Clarke Colloquium Series: Spring 2008
1/28: Jeffrey S. Lehman
Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and Founding Dean of Peking University School of Transnational Law
To Launch a J.D. Program in China: Six Narratives in Search of an Author
*This event was co-sponsored with the Faculty Workshop series.
1/29: Joel C. Haims and Karen Hagberg
Partners at Morrison & Forster
Legal and Cultural Considerations for American Litigators Practicing in China
2/12: Yuri Obata
Clarke Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor of Communications at Indiana University South Bend
Japanese Supreme Court Obscenity Decisions: A Historical and Cultural Analysis
*This event was co-sponsored with the Cornell East Asia Program.
3/13: Virada Somswasdi
President of the Foundation for Women, Law and Rural Development (FORWARD) and Associate Professor at Chiang Mai University
Militarization and Counter Terrorism Measures in Thailand: The Effect on Women Human Rights Defenders
*This event was co-sponsored with the Berger International Legal Studies Program, and hosted by Anthropology 102, The Comparison of Cultures.
3/27: Robert Wai
Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall
Normal Trade Relations? Investment Restrictions, Security Exceptions and the Limited Rule of International Trade Law
4/15: Annelise Riles
Director of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, and Jack G. Clarke Professor of Far East Legal Studies and Professor of Anthropology
Collaboration in the Field of Law: New Directions in the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture
4/17: Zhang Sheng
Clarke Visiting Researcher and Vice-Dean and Professor, China University of Political Science and Law
The Drafting of Min-guo Civil Code: A Knowledge Sociology Analysis
Clarke Colloquium Series: Fall 2007
11/19: Salil K. Mehra
Temple University Beasley School of Law
The Ipod Tax: Why the Digital Copyright System of American Law Professors' Dreams Failed in Japan
11/26: Huaqing Ke
China University of Politics and Law
The Law and Economics of the Right to Strike in China
Clarke Colloquium Series: Spring 2007
1/31: Randall Peerenboom
UCLA Law School
Law and Development of Constitutional Democracy: Is China a Problem Case?
2/6: Grace Kuo
National Chung-Cheng University Department of Law
When Local Family Law Meets Global Trend: An Ethnographic Study of the Foreign Spouses and the Intimate Citizenship Regulations in Taiwan
2/27: John Haley
Washington University School of Law
Why Study Japanese Law?
3/2: Sally Engle Merry
New York University School of Law and Department of Anthropology
Making Women's Human Rights in the Vernacular: Legal Pluralism and Traveling Rights in India, China, and the USA
*This event was co-sponsored with the Anthropology Colloquium Series.
3/13: Lan Cao
William and Mary School of Law
Culture Change
4/3: John Ohnesorge
University of Wisconsin Law School
Law and Development Theory and the Northeast Asian Experience
4/5: Hugh T. Scogin, Jr.
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
China's Labor Contract Law and the Pressures of Globalization
*This event was co-sponsored with the Berger Program and the ILR Collective Bargaining 980 Workshop Series.
4/10: Ilhyung Lee
University of Missouri School of Law
Korean Perception(s) of Equality and Equal Protection
4/12: Jane Anderson
New York University and Australian National University
The Practices of Intellectual Property: Traditional Knowledge Protection in Indonesia and Australia
4/17: Clarke Lecture: Cui Zhiyuan
Cornell Law School and Qinghua University School of Management and Cornell Law School
Towards a Law and Economics of Public Property: China and Beyond
*With commentary from Professor Stuart Schwab and Professor Gregory Alexander.
4/24: Yanchun Cao
Cornell Law School and Yanshan University
The Past, Present and Future of Anti-Discrimination in Employment in China
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Clarke Colloquium Series: Fall 2006
9/11: Michael W. Dowdle
Resident Fellow and Assistant Director of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture
Cornell Law School
Towards a Theory of Constitutional Poietics: The Courts and Constitutional Development Lessons from Early-Industrial England and Present-Day China
9/21: Judge Song Jianli
Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China
The Chinese Judiciary: Current Reforms and Challenges
10/5: Timothy Choy
Ohio State University
Earthly Vocations: Ethics of Environmental Fidelity and Comparison in Hong Kong
10/19: Jerome A Cohen
Professor of Chinese Law, New York University School of Law
10/24: Zhu Suli
Professor of Law and Dean of the Peking University Law School
A Conversation on Law in China
11/3: Donald Clarke
George Washington University School of Law
The Role of Non-Legal Institutions in Chinese Corporate Governance
11/9: Mark Selden
East Asia Program, Cornell University
After the Bomb: An Asia-Pacific Perspective on war and peace in the Korean Peninsula
11/16: Chen Jian
Department of History, Cornell University
China's Dilemmas as an "Insider" of the International System
Clarke Colloquium Series: Spring 2006
2/28: Eva Pils
Cornell Law School
Speaking the truth to Hu and Wen: public dissension and rights advocacy in China
3/9: Takehiro Ohya
Nagoya University Graduate School of Law
Recent Reform in Japanese Legal Education: Law School System and its Troubles
3/13: Robert Weiner
Cornell University, Department of Government
Declining Electoral Competitiveness in Japan? Theoretical Pessimism and Realignment-Era Evidence
3/16: Yasufumi Nakamori
Cornell University
Okinawa Soul: Photographs by Ishikawa Mao Photography as Voice
3/29: Keith Hand
Yale University School of Law
The Sun Zhigang Incident: Implications for Constitutionalism and Citizen Action in China
4/4: Natalie Lichtenstein
Assistant General Counsel, Legal Vice Presidency, The World Bank
China’s Legal Reforms: Implications for Corporate Governance
4/6: Teemu Ruskola
American University, Washington College of Law
Law in the Age of the World Picture: On the Political Ontology of Modernity
4/25: Jonas Grimheden
Cornell Law School
Implementation of Chinese Judicial Reform
Clarke Colloquium Series: Spring 2005
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1/31: John Bowen
Washington University at St Louis
Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves
2/6: Sergio Munoz-Sarmiento
Presentation of new work on photography and transparency
2/7: AnnJanette Rosga
University of Colorado Boulder
Transparency and Accountability: Trafficking in the Rule of Law
2/14: Matthew Daley
President, US-ASEAN Business Council
The Challenge of Terrorism in Southeast Asia
2/28: Tammy Davis
Cornell Law School
Paradise Lost? A retrospective of 25 years of constitutional law in the Federated States of Micronesia
3/14: Robert DeLaMater
Sullivan and Cromwell LLP
Recent Trends in SEC Regulation of Foreign Private Issuers and Cross-Border Public M&A Transactions – How the U.S. Regulatory Regime is Affecting the United States’ Historic Position as the World’s Principal Capital Market
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3/17: Hisakazu Hirose
Tokyo University School of Law
Why Might a Cooperative be Stronger?: A Case Study from the Hand-pulled Noodle Industry in Japan
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3/31: Jerome Cohen
New York University
Is There Criminal Justice in China?
4/1: Bill Maurer
University of California Irvine
Due Diligence and the 'Reasonable Man'
4/4: Naoki Kasuga
University of Osaka
Law Creators or Law Discoverers? Japanese Crime Novels Today
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Clarke Colloquium Series: Fall 2004
8/26: Ueno Chizuko
University of Tokyo, Department of Sociology
Undermining the Gender Equal Policies in Japan
9/23: Veronica Taylor
University of Washington
From Manners to Rules: New Regulatory Directions in Japan
10/7: Vic Koschmann
Cornell University, History Department
Volunteering in Japan: Civil Society or Subjective Technocracy
10/28: Koichi Hamada
Yale University, Department of Economics
Promoting Law and Economics in Japan
11/4: Takashi Uchida
University of Tokyo
The Reform of the Legal Education System in Japan
11/11: Nicholas Howson
Cornell Law School
Misleading and Fraudulent Disclosure in the Chinese Capital Markets
11/11: Karen Hagberg
Morrison and Forester
LLP Lost in Litigation: A Practical Guide to the Differences between the U.S. and Japanese Litigation Systems
Clarke Colloquium Series: Spring 2004
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1/27: Jan Zeserson
East Asia Program, Cornell University
Mapping Bodies, Managing Symptoms: Anthropological Studies of Medicine in Japan
2/2: Mark Selden
East Asia Program, Cornell University
The United States and Japan in Twentieth Century Asian Wars: An International Law and Human Rights Perspective
2/9: Mike Shin
Asian Studies, Cornell University
The Cultural Policies of the ‘Culture Policy’ (Bunka Seiji) in Colonial Korea, 1919-25
2/16: Sherry Martin
Government, Cornell University
The Implications of Tax Reform for Constructions of Japanese Women’s Citizenship
3/1: Brett de Bary
Asian Studies, Cornell University
Magnificent Obsession: Japanese Popular Culture and American Japan Studies in the 1990s
3/7: Doug Holmes, SUNY Binghamton;
George Marcus, Rice University;
David Westbrook, University at Buffalo Law School
Intellectual Vocations in the City of Gold: Internarrativity, Para-ethnography, Intimate Artifice
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3/8: Wendi Adair
Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
Third Culture in U.S.-Japanese Negotiation
3/15: Kevin Clermont
Cornell Law School
Standards of Proof in Japan and the United States
3/15: Martin Puchner, English Department Cornell University;
Bernadette Meyler, Cornell Law School
An interdisciplinary discussion of Giorgio Agamben's recently translated book, The State of Exception
*This event was co-sponsored with The Society for the Humanities.
3/31: Kunal Parker
Cornell Law School
Life and Death in American Legal Thought, 1850-1900: The Jurisprudence of Custom
4/7: Marilyn Strathern
Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Self-ownership and other-ownership: an anthropological comment from the Pacific
Photo in Cornell Law Forum, Summer 2005 (pdf)
4/12:Tamara Loos
History, Cornell University
Subject Siam and Siam’s Subjects: Thailand’s Buddhist Modernity in Muslim Pattani
4/26: Peter Katzenstein
Government, Cornell University
The American Imperium and a World of Porous Regions
Colloquium Series Lectures Presented in Spring 2003
January 29, 2003
Jae Won Kim
Cornell Law School
“The Legal Profession and Legal Culture during Korea's Transition to Democracy and a Market Economy”
February 5, 2003
Alisa Freedman
Asian Studies, Cornell University
“Training Schoolgirls: Mass Transportation and the Public Appearance of Affluent Women in Early Twentieth Century Tokyo”
February 12, 2003
Grace Kuo
Cornell Law School
“Gender Neutrality or Gender Blindness? -Examining the Process of Becoming Female Legal Professionals in Taiwan”
February 19, 2003
Anna Brettell
Government, Cornell University
“The Rationalization of Legal Processes in China: The Integration & Politicalization of Science in Environmental Disputes”
February 26, 2003
Allen Carlson
Government, Cornell University
“A Reluctant Peacekeeper: China's Policies and Discourses on Multilateral Intervention during the 1990s”
March 5, 2003
Jim Hagen
Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University
“Coerced to Cooperate? Development of a Cooperative Distribution Strategy in Japan”
Story in Cornell Law Forum Summer 2003 (pdf)
March 12, 2003
Hiro Miyazaki
Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
“Economy of Dreams: Rationality and Utopia in the Tokyo Financial Markets”
March 14, 2003
Lecture: Judith Farquhar
Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill
“Health, Resistance, Sovereignty: The Cultivation of Life in Contemporary Beijing”
March 28, 2003
Iris Jean-Klein
Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
“Future Active: Palestine, Solidarity Activism and Anthropology”
Co-sponsored by the Clarke Middle East Fund, Cornell Law School
April 4, 2003
Douglas Holmes
Anthropology, Binghamton University
“Intimate Artifice: Three Cases of Para-Ethnography”
Co-sponsored by the East Asia Program, Cornell University
April 9, 2003
Sabine Haenni
Theatre, Film & Dance, Cornell University
“Legislating Hollywood's Chinatown”
April 18, 2003
Carol Greenhouse
Anthropology, Princeton University
“States of discourse: Questions and challenges for the ethnography of law”
April 22, 2003
Lecture: Laura Nader
Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley
“The Americanization of International Law”
Story in Cornell Law Forum Summer 2003 (pdf)
April 25, 2003
Tom Boellstorff
Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
“Dubbing Culture: Indonesian Gay and Lesbian Subjectivities & Ethnography in an Already Globalized World”
May 2, 2003
Lecture: Lawrence Cohen
Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley
“The Operation and Its Reason: Reflections on the Surgical Constitution of As-if-Moderns in India”
Co-sponsored by the Cornell University Lecture Series
October 27, 2003
Lecture: Dean Kyong Whan Ahn
Seoul National University College of Law
”NGO Activities in the Transformation of Korea”
October 30, 2003
Inaugural Clarke Lecture: William Alford
Harvard Law School
“Have you eaten? Have you divorced? Debating the meaning of freedom in marriage in China
