Event
The State of Legal Development In China:
Issues and Evidence
Leading scholars from Renmin University will address key areas vital to China’s legal development. U.S.-based experts in these areas and U.S.-based scholars of Chinese law will offer commentary from comparative and cross-disciplinary perspectives.
9:00-9:15 Registration
9:15-10:00 Welcome, Opening Remarks and Introduction to The Report on Legal Development in China
Jacques deLisle, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Dean Han Dayuan, Renmin University Law School
Zhu Jingwen, Renmin University Law School, Introduction to The Report on Legal Development in China
10:00– 12:00 Panel I: Legal Education and the Legal Profession
Chair: Amy Gadsden, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Presenters:
Zhu Jingwen, An Analysis of the Professionalization of Lawyers in China
Han Dayuan, Legal Education and the Development of the Rule of Law in China
Commentators:
Robert Reinstein, Temple Law School
David Trubek, University of Wisconsin Law School
Carl Minzner, Fordham Law School
12:00 – 1:00 Break
1:00– 3:00: Panel II: Current Issues in Criminal Justice Reform
Chair: Jacques deLisle
Presenters:
He Jiahong, Wrongful Convictions and Judicial Reform in China
Shi Yanan, Ending Reeducation through Labor and the Issue of Preventive Detention
Commentators:
Markus Dubber, University of Toronto Law School
Margaret Lewis, Seton Hall Law School
Martin Flaherty, Fordham Law School
3:00- 3:15 Coffee / Tea Break
3:15 – 5:15 Panel III: Rights and the Rule of Law
Chair: Neysun Mahboubi, University of Pennsylvania CSCC
Presenter:
Lu Haina, The Development of Anti-discrimination Law in China
Han Dayuan, Emerging Issues in Property Rights Protection
Commentator:
Cynthia Estlund, NYU Law School
Donald Clarke, George Washington University Law School
Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania Law School
5:15 Closing Remarks and Adjournment
Han Dayuan and Jacques deLisle