisations (CSO) in the Malaysian Context”
Yong Zhou
“Are the ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Relevant to P.R. China?”
Panel C2
virtual
Oran Doyle
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Yasuo Hasebe
“What is the Constitutional Identity of Japan?”
Wilson Tze Vern Tay
“Guardian of the Constitution? The Unsettled Question of Judicial Power in the Constitutional System of Malaysia”
Benjamin Joshua Ong
“The Basic Structure Doctrine and Judicial Power in Malaysia: What Next?”
Ignatius Yorden Nugraha
“Pancasila, Grundnorm and Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment in Indonesia”
Panel D2
virtual
Chao-Tien Chang
National Taiwan University
Tossapon Tassanakunlapan
“The Protection of Personal Data in Thai Constitution and the Flourishing of Genomic Research”
Emma Imparato
“The Right to Privacy in Asia: China and Japan in Comparison”
Hà Thị Út
“Protecting the Right to Personal Data in the Industrial Revolution 4.0 in Vietnam”
Panel E2
virtual
Cheng-Yi Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Hyeung-Seob Son
“Constitutional Review on National Actions for Pandemic Prevention in South Korea”
Mayu Terada
“Pandemic Prevention and Administrative Guidance in Japan – Necessity and Limitations of the Rule of Law”
Tom Gerald Daly
“Military-Led Pandemic Responses and Constitutional Danger in Asia”
Eric Ip
“Comparative Public Health Emergency Constitutions in the Chinese Special Administrative Regions”
Swati Jhaveri
(Discussant)
Day 2: May 14th, 2022 (Saturday)
8:40
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9:00
Registration
Panel
Title
Chair
9:00
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10:20
Panel A3
virtual
Yen-Tu Su
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Pui Yin Lo
“The Emergency Application of Hong Kong’s Public Order Law 2019-2021”
Feiyang Dai
“Judicial Deference in Hong Kong and Its Future under the National Security Law”
Cho Kiu Chiang
“How Hybrid? What Constitutionalism? The Case of Hong Kong”
Carole J. Petersen
National Security Law: The Continued Relevance of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in Hong Kong’s Constitutional Framework
Panel B3
virtual
Oran Doyle
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Tsung-Chun Chen
“The Impact of Civil Disobedience as A Law-Changing Mechanism on Constitutional Democracy—A Case Study of Taiwan (1996-2022)”
Dah-Wei Yih
“Partisan Ordering of Parliamentary Politics in Taiwan: An Extension of Law of Democracy”
Kuan-Ting Chen
“Why Is Public Reason Not Stable? A Reflection Through ‘Same-Sex Marriage’ Debates in Taiwan”
Panel C3
virtual
Chien-Chih Lin
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Shivangi Gangwar
“The Indian Supreme Court and Per Curiam Opinions”
Ravi Prakash & Divya Sinha
“Reflecting Constitutional Convergence in SAARC Jurisdictions”
Fabian Duessel
“Joint Research Between Asian Constitutional Courts: Perspectives from 2017 to 2021”
David S. Law
“Conceptualizing the Field of Comparative Constitutional Law”