"Foreword" [2014] ELECD 828; in Haley, O. John; Takenaka, Toshiko (eds), "Legal Innovations in Asia" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014) xi

Book Title: Legal Innovations in Asia

Editor(s): Haley, O. John; Takenaka, Toshiko

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783472789

Section Title: Foreword

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Foreword
Dongsheng Zang

In May 2013, the Asian Law Center (ALC) celebrated its fiftieth
anniversary. That makes the Center one of the oldest and most fruitful
programs in Asian legal studies in the United States, as Professor
John O. Haley indicated in his chapter, "The First Decades, 1961­
2000." Between 2012 and 2013, we held a series of events, not only to
commemorate the past, but, more importantly, to envision the future of
the field. Distinguished alumni, former faculty colleagues, and former
students who are now law professors were invited back to Seattle for
conferences, presentations, and workshops. In Tokyo, our events
coincided with Professor John O. Haley's award of the prestigious
decoration the Order of the Rising Sun conferred by His Majesty the
Emperor of Japan. The chapters in this volume were originally papers
presented in these events or are further reflections as a result of these
events, and have been masterfully put together by Professors John Haley
and Toshiko Takenaka.
Confucius says, at age thirty, a person establishes himself; at forty,
he gains wisdom; at fifty, a person knows his destiny. At the Asian
Law Center, we are experiencing all of the above at the same time.
The Center is reinvigorated. At the same time as this volume is being
published John Haley is coming back to the ALC; Daniel Foote is
going to split his time between the University of Tokyo and ALC;
Michael Young, the distinguished Japanese law specialist, has become
the President of the ...