Law and Social Movements in Asia
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Workshop
Law and Social Movements in Asia
St Hugh’s College, Oxford, 14 December 2026
| 9:00-9:20 | Registration and Welcome Coffee/ Tea |
| 9:20-9:30 | Ngoc Son Bui & Fernanda Pirie: Introduction |
| 9:30-10:30 | Aileen Kavanagh: Social Movement and Legalization of Same Sex Marriage in Taiwan Kumud Rana: Intimate Governance and Legal Mobilisation: The Emergence of Nepal's 'Third Gender’ |
| 10:30-11 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 11-12:30 pm | Jashim Ali Chowdhury: Law in the Streets: Student Movements and Legal-Political Transformation in Bangladesh, 1947–2024 Jeong-In Yun: From Streets Through Courtroom to Parliament: Strategic Leverage of Social Movements in South Korea Nyi Nyi Kyaw: Demanding and Defending: Right-Wing Legal Mobilization in Myanmar |
| 12:30-14 | Lunch: Dining Hall, St Hugh’s College |
| 14-15:30 | Qin (Sky) Ma: From Petitioning to Posting: Online Legal Mobilization in Criminal Cases in China Ayako Hatano: Glocalising Human Rights: Transnational Legal Mobilisation in Japan Ngoc Son Bui: Constitutional Mobilization in Vietnam |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 16:00-17:30 | Amber Darr: Against the Law, through the Law: Challenging the Legal Foundations of Economic Power in Pakistan Eugénie Mérieau: Legal Mobilization and Constitutional Consciousness in Thailand Ngoc Son Bui & Fernanda Pirie: Conclusion |
| 18:30 | Dinner: Quod Restaurant & Bar, Old Bank Hotel, 92-94 High St, Oxford OX1 4BJ (TBC). |
Speakers:
Ngoc Son Bui, Professor of Asian Laws, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Jashim Ali Chowdhury, Lecturer, University of Hull
Amber Darr, Senior Lecturer, Manchester University
Ayako Hatano, DPhil Candidate, Oxford; Visiting Fellow Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies, European University Institute.
Qin (Sky) Ma, Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department of Criminal Law
Eugénie Mérieau, Associate Professor of Public Law at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Aileen Kavanagh, Professor and Chair of Constitutional Governance, Trinity College Dublin
Nyi Nyi Kyaw, Research Associate, Department of War Studies, King's College London
Fernanda Pirie, Professor of the Anthropology of Law, Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Kumud Rana, Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University
Jeong-In Yun, Research Professor, Korea University.
