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Workshop on Chinese Legal 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"
