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2007-09
Report
The Clarke Program inEast Asian Law and Culture
 
A Message from the Director
Today’s law graduates are more likely than ever to be involvedwith legal issues and clients rom East Asia. At the same time,legal problems in the region, rom human rights, to thedevelopment o new jury systems and systems o legal educa-
tion, to economic reorm, are invaluable sources o comparative
 insight. The Clarke Program takes on these challenges andopportunities by promoting serious and sustained conversation
among scholars and practitioners in dierent parts o the world. The Clarke
Program’s mission is to oster collaboration—across disciplines, across cultures, andbetween established scholars and innovative young researchers—that brings to lightnew questions, and new answers on subjects o pressing contemporary concern.The year 2007-08 was an exciting and productive one or the Clarke Program inEast Asian Law and Culture. This report will provide an overview o the work o thescholars and experts representing many felds who participated in lectures, collo-quia, conerences, and workshops this year. You will read about recent ellowships,
collaborative research projects, short and long-term scholarly exchanges, and
student exchanges that occurred in academic calendar years 2007-08 and 2008-09,in addition to announcing a ew o the upcoming events or 2009-10.
We remain grateul or the generous git o Jack G. Clarke that has supported thisprogram since 2002. Other sources o unding include Cornell University’s Jerey SeanLehman Fund or Scholarly Exchange with China, the Cornell Law School’s ClarkeBusiness Law Institute, the Cornell University Institute or the Social Sciences, and theJapan Foundation Center or Global Partnership.
Annelise Riles, the Jack G. Clarke ‘52 Professor of Far East Legal Studies; Director, Clarke Programin East Asian Law and Culture and Professor of Anthropology
The Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture
“The name of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture was chosen withcare. By emphasizing the words ‘law’and ‘culture,’ we wanted to underscore
the distinctive approach Cornell is
taking to our engagement in that regionof the world.”
Stewart J. Schwab,
Allan R. Tessler Dean
and Professor of Law,Cornell Law School
 
THE
2007-09
COLLOQUIUMSCHOLARS:
Salil K. Mehra,
Proessor oLaw, Temple University BeasleySchool o Law
“The Ipod Tax: Why theDigital Copyright System oAmerican Law Proessors’Dreams Failed in Japan”Huaqing (Cole) Ke,
AssociateProessor o Law, ChinaUniversity o Politics and Law
“The Law and Economics othe Right to Strike in China”Jerey S. Lehman,
Proessoro Law, Cornell Law School and
Founding Dean o Peking Univer-sity School o Transnational Law
“To Launch a J.D. Programin China: Six Narratives inSearch o an Author”
This event was co-sponsoredwith the Faculty Workshopseries.
Joel Haims,
Partner, Morrison& Forester and
Karen Hagberg,
 Partner Morrison & Forester
“Legal and Cultural Consider-
ations for American
Litigators Practicing in Chinaand Japan”Kuo-Lien Hsieh,
AssistantProessor, Shih Hsin UniversitySchool o Law, Taiwan
“Cartel Regulation underthe Newly Enacted ChineseAnti-Monopoly Law”
Program Highlightsfor 2007-2009
Colloquium Series
In the Clarke Program Colloquium Series,faculty and senior graduate students meetover lunch to discuss works-in-progress onlaw and culture in East Asia. This informalsetting encourages discussion, and the focuson new and cross-disciplinary researchprovides a nuanced view of Asian institu-tions and practices.
Yuri Obata,
Clarke Postdoc-toral Fellow and AssistantProessor o Communications,Indiana University South Bend
“Japanese Supreme CourtObscenity Decisions: A His-torical and Cultural Analysis”Virada Somswasdi,
Presidento the Foundation or Women,Law and Rural Development(FORWARD) and AssociateProessor, Chiang Mai University
“Militarization and CounterTerrorism Measures in Thai-land: The eect on WomenHuman Rights Deenders”
This event was co-sponsoredwith the Berger InternationalLegal Studies Program andhosted by Anthropology 102,The Comparison o Cultures
Robert Wai,
Associate Deanand Proessor o Law, OsgoodeHall Law School, York University
“Normal Trade Relations?Investment Restrictions,Security Exceptions and theLimited Rule o InternationalTrade Law”Annelise Riles,
Jack G. Clarke‘52 Proessor o Far East Legal
Studies; Director Clarke Program
 in East Asian Law and Culture,and Proessor o Anthropology
“Collaboration in the Field oLaw: New Directions in theClarke Program in East AsianLaw and Culture”Sheng Zhang,
Vice Dean andProessor, China University oPolitical Science and Law
“The Drating o the MinguoCivil Code: A KnowledgeSociology Analysis”Eva Pils,
Assistant Proessor,Chinese University o HongKong Law School
“The Peasants’ Struggle orLand in China”
Takashi Maruta,
Proessor o
Law, Kwansei Gakuin University
Law School, Japan,
and Visiting
Scholar, Center or Japanese Le-gal Studies, Columbia University
“Lay Participation in LegalDecision Making Comes toJapan”Mingli Kuo,
VisitingResearcher rom the TaiwanMinistry o Justice Program
“Lay Participation in theTaiwan Judicial System”Chih-Ming Hsieh,
VisitingResearcher rom the TaiwanMinistry o Justice Program
“Transormation o theProsecutor’s Role in Taiwan”Zhu Wang,
Ph.D. Candidateo Civil and Commercial Lawrom Law School o RenminUniversity o China
“European Canvas, AmericanColors, Chinese Spirit: TheMaking o the Grand Scroll oTort Law o China”Chenguang Wang,
Proessor
o Law and Former Dean,
Tsinghua University Law School,
Cornell Law School Wang
Distinguished Proessor o Law,Spring 2009
“Legislate in the Shadow:Law Making Function bythe Supreme People’s Courto China”
FALL
2009
COLLOQUIUMSERIES SPEAKERS(PARTIAL LIST):
John H. Blume,
Proessor oLaw and Director, Cornell DeathPenalty Project
Leila Choukroune,
AssistantProessor, Department Law andTaxation, Ecole des HautesEtudes Commerciales, Paris
Mitsuru Claire Chino,
J.D. ‘91,Corporate Counsel, ItochuCorporation, a global tradingcompany headquartered inJapan
Amy Cohen,
the Michael E.Moritz College o Law, OhioState University
Yuji Genda,
Proessor, Instituteo Social Science, University oTokyo and Director o the HopeStudies Program
Chenguang Wang, Professor ofLaw and Former Dean, TsinghuaUniversity Law School, CornellLaw School Wang DistinguishedProfessor of Law, Spring 2009
Calvin Ho,
Ph.D. candidate,Cornell University
Karen Knop,
Proessor o Law,University o Toronto LawSchool
Robin M. LeBlanc,
Proessor oPolitics, Department o Politics,Washington and Lee University(co-sponsored with CornellUniversity East Asia Program)
Andrew Mertha,
AssociateProessor o Chinese Politics,Department o Government,Cornell University
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