As 2022 draws to a close, it is clear that Asia remains vital to the security and prosperity of the US. By extension, legal developments in Asia deserve the attention of scholars and the public in the US and around the world. The U.S.-Asia Law Institute at NYU Law School brings you lively conversations, analysis, and research that you won’t find anywhere else.

Here are a few highlights from 2022:

“Promoting Women’s Rights in Asia & Globally” was the topic of our first in-person Timothy A. Gelatt Dialogue on the Rule of Law in East Asia since the start of the pandemic.

We joined with the Centre for International Law at National University of Singapore to hold a virtual conference on The ASEAN, China, USA Triangle: Navigating in a Post-Ukraine/Russia World. The conference was part of our Program on International Law and International Relations in Asia, which promotes the study and application of international law to conflicts and disputes in Asia.

Also part of this program: USALI Faculty Director Jose E. Alvarez and Global Professor of Law Chen Chao-ju taught the third annual USALI Colloquium on Globalization, International Law, and East Asia, with a focus this year on women’s rights and gender.

We held five US-Japan Short Takes, hour-long conversations featuring American and Japanese speakers on topics central to the bilateral relationship. Our many speaker events addressed topics in the headlines and provided a platform for scholars to present exciting new research. The recordings can be found here or on our YouTube.

We published 27 issues of USALI Perspectives, our online essays series written by legal experts for lay audiences, which is now in its third year. Our news curation project, This Week in Asian Law – the only place you’ll find links to each week’s legal news from across East Asia – turned two years old. We also published two new research projects:

The China Wrongful Convictions Case Archive, with 22 entries so far and growing, and
The nine-part Symposium on the Social Role of Corporations in Asia-Pacific, by leading scholars of corporate governance across the region. The symposium has also been published in Japanese.

The faculty and staff at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute wish you a happy holiday season and new year!

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