In many advanced countries, traditional forms of capitalism have increasingly come under criticism as contributing to economic and social inequality and failing to serve the needs of society. Law Professors Gen Goto and Curtis J. Milhaupt will discuss the similarities and differences between new forms of capitalism being circulated in Japan and the US, and the implications for corporate governance and, more broadly, society.

China’s Direction under Xi Jinping: What We Learned from the Party Congress

Yuki Tatsumi, director of the Japan Program at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C., and a leading expert on Japan’s security policy, will discuss how recent events are affecting the process of revising Japan’s National Security Strategy and the likely direction of its new security policy.

In his forthcoming book Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzo, Dr. Michael Green argues that no other country has devised a grand strategy for managing China’s rising economic and military power as deliberately or successfully as Japan. Green

Twenty years after China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), the US and other member states are questioning China’s commitment to the institution and to the multilateral liberal trading order.

China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) two decades ago was hailed in many Western circles as a significant achievement for international law and the rule of law. Fast forward to the present, we find the WTO and multilateral trade system in crisis…

Following China’s recent barrage of incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, experts and officials on both sides of the Pacific are analyzing the risk of military conflict and options for keeping peace in the Taiwan Strait at a time of significant pressure on US-China.

How do lawyers maintain the Olympic dream of international cooperation governed by mutually accepted rules? The recently concluded 2020 Tokyo Olympics provides an opportunity to explore select issues facing lawyers…

No one can quite agree on how best to describe the relationship between the world’s two superpowers, the US and China. Where some see a competition, others see a renewed form of Cold War.

Guest speaker Jonathan Odom will join NYU Law School Adjunct Professor Peter Dutton to discuss the fast-moving events in the South China Sea and maritime East Asia. They will discuss the conflicting claims to water space, resources, and islands and ask whether international law can be invoked to reduce tensions.

Carole J. Petersen is professor of law at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa.