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The Clarke Program welcomes visiting scholars through a number of special exchange programs, as well as general programs for visiting researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting assistant professors, respectively. Visiting scholars make use of Cornell's extensive library collections, meet with colleagues from across the university, and present their research in the Program's weekly colloquium series.
The Program welcomes unsolicited applications for Visiting Researcher, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Visiting Assistant Professor positions only.
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Current Visitors
Li Guo
Wang Visiting Assistant Professor of Law (2008-09)
Li Guo is an associate professor and assistant dean at Peking University Law School. His research focuses mainly on issues of law and finance. His work has appeared in the Banking Law Journal, Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, International Business Lawyer, etc., in English and dozens of books and journals in Chinese. He is the chief editor of Peking University Law Review (English version). Before joining the Peking University law faculty, he worked at Department of Legal Affairs, China Securities Regulatory Commission as an intern counsel. He is a member of the bar in P.R. China and New York. Professor Guo will teach a seminar on Chinese corporate and financial law.
Chenguang Wang
Wang Visiting Professor of Law (Spring 2009)
Professor Wang is Professor of Law and Dean, Tsinghua University Law School. He received his B.A., LL.M., and Ph.D. from Peking University, and an LL.M. from Havard University. His research interests include Jurisprudence and Comparative Law. Professor Wang has also been an Arbitrator for CIETAC; Vice President, Legal Theory Association, China Law Society; Adjunct Professor, National Judges College; and Adjunct Professor, Law School, City University of Hong Kong.
Chih-Ming Hsieh
Visiting Researcher (2008-09)
Taiwan Ministry of Justice Program
Chih-Ming Hsieh received a Bachelor of Law degree from National Taiwan University and passed the Taiwan bar exam in 1998. He began his career as a prosecutor in 2001. After serving in the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office and the Miaoli District Prosecutor's Office, he now serves in the Taichung District Prosecutor's Office as a member of the Organized Crime and Economic Crime Task Force; as Foreign Affairs Spokesman; and as a member of the Criminal Code Research Crew. In his seven-year career, Chih-Ming Hsieh has dealt with more than 6000 cases, including intellectual property crime cases, homicide cases, drug smuggling cases, environmental crime cases, organized crime cases, white-collar crime cases, corruption cases, and other high profile or felony cases. Recently, he has focused mainly on economic crime cases, especially stock market manipulations and fraud.
Mingli Kuo
Visiting Researcher (2008-09)
Taiwan Ministry of Justice Program
Mingli Kuo is a prosecutor at the Taipei District Prosecutors Office. After receiving his LL.M. from Chengchi University, he practiced as a private lawyer in 2000. He completed his education at the Judges and Prosecutors Training Institute and began his career as a public prosecutor in 2002. In major cases, it is his duty to instruct and supervise agents to investigate crimes legally and correctly. His research interest focuses on the seizure, forfeiture and recovery of illegal proceeds. Before coming to Cornell, he participated in the “Capacity-Building Workshop on Combating Corruption Related to Money Laundering” held by APEC in Bangkok in 2007.
Zhu Wang
Visiting Researcher (2008-09)
Zhu Wang is a Ph.D. Candidate of Civil and Commercial Law from Law School of Renmin University of China and a researcher of the Research Center of Civil and Commercial Jurisprudence of Renmin University of China. Supported financially by the Fulbright China Ph.D. Dissertation Research Program and invited as a Clarke scholar by the Clarke Program in East Asia Law and Culture for a full academic year, he focuses his Ph.D. dissertation on the Apportionment of Tortious Liability. He has joined a number of research programs sponsored by both the state and ministries of China, co-authored 4 books, published more than 20 papers in journals in China. He was a visiting scholar to Law School of Soochow University in Taipei in 2007. Before coming to Cornell, he was in charge of the editorial department of www.civillaw.com.cn (the largest academic website for law study in China) and the E-Journal of Civil and Commercial Law.
Christian Büger
Visiting Researcher (Fall 2008)
Christian Büger is a researcher at the European University Institute (EUI). He studied international relations, sociology and philosophy of law at the University of Frankfurt, Germany and at the University of Lund, Sweden and holds a Master in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Frankfurt, and a Master of Research from the EUI. Before joining the EUI in 2005 he was a research assistant at the Institut für Sozialforschung, Frankfurt, and lecturer at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Frankfurt. He is currently working on a study of technocratic politics in the United Nations. His publications have appeared in International Studies Perspectives, the Journal of International Relations and Development, and the Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen. His fields of expertise are Theories of International Organization, Sociology of Science, Expertise in Late-Modern Societies, Security Studies and Peacekeeping and Nation–building Politics of the United Nations.
Amy Pollard
Visiting Researcher (Summer 2008)
Amy Pollard is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, Department of Social Anthropology. Her dissertation is an ethnographic study of international aid donors in Indonesia, examining their attempts to 'harmonise', 'align' and 'coordinate' in response to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005). After receiving her BA from the University of Cambridge in 2002, she worked at the Overseas Development Institute before returning to Cambridge for an MPhil in Social Anthropological Research (2005). She has been a consultant for the UK Department of International Development and currently teaches on the Anthropology of Development, and Social Anthropological Theory.
Past Visitors
Cui Zhiyuan
Wang Distinguished Visitor
Visiting Professor of Law (Spring 2008)
Professor Cui Zhiyuan received a Ph.D. and M.A. degrees at the University of Chicago (Political Science) and a B.Sc. at the National University of Defense Technology, China (Math). He has been Professor at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University since 2004. Previously, he was Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin from 2003-04; Senior Visiting Fellow of Harvard Law School from 2003; Visiting Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore from 2001-03; Assistant Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1995-01; and Instructor in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1993-95. During his stay at Cornell, Professor Cui is teaching Chinese Legal Systems and a seminar entitled, Law and Economics Meets Radical Imagination.
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Yuri Obata
Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-08)
Professor Yuri Obata is Assistant Professor in Mass Communication at Indiana University South Bend. She received a Ph.D. in Communication from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research area is free speech in Japan, focusing on obscenity and sexually oriented expression. Her approach is to apply mass media as a window to understand society's culture, i.e., values and beliefs, and to examine law, or a judicial system as a cultural practice which derived from society's past experience.
Professor Obata has taught courses on mass communication theories, international mass media, media law, and history of pornography. During her residency at Cornell Law School as a Clarke Fellow, she plans to finish a few articles for her dissertation, as well as develop chapters more in-depth in order to write a book proposal.
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Zhang Sheng
Visiting Researcher (Spring 2008)
Professor Zhang is visiting from China University of Political Science and Law, where he has taught since 2000, and where he obtained his Ph.D. in Legal History. Professor Zhang specializes in legal history, especially comparative research on civil law, and has published several papers addressing China ’s evolving administrative law tribunals. Professor Zhang received an LLM from Northwest University of Political Science and Law, Xi’an , China , and received a Bachelor of Law degree from He Bei Normal University, Shijiazhuang , China.
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Huaqing (Cole) Ke
Visiting Researcher (Fall 2007)
Huaqing Ke is Associate Professor at the China University of Politics and Law. He received his Ph.D. from Sun Yat-Sen University (Zhong Shan University) in 2002. He has since conducted postdoctoral research on game theory and contract law at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Law. His primary areas of interest are law and economics, contract law, and labor and employment law. During his stay at Cornell, he conducted an economic analysis of the NLRA. Please visit his website for more information on law and economics in China.
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Yanchun (Heather) Cao
Visiting Researcher (2006-07)
Yanchun Cao is Associate Professor of Law at Yanshan University and a doctoral candidate at Renmin University of China. She specializes in tort and labor law. During her stay at Cornell, she studied the typology of tort, comparing Chinese and U.S. tort law.
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Timothy Choy
Postdoctoral Fellow (2006-07)
Timothy Choy is Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Anthropology at University of California-Davis. He was formerly Assistant Professor of Comparative Studies in Humanities at Ohio State University. He teaches science studies, ethnography, and critical theory. He is working on a book, entitled "Ecologies of Comparison, Politics by Example," that explicates the knowledge practices of exemplification, specification, and comparison at work in environmental politics in transition-era Hong Kong. Of central concern are the implications of the analytic resonance between these practices, figurations of Hong Kong sovereignty, and certain problems in anthropological and political theory. He conducted postdoctoral research at Cornell prior to his tenure at Ohio State.
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Eva Pils
Postdoctoral Fellow (Spring 2006)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law (Fall 2006)
Professor Eva Pils studied law, philosophy and sinology at Heidelberg University, Germany, and graduated from there with a law degree in 1996. After obtaining her professional qualification as a German lawyer she practiced law for a while at Baker & McKenzie, Frankfurt, and then went to London to do research. After taking an LL.M. degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, in 2000, she wrote her PhD dissertation on rights protection and justice in contemporary China at University College London, gaining her PhD degree from the University of London in January 2005. In 2003, Professor Pils was one of eight European participants in the EU-China Judicial and Legal Cooperation Programme in Beijing. She was a Global Research Fellow at NYU School of Law in 2004/2005. She was both Visiting Research Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell Law School in 2006. Her main research interests are Chinese law, law and social conflict, legal philosophy and comparative law. Professor Pils was recently appointed to the law faculty of Chinese University of Hong Kong Law School.
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Jonas Grimheden
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law (Spring 2006)
Professor Jonas Grimheden graduated from Lund University, Sweden (1995) with a degree in East and Southeast Asian Studies with focus on the Chinese language. At Lund University he simultaneously studied law and received his first law degree (jur. kand., 1995) followed by an LLM in international human rights law (1996) and an LLD (2004) on a dissertation concerning judicial independence under international human rights law, with particular focus on the Peoples Republic of China. Before pursuing his doctoral studies he was a program officer with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund University, for five years dealing with human rights cooperation programs mainly in China. He opened and led the first office abroad of the RWI, in Shanghai (1999-00), reformulating the cooperation program on human rights between the RWI and various academic institutions and state legal institutions. He has been visiting scholar/researcher at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, bo Akademi University (Turku, Finland), and China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing). He has a position as a Senior Researcher with the RWI, working in particular on law implementation in China.
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AnnJanette Rosga
Visiting Researcher (2005-06)
Professor Rosga is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness & Cultural Anthropology from University of California-Santa Cruz. She is at work on a book entitled 'Trafficking in the Rule of Law: Police and Human Rights in Emerging Democracies,' which is based on her fieldwork in several sites including the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, the International Law Enforcement Academy in Budapest, Hungary, and the Sarajevo Police Academy in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Professor Rosga's work focuses on the content of U.S. "democracy and rule of law" exports to societies in transition from repressive rule and/or situations of armed conflict, particularly as these exports concern human rights and policing. In addition, she has written on human trafficking, bias-related crime, and the use of social science indicators for human rights monitoring. During her stay at Cornell, Dr. Rosga added a Southeast Asia component to her study by observing trainings at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Nicholas Howson
Visiting Assistant Professor (Spring 2005)
Professor Nicholas Howson graduated from Williams College in 1983, was a graduate fellow at Fudan University in Shanghai, and took his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1988. He then went into private practice, working in the corporate department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP for 15 years. In 1995, Professor Howson began lecturing at Columbia Law School concurrent with his work at Paul, Weiss. He joined the Cornell Law faculty as Visiting Assistant Professor of Law in 2004-05, teaching courses in U.S., Chinese, and public international law. He is currently Assistant Professor of Law at University of Michigan Law School.
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Takashi Uchida
Mori, Hamada & Matsumoto Visitor (2004-05)
Professor Takashi Uchida is a leading Civil Law scholar and Professor at the University of Tokyo Law School and was the chief architect of the revisions to Japan’s Civil Code.
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Ueno Chizuko
Mori, Hamada & Matsumoto Visitor (2003-04)
Professor Ueno Chizuko is a feminist scholar and chair of the Department of Sociology at Tokyo University. During her visit in August of 2004, Professor Ueno convened with Cornell scholars interested in feminist jurisprudence and East Asian law and culture. She also delivered a series of lectures on topics ranging from legal reforms concerning the welfare of the elderly to the relationship between gender and Japanese militarization in light of Japan’s Peace Constitution, as part of the Clarke Program Fall 2004 Colloquium Series.
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Special Exchange Programs
The Clarke Program regularly welcomes visiting scholars through the Mori, Hamada & Matsumoto Exchange; the Wang Distinguished Visitor Program; and the Taiwan Ministry of Justice Program.
The Mori, Hamada & Matsumoto Exchange
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| Professor Ueno Chizuko, |
The Mori, Hamada & Matsumoto Exchange sponsors faculty exchanges between Cornell Law School and leading Japanese universities. Cornell Law faculty travel to Japan, and faculty of Japanese universities travel to Cornell to collaborate on research projects, give seminars, and teach courses.
Past participants include Professor Ueno Chizuko, feminist scholar and chair of the Department of Sociology at Tokyo University; Professor Takashi Uchida, Civil Law scholar, chief architect of the revisions to Japan’s Civil Code, and Professor at the University of Tokyo Law School; and Kevin Clermont, James and Mark Flanagan Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.
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The Wang Distinguished Visitor Program
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The Wang Program sponsors visits from select faculty of universities in China to conduct research and teach courses at Cornell Law School. The Wang Visiting Professors, who make semester-long visits to Cornell in rotating succession, are Professors Cui Zhiyuan and Wang Chenguang, both of Tsinghua University in Beijing, and Professor Zhu Suli, of Peking University Law School. The Wang Visiting Professor Program also brings junior scholars from China, such as Guo Li, of Peking University Law School, to teach and conduct research at Cornell.
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The Taiwan Ministry of Justice Program
Beginning in 2008, Cornell Law School will receive prosecutors-in-training from the Taiwanese Ministry of Justice's Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Institute. At Cornell, the visiting scholars will pursue research on criminal justice topics under the supervision of Cornell Law School faculty, present lectures, take courses, and participate in workshops with faculty and students. Cornell will receive up to two scholars annually.
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Visiting Assistant Professors
Visiting Assistant Professors (VAPs), sponsored through the Program, join Cornell Law School from throughout the country and the world to teach courses and conduct research. VAPs participate in faculty workshops, conferences, research colloquia, and other aspects of the intellectual life of the law school. They typically spend between two and four semesters in residence.
For more information, please visit the general VAP site or contact asianlaw@cornell.edu.
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Visiting Researchers and Postdoctoral Fellows
The Clarke Program welcomes visiting scholars from East Asia and elsewhere whose research makes an innovative contribution to the understanding of East Asian law and culture. Visiting Researchers typically spend two weeks to four months in residence. Postdoctoral Fellows spend a year in residence completing major research projects.
Although most visitors apply by invitation of a member of the Cornell Law faculty, the Program welcomes unsolicited proposals for high-quality research that stands to benefit from participation in the Clarke Program. The Program welcomes applications for research projects that are unusual, or have not yet found mainstream acceptance among legal scholars in East Asia.
The Program provides working space, full access to law school library resources, and other funding for project-related expenses. Visitors ordinarily provide their own funding for travel to and from Ithaca, as well as living expenses while in Ithaca. The Cornell University International Students and Scholars Office (ISSO) helps visitors secure their own housing.
Applications for Visiting Researcher and Postdoctoral Fellow positions during the spring semester are due October 31. Applications for positions during the fall semester are due February 28. Please submit a c.v., a detailed description of the research project and how it would benefit from participation in the Clarke Program, and copies of publications. For more information, please contact asianlaw@cornell.edu.
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