Classes will be held January 16, 23; February 6, 13, 20; April 10, 17, 24. This course introduces scholars and future US legal practitioners to the emerging body of regional law and the regional governance system for ten countries of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Myanmar/Burma, Laos, and Viet Nam) now undergoing the process of regional integration under a Charter-based Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Students will also be introduced to key treaties and international agreements affecting political, economic, and developmental relations with ASEAN’s foremost External Partners, such as the ASEAN +3 (China, Japan, Korea), US, Canada, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, India, among others. The course is designed to initiate students to the study of ASEAN law in the Southeast Asian political, sociological, and historical context. We will examine the integration process as functional mandates unfold and evolve for the new regional administrative regulatory structures spearheaded under the ASEAN Summit and the three ASEAN pillars (the ASEAN Political-Security Community, the ASEAN Economic Community, and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community), particularly questions of economic, political, security, rule of law, human rights and enforcement significance after the 31 December 2015 formal declaration of the start of the ASEAN Economic Community as Asia’s only integrated “single market and production base”. Students will also have the opportunity to directly engage in specifically-focused practical legal problem analysis in live simulations/class exercises, in relation to ongoing ALIC capacity-building assistance projects. Professor David J. Cohen will also conduct several seminars in this class, particularly on rule of law and ASEAN enforcement, ASEAN judiciaries, human rights in Southeast Asia and access to justice.