Tracing the Buddhist Root of Thailand’s Authoritarian Constitutional Design

January 27, 2021 7:00PM

Session 2: Buddhism and Constitutional Change in Thailand

Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang
Lecturer in Law, Chulalongkorn University
Tracing the Buddhist Root of Thailand’s Authoritarian Constitutional Design

Eugénie Mérieau
Postdoctoral Scholar at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University  of Singapore
Buddhist doctrines of Kingship and Modern Constitutionalism: Shifting narratives of the “Mahasammata” and the “Ten Virtues of a Righteous Ruler” from Siam to Thailand

Commentator:

David Engel
Professor of Law, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

TIME

Wednesday
January 27, 2021

7 p.m. Chicago
8 p.m. New York

Thursday
January 28, 2021

8 a.m. Bangkok
9 a.m. Singapore
2 p.m. New Zealand