2005 - 2006 Schedule
Fall 2005 Semester
September 6: Introduction (Paul Gewirtz, Jamie Horsley and Jeffrey Prescott, The China Law Center)
September 13: Jamie Horsley, Deputy Director, The China Law Center: “Open Information and Governance Reform in China”
September 20: Chief Justice Andrew Li, Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal: “‘One Country, Two Systems’ After Eight Years”
September 27: Henry Levine, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce; former U.S. Consul-General, Shanghai: "China, Market Access, and WTO Rules"
October 4: Bates Gill, Freeman Chair in Chinese Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies: “China’s HIV/AIDs Crisis: Sociopolitical Challenges and Policy Responses”
October 11: Keith Hand, Senior Fellow, The China Law Center (as of October 1), and former Senior Counsel, Congressional-Executive Commission on China: “Recent Wrongful Conviction Cases in China and Their Impact on Criminal Justice Reform”
October 18: Mary Gallagher, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan: “Mobilizing the Law in China”
November 1: Carl Minzner, Senior Counsel, Congressional-Executive Commission on China: “Xinfang: ‘Letters and Visits’ As an Alternative to the Formal Legal System”
November 8: Kevin J. O’Brien, Professor of Political Science and Chair, Center for Chinese Studies, University of California at Berkeley: “Rightful Resistance in Rural China” [postponed to 2006]
November 15: Wang Juntao, Political Science Department, Columbia University: “The Future of Political Reform in China”
November 29: Jerome Cohen, Professor of Law, NYU Law School: “Law and Political Transitions: Lessons from East Asia and the Road Ahead for China”
December 6: Neysun Mahboubi, Fellow, The China Law Center: "Administrative Law and Political Reform in China"
December 13: Benjamin Read, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa: “China's Homeowners' Organizations”
Spring 2006 Semester
January 24: Introduction to Workshop and The China Law Center, Paul Gewirtz, Jamie Horsley, and Keith Hand
January 31: Professor Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University Department of Government, “China: Lost in Transition”
February 7: Professor Benjamin Liebman, Columbia University Law School, “Judges Becoming Judges? Judicial Innovation in China”
February 10: Professor Kevin O’Brien, University of California at Berkeley, Professor of Political Science and Chair, Center for Chinese Studies, “Rightful Resistance in China.”
February 21: Ambassador Stapleton Roy (former U.S. Ambassador to China and Indonesia), currently Managing Director, Kissinger Associates, Inc., “China's Rise: Implications for US-China Relations.”
February 28: Professor Cheng Li, Hamilton College Department of Government, “Hu’s Choice: Populism or Constitutionalism?”
March 7: Patrick Norton, Esq., Partner, O’Melveny & Myers, “The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Minefield for U.S. Companies in China”
March 21: Dr. Murray Scot Tanner, The RAND Corporation, “China’s Law Enforcement System and its Impact on Prospects for Rule by Law”
March 28: Dr. Albert Keidel, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “China’s 30 Years of Boom and Bust – Privilege Meets Productivity”
April 4: Professor Donald Clarke, George Washington University School of Law, “China’s New Securities Law”
April 11: Professor and Vice Dean Wang Xixin, Peking University Law School, “Recent Developments in Administrative Law in China”
April 18: Kevin Czinger (YLS ‘87) Partner, San Shan, “Investing in China’s Regulated Industries”
April 25: Professor Fu Hualing, the University of Hong Kong, Visiting Professor at the University of Washington School of Law (2006), “The Myth of Prosecuted Lawyers”
May 2: Keith Hand, Senior Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School, “Using a Law for a Righteous Purpose: The Sun Zhigang Incident and Evolving Forms of Citizen Action in the People’s Republic of China”