Professor Liebman's research focuses on the evolution of Chinese legal institutions and on popular access to and use of law in China. He has also written on the impact of the media in the Chinese legal system, on defamation litigation, and on environmental law. His courses include Law and Legal Institutions in China; Legal Aspects of China's International Relationships; and Advanced Research into Chinese Law. Full Biography
Professor Mark Barenberg's research and teaching focus on the impact of globalization on the enforcement of labor rights, including workplace conditions and regulations in China. He served as an independent expert for the International Labor Organization on the issue of corporate codes of conduct in China. He has worked with several NGOs that monitor labor rights compliance in China. Professor Barenberg has also drafted several briefs and petitions pertaining to U.S. legislation and treaties that regulate the trade relationship between the United States and China. Full Biography
Professor Edwards taught at Columbia from 1973 to 2002, was director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies from its creation in 1983 until his retirement. He served as Chairman of the Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China from 1983-91. He has published numerous articles on China's criminal law, its practice of international law, and Chinese legal history. Full Biography.
Curtis J. Milhaupt, '89 Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law; Professor of Comparative Corporate Law; Director, Center for Japanese Legal Studies
Professor Milhaupt, an expert on Japanese law and on comparative corporate law, is currently conducting research on the evolution of China's capital markets. During the fall semester 2006 he was in residence in Beijing. Full Biography
Katharina Pistor, Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, has published extensively about legal development and economic transformation in the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and on China. She also participated in a comparative study on "The Role of Law and Legal Institutions in Asian Economic Development", which included countries as diverse as China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, and India. She has co-authored several recent papers on China with Chenggang Xu of the London School of Economics, including most recently "Governing Stock Markets in Transition Economies: Lessons From China". Full Biography
Professor Timothy Wu, who is of Taiwanese origin, has written and spoken on China's distinct internet policies and on the East Asian approach to intellectual property. He is currently conducting research on the evolution of the internet in China. Full Biography
Madeleine Zelin Professor of Modern Chinese History; Director, East Asian National Resource Center at Columbia University
Professor Madeleine Zelin, professor of Modern Chinese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History, and director of the East Asian National Resource Center. Professor Zelin specializes in modern legal history and the role of law in the Chinese economy. She has written widely on Chinese legal history and the complex forces shaping modern China. Her latest book, The Merchants of Zigong , Industrial Enterprise in Early Modern China , is a study of an advanced industrial community in southern Sichuan from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Professor Zelin teaches courses on Chinese legal history. Full Biography
Owen D. Nee Jr., ’73 Lecturer-in-Law, Columbia Law School; Of Counsel, Jones Day
Professor Nee was founder of the China practice at Coudert Brothers, which was the first foreign law firm to establish offices in Beijing and Hong Kong. For more than 25 years, Owen was based in Greater China, principally in Hong Kong but also in Beijing and Shanghai. He returned to the United States in 2005. Professor Nee was named in the 2008 Asialaw Leading Lawyers survey as "one of the most highly acclaimed legal experts in the Asia-Pacific region" in the areas of capital markets and corporate finance He also has been named as one of New York's "Super Lawyers" in the most recent publication of the list. Professional biography.
