Description

The Singapore Second Workshop: Comparative Law of the Global Majority brings together scholars and practitioners to examine how comparative law can be reimagined through the perspectives, experiences, and legal traditions of the Global Majority. Building on growing critiques of Eurocentric approaches to comparative legal scholarship, the workshop explores the intellectual, methodological, and institutional foundations of comparative law in and across Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and other regions that have historically been underrepresented in mainstream comparative discourse.

Through presentations and interdisciplinary dialogue, participants will investigate how legal ideas circulate across jurisdictions of the Global Majority, how colonial and postcolonial legacies continue to shape legal development, and how local legal traditions interact with transnational and global norms. The workshop aims to foster new comparative frameworks that move beyond traditional North–South binaries and highlight the diversity, agency, and innovation of legal systems across the Global Majority.

By creating a platform for emerging and established scholars, the workshop seeks to strengthen collaborative networks, encourage methodological experimentation, and contribute to a more inclusive and pluralistic understanding of comparative law. Ultimately, it invites participants to reconsider whose legal experiences matter in comparative inquiry and how the field might evolve when viewed from the perspectives of the Global Majority.

Please refer to the programme at the side bar.