Workshop: Political Parties and Constitutions in Asia 23-24 September 2022 St Hughes College

 

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I am delighted to share information about a quite interesting event to be held 23-24 September in St Hughes College, Oxford. Organized by Oxford Programme in Asian Laws, and convened by Ngoc Son Bui, Ewan Smith the Workshop on Political Parties and Constitutions in Asia proposes to consider the "relationship of political parties to constitutions has received inadequate attention in Asian comparative constitutional studies [and to ] encourage and provide a forum for scholarship on the role of political parties in constitutional design and practice." (Call for Papers here).  

The Workshop invited papers addressing aspects of political parties and constitutions in East Asia, South Asia, and South-East Asia. The idea was to consider, broadly, a broad range of issues that included the "role of political parties in the process of constitution-making and formal constitutional amendments; the contrasting role of parties in single party and multi-party states;the role of parties in linking the people and governing institutions; relationship between parties' ideology and the contents of constitutions; constitutional or sub-constitutional regulation of party behaviour, internal structures, and organisation; relationship between political parties and the state, including separation or fusion of party and state;rights and powers of opposition parties." (Call for Papers here). 

Participants include Samuli Seppänen (CUHK) and Hualing Fu (HKU), Ling Li (University of Vienna), Thomas E. Kellogg (Georgetown), Kwan Yuen Iu, Guy Baldwin (Cambridge), Sarbani Sen and Wenjuan Zhang (Jindal Global Law School), Shih-An Wang (Chicago), Dian A H Shah (NUS) and Mario Gomez (International Centre for Ethnic Studies), Eugene K B Tan (SMU), Ngoc Son Bui (Oxford), Ronald Kevin Laluz Montellano (Supreme Court of the Philippines), Aradhya Sethia (Cambridge), Muhammed Anees (University of Hyderabad), Gaurav Mukherjee (Central European University), Rouf Ahmad Dar (University of Kashmir), Sovit Subedi and Iain Payne, Lima Aktar (Jahangirnagar University), and me.

The event is in person.  To register, please send an e-mail to opal@law.ox.ac.uk.

The Program follows below and may also be accessed HERE.

 

PROGRAMME

Day 1: 23 September 2022

Introduction (8:55-9.00 am): Ngoc Son Bui (Oxford)

Panel 1 (9:00-10.30 am): Chair - Timothy Endicott (Oxford)

1. Larry Catá Backer (Penn State University), Linking People to Governing Institutions: 全过程民主 (Whole Process Democracy) Leninist Political Parties, Socialist Constitutional Democracy and《中国新型政党制度 (China's New Political Party System)
2. Samuli Seppänen (CUHK) and Hualing Fu (HKU), CCP Regulations as Regulatory Speech
3. Ling Li (University of Vienna), Order of power in China’s courts - The Chinese characteristics of the PRC legal system

Break (10:30-10:40 am).

Panel 2 (10.40-12: 10 pm): Chair- Patricia Thornton (Oxford)

4. Thomas E. Kellogg (Georgetown), Hong Kong’s Basic Law: The Politics Of National Security And Constitutional Destruction
5. Kwan Yuen Iu, The Constitutional Game In The Post-National Security Law Era: The Political Dynamics And The Constitutional Interpretation Of The Judiciary.
6. Guy Baldwin (Cambridge), Same-Sex Marriage in Japan and the Role of Courts in a Dominant Party System

 Lunch (12:10-1:30 pm).

Panel 3 (1:30 -3:00 pm): Chair- Ayako Hatano (Oxford) 

7. Sarbani Sen and Wenjuan Zhang (Jindal Global Law School), Revolutionary Constitutionalism Versus Revolutionary Party: The Role of Indian National Congress and Communist Party of China in National Building
8. Shih-An Wang (Chicago), Crafting Party Politics With Judicial Review: The Constitutional Court Of South Korea
9. Dian A H Shah (NUS) and Mario Gomez (International Centre for Ethnic Studies), Ethno-nationalist Parties and Constitutional Fundamentals: Navigating Processes, Promises, and Compromises in Malaysia and Sri Lanka

Break: 3:00-3:10 pm

Panel 4 (3:10-4:40 pm): Chair - Nick Barber (Oxford)

10. Eugene K B Tan (SMU), Constitutionalism in One-Party Dominant Singapore: The Quest to Perfect Governance and Manage the Pace of Political Change
11. Ngoc Son Bui (Oxford), Party Constitutionalization in Vietnamese Discourse
12. Ronald Kevin Laluz Montellano (Supreme Court of the Philippines), Philippine Constitutional and Statutory Law Metamorphosis: A Legal Framework in Strengthening the Political Party System and the Prohibition of Turncoatism of Politicians and Political Butterflies

Dinner: 6:00pm

Day 2: 24 September 2022

Panel 5 (9:30- 11 am): Chair - Rupavardhini Balakrishnan Raju (Oxford)

13. Aradhya Sethia (Cambridge), Intra-Party Processes: A Constitutional Study
14. Muhammed Anees (University of Hyderabad), Negotiating ‘Secular’ State through Constitutionalism: Indian Union Muslim League in Post-Colonial India
15. Gaurav Mukherjee (Central European University), Regional Parties, Federalism, and Democratic Recession in India

Panel 6 (11-12:30 pm): Chair - Yasser Kureshi (Oxford)

16. Rouf Ahmad Dar (University of Kashmir), The Embodied Violence of Constitutions: Interrogating the Process of Constitution-making in Jammu and Kashmir
17. Sovit Subedi and Iain Payne, Party strategies in Nepal’s three-tiered federal system
18. Lima Aktar (Jahangirnagar University), Constitutional Particracy in Bangladesh: A Critical Reflection

Funding for the workshop is provided by Oxford’s Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government. To register, please send an e-mail to opal@law.ox.ac.uk.