Courts, Lawyers and the Administration of Justice
'Courts, Lawyers and the Administration of Justice' discusses topics such as the experience of courts in dealing with COVID-19; the challenges facing courts, lawyers and the administration of justice; the impact of COVID-19 on online justice, criminal justice and open justice, and imprisonment.
You may be interested in reading the ALC Briefing Paper Series, including a number of papers introducing the judicial systems of various Asian countries.
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Bangladesh signals that no leader is above the law by sentencing Sheikh Hasina to death
Shahzad Uddin
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Deadly ‘pesantren’ building collapse is a preventable tragedy. Without accountability, it won’t be the last
Fachrizal, Maidina Rahmawati and Erasmus At Napitupulu
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Indonesian police arrested hundreds after August riots, sending a chill through civil society
Rafiqa Qurrata A'yun and Tim Lindsey
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Groups involved in Indonesia’s August protests: why and how they engaged in violence
Ahmad Syarif Syechbubakr
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Are Prabowo’s pardons for Hasto and Tom political?
Feri Amsari
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Sri Lanka moved to end elite impunity with arrest of former president
Thiruni Kelegama
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Opposition figure Tom Lembong jailed for graft. Questions linger about his conviction.
Ary Hermawan
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Thailand’s judiciary is flexing its muscles, but away from PM’s plight, dozens of activists are at the mercy of capricious courts
Tyrell Haberkorn
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Court's strange elections ruling leaves Indonesia in constitutional Catch-22
Simon Butt
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Can 'enemies of the state' be acquitted? The rule of law in Hong Kong
John P. Burns
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Talking Indonesia: Acknowledging Past Rights Violations
Jemma Purdey
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New Criminal Code Exposes Deep Problems in Indonesian Legal Education
Ratu Durotun Nafisah
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Half-Hearted Progress: Religious Freedom After the New Criminal Code
Zainal Abidin Bagir
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The Return of Indonesia’s Human Rights Court Brings New Promise and Old Problems
Kaylana Mueller-Hsia, Kyra Jasper and Natalie Longmire-Kulis
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Indonesian Courts Rule to Protect the Work Rights of People with Disability
Dina Afrianty
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Challenging Japan’s ‘War Laws’: Contemporary Civil Society Action in the Courts
Adam Eldridge-Imamura
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The End of Police Reform
Jacqui Baker
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Talking Indonesia: Police Reform
Jemma Purdey
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Talking Indonesia: the Kanjuruhan Football Disaster
Dave McRae
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The DPR Attacks the Constitutional Court – and Judicial Independence
Jimly Asshiddiqie
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Talking Indonesia: The Sexual Violence Law
Jacqui Baker
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Myanmar’s Kangaroo Courts Hand Aung San Suu Kyi Another Six-Year Term While Sean Turnell Pleads Not Guilty
Adam Simpson
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Indonesia’s Last Chance for a Progressive Criminal Code
Anugerah Rizki Akbari and Genoveva Alicia KS Maya
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The Executions in Myanmar: What Was the Junta Thinking?
Andrew Selth
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Myanmar Executions Reveal Regime Desperation
Nicholas Coppel
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Myanmar: Death Penalty the Latest Tactic for Military Junta’s Murderous Regime
Ronan Lee
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Talking Indonesia: Activist Lawyers
Dave McRae
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Australia’s Woeful Response to Rising Authoritarianism in India
Nisha Thapliyal and Priya Chacko
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Islamic Challenges to Pakistan’s Transgender Rights Law
Jeffrey A. Redding
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Afghanistan’s Laws and Legal Institutions Under the Taliban
Haroun Rahimi
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How the Law in the Maldives Paved the Way for a Sunni Legal Tradition
Shamsul Falaah
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Indonesia Needs a Strong Public Interest Defence to Stem the Tide of Online Defamation Cases
Eka Nugraha Putra
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Indonesia Finally has a Law to Protect Victims of Sexual Violence. But the Struggle Is Not Over Yet.
Tunggal Pawestri and Tim Mann
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Talking Indonesia: Aceh’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Jacqui Baker
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Special Issue. COVID-19 and the Law: Perspectives from Asia. Introduction
Joo Cheong Tham
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State of Emergency in Vietnamese Law: Reflections on the Government Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
VU Cong Giao and DAO Tri Uc
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Political Power and the Limits of Academic Freedom in Japan in the Era of COVID-19
Yuichiro Tsuji
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The Challenges of Administrative Law Review in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of India
Goutham Shivshankar
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Reproducing Indonesia’s Illiberal Legalism amid COVID-19: Public Health Crisis as a Means of Accumulation
Rafiqa Qurrata A’yun and Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir
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The (New) Normal under the State of Emergency in Timor Leste
Ricardo Sousa da Cunha
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Prohibiting Hijab in Educational Institutions: A Constitutional Assessment
Farrah Ahmed, Mohsin Alam Bhat, Aparna Chandra, Raunaq Jaiswal, Gauri Pillai, Faiza Rahman, Rishika Sahgal, John Sebastian and Anup Surendranath
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Vietnam: Emergency Powers in Time of Pandemic and the Role of the Written Constitution
Le Nguyen Duy Hau | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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Mural Controversies Expose the Poor Health of Indonesian Democracy
Maidina Rahmawati and Erasmus at Napitupulu
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Pre-Departure Tests for Singapore Citizens Returning Home: Possibly Constitutionally Tricky in Theory, but not in Practice
Benjamin Joshua Ong | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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Preventive Detention for Bursting Myths: The Draconian National Security Act in India
Shreyam Sharma | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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COVID-19 and Courts Symposium: The Active Role of the Nepalese Judiciary in Guiding Nepal’s COVID-19 Response
Manish Shrestha | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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COVID-19 and Courts Symposium: India: COVID-19, the Executive, and the Judiciary
Gautam Bhatia | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Much More Than a Health Crisis
Gabriel Facal, Ian Wilson, Khoo Ying Hooi, Rosalia Sciortino and Sarah Andrieu
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Sexual Violence, Conflict and COVID-19: An Invisible Pandemic
Vincent Ochilet
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Fighting Platforms and the People, not the Pandemic: #ResignModi and Disinformation Governance in India – An Update
Maximilian Beyer and Sangeeta Mahapatra | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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India’s New Intermediary Guidelines: The Gloves Come Off in the Assault on Civil Liberties
Tanmay Singh and Abhinav Sekhri | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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Himalayan Blunders: Nepal’s Political Crisis Amid Pandemic Puts Democratic Gains Under Strain
TOI Edit | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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India: The Dubious Dilemma, Muzzling Fake News or Gagging Freedom of Speech and Expression
Toshaar Trivedi and Achyutam Bhatnagar | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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The State Advances, the People Retreat: China’s Political and Legal Responses to COVID-19
Xin He | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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The Philippines a Year under Lockdown: Continuing Executive Dominance, Threats to Democracy, and Unclear Pandemic Response
Maria Ela L. Atienza | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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Bangladesh’s COVID-19 Year in Review
Ridwanul Hoque | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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One Year After the Pandemic in Indonesia: From Health Crisis to the Crisis of Constitutional Democracy
Abdurrachman Satrio and Mohammad Ibrahim | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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Surviving Executive-Led Pandemic Control in Executive-Led Hong Kong: A Year in Review
Pui-yin Lo | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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COVID-19 and the Crisis in Indian Democracy
Thulasi K. Raj | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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Mandatory Vaccination Will Not Solve Indonesia’s COVID-19 Problem
Usman Hamid
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Breeding More Social Turbulence? – Thailand’s Unprepared Response to the Second Wave of COVID-19
Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang and Rawin Leelapatana | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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Women Judges Respond to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic
International Association of Women Judges provides a database of articles showing how women judges worldwide are responding to COVID-19
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Remote Courts Worldwide
'Remote Courts Worldwide' is a database of articles showing how countries worldwide are introducing various forms of 'remote court'
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Coronavirus and the Constitution – XXXIV: The Bombay High Court
Adv. Manoj Harit | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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Indian Courts’ Crusade Against COVID-19 and Executive Underreach
Yashasvi Jain and Hetal Doshi | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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Pandemic, Emergency & the Bangladesh Constitution: A Reflection
Kawser Ahmed | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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Coronavirus and the Constitution – XXXIII: N-95 Masks and the Bombay High Court’s Dialogic Judicial Review
Aakanksha Saxena | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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Responses to COVID-19 and Japanese Criminal Justice
Reegan Grayson-Morison and Stacey Steele
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Judicial Responses to COVID-19: Japanese and Victorian Courts' Use of Technology
Reegan Grayson-Morison and Stacey Steele
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Embracing Asian Law Centre Communities and Opportunities: Alumni Gathering of Japanese Judicial Visitors
Stacey Steele
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Delivering Justice During the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future Use of Technology
Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts
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'Judicialising' the Pandemic in Pakistan
Yasser Kureshi
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Checking the Unchecked Power: The Role of the Indonesian Constitutional Court during the Pandemic
Abdurrachman Satrio
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Coronavirus and the Constitution – XXVIII: Dialogic Judicial Review in the Gujarat and Karnataka High Courts
Vasudev Devadasan, Gautam Bhatia and Mihir Naniwadekar | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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Taking Jokowi to Court Over COVID-19: Is the Government Liable?
Linda Rae Bennett
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A Liberal Darling or an Inadvertent Hand to Dictators? Open-Ended Lawmaking and Taiwan’s Legal Response to the Covid Pandemic
Ming-Sung Kuo | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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COVID-19 Lawsuits Against China
Jon Bellinger | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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Will COVID-19 help Corruptors get out of Jail?
Leopold Sudaryono
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Coronavirus and the Constitution – IX: Three Curious Bail Orders
Gautam Bhatia | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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COVID-19 Pandemic, Social Distancing, and the Courts: Notes from Hong Kong
P.Y. Lo | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM