Professor Hsu Tzong-Li, Former President of Taiwan’s Judicial Yuan and Chief Justice of its Constitutional Court, delivered the Stephen Brogan-Jones Day Legal Fellowship Lecture on “Defensive Democracy: Assessing Taiwan’s Democratic Self-Defense Framework” on 21 August 2026. He examined how constitutional mechanisms can safeguard democracy from internal threats, drawing comparisons with Germany and Taiwan. The lecture concluded with an engaging Q&A on defensive democracy, juristocracy, authoritarianism, and instrumentalism.

On 21 April 2026, the Centre for Asian Legal Studies hosted the Stephen Brogan–Jones Day Legal Fellowship Lecture on the Rule of Law, delivered by Raul C. Pangalangan. Titled “Do International Courts Matter?,” the lecture examined the role of international courts in global governance, dispute resolution, and maintaining the rule of law amid geopolitical uncertainty.

On 25 March 2026, Amy C. Lazaro-Javier delivered the Jones Day–Centre for Asian Legal Studies Lecture on safeguarding judicial independence and the rule of law. Attended by over 100 legal professionals and academics, the lecture highlighted judicial reforms in the Philippines, including digitalisation, legal aid, gender responsiveness, and judicial accountability.

The gender gap with respect to wealth and property is a chasm. For over 40 years, the leading international treaty body on women’s rights, the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (the CEDAW Committee), has been generating jurisprudence interpreting CEDAW’s obligations that states protect the equal rights of women in relationships; family rights, including inheritance; rights to land, adequate housing, financial credit, social benefits, intellectual property, and other economic rights dependent on equal access to justice. This book concludes that CEDAW’s re-engendering of property–although a flawed and evolving work in progress–has the potential to be transformative for the half of the planet who is more likely to be treated as property than to have any.

The Asian Law Institute (ASLI), in collaboration with the Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS) at NUS Law convened the inaugural Asian Law Junior Faculty Workshop on 13 June 2019 at the NUS Bukit Timah Campus. The workshop aimed to attract leading research from younger scholars on topics related to Asian jurisdictions, and to provide a platform for them to receive critical feedback on their research from established Asian law scholars.