International Law in Asian Constitutional Courts

Oxford Programme in Asian Laws and Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law

Introduction

9-9:05 am: Welcome Remark

Lady Elish Angiolini LT DBE PC KC FRSE, Principal of St Hugh’s College, Oxford

9:05-9:30 am: Comparative International Law in Asia

Ngoc Son Bui, Professor of Asian Laws, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

Maartje De Visser, Professor of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University

Panel 1: International Law in Common Law Asia

Chair: Jeong-In Yun, Research Professor, Korea University

9:30-10 am: International Law in Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal: An Apex Court in the Shadow of Beijing

Carole Petersen, Cades Foundation Professor of Law, William S. Richardson School of Law University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

10-10:30 am: International Law and Constitutional Cases in Singaporean Courts: The Wrong Question to Ask? 

Benjamin Joshua Ong, Assistant Professor, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University

10:30-11 am: International Law in Malaysian Constitutional Adjudication

Shukri Shahizam, PhD Candidate in law, LSE; and Tan Kian Leong, 7BR Barristers’ Chambers

Break: 11—11:30 am

Panel 2: International Law in Civil and Mixed Legal Systems in Asia

Chair: Carole Petersen, Cades Foundation Professor of Law, William S. Richardson School of Law University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

11:30-12 pm: International Law and the Constitution of Japan

Hiromichi Matsuda, Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University

12-12:30 pm: Dualist Dilemma of International (Human Rights) Law at the Korean Constitutional Court

Jeong-In Yun, Research Professor, Korea University

12:30-1 pm: Riding the Cappelletti Waves: The Philippine Supreme Court and International Law

Melissa Loja, University of Copenhagen

Lunch: 1-2 pm

Panel 3: International Law in Civil Law in Asia

Chair: Maartje De Visser, Professor of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University

2-2:30 pm: The Indonesian Constitutional Court’s use of international law

Simon Butt, Professor of Indonesian Law, University of Sydney Law School

Bisariyadi, Constitutional Court of Indonesia

2:30-3 pm: Taiwan’s Constitutional Court: In the Margins of International Law and International Law in the Margin.

Yu-Jie Chen, Assistant Professor, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica; Affiliated Scholar, U.S.-Asia Law Institute, NYU School of Law

3-3:30 pm: International Laws in Constitutional Council of Cambodia: A Brief Understanding and Analysis of the Decisions

Ratana Taing, Professor of Law, Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia, Director of Cabinet of the President of the Constitutional Council of Cambodia.

Break: 3-3:30pm

Panel 4: Comparison And Theorization

Chair: Ngoc Son Bui, Oxford

3:30-3:50 pm

International Law in Asian Constitutional Courts in Comparative Perspective

Maartje De Visser, Professor of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University

3:50-4:10: International Law in Asian Constitutional Courts in Theoretical Perspective

Ngoc Son Bui, Oxford

4:10-4:40: Open Discussion

4:40-5 pm: Publication Plans and Next Steps

6:pm: Dinner

Gees Restaurant: 61-63 Banbury Rd, Park Town, Oxford OX2 6PE