18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • MAIN CONFERENCE • HALL A
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • ROOM B1.201 • FROM 13:30
| 13:30 – 13:35 |
OPENING REMARK
Rosemary Hunter
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| 13:35 – 13:50 | S1-01 | Le Ngoc Phu, Nguyen Thi Hoai (University of Law, Hue University, Vietnam) From Ideas to Statutes: French Feminist Thought and the Reshaping of Vietnamese Law in the Colonial Era |
| 13:50 – 14:05 | S1-02 | Shuxi Yin (Hefei University of Technology, China) From State Feminism to Grassroots Legal Consciousness: Feminist Law-Making and Gender Equality in Contemporary China |
| 14:05 – 14:20 | S1-03 | Naresh Prajapati (School of Law, Bennett University, India) Deferred Equality and Feminist Law-Making in India: Women's Reservation, Parliamentary Exclusion, and Gender Diversity in the Higher Judiciary |
| 14:20 – 14:35 | S1-04 | Sarah Ailwood (University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia) Can Law Reform Listen with a Feminist Ear? Law Reform and the Future of Feminist Lawmaking |
| 14:35 – 14:50 | S1-05 | Eileen YH Tsang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Fighting Fire with Fire: How Female Students Use Symbolic Power to Fight Predator Professors in China |
| 14:50 – 15:05 | S1-06 | Chomkate Ngamkaiwan (Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand) From Care to Co-Design: Women's Activism as Feminist Law-Making in Thai Environmental Governance |
| 15:05 – 15:20 | S1-07 | Shubham Yadav (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India) Feminist Law-Making Outside Institutions: A Domestic Workers' Union and Its Women's Court in India |
| 15:20 – 15:35 | S1-08 | Agus Pratiwi (Griffith Law School, Griffith University, Australia) Beyond the Right Values: A Pragmatic Feminist Reorientation of Child Marriage Prevention Law in Indonesia |
| 15:35 – 15:50 | S1-09 | Vera Bararah Barid (Research Center for Law, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia) Judging Girlhood: Feminist Judicial Reasoning in Child Marriage Dispensation Cases in Indonesia |
| 15:50 - 16:05 |
CLOSING
Rosemary Hunter
Loughborough University, UK |
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • ROOM B1.203 • FROM 13:30
| 13:30 - 13:35 |
OPENING REMARK
Trinh Thuc Hien
University of Economics and Law, VNU-HCM, Vietnam |
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| 13:35 - 13:50 | S2-01 | Bui Thi Bich Lien (FPT University, Vietnam) How Feminist is Vietnam's Inheritance Law? Revisiting the Public-Private Divide in Inheritance Disputes |
| 13:50 - 14:05 | S2-02 | Nguyen Thi Kim Chung (FPT University, Hanoi campus, Vietnam) Rewriting Inheritance Law from a Feminist Perspective: Women's Land Claims and Legal Recognition in Vietnam |
| 14:05 - 14:20 | S2-03 | Bach Thi Nha Nam, Le Nguyen Hong Nhung, Ngo Minh Phuong Thao (University of Economics and Law, VNU-HCM, Vietnam) Rethinking Women's Inheritance Rights in Vietnam: Law, Gender, and the Dynamics of Legal Change |
| 14:20 - 14:35 | S2-04 | Tran Thien Trang (University of Economics and Law, VNU-HCM, Vietnam) Valuing Non-Financial Contributions in Marital Property Division: A Comparative Study of Australian and Singaporean Law and Implications for Vietnam |
| 14:35 - 14:50 | S2-05 |
Nguyen Thuy Linh (Ho Chi Minh City University of Law) Tran Ngoc Hoang Quan (People’s Court of Region 2 in Ho Chi Minh City) Recognizing Women's Economic Contributions in the Division of Marital Property upon Divorce: A Feminist Legal Analysis of a Vietnamese Court Judgment |
| 14:50 - 15:05 | S2-06 | Kartavi Satyarthi (Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, India) From Recognition to Redistribution: Addressing the Absence of Matrimonial Property Rights for Unpaid Care Work in India |
| 15:05 - 15:20 | S2-07 |
Huynh Thi Nam Hai (University of Economics and Law, VNU-HCM, Vietnam) Frédérique Le Doujet (Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences, University of Lille, France) Christine Desnoyer (University of Lille, France. Researcher at the CRDP–L’ERADP Laboratory) Le Bich Thuy (University of Economics and Law, VNU-HCM, Vietnam) Writing Cohabitation Contracts as Feminist Law: A Legislative Design for Vietnamese Family Law |
| 15:20 - 15:35 | S2-08 | Nisha Khatri (Kathmandu School of Law, Nepal) The Private is Political, But the Law is Not: Rethinking the Public/Private Divide in Vietnamese and Nepali Legal Frameworks Through Feminist Law-Making |
| 15:35 - 15:50 |
CLOSING
Trinh Thuc Hien
University of Economics and Law, VNU-HCM, Vietnam |
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • ROOM B1. 204 • FROM 13:30
| 13:30 - 13:35 |
OPENING REMARK
Phan Thi Lan Huong
Ha Noi Law University, Vietnam |
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| 13:35 - 13:50 | S3-01 | Kelly Camille Alair (University of the Philippines Mindanao) Violence Within Narratives: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Philippine Supreme Court Decisions on Rape and Sexual Assault |
| 13:50 - 14:05 | S3-02 | Sita Sumrit (Senior Consultant, UN Women , Thailand) Recognising the Unrecognised: Femicide and the Pursuit of Gender-Responsive Law in Southeast Asia |
| 14:05 - 14:20 | S3-03 | Jevilyn G. Pas-iwen-Madalang (University of the Cordilleras, Philippines) From Private Harm to Public Justice: A Feminist Mixed-Methods Analysis of Procedural Challenges and Legal Disengagement |
| 14:20 - 14:35 | S3-04 | Kangxin (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Domestic Violence, Evidentiary Dilemmas, and Divorce Adjudication in the Era of the Chinese Smart Court |
| 14:35 - 14:50 | S3-05 | Tran Thi Hanh Dung (University of Economics and Law, VNU-HCM; Dong Nai Provincial Political School, Vietnam) The Principle of Full and Timely Compensation through a Feminist Lens: Legal Improvements for Protecting Vulnerable Women in Tort Law |
| 14:50 - 15:05 |
CLOSING
Phan Thi Lan Huong
Ha Noi Law University, Vietnam |
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • ROOM B1.205 • FROM 13:30
| 13:30 - 13:35 |
OPENING REMARK
Doan Thi Phuong Diep
University of Economics and Law, VNU-HCM, Vietnam |
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| 13:35 - 13:50 | S4-01 | Le Thu Trang (Independent Researcher), Luong Vu Khanh Ly (Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam) Recognizing Unpaid Care Work as Labor: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Legal Reform in Vietnam |
| 13:50 - 14:05 | S4-02 | Ta Nguyen Anh Thu, Nguyễn Phương Linh, Nguyen Viet Bach, Nguyen Ho Phuong Uyen (Hanoi Law University) From Private Obligation to Legal Status: The Public - Private Divide and the Recognition of Women's Unpaid Care Work in Vietnamese Law |
| 14:05 - 14:20 | S4-03 | Nguyen Bich Dien An (Dentsu Creative Vietnam) How Vietnamese Working Mothers Experience and Negotiate the Motherhood Penalty in the Public/Private Divide |
| 14:20 - 14:35 | S4-04 | Lu Thi Thuy (Techmiles Company, Vietnam) Indirect Discrimination and Recruitment Criteria in Vietnam's Feminist Perspective |
| 14:35 – 14:50 | S4-06 | Dang Hoang Minh (FPT University, Vietnam) Dismantling the Spatial Locus: A Feminist Legal Reconstruction of the "Workplace" to Address Sexual Harassment in Decentralized Labor. |
| 14:50 – 15:05 | S4-07 | La Minh Trang (Hanoi Law University, Vietnam) Legislating Leave Entitlements for In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Treatment Through a Feminist Law-making Perspective Toward Substantive Gender Equality |
| 15:05 – 15:20 |
CLOSING
Doan Thi Phuong Diep
University of Economics and Law, VNU-HCM, Vietnam |
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • ROOM B1.301 • FROM 13:30
| 13:30 - 13:35 |
OPENING REMARK
Masako Tanaka
Sophia University, Japan |
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| 13:35 - 13:50 | S5-01 | Debora Natasia Gunawan (University of Michigan Law School, United States of America) The Right to Bleed: Menstrual Leave and the Feminist Reconstruction of Labor Law |
| 13:50 - 14:05 | S5-02 | Abhilasha Khare (Symbiosis Law School, Nagpur, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India) From Welfare to Rights: A Feminist Legal Analysis of Menstrual Health Governance in India |
| 14:05 - 14:20 | S5-03 | Masako Tanaka (Sophia University, Japan) Fit-to-Work as a Barrier to Reproductive Justice: Pregnancy, Labour Migration, and Filipino Women Migrant Workers in Japan |
| 14:20 - 14:35 | S5-04 | Chattrika Napatanapong, Nichakorn Khonthong (Faculty of Law, University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Thailand) The Protection of Reproductive Health Rights of Women and LGBTQIAN+ Persons in the Context of Thailand |
| 14:35 - 14:50 | S5-05 | Atty. Arianne Christian G. Tapao (Supreme Court of the Philippines) The Rights Dose: Feminist Law-Making and a Gender-Affirming Healthcare Framework in the Philippines |
| 14:50 - 15:05 | S5-06 | Pham Thi Minh Anh, Mai Hoang Phuoc (University of Economics and Law, VNU-HCM, Vietnam) Reshaping Motherhood in Reciprocal IVF: Legal Vacuums and Reform Recommendations in Vietnam |
| 15:05 - 15:20 | S5-07 | Phan Thi Huong Giang (University of Economics and Law, VNU-HCM, Vietnam) Protecting the Surrogate Rights under Illegal Commercial Surrogacy Agreements: A Legal Perspective from Vietnam |
| 15:20 - 15:35 | S5-08 | Nguyen Dinh Duc (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Rethinking Pronatalism: A Feminist Legal Critique of the Historical Development of Population Governance in Vietnam |
| 15:35 - 15:50 | S5-09 | Nguyen Trinh Thien Kim (Independent Researcher, Vietnam) From private choice to public obligation: pronatalism and reproductive governance in Viet Nam’s Population Law |
| 15:50 - 16:05 |
CLOSING
Masako Tanaka
Sophia University, Japan |
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • ROOM B1.302 • FROM 13:30
| 13:30 - 13:35 |
OPENING REMARK
Tran Thang Long
Hochiminh City University of Law, Vietnam |
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| 13:35 - 13:50 | S6-01 | Chunipha Poedloknimit (Western University, Thailand) Invisible in the State's Eyes: The Absence of Legal Gender Recognition in Thai National ID Law and Its Impact on Transgender Persons Through a Feminist Legal Lens |
| 13:50 - 14:05 | S6-02 |
Assist.Prof.Kamonwan Yoowattana (Faculty of Law, SSRU, Bangkok, Thailand) Chonruitai Kaewrungrueng (Faculty of Law, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand) Khamphiou Vilayphone (Faculty of Law and Political Science, NUOL, Laos PDR) State, Nation, and Patriarchy: Gendered Inequality in the Evolution of Thai Nationality Law Affecting Thai Mothers and Wives |
| 14:05 - 14:20 | S6-03 | Priyanka Gangwar (G D Goenka University, Gurugram, India) Self-Identification Vs Certification: A Feminist Study of Gender Recognition Laws in India and Argentina |
| 14:20 - 14:35 | S6-04 | Mihika Poddar (National Law School, India; University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Rethinking Use and Design of Gendered Categories in Family Law |
| 14:35 - 14:50 | S6-05 | Louise Aubrey P. Mejia (University of the Philippines Law Complex - Gender Law and Policy Program, Philippines) The World of the Unmarried: Modern Family Models in the Philippine Legal Framework |
| 14:50 - 15:05 | S6-06 | Sangeetha Sriraam, Malavika Anil (Central University of Tamil Nadu, India) Towards Equality: Reimagining Equal Marriage Rights Through 'Suyamariyadhai Marriages' |
| 15:05 - 15:20 | S6-07 | Haojin Duan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Queering Intimate Recognition: From Contractual Imitation to Prefigurative Feminist Law-Making in Chinese Private Law |
| 15:20 - 15:35 |
CLOSING
Tran Thang Long
Hochiminh City University of Law, Vietnam |
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • ROOM B1.303 • FROM 13:30
| 13:30 - 13:35 |
OPENING REMARK
Nguyen Thi Phuong Cham
University of Law, VNU Hanoi, Vietnam |
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| 13:35 - 13:50 | S7-01 |
Dr Ivneet Kaur Walia (Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, India) Aastha Tiwari (Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai) Algorithmic Voyeurism and the Collapse of Consent: Redefining Women's Privacy in the Age of AI |
| 13:50 - 14:05 | S7-02 | Nguyen Thu Hien (Faculty of Law, National Economics University, Vietnam) Privacy in Cyberspace and Legal Intervention into the Private Sphere: Assessing the Legal Framework for the Protection of Women's Personal Data from a Feminist Perspective |
| 14:05 - 14:20 | S7-03 |
Mohd Rameez Raza (Symbiosis Law School, Nagpur, Symbiosis International University, India) Anushka Chaturvedi (Study Hall Education Foundation, India) Reimagining the Data Fiduciary in Privacy Law: Towards a Feminist Duty for Digital Healthcare Providers in India |
| 14:20 - 14:35 | S7-04 | Le Thi Thao (University of Law, Hue University, Vietnam) How to Write Feminist Digital Credit Laws: Reimagining Creditworthiness Through Women’s Lived Experiences |
| 14:35 - 14:50 | S7-05 | Pham Thi Thanh Tam (University of Economics and Law, VNU-HCM, Vietnam) Social Scoring using Personal Data: Threats and Challenges of Gender Inequality |
| 14:50 - 15:05 | S7-06 | Nguyen Thi Phuong Cham (University of Law, VNU-Hanoi, Vietnam) Beyond Formal Consent: Feminist Legal Perspectives on Informed Consent and Artificial Intelligence in Vietnamese Health Law |
| 15:05 - 15:20 |
CLOSING
Nguyen Thi Phuong Cham
University of Law, VNU Hanoi, Vietnam |
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • ROOM B1.304 • FROM 13:30
| 13:30 - 13:35 |
OPENING REMARK
Dr Claerwen O'Hara
University of Melbourne, Australia |
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| 13:35 - 13:50 | S8-01 | Vu Kim Hanh Dung (University of Economics and Law, VNU-HCM, Vietnam) The Gendered Architecture of Article XX GATT: A Feminist Law-Making Critique from EC – Seal Products and Implications for Vietnam |
| 13:50 - 14:05 | S8-02 | Nancy Carolina Fabara Verdezoto (Institute of International and Regional Studies, Sun Yat Sen University, China) Feminist Economic Law-Making in South–South Cooperation: Reconfiguring Chinese Investment Rules in Latin America and Asia |
| 14:05 - 14:20 | S8-03 | Nguyen Tien Dung (University of Debrecen, Hanoi Law University, Vietnam) Opening the Black Box of 'Work of Equal Value': A Feminist Law-Making Approach to Pay Transparency in the EU & Implications for Vietnam |
| 14:20 - 14:35 | S8-04 | Tasnia Alam Hannan (Western Sydney University, School of Law, Australia) The Legal Architecture of Gender Legibility: Binary Categories, Single-Axis Logic, and the Limits of Gender-Responsive Law-Making |
| 14:35 - 14:50 | S8-05 |
Dr Claerwen O'Hara (Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia)
The Art of International Economic Law and Its Rivals: Reflections on Law-Making, Visuality and Feminist Political Economy |
| 14:50 - 15:05 | S8-06 | Dr Jenny Kanellopoulou (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester Law School, United Kingdom) From the body to the WIPO: Intellectual Property as a Feminist Geolegality |
| 15:05 - 15:20 | S8-07 | Elias El Hayek (Lawyer, PhD Candidate at Lebanese University, Associate Researcher, University of Sussex) Feminist Anti-Corruption Law-Making: Rewriting Integrity Frameworks Around Women's Lived Experiences in Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation |
| 15:20 - 15:35 |
CLOSING
Dr Claerwen O'Hara
University of Melbourne, Australia |
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • ROOM B1. 305 • FROM 13:30
| 13:30 - 13:35 |
OPENING REMARK
Becky Batagol
Monash University, Australia |
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| 13:35 - 13:50 | S9-01 |
Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi (University of Portland, United States of America)
Writing Gender Apartheid into Asylum Law: A Feminist Judgment of the ECJ Joined Cases C-608/22 and C-609/22, AH & FN v. Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum |
| 13:50 - 14:05 | S9-02 | Garima Sidar (National Law School of India University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India) Rewriting the Subject of Law: Tribal Women, Intersectionality, and the Reform of India's Gender Legal Framework |
| 14:05 - 14:20 | S9-03 | Jyoti Bharti (Delhi University, India) Muslim Women Rights as Multicultural Claims |
| 14:20 - 14:35 | S9-04 | Jaba Kaplanishvili (University of Westminster, UK) International Refugee Law: from queer exclusion to queer reconstruction |
| 14:35 - 14:50 | S9-05 |
Trinh Thi Yen (Vietnam Women's Academy, Vietnam)
When Protection Is Not Enough: Re-Conceptualizing Trauma in Vietnam's Juvenile Justice Law for Girl Child Victims |
| 14:50 - 15:05 | S9-06 | Zenny Rezania Dewantary (President University, Indonesia) The Paradox of Protection: Criminalization of Morality in Indonesia’s New Criminal Code and the Absence of Legal Protection for Female Sex Workers |
| 15:05- 15:20 | S9-07 | Hoang Thi Bich Ngoc, Nguyen Duc Tam (Criminal Law Department - Procuratorate University, Vietnam) Gender Neutrality and The Invisible Needs of Female Prisoners: A Feminist Critique of Vietnamese Prison Sentence Enforcement Law |
| 15:20 - 15:35 |
CLOSING
Becky Batagol
Monash University, Australia |
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • ROOM B1.306 • FROM 13:30
| 13:30 - 13:35 |
OPENING REMARK
Ho Nhan Ai
University of Law, Hue University, Vietnam |
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| 13:35 - 13:50 | S10-01 | Nguyen Hai Duyen, Vu Thi Ngoc Trang (Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam, Vietnam) Rethinking Water Governance in the Lower Mekong: A Feminist Law-Making Approach to Gendered Insecurity |
| 13:50 - 14:05 | S10-02 | Phan Thanh Thanh (Institute of Human, Family and Gender Studies, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences), Tran Chi Thanh (University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam) Feminist Law-Making and Water Justice in the Lower Mekong Basin: Women’s Agency and Climate-Inclusive Peacebuilding in Vietnam and Cambodia |
| 14:05 - 14:20 | S10-03 | Do Viet Cuong (University of Law, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam) From Carbon to Care: Feminist Rewriting of Climate Adaptation Governance in Vietnam |
| 14:20 - 14:35 | S10-04 | Do Hong Minh (University of Economics and Law, Vietnam) Towards a Gender-Responsive Framework for Disaster Evacuation Governance in Vietnam |
| 14:35 - 14:50 | S10-05 | Ta Khanh Linh (Green Path Migrants), Nguyen Han Giang (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Assessing Law on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control through a Feminist Lens: Including Marginalised Women in Law Reform |
| 14:50 - 15:05 | S10-06 | Ngo Thi Minh Huong (University of Law, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam) Between Commitment and Transformation: The Limits of Legal Mobilization at the Intersection of Women's Economic Rights and Environmental Justice in Vietnam and Norway |
| 15:05 - 15:20 | S10-07 | Ho Nhan Ai (University of Law, Hue University, Vietnam) Reimagining Marine Environmental Protection Law through Feminist Law-Making: A Vietnamese and International Law Perspective |
| 15:20 - 15:35 | S10-08 | Yogi Paramitha Dewi (Indo-Pacific Research Centre (IPRC), Murdoch University, Australia; Faculty of Law, Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, Indonesia) What the Law Refuses to See: Gender, Slow Violence, and Extractivism in Indonesia |
| 15:35 - 15:50 |
CLOSING
Ho Nhan Ai
University of Law, Hue University, Vietnam |