Benjamin L. Liebman
Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law; Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies
Assistant Info
Courses/ Current Research
- Legal aspects of China's international relations
- Law and legal institutions in China
- Torts
- Advanced research in Chinese law
Education
- Harvard Law School, J.D., 1998
- Oxford University, B.A., 1993
- Yale College, B.A., 1991
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Detailed Biography:
Benjamin Liebman is the
Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Chinese Legal
Studies at Columbia Law School. His current research focuses on Chinese tort
law, on Chinese criminal procedure, on the impact of popular opinion and
populism on the Chinese legal system, and on the evolution of China’s courts
and legal profession.
Professor Liebman’s
recent scholarship includes, “Malpractice Mobs: Medical Dispute Resolution in
China,” Columbia Law Review (forthcoming
January 2013), “Toward Competitive Supervision? The Media and the Courts,” China Quarterly (Dec. 2011); “A Return to Populist
Legality? Historical Legacies and Legal Reform,” in Mao’s Invisible Hand, (Elizabeth
Perry and Sebastian Heilmann, eds.) (Harvard University Asia Center 2011); “A
Populist Threat to China’s Courts?” in Chinese
Justice: Civil Dispute
Resolution in Post-Reform China (Mary Gallagher & Margaret Woo, eds.)
(Cambridge University Press 2011); “Changing Media, Changing Courts?” in Changing Media, Changing China (Susan Shirk ed., forthcoming Oxford
University Press 2010); and “Reputational Sanctions
in China’s Securities Markets” (with Curtis J. Milhaupt), Columbia
Law Review (2008).
Prior to joining the
Columbia faculty in 2002, Professor Liebman was an associate in the London and
Beijing offices of Sullivan & Cromwell. He also previously served as a law
clerk to Justice David Souter and to Judge Sandra Lynch of the First Circuit.
He is a graduate of Yale, Oxford, and Harvard Law School.
For more information on the Center for Chinese Legal
Studies, please go to http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/chinese
.
