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The Workshop on Chinese Legal Reform is a one-unit credit/fail
course offered in the Fall and Spring Term on Tuesdays, from 4:10-6:00
PM in room 124. Every week, a distinguished outside speaker discusses
papers or other materials on particular legal reform topics.
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| Spring
2006 Schedule |
| January 24 |
Introduction to Workshop and The China Law Center, Paul
Gewirtz, Jamie Horsley, and Keith Hand
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Professor Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University Department
of Government, “China: Lost in Transition”
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| February 7 |
Professor Benjamin Liebman, Columbia University Law School,
“Judges Becoming Judges? Judicial Innovation in China”
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February 10 |
Professor Kevin O’Brien, University of California at
Berkeley, Professor of Political Science and Chair, Center for
Chinese Studies, “Rightful Resistance in China.”
This session is scheduled for 3:00pm in
room 121 on a Friday. It is co-sponsored by
the Asia Law Forum and will be held in lieu of our February
14 class. Not required for registered students. |
February 21 |
Ambassador Stapleton Roy (former U.S. Ambassador to China
and Indonesia), currently Managing Director, Kissinger Associates,
Inc., “China's Rise: Implications for US-China Relations.”
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February 28 |
Professor Cheng Li, Hamilton College Department of Government,
“Hu’s Choice: Populism or Constitutionalism?” |
March 7 |
Patrick Norton, Esq., Partner, O’Melveny & Myers,
“The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Minefield for U.S.
Companies in China” |
March 14 |
NO CLASS – SPRING BREAK |
| March 21 |
Dr. Murray Scot Tanner, The RAND Corporation, “China’s
Law Enforcement System and its Impact on Prospects for Rule
by Law” |
March 28 |
Dr. Albert Keidel, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
“China’s 30 Years of Boom and Bust – Privilege
Meets Productivity” |
April 4 |
Professor Donald Clarke, George Washington University School
of Law, “China’s New Securities Law” |
April 11 |
Professor and Vice Dean Wang Xixin, Peking University Law
School, “Recent Developments in Administrative Law in
China” |
| April 18 |
Kevin Czinger (YLS ‘87) Partner, San Shan, “Investing
in China’s Regulated Industries” |
April 25 |
Professor Fu Hualing, the University of Hong Kong, Visiting
Professor at the University of Washington School of Law (2006),
“The Myth of Prosecuted Lawyers” |
| May 2 |
Last Class, Paul Gewirtz, Jamie Horsley, and Keith Hand, “Perspectives
on Chinese Legal Reform” |
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Past Workshop Schedules
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