Clarke Program

• Current Visitors
• Past Visitors

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
Visiting researchers typically spend two weeks to one year in residence during which time they make use of Cornell's library collections, meet with scholars across the university, and present their research in the Program's workshop series. The Program welcomes applicants for research projects that are unusual, or have not yet found mainstream acceptance among legal scholars in East Asia.

Applications
Applications for Visiting Researcher positions during the Spring semester are due October 31. Applications for Visiting Researcher positions during the Fall semester are due February 28. Please submit a c.v., a letter describing the research project and how it would benefit from participation in the Clarke Program, and copies of publications. For further information, please contact asianlaw@cornell.edu. Visiting Professors also teach courses in Asian Law and Culture in the law school.

Visiting Professors
Visiting professors also teach courses in Asian Law and Culture in the law school.

The Mori, Hamada & Matsumoto Exchange
The Mori, Hamada & Matsumoto Exchange sponsors faculty exchanges between Cornell Law School and universities in Japan. Cornell Law faculty travel to Japan, and faculty of Japanese universities travel to Cornell to collaborate on research projects, give seminars, and teach courses.

Visiting Researchers
Huaqing (Cole) Ke
China University of Politics and Law

Huaqing Ke is an associate professor at Law School of China University of Politics and Law. He earned a Ph.D from Sun Yat-Sen University (Zhong Shan University) in 2002; and did postdoctoral research on game theory and contract law at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Law. His teaching and research focus on law and economics, contract law, and labor and employment law.  While at Cornell Law School from January 2007 to January 2008, he will conduct a postdoctoral research on economics analysis of NLRA with funds of CSC. His email address is hk435@cornell.edu.  You may also wish to visit his website (www.law-economics.cn) for more information on law and economics in China.

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Past Visitors

Visiting Assistant Professors

Eva Pils
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Fall 2006

Professor 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 will be a visiting research scholar/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.

Jonas Grimheden
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Spring 2006

Professor 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.

Nico Howson
Visiting Assistant Professor
Spring 2005

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto Exchange Scholars

Kevin Clermont, James and Mark Flanagan Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, lectured at Keio University in the Summer of 2003. Upon his return, Professor Clermont gave a talk in the Clarke Colloquium series on Civil Procedure reform in Japan.

Professsor Chizuko Ueno, feminist scholar and head of the Department of Sociology at Tokyo University, was the 2003 - 2004 Mori, Hamada, & Matsumoto Fellow at Cornell Law School. During her two-week visit in August, Professor Ueno convened with Cornell scholars interested in feminist jurisprudence and East Asian law and culture. She also gave a talk at the law school entitled "Undermining the Gender Equal Policies in Japan," as part of the Clarke Program Fall 2004 Colloqium Series.

Professor Takashi Uchida, from Tokyo University School of Law, was the 2004-2005 Mori Hamada Matsumoto Fellow and was at Cornell from August 2004 - January 2005.

Visiting Researchers

Professor AnnJanette Rosga
Visiting Researcher
2005 - 2006 

Professor Rosga (History of Consciousness & Cultural Anthropology Ph.D., U of CA Santa Cruz) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is at work on a book entitled 'Trafficking in the Rule of Law: Human Rights and the Police 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 tenure at Cornell, Dr. Rosga added a Southeast Asia component to her study by observing trainings at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Bangkok, Thailand.

Yanchun (Heather) Cao
Yanshan University

Yanchun (Heather) 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 and plans to study the typology of tort, comparing Chinese and U.S. tort law.

Timothy Choy
Ohio State University

Timothy Choy (Ph.D., University of California-Santa Cruz) teaches science studies, ethnography, and critical theory in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. 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.

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