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 professor of law and the director of the
Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School. His current research
focuses on the role of the media in the Chinese legal system, on Chinese tort
law, and on the evolution of China’s courts and legal profession.
Professor Liebman’s recent scholarship includes, “Toward
Competitive Supervision? The Media and
the Courts,” China Quarterly (forthcoming 2011); “A Return to Populist Legality? Historical Legacies and Legal Reform,” in Mao’s
Invisible Hand, (Elizabeth Perry and Sebastian Heilmann, eds.) (forthcoming
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.)
(forthcoming 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
.
