1. General Program |
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26-27 March 2006 (Sunday and Monday)
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| (2)Location: |
The Civil Service
Development Institute, Taipei
(No. 30, XinSheng S. Rd. Sec 3, Taipei City)
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| (3)Official Language: |
Mandarin Chinese (including both traditional and simplified Chinese for written materials), Japanese, Korean, and English.
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| (4)Program design: |
There will be seven to nine panels during the two full-day plenary sessions; the exact number of panels will be decided in accordance with the number of papers accepted. Simultaneous oral translation in the four official languages will be provided in the plenary sessions.
We hope that Professor
Imai Hiromichi (Professor of Law, Hokkaido University) will agree to be our keynote speaker.
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| (5)Papers: |
Papers for the plenary sessions may be written in any one of the four official conference languages. The abstracts of all papers presented in the plenary sessions will be translated into all four official languages by the conference hosts, though the papers themselves will be published only in their original language. Papers for the parallel sessions must all be in English; no translations of parallel-session papers or their abstracts will be available.
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(6)Conference Theme: |
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Main and Secondary
Subjects |
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The
following main and secondary subjects will be reorganized if necessary,
depending on the topics of paper accepted. As a principle, the nine
main subjects will also be the subjects for English parallel sessions
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1.
The Reception of Law and Post-Colonialism
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1.1 Review and Reflections on East Asian Inheritance of Law after One Hundred Years
1.2 The Development of Rule of Law under the Influence of Post-Colonialism
1.3 Theory and Practice of Transnational Citizenship and the Protection of Human Rights |
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Democracy, Human Rights and the Development of Constitutionalism in East Asia
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2.1 Reflections on the Practice of Democracy in East Asia
2.2 Revisiting the East Asian Values Debate
2.3 The Future of Human Rights and Constitutionalism in East Asia
2.4 The Unjust Law is Law? Inquiry into the Concept of Civil Disobedience and the Right of Resistance |
3. War and Peace
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3.1 War and Peace as Legal Concepts
3.2 Reflections and Prospects: The Experience and History of War and Peace in East Asia
3.3 The Outlook for Peace in East Asia and Its Legal Frameworks |
4. Legal Reasoning, Legal Interpretation and Reason in the Law
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4.1 The General Theory of Legal Deduction, Legal Reasoning and Legal Interpretation
4.2 East Asian Legal Culture and Legal interpretation |
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The Legal Conditions of Regional Cooperation in the East Asian Area
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5.1 The Integration of East Asian Legal Cultures
5.2 The Diversity of Ethnicities and Legal Cultures
5.3 Interactions of Legal Cultures: The Cases of South Asia and North Asia
5.4 The Relationship and Interactions between East Asian Legal Systems and Common Law Systems |
6. Globalization and International Justice
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6.1 Theories of Justice under Globalization
6.2 The Practice of Globalization and Justice in East Asia |
7.
Legal Education and the Legal Profession in East Asia: Retrospect and Prospect
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7.1 Comparative Thoughts on East Asian Legal Education
7.2 The Development of the Legal Profession in East Asia |
8. Gender and Feminist Jurisprudence
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8.1 Reflections on East Asian Feminism and Feminist Jurisprudences
8.2 Is There a Fundamental Conflict between Feminism and East Asian Cultures?
8.3 Issues on Gender Equality, Marriage and Family |
9.
Legal Issues under New Technology
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9.1 Environment, Natural Resources and Property Rights
9.2 Biotechnology, Bioethics and Law
9.3 Legal Theory of Information Technology and the Right of Privacy |
