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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Gakuto Takamura's article deals with contemporary rights of common in Japan and examines whether these customary rights are experiencing a revival. The article focuses on customary rights in Japan’s common forests. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The study examines the status of customary land rights in Indonesia, using the case of land grabbing on Padang Island, Riau Province. The findings illustrate that the recommendation to respect customary land rights is still a work in progress. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The Asian Journal of Law and Society is inviting applications for a new team of Editors-in-Chief to begin in January 2027. The deadline for applications is 31 August 2026. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Call for new Editors-in-Chief: Asian Journal of Law and Society

Applications due by 31 August 2026

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Shin-ichiro Ishida's article explores the complexities of land formalization and the ongoing struggles for land justice among the Îgembe of the Kenyan Central Highlands. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The latest issue is available now! The transformation of the socio-legal order of India, marked by new authoritarian forms of legality, has raised urgent questions about the majoritarian turn in law and society. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society: Volume 13 - The Making of Majoritarian Law in India | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Asian Journal of Law and Society - Volume 13 - The Making of Majoritarian Law in India

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Kazuaki Takemura's article examines how Egyptian law recognizes and deals with land that is stipulated as state property, but has been informally used and/or acquired by individuals as private property. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Through several post-disaster cases, Yuka Kaneko’s article examines how local communities in Asia and Africa resist eviction and defend customary land and forestry rights against modern legal regimes shaped by “legal transplants.” See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

We mourn the passing of Marc Galanter on April 14, a pioneering scholar whose work helped reshape the study of Law and Society. Galanter drew on his sustained engagement with India to question taken-for-granted Euro-American understandings of law. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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AsianJLS Mourns the Loss of Marc Galanter

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Andrew Mazen Dahdal and AdelAGhafar's article seeks to understand the legal regulation of new technologies in the MENA region through the lens of “Tech-diplomacy”. It shows how geopolitics can inform our understanding of tech regulation. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

China’s BRI is Not a Novel Approach to International Law-Making Imad Antoine Ibrahim examines the legal application of BRI in the MENA. While these mechanisms form a pragmatic model relying on flexible rules, they are not novel. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The latest issue is available now! The overall aim of this volume is to see if we can better understand and comment on the role of property and its governance in the constitution of economic, social, and political life. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society: Volume 12 - Property Rights in India: Theory and Practice | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Asian Journal of Law and Society - Volume 12 - Property Rights in India: Theory and Practice

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

China’s Path to Modernization and Legal Pluralism Davide Giacomo Zoppolato and Paolo Davide Farah's article examines how China’s engagement in shaping legal and regulatory frameworks of host countries under the BRI differs from traditional ones. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Professor Weidong Ji's essay examines the Metaverse phenomenon and concludes twelve fundamental digital-age juridical propositions from subject interaction ordering mechanisms, leading to profound legal implications in the digital era. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

👏 👏 👏 The result of the 2025 AsianJLS-ALSA Graduate Student Paper Competition is out now! 2025 Winner: Amalina Yasmin Binti Mohd Sokri (@anucrawfordschool.bsky.social) 2025 Honorable Mention: Arpeeta Shams Mizan (@bristoluni.bsky.social) Please check the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Open Access!☺️ Lynette J. Chua's inaugural presidential address features three recently published monographs to draw attention to research by the next generation of scholars and to show how they contribute to the field. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Junshu Ye and Xinrui Li's article rejects the cultural explanation of the married-out women in China. Instead, they attribute it to the majority’s tyranny under the current villagers self-government and collective property rights. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Maria Kazak and Elīna Rancāne's article engages in a comprehensive analysis of the historical processes leading to the destruction of the Original Nations of Belarus and Latvia. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Xiangning Xu's article explores the reasons that divorce petitions by trafficked women in China were denied in courts. Xu argues that the systematic denials are enabled by a hegemonic legal consciousness within the Circuit of Trafficking. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Seonwha Kim's article analyzes the discourse in the comfort women litigations that reveal the deficiency of jurisprudence in Korea regarding how to address the issue of coloniality. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Tu Thien Huynh's article explores Vietnam’s distinctive approach to data privacy regulation and its implications for the established understandings of privacy law. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Professor Karisma Karisma and Felicity Deane's article examines the specific legal and regulatory hurdles hindering the incorporation of P2P energy trading systems in these two jurisdictions: Malaysia and Australia. See the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The latests issue is available now! Under the theme “Separate and Unequal in Asia and Beyond,” research papers reflect on how law has been mobilised to normalise discrimination, colonisation, and disenfranchisement of peoples and groups across Asian regions. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society: Volume 12 - Separate and Unequal in Unsettling Territories of Asia and Beyond | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Asian Journal of Law and Society - Volume 12 - Separate and Unequal in Unsettling Territories of Asia and Beyond

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

🚨🚨🚨We’re inviting submissions for a special issue of the Asian Journal of Law and Society (AJLS) focused on "Courts and Governance in Asia." The CfP due will be 31 July 2025. For more details, check the link below. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Call for Papers on Courts and Governance in Asia

Abstracts due 31 July 2025

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Elnur Karimov's article, Using Second Life as a case study, demonstrates how metaverse regulations undermine users’ intellectual property rights and control over their creations. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

🚨🚨🚨AsianJLS-ALSA Graduate Student Paper Competition is back now! The CfP due will be 31 July 2025. For more details, check the link below. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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AsianJLS Graduate Student Paper Competition

Launched in 2021.

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🚨🚨🚨We’re inviting submissions for a special issue of the Asian Journal of Law and Society (AJLS) focused on "Relational Turn in Law: Practices and Implications in Asia." The CfP due will be 31 Aug 2025. For more details, check the link below. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Call for Papers: "Relational Turn in Law: Practices and Implications in Asia"

Abstracts due August 31, 2025

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

By examining the curious case of 65-B certificates in India, this article argues that despite ongoing digital transformations, law essentially remains a technology of paper. See Prof. Shikhar Goel's essay on the 65-B Certificates in India! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Paper in the Age of the Digital: The Curious Case of 65-B Certificates in India | Asian Journal of Law and Society | Cambridge Core

Paper in the Age of the Digital: The Curious Case of 65-B Certificates in India - Volume 11 Issue 4

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

🚨Reminder! 🚨 The CfP for the "AI Sovereignty and International Law" will close in less than a month! The submission requires: (1) a proposed title of your manuscript, (2) an abstract (150 words) Deadline for submissions: 15 April 2025 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Special Issue on AI Sovereignty and International Law: Asian Regional Challenges

Abstracts due 15 April 2025

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

In any case, with the AI-driven era, “the Algorithmic Leviathan” is becoming an extremely powerful dominating force that countries and laws must confront. See Ji Weidong's essay on The transmutation of sovereignty in digital era www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Transmutation of Sovereignty: Digital “World of Warcraft” and Innovation in the Chinese Legal Order | Asian Journal of Law and Society | Cambridge Core

The Transmutation of Sovereignty: Digital “World of Warcraft” and Innovation in the Chinese Legal Order - Volume 11 Issue 4

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested in Manila after the ICC warrant. It may be timely to look back at this article which focuses on extra-judicial killing in the Philippines during the first year and a half of Duterte’s war on drugs. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Governing through Killing: The War on Drugs in the Philippines | Asian Journal of Law and Society | Cambridge Core

Governing through Killing: The War on Drugs in the Philippines - Volume 5 Issue 2

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We’re inviting submissions for a special issue of the Asian Journal of Law and Society (AJLS) focused on "Law and Anthropology in Asia." For more details, check the link below. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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AJLS Call for Papers: Law and Anthropology in Asia

Abstracts due 30 March 2025

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Asian Journal of Law and Society @asianjls.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Asian Journal of Law and Society 11(4) is now available online! Faced with rapid digital technology transformation, the latest special issue “Digital Transformation and Law in Asia”, including 7 essays, reflects on its legal implications for societies worldwide. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Asian Journal of Law and Society: Volume 11 - Digital Transformation and Law in Asia | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Asian Journal of Law and Society - Volume 11 - Digital Transformation and Law in Asia

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