ALSA was established in 2015 with the aims of fostering scholarship and engaging the broader research community. It succeeds the East Asian Law and Society Collaborative Research Network (CRN 33) of the Law & Society Association as the regional body. Its executive office is housed at Waseda University, Japan. ALSA stands at an opportune moment to develop the Asian law and society field into a vibrant and cohesive discipline, and its annual meetings provide a timely platform to define the field, advance theory, and cultivate empirical work and new scholarship.