News & Events
TALK ON "THE UNCERTAIN PATH OF CHINESE LAW REFORM," NOVEMBER 4, 2009
(co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley)Stanley Lubman
Lecturer in Residence, Berkeley Law
Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 4:00 pm
107 Boalt Hall
Stanley Lubman is Lecturer in Residence at the School of Law of the University of California, Berkeley. He has specialized on China as a scholar and as a practicing lawyer for more than 45 years. He has an A.B. degree with honors in history from Columbia College and LL.B., LL.M., and J.SD. degrees from the Columbia Law School. He trained as a China specialist in the United States and in Hong Kong for four years (1963-1967) under grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Columbia University, and the Foreign Area Fellowship Program.
After five years as a member of the Berkeley faculty (1967-1972), he combined a career as a scholar and as a practicing lawyer for 25 years. He taught at a number of American and European law schools while advising Western and Japanese clients on a wide range of matters in China. From 1978-1997 he headed the China practices at two major San Francisco law firms and a large English firm of solicitors. Since 1997 he has devoted his time to scholarly research, teaching, and consulting at the Asia Foundation on law reform projects in China. He returned to Berkeley in 2002.
His writings on Chinese law and related subjects have been widely published and include China’s Legal Reforms (Lubman, ed., Oxford University Press, 1996); Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China after Mao (Stanford University Press, 2000); and Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice (co-edited with Neil J. Diamant and Kevin O’Brien, Stanford University Press, 2005).
CONSTITUTION LAW PROGRAM TALK ON "IF LINCOLN HAD LIVED....?," OCTOBER 21, 2009
(presented in conjunction with the Northern District of California Court Historical Society and the Northern District Practice Program)Judge William Alsup, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
and
Professor Emeritus Michael Les Benedict, Ohio State University
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 5:00-6:00 pm
450 Golden Gate Avenue, 19th floor
San Francisco, California
1.0 hour of MCLE credit
The Northern District of California Practice Program is a State Bar of California Approved Provider
What if John Wilkes Booth's assassination attempt had failed, and Lincoln had lived? The Northern District of California Court Historical Society, the Northern District Practice Program, and the Institute for Legal Research present a discussion with Judge William Alsup and Professor Michael Les Benedict on what might have been:
• How might a second Lincoln term have affected the Reconstruction of the Union, the status of African Americans, and race relations today?
• Would we still have the Fourteenth Amendment that shapes so much of our constitutional adjudication?
• Might the Thirteenth Amendment have greater present-day relevance?
Judge Alsup joined the U.S. District Court in 1999 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton. He received his law degree as well as his Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University. He has served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, as well as assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General in the Justice Department.
Professor Benedict is a recognized authority in constitutional and legal history, the history of civil rights, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. He taught for many years at Ohio State University, and has also been a visiting professor at MIT, Yale Law School, the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, and Hokkaido and Doshisha Universities in Japan.
The program is free, but space is limited. To RSVP, send an email with the names and number of people attending to HistoricalSociety@cand.uscourts.gov.
For any questions, please call 415-522-4620 or email HistoricalSociety@cand.uscourts.gov.
CONSTITUTION WEEK EVENTS, SEPTEMBER 15 AND 17, 2009
The Institute for Legal Research organized two events in connection with Constitution Day (September 17), the national celebration of the signing of the U.S. Constitution:
"Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: The Constitution in Crisis Times"
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
12:15-1:50 pm, 110 Boalt Hall
This colloquium featured talks on the "Constitutional Crisis in Birmingham: The Civil Rights Movement and Beyond," by Willoughby Anderson, Law Clerk, Chambers of Senior Judge John T. Nixon, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee; and "Martial Law and Military Courts: Hawaii in World War II," presented by Harry N. Scheiber, Professor of Law, and Jane Scheiber, Asst. Dean (Ret.) of Chemistry and CSLS Research Associate, UC Berkeley. Professors Goodwin Liu and Gordon Silverstein, UC Berkeley, provided commentary for the event.
The colloquium was co-sponsored by UC Berkeley's Center for the Study of Law and Society.
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"Technology, Democracy, and the Law"
Thursday, September 17, 2009
2:00-4:30 pm, Bancroft Hotel, 2680 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
This forum featured a talk by Professor Steven Usselman of the School of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Usselman specializes in the history of technology and American political economy. His book, Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2002), won the Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians and the Hilton Prize in railroad history. He also served as the president of the Society for the History of Technology from 2007-2008.
Commentators included Professor Robert P. Merges, Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley, and Lee Tien, Senior Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco.
The forum was co-sponsored by UC Berkeley's Jefferson Memorial Lectures.
To hear the audio recording of this talk, click here.
CONFERENCE ON "LAW OF THE SEA AND OCEAN POLICY ISSUES RELATED TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN AND THE PACIFIC RIM," AUGUST 26-28, 2009
The Law of the Sea Institute and Inha University, Korea, held their fourth collaborative conference on ocean policy issues in Honolulu, Hawaii from August 26-28, 2009, and was organized by the University of Hawaii. The conference featured a keynote speech by José Luis Jesus, President of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea, as well as a talk by Chief Justice Ronald T.Y. Moon of the Hawaii Supreme Court.
To see a copy of the program, click here.
CONFERENCE ON "CHANGES IN THE ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT AND THE LAW OF THE SEA," MAY 20-23, 2009
The Law of the Sea Institute was one of the contributing sponsors for "Changes in the Arctic Environment and the Law of the Sea," the latest conference organized by the Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the University of Virginia, which was held in Seward, Alaska, from May 20-23, 2009. The conference featured a presentation by Jennifer Jeffers, a Boalt J.D. student and Ph.D. candidate in the College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley, on "Ensuring the Protection of Arctic Marine Biodiversity in the Face of Climate Change."
To see a copy of the program, click here.
LAW OF THE SEA INSTITUTE PUBLICATION NEWS
The Law of the Sea Institute is pleased to announce a new symposium series, Frontier Issues in Ocean Law: Marine Resources, Maritime Boundaries, and the Law of the Sea, published in the online journal Issues in Legal Scholarship. It is the latest in a series that brings to publication selected papers from the LOSI conferences. These symposium articles were originally presented at the second jointly-sponsored LOSI-Inha University conference, which took place in Seoul, Korea in late 2007.
The Law of the Sea Institute is also pleased to announce the publication of a new book, Maritime Boundary Disputes, Settlement Processes, and the Law of the Sea, edited by Seoung-Yong Hong and Jon M. Van Dyke. The book was published by Brill under the Martinus Nijhoff Publishers imprint and is included in the Publications on Ocean Development series, Volume 65. The papers in this book were first presented at the 2006 and the 2007 LOSI-Inha University conferences, both held in Seoul (see above).
Later this year, Brill is also expected to issue Oceans in the Nuclear Age, a book edited by LOSI Co-Directors David D. Caron and Harry N. Scheiber, and featuring papers from the LOSI conference on this theme held at UC Berkeley in 2006.