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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,

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.

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!