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CENTER NEWS AND RESEARCH
The Asian Law & Society Association, the Japanese Association of the Sociology of Law, and CRN33 of the Law & Society Association organized a panel discussion to honor CEALS Senior Director Setsuo Miyazawa (July 2022)
CEALS Director Keith Hand published an article titled "Constitutional Supervision in China after the 2018 Amendment of the Constitution: Refining the Narrative of Constitutional Supremacy in a Socialist Legal System" in the Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal (May 2022) and a policy report titled “Waging External Struggle through Law: China’s Evolving Legal Strategies and Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit” with the UC San Diego 21st Century China Center (October 2022)
In Japan, CEALS Senior Director Setsuo Miyazawa led several research projects, including a major project on the structural changes in the Tokyo bar, published a chapter on the public interest activities of Japanese lawyers in a volume titled The Role of Lawyers in Access to Justice, and participated in activities of the Law School Center of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations.
CEALS was honored to welcome Hiroshi Fukurai, Professor Sociology & Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and former President of the Asian Law & Society Association, and UC Law SF alumnus Jeff Layman, Deputy General Counsel for Venture Global LNG and former China Country Counsel for The Boeing Corporation, as Affiliated Scholars.
CEALS Senior Director Setsuo Miyazawa organized a session on criminal defense lawyering at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Sociology of Law and presented a paper on judicial selection at the 2022 Global Meeting of the Law and Society Association in Lisbon, where he was honored for his scholarly contributions at a special session
CEALS Director Keith Hand presented his research on China’s development of domestic law as a tool of international struggle and networked with scholars from across Asia at the Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting at Vietnam National University in Hanoi, Vietnam (December 2022).
