The Advancing Capacity-Building for ALIN's International Cooperation & the Expansion of ALIN members

Abstract

Congratulatory Address

President, Kipyo Kim Korea Legislation Research Institute

It's great to see you here East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai and thanks for coming from far and near. We ALIN have 22 partners from 14 countries and more than 35 distinguished guests from 12 countries have attended this meeting. I feel deeply obliged to all of the participants who gladly came here out of all their busy schedules and hard itineraries. The partner members in the ALIN have realized the necessity of building an international legal information network. Moreover, the ALIN is a network seeking mutual interest by organizing a network participated voluntarily in Asian. We may say that ALIN is quite a significant network which paves the way for the respective institutions in Asiato share and cooperate with legal information as the partners of this network. The ALIN has grown into a legal information network which the institutions across Asia and will further develop in future as well. Following the development and spread of computer and internet, wecan feel the network effect generated by sharing mutual information. By carrying out exchange through direct contact and through internet side by side, the effect will swell many folds. Hence, I hope that this will be a place for exchange of valuable experience and knowledge for the successful future of the ALIN through sincere discussions by the representatives many at the General Meeting and the international academic conference being held today. And I ask you to cooperate continuously so that the ALIN project can be executed successfully by drawing a conclusion based on these efforts. By doing so, this ALIN international conference will be a very beneficial and valuable experience for you all. We ALIN members deeply thank each other for the support and encouragement by many partners in the ALIN. We have also recognized again that the ALIN project is never a one-time project, but a task to be pursued continuously. Weat the same time feel a heavy responsibility that we should sincerely proceed with the implementation of the ALIN project in order to respond to your interests as well. Lastly, I would like to express once again my sincere gratitude to the representatives and working staff of ECUPL; (President, He Qinhua and Prof. Liu Xiaohong) And I also thank each ALIN partnerwho have attended this ALIN international conference despite the long distances travelled and your busy schedules. Thank you very much!