The Program brings a high-profile scholar to Cornell each year to deliver a major public lecture. While at Cornell, the Clarke Lecturer also meets informally with faculty and students from across the university.
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| Dr. Shi Zhengfu delivered the 2008 Clarke Lecture. |
Past Lectures
April 24, 2008
Shi Zhengfu (Principal, Comway Capital Group and Founder, Center for the New Political Economy at Fudan University, Shanghai)
"China's Reform as an Indigenous Institutional Innovation: an Inquiry into the Characteristics of Political and Economic Systems in China Today"
April 17, 2007
Zhiyuan Cui (Professor, School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University and Wang Distinguished Visitor at Cornell Law School)
“Towards a Law and Economics of Public Property: China and Beyond”
March 14, 2006
Benjamin Liebman (Columbia Law School)
“Innovation through Intimidation: Defamation Litigation in China”
November 8, 2004
Frank Upham (New York University School of Law)
“Rule of Law Lessons: For China, From Japan, Through an American Lens"
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”