Full-Time Faculty
Part-Time Faculty and Guest Lecturers
Full-time Faculty
Professor Barbara Holden-Smith
B.A., Lake Forest College; J.D., University of Chicago Law School
Professor Holden-Smith is the Vice Dean and Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. She is also the Program Director for the 2009 Summer Law Institute in Suzhou. She is recognized for her groundbreaking work in Supreme Court history and practice. At Cornell she teaches conflicts, federal courts, civil procedure, advanced civil procedure conflict of law and African-Americans and the Supreme Court. After graduation from law school she clerked for the Hon. Ann C. Williams of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and she spent four years in private practice before joining the Cornell faculty in 1990. Her scholarship has addressed the legal response to lynching and the fugitive-slave cases. Her scholarly interests include global access to justice, and legal and political responses to historical injustices.
Professor Francis S.L. Wang
B.A., Queens College; J.D., Cornell Law School
Professor Wang is a Professor of Law at the Kenneth Wang School of Law of Soochow University and is a visiting professor at the University of California – Berkeley, as well as a visiting professor and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the University of the Pacific / McGeorge Law School. He is one of the founders and the Senior Counsel of the U.C. Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center. He is one of the founding members and serves on the Board of Governors of the International Association of Law Schools. He is the Executive Director of the Wang Family Foundation. He has testified before the United States Senate, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Trade Commission, as well as the United States Trade Representative’s Office. He has published widely and lectures frequently in the U.S. and Asia on selected aspects of international law and related issues
Professor Laura Wen Yu Young
B.A, J.D., University of California, Berkeley
Professor Young is Managing Partner of the law firm Wang & Wang, is a Professor of Law at the Kenneth Wang School of Law of Soochow University. She is also a visiting professor at both the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of the Pacific / McGeorge School of Law. She is an Editorial Advisor and author for CCH's China Watch and for CCH Employment Asia, has chaired the China Sub-committee of the International Trademark Association for five years, authored a column for West’s International HR Journal, and is the author of many articles on the laws of China and Taiwan in publications such as National Law Journal, Pearson’s China Law for Business, and IP Worldwide. She is a frequent speaker on the subject of investment law intellectual property, and litigation in China and Taiwan. She is a member of the California and Taipei Bar Associations.
Professor Dr. Karsten Thorn
LL.M., Georgetown University
Professor Karsten Thorn is a full professor for Private Law, Private International and International Commercial Law, and Comparative Law at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg. He has also been guest lecturer at the Universities of Metz and Orleans, both in France. He has published monographs and essays on private international law and international civil procedure and has spoken on the UN-Sales Convention, e-commerce, arbitration and private international law topics. Professor Thorn is co-publisher of IPRax one of the most distinguished German law journals on conflict of laws. He is a member of the German-American Lawyers Association, the German-Italian Lawyers Association, the German Association for International Law and the German Institute for Arbitration.
Professor James Li
Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing
Professor Li received his LL.B. from Peking University, both his LL.M. and Master in Information and Library Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and his S.J.D. from the University of Toronto. He is a Professor of International Law at Tsinghua University School of Law in Beijing, China. Prior to joining the faculty at Tsinghua Law School, he taught in the Department of Law at Peking University. He has served as Co-Chief Editor for the Chinese Yearbook of International Law, and serves as Vice President of the Chinese Society of International Law. He is widely published in both the English and Chinese languages.
Part-time Faculty and Guest Lecturers
William J. Bowe
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. B.A., Yale University; J.D. University of Chicago
Mr. Bowe has served at the Chicago headquarters of Encyclopedia Britannica since 1986. Prior to joining Britannica he served as general counsel for UPI, a U.S.-based news organization. Earlier, he practiced law in Chicago as an associate and later partner with the law from of Roan & Grossman from 1971-1978, and as an associate with Ross & Hardies from 1967 to 1968.
D. Michael Clayton
International & Intellectual Property Counsel of Intrado, Inc. B.S., Rutgers University; J.D. University of Denver College of Law
Mr. Clayton is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, Court of Appeals for the Federal District, State and Federal Courts of Colorado, and the U.S. Patent and Trade Mark Office. He has been an adjunct professor of law at University of Denver College of Law, General Counsel and Vice President of the Samsonite Corporation, General Counsel and Vice President of Alliente, Inc., and Director of the International Anti-counterfeiting Coalition.
Professor William S. Dodge
University of California - Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco; B.A., Yale University, J.D., Yale Law School
Between college and law school, Professor Dodge spent three semesters teaching English in Tianjin, China. After law school, he clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court. He practiced law at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. before joining the Hastings faculty in 1995. At Hastings, Professor Dodge teaches Contracts, International Business Transactions, International Litigation and Arbitration, and Investor-State Arbitration Under NAFTA. He is the author of numerous articles and a co-author of the casebook Transnational Business Problems (3d ed. 2003)(with Detlev Vagts and Harold Koh).
Professor Huang Jianqiu
Associate Professor, Kenneth Wang School of Law
LLM, Soochow University
Professor Huang is now an in-service doctoral student. He was a visiting scholar to University of Iowa, U.S.A. during May to Nov. 2003. His professional activities include being a member of China International Economic Law Studies and arbitrator of Changzhou Arbitration Committee. He works on teaching and researching international public law and international economic law. Publications: Traps in Enterprise Operation and Relevant Legal Countermeasures for Corporation Restructuring; published by China Economy Press in Feb 2001 (Co-author: Feng Bing)
Judge Lv
Intellectual Property Section of the Shanghai Second Intermediate People’s Court
Judge Lv is the presiding judge of the Intellectual Property Section of the Shanghai Second Intermediate People’s Court. He has a master degree and his specialty is Intellectual Property litigation. He has conducted Intellectual Property research in Japan, Germany and the U.S.A. He is also the vice director of Shanghai IP Studies and an adjunct researcher of Shanghai Fudan University IP Center. He is a noted scholar and has published widely in the Intellectual Property field.
Professor Li Xiaowei
Associate Professor, Kenneth Wang School of Law
Professor Li graduated from East China University of Political Science and Law with Bachelor’s degree in 1985. His professional activities include being a lawyer; member of IP Committee of China National Lawyer Association; member of China IP Studies; member of INTA; executive director of Jiangsu IP Studies; legislation consultant for Soochow People’s Congress and municipal government and IP strategy consultant for Jiangsu government. He works on teaching and research of intellectual property law and international technological transfer.
Accomplished Projects:
Professor Wang Bin
Associate Professor, Kenneth Wang School of Law
Professor Wang graduated from Southwest University of Political Science and Law with a Master’s degree in 1992. His professional activities include being a lawyer. His special areas include contract law, economic law, property law and tax law.
Publications:
Professor W. Bradley Wendel
Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Brad Wendel is a Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. Before coming to Cornell, he taught at Washington and Lee Law School from 1999-2004. Before entering graduate school and law teaching, he was a product liability litigator at Bogle & Gates in Seattle and a law clerk for Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His teaching interest are in the regulation of the legal profession and torts, and his research focuses on the application of moral and political philosophy to problems of legal ethics.
Education:
Professor Zhang Yongquan
Associate Professor, Kenneth Wang School of Law, and master student supervisor, LLD
Professor Zhang graduated from Southwest University of Political Science and Law with Doctor’s degree 2002. He was a visiting scholar to University of Iowa, U.S.A. during April to Oct, 2003. He is a Supervisor of Soochow Discipline Inspection Committee and Inspection Bureau. He is also Director of the Section of procedural law and the leading academic of the master program of Procedural Law. His special fields include civil procedural law and evidence law.
Publications:
Accomplished Project:
1999, Plight and Way-out of Trial Mechanism—Research on Chinese Trial Reform
