ANJeL will sponsor a panel presentation entitled "Bridging the Gap between Japanese Language and Japanese Legal Studies" at the joint Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA) – International Conference on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE) 2009 conference to be held in Sydney on 13-16 July 2009 at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney. Find out more.

ANJeL is delighted to announce that Professor Yasuhei Taniguchi, a renowned scholar and practitioner in Japanese civil procedure and insolvency law, international commercial arbitration and WTO law will be an ANJeL Visiting Academic at the University of Sydney in July and August 2009. Find out more. Professor Taniguchi will give a public lecture entitled "Does the WTO Really Settle International Trade Disputes?" at the new Sydney Law School building Thursday 30 July 2009 from 6 to 7.30 pm (NOTE CHANGED TOPIC, DATE AND TIME). Find out more.

Professor Kazuo Sugeno, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo Law School, and author of Japanese Employment and Labour Law among other texts will speak at the new Sydney Law School from 6 pm to 7.30 pm on Friday 31st August 2009 on "Towards a New Form of Flexicurity?: The Fluctuating Employment System in Japan" as part of the Sydney Law School Distinguished Speakers Program 2009. Click here for more details.

ANJeL will co-host a major International Conference on "Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific: Towards Institution Building" in Sydney on 27-28 November 2009 in partnership with the Sydney Centre for International Law (SCIL), the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney (CAPLUS), and the Australian Human Rights Centre at UNSW. Speakers will include former members of the International Human Rights Committee and leading international law and human rights scholars in the Asia-Pacific region. ANJeL welcomes paper proposals, which should be submitted via anjelinfo@gmail.com. More details are available here.

Sydney Law School will host the fourth Consumer Law Roundtable on 4 December, focusing on "Consumer Law and Policy in the Asia-Pacific". A special guest will be Professor Tsuneo Matsumoto, who has been heavily involved in Japan's consumer law reform over the last decade, including the recent establishment of an independent Consumers Agency. This is an invitation-only event for consumer law academics, regulators and NGOs, but early-career researchers are especially welcome to contact Luke Nottage. A flier is available here.

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