This notice was sent out on the China Law Discussion list yesterday..
Columbia Law School’s Center for Chinese Legal Studies & NYU Law School’s U.S. Asia Law Institute are presenting a panel discussion entitled
“China’s Changing Courts: Populist Vehicle or Party Puppet?”
Featuring:
Xin He, Associate Professor of Law, City University of Hong Kong School of Law
"Street As Courtroom: State Accommodation of Labor Protest in South China"
Nicholas C. Howson, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan School of Law
“Corporate Law Adjudication in the Shanghai Courts 1992-2008 – Autonomy and Bureaucratic Identity”
Carl Minzner, Associate Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law
"Responsibility Systems: Institutional Responses to Principal-Agent Problems in Chinese Law and Governance"
Rachel E. Stern, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
“Between Bureaucrats and Judges: Justifying Decisions in Pollution Cases”
moderated by: Benjamin L. Liebman, Professor of Law; Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School
The Live Panel Discussion will be held Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009 5:30 PM – 7:15 PM NYU School of Law
Lipton Hall
108 West 3rd Street
Reception from 5 – 5:30 PM
Please RSVP to Elizabeth Lynch: [email protected]
(212) 998-6696
There will also be a Webcast of the Discussion Beginning
Monday, Feb. 23, 2009
Watch at: www.usasialaw.org
After Watching, you can submit your questions to the panelists by Emailing: [email protected]. Ten Questions will be Answered And Posted Online by Friday, Feb. 27, 2009
