“...exciting recent developments provide a rare opportunity for organizing a dialogue between scholars working on similar themes at the juncture of persisting old questions, anti-universalist ideas and various levels of localist approaches.”



Sukhbaatar Sumiya
Kyushu University

Ago Shinichi
Professor of Law
Kyushu University

Professor Ago Shinichi is Professor of Law at Kyushu University since 1993, and was Dean of the Faculty of Law from 2001-2003. Before joining the faculty of Kyushu University, he was legal officer at the International Labour Organization (ILO) from 1980-1993. He received both his LL.B. and LL.M. from Tokyo University, and obtained his Doctorat es Sciences Politiques from the University of Geneva.

His representative publications include: Labour Law in Asia: International Labour Standards in Economic Development (2003); ‘Clash’ of Operational and Normative Activities of International Institutions (2001); A Crossroad of International Protection of Human Rights and International Trade: Is the Social Clause a Relevant Concept? (1999); Follow up of United Nations Resolutions (1997); ILO’s Supervision and Japan (1995); and Application of ILO Conventions to Hong Kong after 1997 (1994).

Annual Law Conference Series

  2006 Law Conference
   Law Conference/Alumni Symposium


  2007 Law Conference
   Corporate Governance in East Asia