‘Saya’ U Ko Ni: Myanmar’s Advocate for Constitutional Reform On 29 January 2017, U Ko Ni, a prominent lawyer and legal advisor to the National League for Democracy (NLD), was brutally assassinated at Yangon International Airport. He was returning from a trip to Indonesia with the Information Minister, U Pe Myint. His untimely death is anContinue reading “Myanmar’s Advocate for Constitutional Reform”
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Supreme Court visits UNSW Law
On Monday 20 March 2017, a delegation from the Union Supreme Court of Myanmar visited the University of New South Wales Law faculty in Kensington, Sydney.UNSW Law is currently partnering with the Supreme Court to collaborate on a Judicial Colloquium on Commercial and Corporate Law.Daw Yin Myo Suu, an officer of the Union Attorney General’sContinue reading “Supreme Court visits UNSW Law”
UNSW Event Sydney: Dr Thant on publication trends and books in Myanmar
Upcoming event at UNSW on books in Myanmar There is now more opportunities than ever before to promote education and knowledge through public libraries in Myanmar. Yet because it has been closed for so long to the outside world, Myanmar is facing numerous challenges ranging from the lack of infrastructure to human resource capacity. ThisContinue reading “UNSW Event Sydney: Dr Thant on publication trends and books in Myanmar”
Principles and Processes of Constitution-making
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”
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”
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”
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”
The Role and Function of a Constitutional Court
On 25-26 November 2016, a workshop was held with the Myanmar Constitutional Tribunal in Naypyidaw on “The Role and Function of a Constitutional Court in Comparative Perspective”. The conference was organised by the Australia Myanmar Constitutional Democracy Project, and supported by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. The conference was attended by the nine members of the ConstitutionalContinue reading “The Role and Function of a Constitutional Court”
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