Welcome Address by Director, ALSA Conference 2024 and Chairman, Malaysian Law Deans Council

Welcome to the Asian Law Schools Association (ALSA) Legal Education Conference 2024! 

The Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia (UM) is proud to host the notable event of ALSA’s Legal Education Conference (ALEC) 2024. This is the first time that this academic gathering is being held in Malaysia. It is both an honour and a privilege to facilitate this event.

We hope the Conference will bring us all new friends and reunite us with older ones, strengthening ties between legal scholars and law schools across the Asia Pacific and beyond. The conference would provide a great opportunity for scholars to meet and exchange ideas on legal education particularly the challenges and opportunities for Legal Education and Training in Asia. We have placed our concerted effort to ensure that the conference is an insightful and enjoyable experience here in Malaysia. I trust the conference will provide an enormous contribution to legal education in Asia, demonstrating our collective commitment to advancing knowledge and ideas about legal education in our diverse and fascinating region. Let us embark on this journey of knowledge exchange and collaboration, united in our pursuit of excellence.

I would like to express my deepest appreciation to my dedicated team at the ALEC 2024 Secretariat, the Dean of the Faculty of Law UM, ALSA Board of Governors and sponsors. Without their tireless efforts and unwavering dedication, the realization of this event would not have been possible.

Lastly, may your time here be marked by unforgettable moments, meaningful connections, and cherished memories that will last a lifetime. Do join us for this delayed yet delightful academic gathering with prominent legal scholars.

Magesan R Ayavoo
Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

It gives me, as Chairman of the Malaysian Law Deans Council, to welcome the holding of the ALSA Legal Education Conference 2024 hosted at Universiti Malaya and sponsored by ALSA. The Malaysian Law Deans Council is delighted to be associated with this highly needful conference. Asian legal education is facing all manner of challenges – from the continuing impact of IT and AI to the changes to the practice of law and concerns of social justice. This conference will bring together the researchers working in this field in the region and wider to raise awareness of the issues and solutions to enable us as a collective of educators to improve how we ensure that the best legal brains for our shared future.

I wish all speakers, delegates and stakeholders a truly edifying conference in Universiti Malaya and Malaysia.

Prof. Dr. Farid Sufian Shuaib
Chairman, Malaysian Law Deans Council

[The Malaysian Law Deans Council is made up of Universiti Malaya, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin and Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia].