Speaker Series

China’s Legal System--or Governing by Diktats

Stéphanie Balme, Columbia University Law School Alliance Program Visiting Professor

This talk presents some results of a study which assesses recent decades of legal reform in China. Constructing and analyzing a dataset of all laws and administrative regulations promulgated between 1978 and 2014, it…

Understanding China's Booming Relations with Africa: A Historical Perspective

Howard French, Associate Professor, Columbia University Journalism School

Howard French received his B.A. from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. He worked as a French-English translator in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in the early 1980s, and taught English literature at the University…

Occupy Central in Hong Kong, the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan: Popular Resistance in Greater China

Thomas B. Gold, Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley 

For many years, China has been successful at utilizing a variety of means (such as formal agreements, investments, preferential trade) to insert itself into the economies of Hong Kong and Taiwan. But 2014 has seen…

Chinese Rights Advocates: Plight and Prospects

China and Human Rights Series

LU Jun, Beijing Yirenping Center, Visiting Scholar, US- Asia Law Institute, New York University School of LawZHOU Dan, LGBT Lawyer, Visiting Scholar, U.S.-Asia Law Institute,  New York University School of Law

LU Jun has been active in China’s public interest sector since 2003, focusing primarily on anti-discrimination and other civil rights issues in the fields of public health, mental health, and food and drug safety…

Campaign Rhetoric and the Surprising Stability of Leadership Transitions in the Asia-Pacific

Jessica Weiss, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University

Conventional wisdom holds that leadership transitions are periods of heightened uncertainty as foreign actors seek to probe the resolve of new and untested leaders. However, a careful examination of…

Culture and Trade

Wang Heng, Professor of Law, School of International Law, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China; Adjunct Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law; Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of New South Wales.

China and the World Trade Regime: A Multilateral and Regional Perspective

Wang Heng, Professor of Law, School of International Law, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China; Adjunct Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law; Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of New South Wales.

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.

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…

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…