Asian Law Center

Development and Rule of Law

The Asian Law Center aims to be an ideas leader at the intersection of Asian Law and Development and Rule of Law. The Center has led workshops in Seattle and Umeå, Sweden focused on the emergence of new development law teaching programs around the world. These workshops formed the basis for the new Collaborative Research Network within the Law and Society Association on Rule of Law, State-Building and Transition, convened by Professors Taylor, Ginsburg (Chicago) and Ohnesorge (Wisconsin), and for a weblog for scholars and practitioners in the field.

In April 2008, Professor Veronica Taylor, Professor Paul Miller, Garvey Schubert Barer Visiting Professor Mina (Titi) Liu and the Asian Law Center brought together several departments at UW, including the UW Disability Studies Program, directed by Professor Miller, and hosted at the Law School an innovative international symposium, Framing Legal and Human Rights Strategies for Change: A Case Study of Disability Rights in Asia. Sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation and the Disability Funders Network, this was the first academic symposium to explore the issue of disability rights in both a legal and human rights context within Asia.