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
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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