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ChinaFile: What Future for International NGOs in China? by USALI Executive Director Katherine Wilhelm

USALI Executive Director Katherine Wilhelm recently published a commentary as part of a ChinaFile Conversation titled “What Future for International NGOs in China?” Wilhelm wrote:

No organization should compromise its mission in order to keep a China program active. And virtually no one would consciously do that: It could alienate staff and key stakeholders and court public controversy. Staying in China is not an end in itself. At the same time, it is difficult for large organizations to completely ignore China given its impact on the planet. The real dilemma, therefore, is figuring out how to achieve the organizational mission as it applies to China.

Read “What Future for International NGOs in China?”

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Event Recording: The Future of U.S.-Japan Trade Relations

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Asia is now at the center of global trade flows as well international treaty negotiations to address them. This is a rare opportunity to hear from two of the world’s foremost authorities on the trade relations between two of the economic superpowers in the region.

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Jerome A. Cohen receives lifetime achievement award from AFLA

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The American Foreign Law Association (AFLA) gave its 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award in International Law to Jerome A. Cohen, founding director emeritus of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute.

The association presented the award on June 16 at its annual meeting. Its announcement said the honor recognized Professor Cohen’s “decades of major contributions to a better understanding of Trans-Pacific, international, and human rights law.”

Professor Cohen pioneered research and teaching about China’s contemporary legal system in American law schools in the 1960s. He taught at Harvard Law School from 1964 to 1979 and at New York University Law School beginning in 1990. He also is Of Counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where he long represented foreign companies in contract negotiations and dispute resolution in China, Vietnam, and other countries in East Asia. Professor Cohen served for several years as C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and director of Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he currently is an adjunct senior fellow.

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Event Recording: The Long View on Reform in Asia

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Is the realignment/reform of investment treaty law having an effect of international law more generally? On regional integration in Asia? What areas of reform are not being addressed in ongoing efforts? How does investment treaty reform link with other areas of reform, both domestic and international?

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Event Recording: Investment Treaty Reform in Asia: Rule Makers, Takers or Breakers?

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To what extent are these treaties repeating paradigms established elsewhere? Are Asia approaches to rulemaking emerging? Are some Asian actors emerging as the makers of new international norms? And are some willing to break existing rules, whether made in Asia or elsewhere?

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Event Recordings: Government Perspectives on Reform – The View from Asian Capitals

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As global reform activities continue gaining momentum, what do Asian governments think about these efforts? Are they reflective of the concerns of Asian states? How are governments managing the simultaneous reform of existing treaties and the negotiations of new ones? How are ASEAN countries in particular addressing reform? Is there (or could there be) an ASEAN (or Asian) voice on these issues?

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Event Recording: Reforming the International Law of Foreign Investment – State of Play in International Organizations

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The current period is one of unprecedented activity regarding the reform of the international investment law regime. This panel surveys ongoing efforts in different institutions to address procedural and substantive reform of the international law of foreign investment.

USALI Co-hosts U.S.-China Legal Aid Dialogue

China’s legislature is expected to approve the country’s first Legal Aid Law later this year. The current draft, which has passed its first reading, could expand the pool of criminal defendants eligible for legal aid – and increase demand for lawyers. Below are links to transcripts of presentations that four Chinese legal experts made at the U.S.-China Legal Aid Dialogue co-hosted by the U.S.-Asia Law Institute at NYU and the National Institute of Legal Aid at the China University of Political Science and Law in April 2021. The transcripts were originally published in the journal Renmin Fazhi or People’s Rule of Law.

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"Beijing’s Crackdown on Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Hong Kong" by Michael C. Davis

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This essay examines how Beijing’s escalating crackdown on Hong Kong has systematically imposed authoritarian policies that undermine international human rights and the rule of law, abandoning China’s commitments both to the Hong Kong people and to the international community.

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Faculty Director José E. Alvarez elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

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USALI Faculty Director José E. Alvarez has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the oldest and most prestigious learned societies in the United States. He is among 252 new members announced on April 22, and one of only five law professors who were chosen.

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Event Recording: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Anti-Trust

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Angela Zhang discusses her new book Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation. Professor Zhang examines the unique ways in which China regulates and is regulated by foreign countries, revealing a “Chinese exceptionalism” that is reshaping global antitrust regulation.

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Event Recording: Reforming the Global Public Health Regime: Asian Perspectives

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Our panel of experts from Asia will share their ideas about how the world community should harness the emergency to improve the way global public health programs are organized and funded, both to address longstanding problems of health inequality and insecurity and prepare for future pandemics.

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JILP: Biden's International Law Restoration by USALI Faculty Director José Alvarez

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USALI Faculty Director and NYU Law Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law José Alvarez recently published an article in NYU Law’s Journal of International Law and Politics (JILP) entitled “Biden’s International Law Restoration,” in Volume 53, Number 2 – Winter 2021. JILP is a student-run publication devoted to commentary on contemporary issues in international and comparative law. JILP features articles on international legal topics by leading scholars and practitioners and notes, case comments, and book annotations written by journal members.

Read Biden’s International Law Restoration, 53 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 523 (2021).

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Colloquium: China’s Global Ambitions and U.S. Policy with CFR's Elizabeth Economy

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Join the NYU Law Colloquium on Law and Security on Thursday, April 15, 2021, from 3:20 to 5:20 PM for a presentation by Elizabeth Economy of the Council on Foreign Relations entitled, “China’s Global Ambitions and U.S. Policy.” If you are interested in attending, please email Theresa Allison at allisont@mercury.law.nyu.edu for Zoom link.

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Conversation about Evidence Rules in the US and China

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Recorded on April 5, 2021 (Chinese Language Only)
In this program hosted by无讼学院（Wusong Network Technology), USALI Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor Ira Belkin, Research Scholar Amy Gao, and Professor Guo Zhiyuan from China University of Political Science and Law introduce a five-part bilingual course on the U.S. Evidence Rules produced by USALI and currently being offered for free in China by Wusong. Professor Belkin explains why we made the course and its key takeaways. Professor Guo discusses the relevance of the US evidence rules for China. The three-way conversation was livestreamed in China on April 5.