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UOW hosts joint law and development workshop
“Approaches to Law and Development in the Asia Pacific Region” was the focus of a special joint workshop held at the University of Wollongong.
The workshop was organised by the Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific at UOW in co-operation with the Asian Law Centre at the University of Melbourne.
A book launch was also conducted during a break in the workshop at the University of Wollongong UniShop. “Globalisation and Resistance: Law Reform in Asia since the Crisis” has been edited by Professor Christoph Antons (UOW) and Professor Volkmar Gessner (University of Bremen, Germany).
Speakers at the workshop included Professor Antons, Professor Gessner, Professor Alex Ziegert (University of Sydney), Professor Andrew Harding (University of Victoria, Canada), Professor Tim Lindsey (Federation Fellow, University of Melbourne), Professor John Gillespie (Monash University), Gabriel Garcia (UOW) and Dr Luke Nottage (University of Sydney).
Asian approaches to development were celebrated during the 1990s in studies such as the World Bank’s ‘Asian Miracle’. At the same time, economists, political scientists and legal academics began to examine the institutions and legal structures of what became known as “Asian developmental states”.
Such Asian models of development policies soon came under intense pressure, especially after the Asian Crisis of 1997/98, which triggered democratisation, decentralisation and policies of law reform in many countries.
However, 10 years after the Crisis, the struggle between liberal reformers and proponents of a strong role of the state, its institutions and agents in the making and execution of development policies still continues and it is generating increasingly diversified outcomes.
The workshop examined these tensions for various fields of law in East and Southeast Asian countries offered also some comparative Latin American perspectives.