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| Professor Chenguang Wang, Wang Distinguished Visitor, Spring 2009. |
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
Chun-Feng Lin
Visiting Researcher (2009-10)
Taiwan Ministry of Justice Program
Chun-Feng Lin received his LL.B. from National Taiwan University and LL.M. from National Chiao Tung University. He began his career as a prosecutor in 2001. After serving in Taitung District Prosecutor's Office, he now serves in Banciao District Prosecutor's Office as a member of the Intellectual Property Crimes Division. He devotes himself to the protection of intellectual property rights and paid great care to the creators’ needs. In his eight-year career, Chung-Feng Lin has dealt with more than 7000 cases, including corruption cases, drug smuggling cases, white-collar crime cases, and other felony cases. Before coming to Cornell, he finished writing his Master of Laws thesis on “The Prosecutorial System’s Development and Reform of China: A Study on Criminal Supervision.” Because both sides of the Taiwan Strait signed the "Agreement on Joint Cross-Strait Crime-fighting and Mutual Judicial Assistance," in Nanjing on April 26,2009, this is now a booming issue in Taiwan.
JuChang Yu
Visiting Researcher (2009-10)
Taiwan Ministry of Justice Program
JuChang Yu received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Soochow University. In 1998, he became an investigator in the Control Yuan and in charge of assisting the members of Control Yuan to investigate misconduct or negligence of government employees and administrative defects of government agencies. Juchang passed the Judge and Prosecutor Examination and the Attorney Examination in 1999. He completed his education at the Judges and Prosecutors Training Institute and began his career as a public prosecutor in 2001. After serving in the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office, he now serves in the Shihlin District Prosecutor's Office. In his eight-year career, JuChang Yu has dealt with more than 5000 cases, including intellectual property crime cases, homicide cases, drug smuggling cases, organized crime cases, white-collar crime cases, corruption cases, and other high profile or felony cases. His research interest focuses on economic crime cases, especially stock market manipulations and fraud.
Ryuta Masuno
Visiting Scholar (2009-10)
Ryuta Masuno is a police inspector with the Investigative Planning Division of the Criminal Investigation Bureau, National Police Agency of Japan. He is responsible for the planning and coordination of police investigative policies including interfacing with other agencies and organizations on legal matters that involve ongoing investigations. He has contributed articles to The Journal of Police Science and Investigative Research. His areas of special expertise include corruption cases involving brides and bid-rigging and violent crimes.
Ming Yu
Visiting Scholar (2009-10)
Ming Yu is a PhD Candidate of Law from Peking University Law School. He earned his Bachelor of Law and Master of Law from East China University of Politics Science and Law. Supported financially by Chinese Scholarship Council and invited by the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, he will study at Cornell Law School as a Clarke scholar for one year. His research areas cover Jurisprudence, Legal history and Comparative Law, with a focus on the comparative history of the judiciary. He has co-authored or edited 5 books, including The Readings of Western Legal Classics, The History of Western Commercial Law and The History of the Constitution of Republic of China. Also, he has published several papers in Chinese academic journals, including Peking University Law Review, Global Law Review and Law & Social Development.
Xingzhong Yu
Visiting Scholar (2009-10)
Xingzhong Yu teaches Chinese law, constitutional law, and jurisprudence the Chinese University of Hong Kong and previously served as an Associate (Chinese Legal Specialist) with the Chicago office of Baker and McKenzie. He holds an LLM and SJD from Harvard Law School, and while there was a lecturer on law, senior research fellow in East Asian Legal Studies, and visiting associate professor. He has held various visiting academic positions at Beijing University’s Department of Law, Columbia Law School, and the Australian National University. His research interests include social and political theory, cultural studies of law, jurisprudence, constitutional and administrative law, comparative law, Chinese legal history, and PRC law. He is the author of Rule of Law and Civil Orders and has contributed to various journals and book projects.
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 Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East
The Clarke Initiative supports conferences, professional travel, visiting and adjunct faculty members who teach courses related to the Middle East, student scholarships, library materials dedicated to the Middle East and the Clarke Middle East Speaker Series, which brings speakers to address current legal and policy issues facing the region. Chantal Thomas, a Cornell Law School professor with expertise in the Middle East, northern Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, directs the 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. We are pleased that the program has been renewed for the 2009-2010 academic year. 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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