Workshop on Chinese Legal Reform

The Workshop on Chinese Legal Reform provides students and faculty an opportunity to learn about the Chinese legal system through discussions of papers on law and policy reform topics presented by Center staff, Fellows, visiting Chinese scholars, and distinguished guest speakers (both Chinese and American). The Workshop has come to serve as a focal point within Yale Law School – and increasingly within Yale University as a whole – for faculty and students with an interest in China and in exploring issues related to Chinese law and policy reform.

The Workshop is offered as a one-unit credit/fail course in the Spring 2009 term on Tuesdays, from 4:10 PM-6:00 PM in room 124, Sterling Law Building.

Spring 2009 Semester

January 27   Introduction to the Workshop, Paul Gewirtz, Jamie Horsley & Jeff Prescott

February 3   Jerome Cohen, Professor, New York University Law School and Co-Director, NYU's US-Asia Law Institute: "Legal Controls on Police Power to Detain: Recent Experience from China and Taiwan"

February 10 Cheng Li, Senior Fellow, Brooking Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center and Professor, Hamilton College: "China’s Emerging Generation of Leaders: Trajectory for the Future"

February 17 Benjamin Liebman, Professor, Columbia University Law School: "Return to Populist Legality? Historical Legacies and Legal Reform"

February 24 Daniel H. Rosen, Professor, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, & Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics" "What Just Happened to China’s Economy, and What Will It Look Like in 10 Years?"

March 3       Nicholas C. Howson, Professor, University of Michigan Law School: "Competence, Autonomy and Independence - Company Law Adjudication in the Shanghai Courts 1992-2008"

March 10     Wang Chenguang, Professor, Tsinghua University Law School: "30 Years Journey Toward Rule of Law in China"

March 16     NO CLASS, SPRING BREAK

March 24     Deborah Davis, Professor, Yale University, "Conjugal Property Rights in Post-Socialist China"

March 31     Teemu Ruskola, Professor, Emory Law School and Law and Public Affairs Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton University: "China, For Example: China and the Making of Modern International Law

April 7         William C. Kirby, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University: “Chinese Universities in the 21st Century: Challenges for Professional and Liberal Education”

April 14       Yasheng Huang, Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management:"Rethinking Reforms in China"

April 24       SPECIAL PROGRAM (Friday, April 24, not Tuesday, April 21): Sentencing Reform in China, with Chen Ruihua, Professor, Peking University Law School, and 4 judges undertaking pilot experiments in sentencing reform in China

April 28       John Kamm, Executive Director, The Dui Hua Foundation: "Issues and Cases: A Dialogue with China on Human Rights"

May 5          (CLASS CANCELED) Wang Xixin, Professor, Peking University Law School: "Creating Administrative Law in China"

Past Workshop Schedules

 

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