Upcoming Events
Adversarial Comparativism: Emotion in US-China Comparative Law Projects
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 12:10- 1:10 p.m.
JGH 105 | Register
Matthew S. Erie (J.D., Ph.D.), Associate Professor, Member of the Law Faculty, and Associate Research Fellow of the Socio-Legal Studies Centre at the University of Oxford.
This event is organized by the Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies and co-sponsored by the Parker School of Foreign & Comparative Law and the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.
Recent Events
Network and Mobility: The Legal Profession in China
Wednesday, September 4, 2024, 12:10- 1:10 p.m.
JGH 105
Yu Xiaohong, Associate Professor of Political Science at the School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University.
The Promise and Perils of Chinese AI Regulation
Monday, November 13, 2023, 12:10- 1:10 p.m.
JGH 102B
Angela Zhang, Global Professor of Law at the New York University and Director of the Philip K. H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong.
This event is organized by the Society for Chinese Law
How (not) to Counter Transnational Repression: A Liberal Analysis
Wednesday, November 1, 2023, 12:10- 1:10 p.m.
JGH 102B
Eva Pils, Professor of Law, King's College London
Law & Political Economy in China's New Era
Monday, October 2, 2023, 12:10-1:10 p.m.
JGH 102A (CUID holders only)
Tami Groswald Ozery, Assistant Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
This event is organized by the Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies.
Legality and Authoritarian Legality in China
Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 12:15-1:10 pm
JGH 103 (CUID holders only)
Dr. Ewan Smith, Associate Professor of Public Law at University College London and a Hauser Global Fellow at New York University Law School
This event is organized by the Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies.
Legal Strategies of Environmental Activism in China
Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 12:15-1:15 pm
JGH 102A (CUID holders only)
Feng Ge, Visiting Scholar, Tsai CITY, Yale University
Zhao Zhong, Visiting Scholar, Tsai CITY, Yale University
This event is organized by the Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies.
Legal Advocacy for LGBTQ Rights in China
Thursday, March 23, 2022, 12:10-1:10 p.m.
JGH 102B (CU ID holders only)
Panelists include Darius Longarino, Senior Fellow at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center, and Yanhui Peng, Former director of LGBT Rights Advocacy China, visiting scholar at Yale Law School.
This event is organized by the Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies and sponsored by the Society for Chinese Law, Columbia OutLaws, and the Equal Rights Amendment Project.
Open Science: Sino-US Collaboration in an Age of Surveillance
Thursday, December 2, 2021, 6-8 p.m.
Online
International Affairs 1501 (CU ID holders only)
Panelists include Xiaoxing Xi, Department of Physics, Temple University; Ben Liebman, Law School, Columbia University; and Aruna Viswanatha, Reporter at the Wall Street Journal
Introductions by: Robert Mawhinney, Dean of Science, School of Arts & Sciences, Professor of Physics, Columbia University; X. Edward Guo, President of Columbia University Asian Faculty Association and Chair of Biomedical Engineering Department; and Jennifer La'O, Department of Economics, Columbia University
Moderated by Eugenia Lean, Professor of Chinese History, East Asian Languages and Cultures Department; Director of Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University
From Legal Pluralism to Dual State: Evolution of the Relationship between the Chinese and Hong Kong Legal Orders
Monday, April 5, 2021, 12:15-1:15 p.m.
Online
Cora Chan, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong
This work-in-progress argues that the relationship between the Chinese and Hong Kong legal orders has evolved from a form of legal pluralism found in the European Union, to a monist but bifurcated status – a “dual state”, to borrow from Ernst Fraenkel’s theory. Recent events, including China’s imposition of a national security law on Hong Kong and the former’s overhaul of the latter’s election methods, have consolidated the change. The picture that emerges is that Hong Kong’s common law legal order of the liberal rule-of-law tradition has definitively become a dual state that is folded within China’s socialist legal system, which is itself a dual state. The analysis not only reveals the potential and challenges of preserving liberal values in an authoritarian polity, but also enhances our understanding of the theory of the dual state.
This event is organized by the Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies and co-sponsored by the APEC Study Center (ASC).
From Lawyer to Author: Charles Yu ’01 and Abigail Hing Wen ’04 explore their journeys from practicing law to writing critically acclaimed novels
Monday, March 8, 2021, 12:15-1:15 p.m.
Online
How do you chart a path from law school to writing fiction? Two critically-acclaimed authors and CLS alumni talk about combining their legal training, personal experiences, and creative sparks into compelling novels. Charles Yu’s National Book award-winning novel, Interior Chinatown, tells the story of a movie extra navigating the limited roles afforded to Asian actors. Abigail Hing Wen’s debut novel and New York Times bestseller, Loveboat, Taipei is a coming-of-age story of an 18-year-old Asian American woman transplanted from Ohio to Taiwan for the summer of adventure and self-discovery. Both writers are joined by Annie Xie JD‘21, Rebecca Tan LLM’21, Long Dang JD’22, and Professor Ben Liebman to discuss their creative journeys. This event is organized by the Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies and co-sponsored by the Columbia Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA), the Taiwanese Law and Culture Club, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
The Future of Chinese Listed Companies on U.S. Exchanges
Thursday, February 4, 2021, 7-8 p.m.
Online
Panelists include Harvey L. Pitt, Chief Executive Officer, Kalorama Partners LLC, and former Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission; Edward Greene, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb, and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar in the Faculty of Law, Lecturer in Law; Georges Ugeux, former Executive and Head of International Listings, NYSE, and Lecturer in Law; Lorna Xin Chen, Asia Regional Managing Partner, Head of Greater China at Shearman & Sterling; and the conversation is moderated by Professor Benjamin L. Liebman, Director, Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies
International Law With Chinese Characteristics: Beijing and the "Rules-Based" Global Order
Thursday, November 19, 2020 12:45 - 1:30 p.m.
Online
Robert Williams, Executive Director of Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center, to discusses his research on China's evolving relationship to international law. He will be joined by Professor Liebman for a conversation on China's approach to international law, and how a Biden administration is likely to impact US-China relations. This event is organized by the Columbia Society for International Law and is co-sponsored by the Society for Chinese Law and the Center for Chinese Legal Studies.
Does International Human Rights Law Still Apply in Hong Kong?
October 20, 2020, 8 p.m.
Online
Kelley Loper, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the LLM in Human Rights Programme in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong.
East Asia's Response to COVID-19
Friday, April 24th, 2020, 12- 1 p.m.
Online | Watch the recording on YouTube
Closely bound by travel and trade, with multiple high-density urban centers, the governments of China, South Korea, and Japan have each had to contend with COVID-19’s rapid spread. Yet each has taken a different approach to combat the virus and managing it at the national level. What accounts for both the different levels of preparedness and the different approaches in East Asia? What legal measures have been taken by each country? Join the Directors of the Centers for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Legal Studies, Ben Liebman, Nobuhisa Ishizuka, and Jeong-Ho Roh at Columbia Law School in a discussion on the comparative approaches, lessons, and the potential for trilateral cooperation.
The Judicialization of Marital and Family Disputes in the 21st-Century China
Ke Li, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at John Jay College, the City University of New York
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020 at 12:20 pm
This event will be held virtually.
Private Ordering in China’s Company Law: Two Case Studies
Wang Wen-Yeu, Professor of Law, National Taiwan University
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020 at 12:10 p.m.
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 102B
Creative Careers — a CLS alum novelist on the pursuit of dreams
Abigail Hing Wen
Monday, January 27th, 2020 at 12:10pm
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 102B
The Legal System Reform on The SSE STAR Market
Shen Linping, Partner, AllBright Beijing
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020 at 12:10pm
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 102B
Chinese Law: A Paradigm?
Enrico Toti, Professor of Chinese Law, Rome Tre University, and Practicing Attorney
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019 @ 12:10pm
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 102B
Setting Up the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Natalie Lichtenstein, Inaugeral General Counsel
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019 @ 12:10pm
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 102B
When Pro Bono Becomes a Profane Word: Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses
Yun-chien Chang, Research Professor, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Director, Empirical Legal Studies Center; Global Professor of Law, New York University
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019 at 12:10 p.m.
China, International Law, and the Muslim World
A panel
Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Foreign Affairs Reporter, Washington, DC, Bureau, HuffPost
Matthew S. Erie, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies and Associate Research Fellow of the Socio-Legal Studies Centre at the University of Oxford
Thomas E. Kellogg, Executive Director of the Georgetown Center for Asian Law
Thursday, February 14, 2019 @12:10 pm
State Capitalism or Socialist Modernization? Taking the Chinese Constitution Seriously
Bin Ling is a law professor and a doctorial supervisor at Peking University Law School, China
Thursday, February 7th, 2019 @ 12:10pm
The Clash of Capitalisms? Chinese Companies in the United States
Ji Li, Professor of Law, Rutgers University and Member, Associate Faculty of the Division of Global Affairs
Thursday, January 31st, 2019 @ 12:10pm
IP and the China Trade War: Long Overdue, a Pretext or Both?
Mark Cohen '84, is Lecturer in Law, Senior Fellow and Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Asia IP Project
Tuesday, November 13th, 2018 @ 12:10pm
Jobs in China 2019
Wednesday, October 24th, 2018 @ 1:10pm
Legal Hubs: The Emergent Landscape of International Commercial Dispute Resolution
Matthew S. Erie, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies and Associate Research Fellow, Socio‐Legal Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Monday, October 1, 2018 @ 12:10pm
Faquanism and Its Comparative Advantage for Right-duty Jurispudence
Tong Zhiwei, Professor of Law, East China University of Political Science and Law
Wednesday, September 26th, 2018 @ 12:10pm
Past Events
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
China: End of the Reform Era
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Local Government Debt in China
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Administrative Law in China: New Developments
Monday, November 6, 2017
Employee Social Media in China
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Excluding Illegally Obtained Confessions in China
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Summer Jobs in Greater China
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
SCL Orientation Event/Mid-Autumn Festival
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Human Rights and Political Change in China
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
International Law and the South China Sea
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Human Rights in Today's Taiwan: Progress and Challenges
Monday, February 27, 2017
Is China becoming Pro-IP?
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Task Force on U.S.-China Policy: Recommendations for the New Administration
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Rehabilitating History: A Reconsideration of the Treatment of Disability in Chinese History and Its Implications for Today
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Fund-Formation Lawyers: What We Do
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Work in China this Summer
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
China’s Participation in the International Economic Legal Order: Trade Agreements and Beyond
Monday, April 18, 2016
The Rise of Post-Umbrella Movement Political Forces in the New Era.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Revision of China's Administrative Litigation Law: A Preliminary Evaluation
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Experiences as a Greater China Public Interest Law Fellow
Thursday, March 10, 2016
The Chinese Financial Crisis: Legal and Other Challenges.