The Asian Law Schools Association (ALSA) was established in September 2020 for the purpose of upholding and advancing excellence in legal education and scholarship in Asia through meaningful collaboration among Asian law schools. In furtherance of the Association’s purpose, ALSA promotes the core values of academic freedom, the rule of law, diversity, integrity, and professionalism.
ALSA has twenty-eight founding member schools that are among the very top law schools in Asia. Their representatives sit on the Board of Governors which meets annually. The School of Law of City University of Hong Kong (CityU) led the initiative, and the Secretariat is currently hosted at the NUS Law School. Potential activities include biennial deans’ forums to discuss issues and challenges faced by Asian law schools; research workshops for junior scholars; seminars and conferences on legal education; and comparative law research projects.
The current President of ALSA is Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy (National Law School of India University, Bangalore) and Secretary-General is Associate Prof Tan Zhong Xing (National University of Singapore). Prof Chen Chih-Hsiung (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) is Chair of the Law & Technology Chapter.
The Law and Technology Chapter of the ALSA is primarily supporting the conference. Its members come from various different Asian law schools. The list can be found here.
ALSA organised the Law and Technology Conferences in 2021, 2023, and 2025. More information on them can be found here: