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Asian Journal of Law and Economics
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue
Law and Economics of ChatGPT and Large Language Models
DEADLINE: 1 September 2023

Asian Journal of Law and Economics (AJLE) invites submissions for an upcoming special issue on “Law and Economics of ChatGPT and Large Language Models.” Accepted papers will be published in a special issue in December 2023. The special issue will be handled by a guest editor, Dennis W. K. Khong (Multimedia University, Malaysia).

Relevant Topics
ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence tools using large language models have recently exhibited abilities close to what we typically perceive as artificial general intelligence (AGI). Artificial intelligence developers have successfully developed natural language understanding tools that can perform diverse tasks such as machine translation, reading comprehension, question answering and summarization abilities. This has raised the public’s alarm that artificial intelligence tools can potentially displace numerous existing jobs. Also, the public fears these tools in the wrong hands may be used for nefarious purposes. This special issue aims to provide a platform for researchers to publish articles on these issues, including but not limited to the law and economic aspects of the following:

    • ChatGPT, BERT and pre-trained models
    • Large language models
    • Artificial general intelligence
    • Natural language understanding
    • Job displacement because of AI
    • Universal Basic Income
    • AI governance and regulation

Guidelines for Submission

    1. Submission should follow the guidelines available at AJLE’s website: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ajle
    2. An abstract of not more than 150 words should accompany each manuscript. The abstract should briefly state the research’s purpose, principal results, and major conclusions.
    3. For inquiries, please e-mail wkkhong@mmu.edu.my.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Asian Journal of Law and Economics (Special Issue)

Climate Change and Carbon Neutrality: Legal, Economic, and Regulatory Issues

DEADLINE: April 30, 2021

Asian Journal of Law and Economics (AJLE) invites submissions for an upcoming special issue, “Climate Change and Carbon Neutrality: Legal, Economic, and Regulatory Issues.” Accepted papers will be published in a special issue to be published in 2022. The special issue will be handled by the guest editor, Seung-Gyu Sim (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan).

Please visit https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ajle for more details.


Asian Law and Economics Association Conference 2021 (Online)

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Asian Law and Economics Association Conference 2021 (Online)

December 11, 2021

Announcement and Call for Papers

The 17th Annual Asian Law and Economics Association (AsLEA) Conference will be held on December 11, 2021 in online format and hosted by Peking University Law School. Those interested in presenting papers are invited to submit their drafts along with a short abstract by November 28, 2021.

We welcome submissions on topics in any areas of Law and Economics, although we encourage submissions dealing with questions that originate from Asia or are relevant to Asia today. Submissions on traditional areas of Law and Economics as well as on new topics are welcome, and we will consider both theoretical and empirical research.

Topics

We will consider any topics in or related to Law and Economics, including but not limited to the following:

Antitrust and Competition – Bankruptcy – Behavioral Law and Economics – Law and Economics of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data – Corporate Law and Corporate Governance – Contract Theory and Contract Law – Crimes and Criminal Law – Environmental Law and Economics – Family Law – Finance, Securities, and Capital Market Regulation – Health and Medical Law – Innovation – Intellectual Property – International Law and International Trade – Labor and Employment Law – Law and Development – Litigation, Dispute Resolution, and Legal Procedure – Mergers and Acquisitions – Political Economy and Public Choice – Privacy and Data Protection – Property Rights and Property Law – Public and Administrative Law – Regulation – Rule of Law and Legal Institutions – Social Welfare and Welfare Policy – Taxation – Tort Law

We also welcome topics related to other fields of Economics, Finance and Law.

Important Dates

Submission of abstracts and draft papers: By November 28, 2021

Invitation sent to confirmed presenters: By December 5, 2021

Invitation sent to other registered participants: By December 9, 2021

Guideline for Submission and Registration

Submissions should be sent, in PDF and/or MS Word format, to the following e-mail address: aslea2021@163.com.

Please include on the first page of your submission the following information: paper title, authors’ names and affiliations, and contact information including an email address for the corresponding author.

If you are interested in publishing your conference paper in the Asian Journal of Law and Economics, please indicate your interest when you make your initial submission.

If you are interested in registering as a non-presenting participant of the online conference, please send an email that includes your name, institutional affiliation, title/position at your institution, and institutional email address to aslea2021@163.com.

General Logistics for the Online Conference

The online conference will be held on the VooV meeting platform. Invited speakers and registered participants will receive additional instructions about downloading and using the free software to join in the conference sessions.

There are no submission or registration fees for the online conference.

Contact Information

Inquiries regarding the conference should be sent to the following e-mail address:

aslea2021@163.com.


Asian Journal of Law and Economics

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue

“Big Tech” Platforms:

Legal, Economic, and Regulatory Issues

DEADLINE: October 30, 2021

Asian Journal of Law and Economics (AJLE) invites submissions for an upcoming special issue “‘Big Tech’ Platforms: Legal, Economic, and Regulatory Issues.” Accepted papers will be published in a special issue to be published in 2022.

Topics that AJLE would consider include the following.

  • Defining characteristics of Big Tech businesses, which may or may not warrant special scrutiny;
  • Significance of artificial intelligence and other technological tools for Big Tech businesses;
  • Significance of data for Big Tech businesses;
  • Regulatory issues related to the platform business model;
  • Economic role of cloud computing for Big Tech businesses;
  • Regulatory issues related to trans-border data flows and storage;
  • Regulatory issues related to “gig-economy” workers, in particular, employment and labor law;
  • Regulatory issues related to technology companies’ data privacy;
  • Debates related to the claims of algorithmic transparency;
  • Newly emerging antitrust and competition law issues;
  • Policy issues between protecting incumbents’ interests and promoting disruptive innovations;
  • Regulatory competence: broad-based regulation vs. sector-specific regulation;
  • Institutional design and process of regulatory mechanisms involving Big Tech;
  • Challenges for regional and national Big Tech companies, in Asia and other parts of the worlds; and
  • Analyses of current statutory and regulatory proposals in Asia and around the world, such as the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), Digital Markets Act (DMA), Data Governance Act (DGA), Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA);

For more information, please refer to the full Call for Papers.


Asian Journal of Law and Economics

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue

“Big Tech” Platforms:

Legal, Economic, and Regulatory Issues

DEADLINE: October 30, 2021

Asian Journal of Law and Economics (AJLE) invites submissions for an upcoming special issue “‘Big Tech’ Platforms: Legal, Economic, and Regulatory Issues.” Accepted papers will be published in a special issue to be published in 2022.

Topics that AJLE would consider include the following.

  • Defining characteristics of Big Tech businesses, which may or may not warrant special scrutiny;
  • Significance of artificial intelligence and other technological tools for Big Tech businesses;
  • Significance of data for Big Tech businesses;
  • Regulatory issues related to the platform business model;
  • Economic role of cloud computing for Big Tech businesses;
  • Regulatory issues related to trans-border data flows and storage;
  • Regulatory issues related to “gig-economy” workers, in particular, employment and labor law;
  • Regulatory issues related to technology companies’ data privacy;
  • Debates related to the claims of algorithmic transparency;
  • Newly emerging antitrust and competition law issues;
  • Policy issues between protecting incumbents’ interests and promoting disruptive innovations;
  • Regulatory competence: broad-based regulation vs. sector-specific regulation;
  • Institutional design and process of regulatory mechanisms involving Big Tech;
  • Challenges for regional and national Big Tech companies, in Asia and other parts of the worlds; and
  • Analyses of current statutory and regulatory proposals in Asia and around the world, such as the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), Digital Markets Act (DMA), Data Governance Act (DGA), Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA);

For more information, please refer to the full Call for Papers.


Dear members of the Law and Economics community in Asia and beyond,

I’m writing this post to deliver an excellent piece of news for the Asian Law and Economics Association as well as for the Law and Economics community in general. It has just been determined that the Asian Journal of Law and Economics will be listed on Scopus! It was made possible owing to the hard and diligent work of Professor Jeong-Yoo Kim, Editor-in-Chief. Kudos to Jeong-Yoo!! Set forth below is the message from the Scopus team. Please visit the Journal homepage and peruse what has been published. Please spread the news, and encourage submissions!

Journal URL: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/AJLE/html

Best regards,

Haksoo Ko

President, Asian Law and Economics Association

Professor, Seoul National University School of Law

____________________________________________________

Title: Asian Journal of Law and Economics
ISSN / E-ISSN: / 2154-4611
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Dear Prof. Jeong-Yoo Kim,

The title mentioned above has been evaluated for inclusion in Scopus by the Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB). The review of this title is now complete and the CSAB has advised that the title will be accepted for inclusion in Scopus. In general, all recently accepted titles will be listed separately in the Scopus Title list within 1 month after acceptance, see the second tab ‘Accepted titles’. If you can’t find your title there, please check the tab ‘Scopus sources’. Our Source Collection Management department will contact the publisher of this title within the next three months to initiate the indexing process for Scopus. A content coverage agreement needs to be in place before we can start adding the content to Scopus.com. If you are the publisher, please do not send us your content yet unless requested by our Source Collection Management department.the Yours sincerely,

Scopus Title Evaluation Support


16th Asian Law and Economics Association (AsLEA)
Online Conference 2020 
(December 12 & 13, 2020)
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Dear friends of law and economics,
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Registration for the AsLEA 2020 online conference is now open at https://aslea2020.mmu.edu.my. Please register there in order to receive the instruction to access the live sessions using Zoom. The schedule for the conference is attached below. Please also share this news with your friends who may be interested. Thank you.   (PROGRAM)
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The organiser,

Dennis W. K. Khong


2020 AsLEA Conference 

2020 Annual Conference of Asian Law and Economics Association (AsLEA) will be held as a virtual conference.

Call for Papers is available [here].

Important information:

– Conference dates: December 12 & 13, 2020

– Due date for submission: October 1, 2020

– Submission e-mail: wkkhong@staff.mmu.edu.my

– Organiser: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dennis Khong, Faculty of Law, Multimedia University, Malaysia

Note from the Asian Journal of Law and Economics:

“If you are interested in publishing your conference paper in the Asian Journal of Law and Economics, please indicate your interest when you make your initial submission or send the full paper directly to Editor Jeong-Yoo Kim at jyookim@gmail.com. The Asian Journal of Law and Economics is considering issuing a special issue from the conference proceedings and will welcome submissions”


 2020 Annual Conference – a Virtual Conference 

2020 annual conference will be held as a virtual conference, on or around December 12, 2020. Our colleagues at Multimedia University, Malaysia (in particular, Professor Dennis Khong) will be hosting the conference. Call for Paper will soon be circulated.

Separately, Ocean University of China, in Qingdao, China, will host the annual conference in 2021. Ocean University of China was originally determined to host the 2020 conference but, in consideration of the circumstances owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, its role was postponed to 2021. Dates of the conference will later be determined and announced.


New Institutional Member 

AsLEA welcomes a new institutional member! In July 2020, it was determined that University of Economics and Law (UEL) – Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, will join AsLEA. As an institutional member, UEL will actively participate in AsLEA’s activities and is expected to host AsLEA’s annual conference in 2023. Institutional membership is a new category of AsLEA’s membership, and a new institutional member is expected to participate in AsLEA’s activities in an active manner and to host an annual conference within a few years upon joining AsLEA.


Asian Journal of Law and Economics

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue

Coping with COVID-19:

Legal, Economic, and Policy Perspectives

DEADLINE: October 15, 2020

Asian Journal of Law and Economics (AJLE) invites submissions for an upcoming special issue “Coping with COVID-19: Legal, Economic, and Policy Perspectives.” Accepted papers will be published in the December 2020 issue.

Topics that AJLE would consider include the following:

  • How to improve legal, economic and regulatory systems to prevent and control the spread of SARS-CoV-2 more effectively;
  • How to address legal and economic problems involving the use of digital tools for contact tracing, quarantine monitoring, transmission mapping, computational modeling, and other public health activities;
  • How to deal with privacy, liberty, ethics, and other human rights challenges when tracing contacts, releasing patients’ demographic information, implementing social distancing, mounting aggressive measures such as lockdown or roadblock, or engaging in other public health activities;
  • How to allocate vaccines, personal protective equipment, and other medical resources, internationally and domestically;
  • How to deal with trade-offs among various legal, economic, public health, and ethical values;
  • How to incorporate fairness considerations in dealing with COVID-19;
  • How to (re)structure public health systems in order to deal with COVID-19;
  • How to address disparities in testing, treatment, and fatality for populations at risk; and
  • How to address the digital divide (the disparity of access to information devices necessary for distance learning, telework, and e-commerce).

For more details, please refer to the Call for Papers, in the pdf format.


2020 AsLEA Conference Postponed!

Due to concerns in relation to the ongoing global spread of Covid-19, the AsLEA board has decided to postpone the AsLEA Conference 2020 originally scheduled to be held on June 19 and 20 in Qingdao, China. The board and the host institution will, at a later and practicable time, decide upon and announce a new date for the conference.
We appreciate your continued interest in participating in the conference. Please kindly note that the previously announced submission deadlines are no longer in effect. During the period before new deadlines are announced together with the new conference dates, the organizers will continue to welcome and receive submissions of absracts and drafts sent to the conference email address at aslea2020@vip.163.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

for the  Third Conference on Law and Macroeconomics

The economic devastation caused by Covid-19 triggered a slew of new research on law’s role in mediating the business cycle, economic growth, and inequality.

We welcome submissions for an online conference on October 15, 2020 that will continue to explore connections between law and the macroeconomy.

Papers may address the role of law, regulation, and institutions in:

– Monetary policy, both conventional and unconventional, and the payments system, including the impact of new platforms and technologies;

– Financial regulatory policy, including the effect on the business cycle and economic growth, crisis containment and resolution, access to capital and other aspects of financial inclusion;

– Fiscal policy to reduce the depth and frequency, and mitigate the effects of economic downturns, including the respective roles of federal, state, and local governments;

– Moderating recessions with other policy levers, including bankruptcy, contract, and property law, environmental, utility, and labor regulation, and investment and capital controls; and

– Reducing inequality, including policies affecting labor and employment relationships, competition, access to housing, healthcare, and other public services, and personal, corporate and public debt relief.

We hope to attract submissions from both legal scholars writing about macro-relevant topics and economists writing on subjects that would benefit from legal perspectives.

Submissions from students and others not in tenure- track positions are especially welcomed– there will be a special panel for such scholarship.

We also encourage submissions from all perspectives and areas of law that may help illuminate the intersection between law and macroeconomics and inform action to mitigate the pain and uncertainty caused by the economic downturn.

Over lunch, Greg Kaplan, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and Claudia Sahm, Director of Macroeconomic Policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, will provide a non-technical overview of recent developments in macroeconomics that a legal audience should know. In a featured panel, Helene Rey, Lord Bagri Professor of Economics at London Business School, will present her research on carbon pricing and climate change; legal scholars with expertise in different aspects of the topic, such as international trade law and international tax law, will offer comments.

The deadline for submissions is September 8th. To register for the conference and/or submit a paper, visit lawandmacro.org.


 2020 Annual Conference – a Virtual Conference 

2020 annual conference will be held as a virtual conference, on or around December 12, 2020. Our colleagues at Multimedia University, Malaysia (in particular, Professor Dennis Khong) will be hosting the conference. Call for Paper will soon be circulated.

Separately, Ocean University of China, in Qingdao, China, will host the annual conference in 2021. Ocean University of China was originally determined to host the 2020 conference but, in consideration of the circumstances owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, its role was postponed to 2021. Dates of the conference will later be determined and announced.


 Asian Journal of Law and Economics

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue

Coping with COVID-19:

Legal, Economic, and Policy Perspectives

DEADLINE: October 15, 2020

Asian Journal of Law and Economics (AJLE) invites submissions for an upcoming special issue “Coping with COVID-19: Legal, Economic, and Policy Perspectives.” Accepted papers will be published in the December 2020 issue.

Topics that AJLE would consider include the following:

– How to improve legal, economic and regulatory systems to prevent and control the spread of SARS-CoV-2 more effectively;

– How to address legal and economic problems involving the use of digital tools for contact tracing, quarantine monitoring, transmission mapping, computational modeling, and other public health activities;

– How to deal with privacy, liberty, ethics, and other human rights challenges when tracing contacts, releasing patients’ demographic information, implementing social distancing, mounting aggressive measures such as lockdown or roadblock, or engaging in other public health activities;

– How to allocate vaccines, personal protective equipment, and other medical resources, internationally and domestically;

– How to deal with trade-offs among various legal, economic, public health, and ethical values;

– How to incorporate fairness considerations in dealing with COVID-19;

– How to (re)structure public health systems in order to deal with COVID-19;

– How to address disparities in testing, treatment, and fatality for populations at risk; and

– How to address the digital divide (the disparity of access to information devices necessary for distance learning, telework, and e-commerce).

For more details, please refer to the Call for Papers, in the pdf format.


2020 AsLEA Conference Postponed!

Due to concerns in relation to the ongoing global spread of Covid-19, the AsLEA board has decided to postpone the AsLEA Conference 2020 originally scheduled to be held on June 19 and 20 in Qingdao, China. The board and the host institution will, at a later and practicable time, decide upon and announce a new date for the conference.
We appreciate your continued interest in participating in the conference. Please kindly note that the previously announced submission deadlines are no longer in effect. During the period before new deadlines are announced together with the new conference dates, the organizers will continue to welcome and receive submissions of absracts and drafts sent to the conference email address at aslea2020@vip.163.com

It is our great pleasure to announce that the 16th AsLEA Conference will be held on June 19 and 20, 2020 in Qingdao, China and hosted by Ocean University of China Law School. You are invited to submit your work for presentation at the conference on topics in any areas of Law and Economics, in particular those that are relevant to Asia today.
Both theoretical and empirical research are welcome. Please kindly find in the attached Call for Papers further information about the conference and the submission requirements.
Please note that the submission deadline for abstracts and/or draft papers is April 1, 2020. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors by April 15, 2020. Submission deadline for final drafts for circulation among conference participants is May 20, 2020. Further logistics information will be announced by the organizer in the coming months.