On 4-5 February 2017, I ran a workshop on ‘Principles and Processes of Constitution-making’ for a select group of participants in Myanmar. The course included discussion on the role and function of a constitution, types of constitutional change, common processes in constitution-making, and public participation in constitutional reform, with reflection on comparative experiences and theContinue reading “Principles and Processes of Constitution-making”
Author Archives: Melissa Crouch
Burmese translation: Tribute to U Ko Ni
[pdf version available here] ဦးကုိနီသုိ႔ တစ္သီးပုဂၢလ ဂုဏ္ျပဳတမ္းခ်င္း မလီဆာ ခေရာက္ခ်္ (Melissa Crouch)၊ ဧည့္ေဆာင္းပါးရွင္၊ ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၃၁ရက္၊ ၂၀၁၇ခုနွစ္တနဂၤေႏြေန႔က ထင္ရွားသည့္ မြတ္စလင္မ္ ေရွ႕ေနတစ္ဦးျဖစ္ၿပီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ဥပေဒအၾကံေပး ဦးကုိနီသည္ လုပ္ၾကံမႈလုိ႔ ယူဆရတဲ့ သတ္ျဖတ္မႈနဲ႔ အေသပစ္သတ္ျခင္း ခံခဲ့ရသည္။ မလီဆာ ခေရာက္ခ်္ (Melissa Crouch)က သူ႔ဘဝ တစ္ေစ့တစ္ေစာင္းနဲ႔ ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံရဲ့ အသိစိတ္ရွိေသာ ဥပေဒေရးရာ အသံတစ္ခု၏ အေမြအႏွစ္အေၾကာင္း ထင္ဟပ္တင္ျပထားပါသည္။ဤရက္သတၱပတ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံမွာ ရွိတဲ့ လူေတြဟာ ျဖစ္လာေတာ့မယ့္ တုိင္းျပည္အမ်ိဳးအစားကုိ မ်က္ေမွာက္ျပဳ ထိပ္တုိက္ေတြ႔ဖုိ႔ တြန္းအားေပးခံၾကရပါၿပီ။ ၂၀၁၇ခုႏွစ္ ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၂၉မွာ ထင္ရွားတဲ့ ေရွ႕ေနတစ္ဦးျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ့ ဥပေဒအၾကံေပးလည္းျဖစ္တဲ့ ဦးကုိနီဟာ ရန္ကုန္ အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာContinue reading “Burmese translation: Tribute to U Ko Ni”
A personal tribute to U Ko Ni
This was first published at New Mandala, 31 January 2017. On Sunday, prominent Muslim lawyer, and legal adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi, U Ko Ni, was fatally shot by an alleged assassin. Melissa Crouch reflects on the life and legacy of Myanmar’s legal voice of conscience. This week people in Myanmar were forced to confront theContinue reading “A personal tribute to U Ko Ni”
Judicial Independence and Selection Processes in Indonesia
On 30 January 2017, a focus group discussion on “Judicial Independence and Selection Processes in Indonesia” was held in Jakarta. The session was run by Dr Fritz Siregar of the University of Indonesia and Dr Melissa Crouch of UNSW. The discussion was attended by judges of the Indonesian Supreme Court, lawyers from the Indonesian LegalContinue reading “Judicial Independence and Selection Processes in Indonesia”
AMCDP tribute to U Ko Ni
Media release by the Australia Myanmar Constitutional Democracy Project The assassination of U Ko Ni, at Yangon airport on 29 January, is devastating, tragic, news. His death will distress all who knew him and all who knew the service he gave his country. U Ko Ni was a distinguished lawyer, a legal adviser to Aung SanContinue reading “AMCDP tribute to U Ko Ni”
Professional Legal Education Program in Corporate and Commercial Law for Myanmar Lawyers
From May to July 2017, an exciting new professional legal education program will be run for commercial and corporate lawyers in Myanmar by the University of New South Wales Law Faculty and the Asian Development Bank. The course will focus on core skills and areas of practice directly relevant to commercial and corporate law. ItContinue reading “Professional Legal Education Program in Corporate and Commercial Law for Myanmar Lawyers”
The Business of Transition: Law Reform, Development and Economics in Myanmar
Edited by Melissa Crouch (2017), Cambridge University Press This volume offers a timely reflection on law, development and economics through empirical and comparative perspectives on contemporary Myanmar. The central theme of the book is to understand the business that takes place in times of major political change through law and development initiatives and foreign investment.Continue reading “The Business of Transition: Law Reform, Development and Economics in Myanmar”
Law and Society in Southeast Asia
From 5-12 January 2017, the annual Institute for Global Law and Public Policy (IGLP), an initiative of Harvard Law School, forum converged on Thailand. The forum brings together young scholars and faculty from around the world for an intensive week of discussion and debate. As part of the week, Melissa Crouch along with Dr Vanja Hamzic (SOAS,Continue reading “Law and Society in Southeast Asia”
Forthcoming Book: The Business of Transition
In 2017, a new book on The Business of Transition: Law Reform, Development and Economics in Myanmar, will be published with Cambridge University Press. The aim of this volume is to offer new empirical and comparative insights into the intersection between business, development and governance reforms in Myanmar. It brings together a range of leadingsContinue reading “Forthcoming Book: The Business of Transition”
Islamist rule by law in Indonesia
This article first appeared in Policy Forum, 3 December 2016. The great paradox of Indonesian democracy is on display for all the world to see. On one hand, there is greater freedom of expression and association for all. But on the other, this has given fuel to Islamists to espouse lawlessness and violence in the absenceContinue reading “Islamist rule by law in Indonesia”
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