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Pushing Against Globalisation: A Local Perspective on Regulation in Asia

Held on 29 - 30 November, 2007

This conference is supported by the ARC Asia Pacific Futures Research Network

Venue

Seminar Rooms 2 & 3
Monash Conference Centre
Level 7, 30 Collins Street
Melbourne

Conference outline

The momentum for legal harmonisation in Asia increased following the East Asian Financial Crisis in 1997. The adoption of international trade agreements (e.g. WTO and AFTA) and protocols into domestic legal systems, however, created a dilemma for regulators. How should they devise regulatory systems that accommodate global commercial standards and at the same time respond to diverse domestic forces that straddle economic, urban-rural and ethnic divides?

This conference will investigate how domestic forces within nation states shape the way government regulators localise global legal texts. Domestic forces may include both indigenous and foreign investors together with business associations, religious groups and international donor programs. A central inquiry is whether specific systems or networks linking regulators and domestic forces privilege the interests of particular social groups. Another inquiry is whether the shift in some Asian countries towards representative democracy, deliberative democracy, professional lobbying and consultative lawmaking have broadened public participation in lawmakers? Have changes to public participation affected the way states conceptualize and adapt global legal texts?

Globe 
From left to right: Richard Cullen, Alice de Jonge, Jakkrit Kuanpoth, Veronica Talyor, Soogeun Oh, Bui Bich Thi Lien, Randy Peerenboom, Pip Nicholson, Terry Haliday, Aishah Bidin, John Gillespie, Mike Dowdle, Fu Hualing, and Christoph Antons


Conference coordinators

Professor Randall Peerenboom
Faculty of Law
University of California Los Angles

and

Oxford Foundation of Law
Director
Justice and Society's China Program

Professor John Gillespie
Director
Asia Pacific Business Regulation Group
Department of Business Law and Taxation
Monash University.

Presenters*

*The full list of country paper presenters is not yet finalised but include:

  • Professor Veronica Taylor, University of Washington (Japan).
  • Professor Randall Peerenboom Faculty of Law, UCLA (China).
  • Associate Professor, Ashia Bidin, National University Malaysia (Malaysia).
  • Professor Tim Lindsey, Director of Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne, (Indonesia).  
  • Associate Professor M Ramesh, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University Singapore, (Singapore).
  • Professor Christoph Antons, Director Center for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific, University of Wollongong.
  • Dr Terry Halliday Co-Director Center on Law and Globalization, American Bar Foundation and University of Illinois College of Law (Korea).
  • Dr Jakkrit Kuanpoth, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong, (Thailand).
  • Dr Brendan Sweeney, Senior Lecturer, Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University (Australia).
  • Bui Bich Thi Lien, Deputy Director, Judge Project, CIDA (Vietnam).
  • Professor Dali Yang, Chairman of the Political Science Department, University of Chicago 

Theory papers will be presented by:

  • Professor John Gillespie, Director Asia Pacific Business Regulation Group, Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University
  • Professor Michael Dowdle.

Further information

Leanne Hunt
Department of Business Law and Taxation
Faculty of Business and Economics
Monash University
Tel: + 61 3 9903-4198
Email Leanne Hunt

  
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