Monday, March 16, 2020
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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 during these past sixty years and their prospects for the future. The first half-day of the program will be in downtown San Francisco and will focus on business, commercial law and overall themes. The second day will focus on several academic and public policy issues.
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| 1:00 – 1:15 p.m. |
Opening Remarks |
Richard Buxbaum, Berkeley Law Philip Yun, World Affairs Council |
| 1:15 – 2:30 p.m. |
Innovation and Intellectual Property Protection |
Mark Cohen, Berkeley Law/BCLT (moderator) H. Stephen Harris, Jr., Winston & Strawn Liu Jiarui, University of San Francisco Rob Merges, Berkeley Law Joseph Simone, SIPS IP Tim Stratford, Covington & Burling |
| 2:30 – 2:45 p.m. | Break | |
| 2:45 – 4:00 p.m. |
Dispute Resolution – Public and Private |
Donald Clarke, George Washington Law School (moderator) Ron Cheng, Association of the United States Army, D. Nevada (moderator) Shahla Ali, University of Hong Kong Anna Han, Santa Clara Hon. Elizabeth LaPorte, JAMS Ji Li, UC Irvine Mark Wu, Harvard |
| 4:00 – 4:15 |
Break |
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| 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. |
Mary Kay Magistad, UC Berkeley (moderator) Jerome Cohen, New York University Stanley Lubman, UC Berkeley Jamie Horsley, Yale Greg Wajnowski |
| 5:15 – 6:15 p.m. |
Networking Reception |
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Tuesday, March 17, 2020
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| 9:00 a.m. – 9:15 |
Opening Remarks |
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Berkeley Law |
| 9:15 – 10:30 a.m. |
Constraints on the State: Public Law and Civil Society |
Neysun Mahboubi, University of Pennsylvania (moderator) Jamie Horsley, Yale; Keith Hand, Hastings Mark Sidel, Wisconsin Jeffrey Lubbers, American University (commentator) |
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. |
Big Data, Empiricism 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? |
Graham Webster, Stanford-New America DigiChina (moderator) Dr. Deng Fei, Charles River Associates (via web) Susan Finder, Peking University/Shenzen Tobias Smith, Berkeley Law Rachel Stern, Berkeley Law Glenn Tiffert, Hoover Brian Wright, Agricultural & Resource Economics – Berkeley |
| 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch Guest Speaker: “China’s Contribution to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” |
John Pomfret, Former Washington Post Puureau Chief, Beijing |
| 1:30 – 3:00 p.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?
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Jerome Chen, New York University (moderator) Yu-Jie Chen, University of Hong Kong Jacque DeLisle, University of Pennsylvania Zang Dongsheng, University of Washington Natalie Lichtenstein, Johns Hopkins Alex Wang, UCLA |
| 3:00 – 3:15 p.m. |
Break |
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| 3:15 – 4:45 p.m. |
Chinese Legal Practice and Scholarship in an Era of Uncertainty – A Cross-Generation View
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Jim Feinerman, Georgetown (moderator) Philip Rogers, Berkeley – Political Science Kristin Makai Sangren, Berkeley-Anthropology Shazed Ahmed, Berkeley- School of Information Su Li, Law-Berkeley Max Goldberg, Law-Yale Siyao Li, U Penn- Political Science (via web) |
| 4:45 – 5:15 p.m. |
Wrap Up |
Orville Schell, Asia Society Mark Cohen |