(More events will be added soon. Please see Past Events for typical Center for Chinese Legal Studies offerings.)
Tuesday, September 20
WJW 103, 12:10-1:10 "China's Environmental Tipping Point? New Developments in Environmental Law and Governance in the PRC" Alex Wang
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Monday, September 26
JG 304, 12:10-1:10 "Progress or Retrogress? Comments on the Draft Amendment to Criminal Procedure Law of PRC" Guo Zhiyuan
Associate Professor, China University of Political Science and Law
Wednesday September 28
"Human Rights and Rule of Law in China: What Now? What Next?"
Thomas Kellogg, Advisor to the President of Open Society Foundations and Program Director of the China/Northeast Program Director
Co-sponsored with the Human Rights Institute
Wednesday, October 5 Brown Bag Series: Rereading China’s Legal Past
“Reading Empire: Colonial Archive and Euroamerican Discourse on Sovereignty and Law in the Contact Zone of South China, 1720s–1830s” Li Chen, Assistant Professor of History and Global Asia Studies, University of Toronto
12:15 PM – 1:45 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918
Bring your own lunch.
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Department of History
Wednesday, October 19 Daniel William Puchniak, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore "The Complexity of Derivative Actions in Asia: An Inconvenient Truth"
JG 107, 12:10-1:10 p.m.
Co-sponsored with the Center for Japanese Legal Studies.
Monday, October 24
"Judicial Decision-Making in an Authoritarian Regime: Piercing the Veil of the Adjudication Committee in a Chinese Court" He Xin, Associate Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong
JG 304, 12:10 PM-1:10 p.m.
Monday, November 7 Xue Hanqin, ’83 LL.M., ’95 J.S.D., a member of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
A Discussion of her work on the principal judicial organ of the United Nations and to reminisce about her experiences while a CLS student.
WJW 103, 12:10-1:10 p.m.
Wednesday, November 30 Brown Bag Series: Rereading China’s Legal Past
“Marriage Law Propaganda and Legal Education Campaigns in the Early PRC” Jennifer Altehenger, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
12:15 PM – 1:45 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918
Bring your own lunch.
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Department of History
Monday, February 6 "The Protection of Minority Shareholders in China" Liu Junhai, Professor of Law, Renmin University School of Law
Co-sponsored with the Center for Japanese Legal Studies
JG 940, 12:10-1:10 p.m.
JG stands for Jerome Greene Hall, located at the corner of W. 116th Street and Amsterdam Ave. WJW stands for William and June Warren Hall, located at the corner of W. 115th Street and Amsterdam. Please direct any questions to Paulette Roberts, 212-854-0685.
