60 Years of Chinese Legal Reform: A Berkeley Perspective Agenda

March 16 (afternoon) – San Francisco at World Affairs Council
March 17 (all day) – UC Berkeley (Bancroft Hotel)
Hotel space is available at the Graduate Hotel at UC Berkeley.

This event celebrates sixty years of teaching Chinese law at UC Berkeley and looks both at the
development of Chinese law and Chinese legal studies and prospects for the future. The first
half day of the program will be in downtown San Francisco and will discuss business and
commercial issues. The second day will focus on academic and public policy issues.
Organizer: Berkeley Center for Law and Technology/Asia IP Project
Additional Support Provided By: Robbins Collection in Religious and Civil Law at Berkeley Law,
the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law at Berkeley Law, and the East Asian
Institute at UC Berkeley.

Monday, March 16, 2020
1:00 – 1:15 p.m.	Opening Remarks	Philip Yun (World Affairs Council) Richard Buxbaum (Berkeley Law) Jerome Cohen Stanley Lubman
1:15 – 2:30 p.m.	Innovation and Intellectual Property Protection Views from the field on progress and ongoing challenges in IP, privacy, antitrust and scientific collaboration; analysis of the Phase I Trade Agreement.	Moderator: Mark Cohen (UC Berkeley) Panelists: Graham Webster Liu Jiarui Anna Han Sam Li
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.	Break
2:45 – 4:00 p.m.	Dispute Resolution – Public and Private What is the record on business dispute resolution between US and Chinese companies in China? Are China and the US “in good standing” in the international trade sphere? How do they view international dispute resolution mechanisms? Is the WTO a dead letter now that “managed trade” has reemerged?	Moderators: Donald Clarke Ron Cheng Panelists: Mark Wu Ji Li Shahla Ali Steve Harris
4:00 – 4:15 p.m.	Break
4:15 – 5:15 p.m.	Rule of Law in China: Its Past, Present and Future Jerome Cohen and Stanley Lubman share their views and thoughts of the past sixty years of Chinese legal development and their significance for the future.	Moderator: Mary Kay Magistad (UC Berkeley, former NPR/PRI Journalist) Panelists: Jerome Cohen Stanley Lubman
5:15 – 6:15 p.m.	Networking Reception A bus will bring out of town guests back to Berkeley after the reception.
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
9:00 – 9:30 a.m.	Opening Remarks	Dean Erwin Chemerinsky Jerome Cohen Stanley Lubman
9:30 – 10:45 a.m.	China and International Law Is China a responsible member of the international community? Is China bending the accepted norms when it comes to Taiwan, the South China Sea, Hong Kong?	Moderator: Jerome Cohen Panelists: Yu-jie Chen Alex Wang Zang Dongsheng
10:45 – 12:00 p.m.	Constraints on the State – Administrative Law Are there meaningful constraints on the State’s ability to act arbitrarily? Can you “fight City Hall” in China?	Moderator: Neysun Mahboubi Panelists: Stanley Lubman, Wang Xixin Zhou Hanhua Jamie Horsley Keith Hand
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.	Lunch	Guest Speaker: John Pomfret, “Rule of Law, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom”
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.	Big Data, Empircism and Chinese Legal Studies As the Chinese legal system becomes more transparent, more data is now available; what are we learning? How should it impact policy?	Moderator: Robert Merges Panelists: Rachel Stern Susan Finder Brian Wright Glenn Tiffert
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.	Break
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.	Chinese Legal Practice and Scholarship in an Era of Uncertainty – A Cross-Generation View A panel of experts young and old discuss the future of Chinese legal scholarship.	William Alford Randle Edwards Jim Feinerman Michael Klausner Max Goldberg Tobias Smith Su Li Philip Rogers
4:45 – 5:15 p.m.	Wrap Up	Orville Schell Stanley Lubman Jerome A. Cohen
6:00 p.m.	Reception and Dinner Faculty Club

Monday, March 16, 2020

Tuesday, March 17, 2020