The Clarke Program sponsors international conferences that bring together scholars from numerous countries and disciplines to discuss topics in East Asian law and interdisciplinary legal studies.
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| Justice Kennedy, Dean Schwab and Professor Lehman at Peking University School of Transnational Law in October, 2008. |
The Clarke Program has co-sponsored conferences with partners throughout the United States and the world. The Program often works in concert with other institutions at Cornell, including the Cornell East Asia Program, Cornell Law School and the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne's Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law, and the Cornell Center for the Study of Economy and Society.
As of 2007, the Clarke Program also sponsors the Clarke International Consortium on Law and Social Justice in Emerging Markets. Together with Peking University Law School in Beijing, the Clarke Program is orchestrating joint research projects, faculty exchanges, student exchanges, and annual conferences that foster cross-cultural discussion of law and social justice in emerging markets.
Recent News
The University of Tokyo Press will soon publish papers presented at the Clarke Program Conference, "Hope in Law and the Economy," held in Tokyo in October 2008. Papers presented at the conference will be published both in Japanese and English in collections of essays Yuji Genda and Miyazaki Hirokazu are editing. Since December 2007, the Clarke Program in East Asia Law and Culture at Cornell and the Institute of Social Science (ISS) at the University of Tokyo have sponsored joint research, conferences, and short- and long-term faculty exchanges in Ithaca and Tokyo.
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
The Clarke Program is in the process of setting its 2009-2010 conference schedule.
PAST CONFERENCES
Spring 2009
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| "Hope in Law and the Economy" |
Law, Culture and Development in a Transnational Legal Environment
June 20, 2009
Tokyo
Partner Institution: Maison Franco-Japonaise, with funding from the Ministry of Culture of France Scholars from the US, France, Japan, and Canada convened to present and discuss new research examining the current transnational legal environment.
Conference Summary (by Isabelle Giraudou, Maison Franco-Japonaise)
Fall 2009
In fall 2008, Dean Stewart Schwab and three Cornell Law School professors participated in four international conferences in Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong. The conferences represented a key component of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, and were intended to strengthen ongoing relationships with key academics and institutions.
The group also attended the inauguration of The Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen, a new law school led by Jeffrey S. Lehman. Dean Schwab spoke at the inauguration, as did United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Alumni receptions and individual meetings with key alumni and academic and business leaders took place in each city.
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| Professors Annelise Riles and Gregory S. Alexander at "Hope in Law and the Economy," October 14, 2008. |
Hope in Law and the Economy
October 14, 2008
International House of Japan
Tokyo
Law, Markets, and Social Equity, Part II
October 16, 2008
Fudan University
Shanghai
Labor Law
October 20, 2008
Peking University
Beijing
The Promises of Law
October 23, 2008
Hong Kong
2007-2008
Law, Markets, and Social Equity
A project of the Clarke International Consortium on Law and Social Justice in Emerging Markets
Co-sponsored by the East Asia Program, Cornell University; the Institute for the Social Sciences, Cornell University; and the Clarke Business Law Institute, Cornell Law School.
April 25-26, 2008
Cornell University
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| "Culture, Conflict, and Constitutionalism: The Global Debate About Property Rights" |
Law in Context: New and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law
A project of the Clarke International Consortium on Law and Social Justice in Emerging Markets
June 8-10, 2008
Cornell University
2006-2007
Citizen Participation in East Asian Legal Systems
September 22-23, 2006
Cornell Law School
Ithaca, New York
PoLAR Symposium: Papering Ethics, Documenting Consent: The New Bureaucracies of Virtue
October 26-28, 2006
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
Culture, Conflict, and Constitutionalism: The Global Debate about Property Rights
Sponsored by the Clarke International Consortium on Law and Social Justice in Emerging Markets
May 18-20, 2007
Peking University Law School
Beijing
2005-2006
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| "Rethinking the Private in Private International Law" |
Rethinking the Private in Private International Law
April 7-8, 2006
Cornell Law School
Ithaca, New York
Ethnographic Fictions
April 27-29, 2006
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
2004-2005
Call for Witnesses: Transparency
April 22, 2005
Ecole des Mines de Paris
Paris
Rethinking "Legal Transplants" and "Mixed Jurisdictions": When Civilian Legal Reasoning Meets Constitutional Thought
July 14-15, 2005
Faculté de Droit
Paris
2003-2004
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| "Cultural Approaches to Asian Financial Markets" |
Cornell-St. Andrews University Knowledge Exchange
September 6-7, 2003
The Practice of Law and Development: Socio-Legal Approaches
April 20, 2004
Anthropology and Human Rights Administrations: Expert Observation and Representation After the Fact
Spring 2004
First Annual Japanese Legal Studies Conference
May 2004
Comparative Methodologies
July 2004
2002-2003
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| "Cultural Approaches to Asian Financial Markets" |
Pragmatism, Law and Governmentality
March 29, 2003
Institutional Change in East Asia
April 4 - 5, 2003
Cultural Approaches to Asian Financial Markets
April 26, 2003
