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CALS Fireside Chat: Justice for All: Advancing Gender Equality in the Law

The Centre for Asian Legal Studies is pleased to host the Right Honorable Tun Tengku Maimun binte Tuan Mat for a Fireside Chat on Justice for All: Advancing Gender Equality in the Law. This event is hosted in collaboration with Singapore Academy of Law.

New CALS Chai Chats Episodes 4-6 are live!

New CALS Chai Chats Episodes are Live! We are thrilled to bring you three new episodes featuring some of the most prominent voices in the judiciary across Asia. Tune in now on Spotify and YouTube for these insightful conversations!

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[CALS] Visit from the Supreme Court of Japan

The Centre of Asian Legal Studies was pleased to host the Supreme Court of Japan on 26 November 2024. This engagement offered a valuable platform for exchanging legal perspectives and deepening the understanding of the legal systems in both Japan and Singapore.

Constituent power is usually attributed to a unified people, whereas federal systems are often predicated on the existence of a plurality of constituent peoples. With some limited exceptions, there has been little examination of how a pluralised locus of constituent power might function in federal and multilevel systems. This gap in the literature is significant because there are many prominent federal and multilevel democracies in which the nature and locus of constituent power has had important legal ramifications, such as Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Malaysia and the United States, as well as, in a different way, the European Union. This paper will examine the possibility of a pluralised concept of constituent power and explore its ramifications for constitutional law. It will approach the question both theoretically and empirically, closing with some remarks about comparative methodology and case selection in the study of plural constituent power.

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CALS Visiting Professor Stanley Yeo has published his book, “The Lao Penal Code: A Comparative Discourse”. Co-authored with Ronnakorn Bunmee, Wing-Cheong Chan, Phanthasak Mingnakhone and Perrine Simon, the book comprises a commentary on the criminal law of Laos dealing with the general principles of criminal responsibility, and describing the main offences against the person and property under the Lao Penal Code 2017.

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