Asian Designs: Risen Powers and the Struggle for International Governance

Saadia M. Pekkanen, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Associate Professor, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington

* Open to all, lunch provided.

Can China Resolve its Labor Question by Improving Labor Standards?

The Regulatory Response to Labor Unrest

Cynthia Estlund, Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

China's initial and preferred strategy for abating labor unrest was to legislate labor standards and improve access to judicial and arbitral enforcement of individual rights claims under the law.  …

Promoting Good Governance and the Rule of Law in China: How does a Chinese scholar build global teams to make a difference?

Mei Gechlik, Founder and Director of Stanford Law School’s China Guiding Cases Project; Founder and President of Good Governance International

Dr. Mei Gechlik is Founder and Director of Stanford Law School’s China Guiding Cases Project (“CGCP”) as well as Founder and President of Good Governance International (“GGI”).  Approximately three years ago, Dr…

Why Food Safety Fails in China: The Politics of Scale

John Yasada, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Contemporary ChinaCommentator: Song Hualin, Professor, Nankai University Law School; Visiting Scholar, Yale China Law Center

This article examines China’s food safety failures to cast light on how scale has deeply affected its regulatory politics.  Contrary to studies that highlight China’s food safety challenges primarily resulting…

Repression Backfires：

Tactical Radicalization and Protest Spectacle in Rural China

Kevin O'Brien, Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley

In spring 2005, villagers in Dongyang County, Zhejiang were unhappy.  For four years, they had been complaining about pollution emitted by 13 factories located in the…

From the Great Wall to Many City Walls: China's hukou system and its reform

Professor Fei-Ling Wang, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology

Created in the 1950s, the hukou (户口 household registration) system has been a foundational…

Making Sense of a Fast-Changing China

Jeff Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History (and Professor of Law, by courtesy), University of California at Irvine Editor, Journal of Asian Studies

Professor Wassersrtom will address some of the key claims he makes in his book China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2010, with an updated edition last summer…

Is No Place Safe from the Long-arm of Chinese Law?

China’s Attempt to Pierce Corporate Veils and Capture Revenue Abroad

Shen Wei, Professor of Law, Shanghai Jiaotong University Law School

The talk examines how Chinese tax authorities apply the corporate law doctrine of veil-piercing in an extraterritorial manner in the context of cross-border transactions. The analysis considers, from both…

From Domestic to International: The Evolution of Chinese NGO

Jennifer Hsu, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Interest in China’s role as an international development actor has surged due to China’s growing presence across the developing world. While much of the media and scholarly…

Is Xi Jinping Changing China's Course? Reforms Under the New Leadership in Beijing

In November 2013 China's ruling Communist Party, headed by Xi Jinping, held a widely anticipated meeting of its central committee.  This plenary session approved a sixty…