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.
FALL 2009 CLARKE LECTURE
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| Dr. Yuji Genda will deliver the Fall 2009 Clarke Lecture. |
"Jobs and Hope: Gone Forever? Cases from Japan"
Dr. Yuji Genda, Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
12:20-2:00pm
Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium
The year 1998 was a turning point in Japanese history. Banks, securities firms, and other financial institutions that no one thought would go bankrupt before went bankrupt and the Japanese economy went into a long recession. Small and medium-sized corporations, the backbone of the Japanese economy, became insolvent, the country's unemployment rate increased dramatically, and the number of suicides hit 30,000 a year and has not declined since. Although it is legally possible, Japanese case law shows that the process of laying-off employees has been extremely difficult. As a result, during a time of a recession, the recruitment of new graduates is withheld for the protection of the employment of the middle-aged and the elderly. Japanese youth were hit hardest and losing their hope for work. How can the government, corporations, schools, families, not-for-profit organizations, and young people themselves find renewed hope? Professor Genda examines the relationship between hope and work.
PAST LECTURES
"Cross-Strait Relations: Past, Present, and Future"
Tsai Ing-wen, Chairperson, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Taiwan; and Cornell Law School LL.M. '80
September 4, 2008
Click here to read an article about Dr. Tsai Ing-wen's Lecture.
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| Dr. Shi Zhengfu delivered the 2008 Clarke Lecture. |
"China's Reform as an Indigenous Institutional Innovation: an Inquiry into the Characteristics of Political and Economic Systems in China Today"
Shi Zhengfu, Principal, Comway Capital Group and Founder, Center for the New Political Economy at Fudan University, Shanghai
April 24, 2008
Click here to watch a video of Dr. Shi's lecture.
"Towards a Law and Economics of Public Property: China and Beyond"
Zhiyuan Cui, Professor, School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University and Wang Distinguished Visitor at Cornell Law School
April 17, 2007
"Innovation through Intimidation: Defamation Litigation in China"
Benjamin Liebman, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School
March 14, 2006
"Rule of Law Lessons: For China, From Japan, Through an American Lens"
Frank Upham, Wilf Family Professor of Property Law, New York University School of Law
November 8, 2004
"Have you eaten? Have you divorced? Debating the meaning of freedom in marriage in China"
Inaugural Clarke Lecture
William Alford, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies, and Director of East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
October 30, 2003
