Asian Law Center

The Asian Law Center congratulates Ma. Zaida Fresnido (LL.M. 2010) on the acceptance of her LL.M paper entitled "A Comparative Analysis of the Philippine and Malaysian Legal Systems Against Trafficking in Persons" for presentation in two international conferences. The paper was accepted for presenation at the First International Conference on International Relations and Development (ICIRD) scheduled to take place in Bagkok, Thailand in May 2011, and at the The 13th conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration scheduled to take place in Kampala, Uganda in July 2011.

The Law School and the Asian Law Center congratulate Dr. Kanaphon Chanhom ((LL.M. ‘06, Ph.D. ’10)  on completing his Ph.D studies. Kanaphon’s dissertation is titled ‘Codification in Thailand during the 19th and 20th Centuries: A Study of the Causes, Process and Consequences of Drafting the Penal Code of 1908.’

Dr. Chanhom is a law lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, teaching Thai Legal History and Criminal Law. He has been instrumental in expanding the formal collaboration between the UW Law School and the Faculty of Law at Chulalongkorn.

The Asian Law Center warmly congratulates Associate Professor Sakda Thanitcul (LL.M. '93, Ph.D. '97) for his appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Law at Chulalongkorn University. Dean Thanitcul took office is September 2009 and we look forward to further working with him and colleauges at Chulalongkorn, a partner law school with the UW School of Law.

Following completion of the Ph.D. program in 2005, Dr. Orakanoke Phanraksa applies in practice the expertise she developed when writing her doctoral dissertation titled Uniformity of the Patent Policy in Technology Transfer in Thailand: To What Extent Can the Bayh-Dole Act Concept be Adapted for the Thai Technology Transfer System? Dr. Phanraksa returned to Thailand and continues to advance technology transfer in Thailand as a technical officer with the Technology Management Center of the National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand. She is also working on an antitrust research project with another UW PhD alumnus, Prof. Sakda Thanitcul of Chulalongkorn University.

In October 2007, we welcomed Associate Dean Somrieng Mekkriengkrai and Professor Mattaya Jittirat of Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Law to the UW Law School, when our two institutions executed an agreement to formalize our existing academic collaboration. The UW Law School graduated from our LL.M. and Ph.D. programs in Asian and Comparative Law several talented scholars from Chulalongkorn, including Dr. Sakda Thanitcul (LL.M. ’96, Ph.D. ’97) who directs Chulalongkorn’s LL.M. Program in International Business Law. Amongst our current Ph.D. cohort is Kanaphon Chanhom (LL.M. ’06), who served as a lecturer in Chulalongkorn─his Alma mater.