Containing COVID-19 in Asia: Comparative and Cross-national Studies of Compliance, Accountability, and Enforcement in the Age of the Pandemic

At ALSA (Asian Law and Society Association), nine scholars from Uzbekistan, the US, Japan, the UK, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, India, Vietnam, have made inspiring and informative presentations about their research over three sessions. Here is the list of presenters and titles:

  • Kota Fukui (Osaka University, Japan), The State and Corporate Responses to the Pandemic, Case of Japanese Government
  • Richard Powell (Nihon University, Japan), Compliance and complaints in media commentary on Malaysian movement control orders.
  • Sepalika Welikala (The Open University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka), Legitimacy and Compliance during a pandemic – Experience from Sri Lanka
  • Le Xuan Tung (Institute of Legal Studies, Ministry of Justice, Vietnam), Responses to the significant policies on Covid-19 pandemic: a perspective from Vietnam
  • Richa Sharma (Gujarat National Law University, India), INDIA AND COVID-19: THE LAW ENFORCEMENT SAGA
  • Mohammad Ikbal Borman (Tadulako University, Indonesia), The State Responses to the Pandemic, Case of Indonesian Government
  • Hiroshi Fukurai (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA), Overcoming Vaccine Apartheid and Perpetual Zoonotic Pandemics in Asia: Original Nation Approaches to Inter-National Law (ONAIL) and Prescient Visions for the Preservation of Ecological Health and Diversity
  • Weidong Ji (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Monitoring of COVID-19 Epidemic: A Perspective of Comparative Sociology of Law
  • Ismatov Aziz (Nagoya University, Japan), Applying ‘Super-Presidentialist’ Solutions to COVID-19 Pandemic in Central Asia

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