Benjamin L. Liebman
Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law; Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies
Assistant Info
Publications
Legal Reform: China’s Law-Stability Paradox, Daedalus (forthcoming
Spring 2014)
China’s Law-Stability Paradox, in China’s Challenges: The Road Ahead (Avery Goldstein
& Jacques DeLisle, eds.) (Center for the Study of Contemporary China,
University of Pennsylvania, forthcoming 2014)
Article 41 and the
Right to Appeal (forthcoming 2013 in the proceedings of Social
Change and the Constitution – a Conference on the Occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Constitution of the PR China of 1982, Free University in Berlin)
Leniency in Chinese Criminal Law: Everyday Justice in Henan (in draft)
Malpractice Mobs:
Medical Dispute Resolution in China, 113 COLUM. L. REV. 181
Professionals and Populists:
The Paradoxes of China’s Legal Reforms, in CHINA BEYOND THE HEADLINES,
THIRD EDITION (TIMOTHY WESTON &LIONEL JENSEN, eds.) (forthcoming Rowman
& Littlefield 2012)
Toward Competitive Supervision?, The Media and the
Courts, CHINA Q. December 2011
A Populist Threat to China's Courts? in Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in
Contemporary China (Woo and Gallagher eds.), Cambridge University Press,
2011.
Changing Media, Changing Courts?, in Changing Media, Changing China (Susan
Shirk ed.) Oxford University Press, 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 Press, 2011
Assessing China's Legal Reforms, Proceedings of the
International Conference on Thirty Years
of Reform and Opening-Up, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (2008), 23 J. Asian L. 18 (2009)
Reputational Sanctions in China's Security Markets,
108 Colum. L. Rev. 929 (with
Curtis Milhaupt)
Scandal, Sukyandaru and Chouwen, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1041 (April 2008)
Chinese Network Justice, Chicago J. Int'l L. (with Tim Wu)
China's Courts: Restricted Reform, China Q. (fall 2007)
China's Courts: Restricted Reform, 21 Colum. J. Asian L 1. (expanded version)
(fall 2007)
Innovation through Intimidation? An Empirical Account of Defamation Litigation
in China, 47 Harv. Int'l L.J. 33 (2006)
Introduction:
Celebrating Stanley Lubman, 18
J. Asian L. (2006) (with R. Randle Edwards)
Watchdog or Demagogue?
The Media in the Chinese Legal System 105 Colum. L. Rev. 1 (2005)
Lawyers, Legal Aid, and Legitimacy in China, in Raising The Bar (Alford & Miyazawa
eds. 2004)
Clean Air, Clear Process?
The Struggle over Air Pollution Law in the People's Republic of China,
52 Hastings L.J. 703 (2001) (with
William P. Alford)
Legal Aid and Public Interest Law in China, 34 Texas Int'l L.J. 211 (1999)
Autonomy through Separation?: Environmental Law and the
Basic Law of Hong Kong, 39 Harv. Int'l
L.J. 231 (1998)
Note, Class Action Litigation in China, 111 Harv. L. Rev. 1523 (1998)
The Supreme Court, 1996 Term - Leading Cases, Old Chief
v. United States, 111 Harv. L. Rev. 360
(1997)
Recent Legislation, Congress Imposes New Restrictions on
Use of Funds by the Legal Services Corporation, 110 Harv. L. Rev. 1346 (1997)
Works appearing in Translation:
Zhongguo de Lüshi, Falü Yuanzhu yu Hefaxing [Lawyers, Legal
Aid and Legitimacy in China], in Zhongguo
Shehui Zhu Anxing Shiqi De Falu Fazhan [Contemporary Chinese Legal Development]
587-632 (Xu Chuanxi ed. 2004)
Les Acciones Collectivas En China [Class Action
Litigation in China], in Procesos
Colectivos 425 (Antonio Gidi & Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor eds. &
Angela Liliana Sanchez Rojas trans. 2003)
"Pizi" Yu Wenxue: Wang Shuo Xiaoshuo Zhong de Yuyan, Quanwei yu
Shuli [Reluctant Ruffians: Language, Authority, and Alienation in Wang
Shuo's Fiction] in Wang Shuo Pipan
(Zhang Dexiang & Jin Huimin eds. & Dong Zhilin trans. 1993)
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Judges Becoming Judges? Judicial Innovation in China
An Empirical Study of Personal Injury Litigation in China
Court-Related Xinfang: An Empirical Study
The Leniency of Chinese Criminal Law? Evidence from a County Court
