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BREAKING NEWS Columbia Law School Launches Exchanges with Beida and Fudan In June, Columbia Law School became the first American law school to launch student exchange programs with law schools in both Shanghai and Beijing. Beginning in the 2006-2007 academic year, Columbia Law School students will have the option of spending a semester at either Peking University (Beida) in Beijing or Fudan University in Shanghai, two of China’s leading universities. Beida and Fudan students likewise will have the option of studying at Co- lumbia. e first Beida and Fudan students will arrive at Columbia in August. Dean David M. Schizer, who signed exchange agreements with his counterparts at Beida and Fudan, said, “ese are exciting and important agreements. e exchanges reflect our continued commitment to educating American students about China and Chinese students about American law. Columbia Law School has been a leader in education about and engage- ment with China for more than thirty years; it is natural that we would be a leader in estab- lishing student exchanges with China.” 中國法律研究中心 CENTER FOR CHINESE LEGAL STUDIES SUMMER 2006 columbia law school Center for Chinese Legal Studies Columbia Law School 435 West 116th Street New York, NY 10027 Inside Welcome from Prof. Liebman .................... 1 57th Annual Winter Luncheon.................. 2 China Deals Roundtable .............................. 3 Student Profiles ............................................... 4 Visiting Scholars, 2005-2006 ...................... 5 Please direct questions, comments or changes of address to Paulette Roberts ([email protected]). http://www.law.columbia.edu/ center_program/chinese
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BREAKING NEWSColumbia Law School Launches Exchanges with Beida and Fudan InJune,ColumbiaLawSchoolbecamethefirstAmericanlawschooltolaunchstudentexchangeprogramswithlawschoolsinbothShanghaiandBeijing.Beginninginthe2006-2007academicyear,ColumbiaLawSchoolstudentswillhavetheoptionofspendingasemesterateitherPekingUniversity(Beida)inBeijingorFudanUniversityinShanghai,twoofChina’sleadinguniversities.BeidaandFudanstudentslikewisewillhavetheoptionofstudyingatCo-lumbia.ThefirstBeidaandFudanstudentswillarriveatColumbiainAugust. DeanDavidM.Schizer,whosignedexchangeagreementswithhiscounterpartsatBeidaandFudan,said,“Theseareexcitingandimportantagreements.TheexchangesreflectourcontinuedcommitmenttoeducatingAmericanstudentsaboutChinaandChinesestudentsaboutAmericanlaw.ColumbiaLawSchoolhasbeenaleaderineducationaboutandengage-mentwithChinaformorethanthirtyyears;itisnaturalthatwewouldbealeaderinestab-lishingstudentexchangeswithChina.”
中國法律研究中心CENTER FOR CHINESE LEGAL STUDIES
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CenterforChineseLegalStudiesColumbiaLawSchool435West116thStreetNewYork,NY10027
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Welcome from Prof. Liebman .................... 1
57th Annual Winter Luncheon .................. 2
China Deals Roundtable .............................. 3
Student Profiles ............................................... 4
Visiting Scholars, 2005-2006 ...................... 5
Please direct questions, comments or changes of address to Paulette Roberts ([email protected]).
http://www.law.columbia.edu/ center_program/chinese
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IncreasingnumbersofColumbiafacultyareturningtheirresearchtowardChina.Prof.TimothyWu,anIPexpertwhojoinedtheColumbiafacultyinJanuary,hasspentthesummerconductingresearch inChina.Curtis J.Milhaupt, theFuyoProfessorofJapaneseLawandLegalInstitutions,directoroftheCenterforJapaneseLegalStudies,andchairoftheTrans-actionalStudiesProgram,willbeteachingandconductingre-searchinBeijingduringthefall2006semester. We continue to play an important role in working tostrengthenpublicinterestlawinChina.Forthethirdstraightyear, thePublic InterestLaw Initiativehosted twooutstand-ingpublicinterestlawyersfromChinaduringthefallsemester.ThesePILIFellows—XiangYanoftheJuvenileDepartmentoftheCenterfortheProtectionoftheRightsofDisadvantagedCitizens(CPRDC)atWuhanUniversity,andZhangJingjingoftheCenterforLegalAssistanceforPollutionVictimsattheChinaUniversityofPoliticalScienceandLawinBeijing—aretrulyinspirational.Inaddition,thissummer,asinprioryears,anumberofColumbia J.D. students areworking inpublicinterestpositionsinChina. We also recently named our third Haas Fellow, LiuJingjing,LL.M.’06.ThefellowshipsupportsrecentColumbiaLawSchoolgraduatesfrommainlandChina,Taiwan,orHongKongtoworkinpublicinterestlawinternshipsintheUnitedStates immediately after graduation.Beginning this fall,Ms.Liu,whohopestopursueacareerinenvironmentaladvocacyin China, will be working with the National Resources De-fenseCouncilhereinNewYork. AtColumbiawetakeprideinthescholarshipproducedby our students. Every year, numerous Columbia studentstraveltoChinatoworkandtoconductoriginalresearchonChineselaw—oftenwiththeassistanceoftheClassof1983John Oldham Memorial Rights Internship. With Oldhamfund support, this summer Angela Huang ’08 is examin-ingurbanredevelopmentinShanghai;Bang(Steve)Lin’08is working with two public interest organizations; MeganFluckiger’08isstudyingtheuseandavailabilityofscientificevidence inChinesecriminalproceedings;andQian (Lisa)Wang ’08 is researching thepotential for establishing ado-
mesticviolenceclinicinShanghai. Another excellent recent example of Oldham-fundedstudentscholarshipisSandraKister’s(’07)forthcomingnote,
“China’s Share-structureReform:AnOpportunity toMovebeyond Practical Solutions to Practical Problems,” in theColumbia Journal of Transnational Law this fall.Thearticleexaminesthehistoricalrootsofthesplit-equitystructureofChina’sA-sharemarket,explainsthemechanicsoftheshare-structure reform, andassesses shareholders’ claims that thereform deprives them of their property in violation of thePRCConstitution. Thisnewsletteristhefirsteditionofwhatwillbearegu-larefforttokeepfriendsandalumnibetterinformedaboutChina-relatedactivitieshereatColumbia.Wearefortunatetohave recentlybeen joinedatColumbiabyPauletteRob-erts,whoservesasthedirectorofAsianandcomparativelawprogramsandwhohashelpedpreparethisnewsletter.IhopetoseemanyofyouduringourupcomingalumnieventsinShanghaiandBeijing,andwelcomeallofyoutovisitusinMorningsideHeightswhenyouarenextinNewYork.
–BenjaminL.Liebman Associate Professor of Law and Director, Center for Chinese Legal Studies
Benjamin L. Liebman’s Recent PublicationsInnovation through Intimidation? An Empirical Account of Defamation Litigation in China,47Harv.Int’lL.J.33(2006).
Watchdog or Demagogue? The Media in the Chinese Legal System,105Colum.L.Rev.1(2005).
ITISANEXCITINgTIMEforChineselegalstudiesatColumbia.TheLawSchoolwelcomedarecordnum-berofstudentsandscholarsfromgreaterChinatoMorningsideHeightsduringthe2005-2006year—morethanfiftyintotal,includingstudentsinourLL.M.andJ.D.programsaswellasvisitingscholars.Interestin
ChinaandChineselawcontinuestoincreaseamongstudentsfromtheU.S.andelsewhere—reflectedinthefactthatourcurriculumnowincludesfiveofferingsonChinese law.TheCenter forChineseLegalStudieshostedmorethantwentyeventsduringtheyear,rangingfromthepresentationofcutting-edgescholarshipfromChinesescholarstotalksbyalumniaboutpracticeinAsia.
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57th Annual Winter LuncheonAt the 57th Annual Winter Luncheon, which took placeon January 20, 2006 at the Waldorf-Astoria, Dean DavidM.SchizerpresentedWeiSunChristianson’89andProf.R.RandleEdwardswith theColumbiaLawSchoolMedal ofExcellence.AtthetimeoftheluncheonWeiSunChristian-sonwasthemanagingdirectorofCitigroupglobalMarkets(Asia)Ltd.,andthechairmanforChinaInvestmentBankingforCitigroup; she subsequentlybecamemanagingdirectorandCEOforMorganStanleyChina. Prof.Edwards,whofoundedtheCenterforChineseLegalStudiesandservedasits director formore than twenty years, is theWaltergell-hornProfessorofLawEmeritusatColumbiaLawSchool.
(L to R) Shang Peng ’06 LL.M., David Gerstl ’06 J.D., Ting Zhao ’06 J.D., Heqing Wang ’06 LL.M., Profs. R. Randle Edwards and Louis Henkin, Jing Zhou ’06, Xun Yang ’06 LL.M., Fangzhou Tao ’06 LL.M.
Dean David M. Schizer with David Dinkins, former mayor of New York City,Monica Seles, and Wei Sun Christianson
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Honorees Wei Sun Christianson and R. Randle EdwardsRandle Lee Edwards ’92 and his father, R. Randle Edwards
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China Deals Roundtable, January 2006On January 19 Columbia Law School’sTransactional Studies Program hosted a “DealsRoundtable,”titled“China’sEmergingFinancialMarkets:OpportunitiesandObstacles.”AkeynoteaddresswasgivenbyWeiSunChristianson’89.Followingheraddress,participantsheardfromtwopanelsofexperts.Onthefirstpanel,ColumbiaLawSchoolProf.KatharinaPistormoderatedadiscussionoftheroleofforeignbanksintransformingChina’sbankingsector.HerpanelincludedJonL.ChristiansonofSkadden,Arps,Slate,Meagher&FlominBeijing;Prof.NicholasC.HowsonofMichiganLawSchool;Prof.NicholasLardyoftheInstituteforInternationalEconomics;BarryMetzgerofBakerandMcKenzie;MichaelO’Hanlon of the Shenzhen Development Bank; and KennethWillman from goldman,SachsandCo.Thesecondpanel,whichwasmoderatedbyProf.BenjaminLiebman, fo-cusedonChina’slegalandfinancialinfrastructure.PanelistsincludedProf.FranklinAllenofTheWhartonSchoolattheUniversityofPennsylvania;Prof.DonaldClarkeofgeorgeWashingtonUniversityLawSchool;RobertDohneroftheU.S.DepartmentofTreasury;andProf.YashengHuangoftheMITSloanSchoolofManagement.
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(Left to Right) Wei Sun Christianson, Dean David M. Schizer, and Jon L. Christianson
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Yizhe Zhang, LL.M. 2006Prior to coming to Columbia Law School, Ms. Zhang worked for the Ministry of Commerce in Beijing. Following graduation Ms. Zhang will work on antitrust law in the Jones Day office in Washington. AttheMinistryofCommerceIbecameveryinterestedinantitrustlaw.ThatiswhyIcametoColumbiaLawSchool.FortunatelyIfoundanextraordinaryprofessor,Prof.[HarveyJ.]goldschmid.Itookbothhisantitrustclassandhiscorporationsclass.Theclassesarethemostmemorablepartofmyexperienceshere.Prof.goldschmid’steachingmethodwastotallySocratic,andhemademethinkallofthetime.ItisaverydifferentexperiencefromstudyinginaChineselawschool.Hewasalsoveryniceandaccessibleandwasalsoextremelygenerousinservingasmyadvisorforanindependentresearchprojectonantitrustlaw.Duringmystudyhere,IsentmanyarticlestomyformercolleaguesattheMinistryofCommercewhichIthinkmightbehelpfulfortheminformulatingantitrustpoliciesinChina.
Mike Goettig, J.D. 2007Iamtheeditor-in-chiefoftheColumbia Journal of Asian Law.MyconnectiontoChinabeganin1996whenIwassentasaPeaceCorpsvolunteertoSichuanprovince.AftermyPeaceCorpsservice,IwasaYunnan-basedfreelancerandindependentcontractoruntil2003;myjobsrangedfromwritingpressreleasesfortheWorldEconomicForumtorunningmyownbarinYunnan’scapitalcityofKunming.IcametoCLSin2004inpartbecauseIhadheardgreatthingsaboutProf.BenLiebmananditsChineselawprograms. Duringthesummerfollowingmy1Lyear,asapublic interest fellow,IwasbasedinBeijing,whereIworkedfortwoweekswithHumanRightsWatchonareportaboutpetitionersbringinglocal-levelgrievancestotheattentionofthecentralgovernment;fortheremainderofthesummer,IworkedwiththeABA’sofficeinBeijing.Theyareworkingtobringpublicparticipationmechanismstoenvironmentallaw.AspartofmyworkwiththeABA,ItraveledtofourcitiesthroughoutChinatoassesstheinterfacebetweenmigrantworkersandlocalgovernmentrepresentatives.
Huaying Qi, LL.M. 2003, J.D. 2006Before beginning her studies at Columbia in 2002, Ms. Qi worked as an attorney for the Center for the Protection of Women’s Rights at Peking University Law School, one of China’s leading women’s rights advocacy organizations. IfirstcametoColumbiafortheLL.M.program.Aftergraduation,ItookoneyearoffandspentsometimeinAnnArbor,MI,wheremyhusbandisastudent.DuringthatyearIconductedresearchonpublichealthregulationsandalsointernedforJudgeO’MearaintheU.S.DistrictCourt,EasternDistrictofMichigan.Afterdebatingwhethertocontinueinlawortopursueadegreeinthesocialsciences,IdecidedtoreturntoCLS,thistimetocompletemyJ.D.degree.Ihavereallyenjoyedthelawschool,especiallytheCenterforChineseLegalStudies.TheprofessorsatCLSareveryintelligentandaccessible.Prof.Eisenberg’scontractsclasswasfun,instructive,andinteresting.Prof.MacKinnon’sclassonsexequalitywaseye-openingandilluminating,notonlyforitsinsightintogenderissuesbutalsobecauseitintroducedmetoconstitutionallawtheory.Itgavemenewperspectiveswithwhichtoexaminemanythings. AnothergreatthingaboutColumbiawasthatIhadaccesstomanynon-profitorganizations,includingthechancetointernwiththeVERAInstituteofJustice.WhatimpressedmemostwasthatVERAcreatesNgOsandhelpsthemwiththeconceptionandimplementationofselectedprojects.Inthisprocess,VERAmaintainsitsstatusasaninnovationworkshopandfostersnewNgOs’growth.IlearnedhowagoodNgOcanfunctiontodevelopahealthyNgOcommunityinademocraticsociety.Mylong-termgoalistopursueacareerinthepublicsector.
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Duringtheacademicyearof2005-2006,ColumbiaLawSchoolwelcomedtwelvedistinguishedscholarsandpractitionersfromgreaterChinaasvisitingresearchersandscholars.
Feng Yujun Associate Professor, Renmin University of China School of LawAtColumbia,Prof.Fengresearchedfinanciallaw,theglobalizationoflegalinstitutions,andlawandeconomics.Prof.FengwasanEdwardsFellow.
Huang Jin Lecturer, Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Prof.Huang’sresearchfieldsincludeinternationallawandinternationaleconomiclaw.AtColumbiaheconductedresearchonantitrustlaw.
Ren Zili Associate Professor, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics School of Law Prof.RenisaleadingyoungscholarofsecuritieslawinChina.AtColumbiaheconductedresearchoncorporatelaw,inparticularU.S.lawregardingmanagementbuy-outs.
Yi Jiming Professor, Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Prof.Yi’sresearchfocusedonpropertylawtheoriesandtheirpracticalapplication,althoughhisinter-estsalsoincludedintellectualpropertylaw,privatelaw,andjurisprudence.Heisalsotheeditor-in-chiefofthePrivate Law Review.Prof.YiwasanEdwardsFellow.
Zhang Lan Assistant Professor, Nanjing University Law School Prof.Zhangwasapost-doctoralresearchscholaratColumbia.Herareasofresearchincludedcompara-tivelaw,internationalcommercialarbitration,andlegaleducation.Prof.ZhangwasaWuFellow.
Zhang Wusheng Professor of Law, Fudan University Law School AtFudan,Prof.Zhangteachescivilprocedure,evidence,thelegalprofession,criminalprocedure,
andsupervisesthelegalaidclinic.AtColumbiaheresearchedAmericanclass-actionlitigation.Prof.ZhangwasanEdwardsFellow.
Du Ying Associate Professor, Central Party School, Beijing Prof.DuteachescivillawandintellectualpropertylawinChina.AtColumbiasheresearchedintellec-tualpropertylaw,insurancelaw,andpropertylaw.
Dou Lijun Partner, Beijing East IP Law Firm and former counsel in the Beijing office of Tom.com Ms.DouisaleadingauthorityontheregulationoftheInternetinChina.AtColumbiasheconductedcomparativeresearchonregulationoftheInternet.
Li Xuejun Associate Professor, Renmin University of China School of LawWhileatColumbia,Prof.LiresearchedAmericancriminalprocedureandevidencelaw.
Hsu Kingchai Judge, Taichung High Administrative Court, Taiwan JudgeHsu,whovisitedColumbiaattheinvitationofJudgegerardLynch,conductedresearchontheU.S.FederalSentencingguidelines,withaviewtotheirpossiblerelevancefortheestablishmentofsentencingguidelinesforTaiwan.
Xiang Yan Associate Professor, Wuhan University School of Law Prof.XiangdirectstheJuvenileDepartmentofTheCenterfortheProtectionoftheRightsofDisadvan-tagedCitizens(CPRDC)atWuhanUniversity.AsafellowwiththePublicInterestLawInitiative,sheresearchedclinicallegaleducation,legalhistory,andjuvenilerights.
Zhang Jingjing Staff Lawyer and Chief of the Litigation Department of the Center for Legal Assistance for Pollution Victims, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing Ms.ZhangisaleadingenvironmentallawyerinChina,whereherworkfocusesontoxictortslitiga-tionandclassactions.AsaPublicInterestLawInitiativefellow,atColumbiasheresearchedcitizensuits,publicparticipationinenvironmentalmatters,andenvironmentaljustice.
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