This panel explores the diverse ethical challenges that may arise when teaching and researching about China from outside China. Concerns about ethical field research and censorship pressures are not new but have been heightened by China’s authoritarian turn and recent events in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. Not since the Vietnam War has China scholarship been so politicized.
Event Recording: Asian Supply Chains & Human Rights
Kyoto Congress 2020: Japan’s Criminal Justice System: from a Comparative Law Perspective.
This panel, as part of Kyoto Congress 2020 and organized by Japan’s Ministry of Justice presents a range of views and the discussion considers some fundamental issues concerning Japan's criminal justice system that underlie currently debates in Japan, such as balancing the (1) civil law inquisitorial tradition with a focus on "finding the truth" and the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders into society with (2) increasing demands for greater emphasis on, and practical implementation of, rights of criminal defendants provided in the constitution. Notably, USALI Affiliated Scholar Bruce Aronson participated as a panelist in this event.
Watch here: http://www.un-congress.org/Session/View/ef0678bc-7b8e-437b-af96-10dffcafc810
Event Recording: Lifting the Corporate Veil on China's State-Owned Enterprises
In Memoriam: S. Andrew Schaffer
Event Recording: Building a New Legal Order for the Oceans
NPR: How China's Massive Corruption Crackdown Snares Entrepreneurs Across The Country
Event Recording: How Novel is China’s Use of International Economic Law
Law Professors Fabio Morosini and Michelle R. Sanchez-Badin examine empirical data from Chinese investments in Brazil’s energy sector and find many similarities between China and Brazil in their choice of legal tools. What really sets China apart is the size of its economy, and therefore the greater impact its actions have on the existing legal order.
Event Recording: China’s Overseas Investment and Environmental Accountability
Event Recording: China and the WTO
Hong Kong: The End of Delusion
As the Hong Kong and Beijing governments continue their assault on civil society in the territory — through tactics ranging from arbitrary arrests and attacks on the legal profession to the gutting of liberal studies and the inculcation of loyalty to the CCP in the guise of "patriotism," neither "China experts" at large, nor professedly left-leaning academics, have engaged in any critical self-reflection on their culpability in Hong Kong's demise, writes Alvin Y.H. Cheung.
China Brief: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Hong Kong
Event Recording: US-Asia Relations in the Biden Administration
Event Recording: Making Hong Kong China
The people of Hong Kong riveted the world’s attention in 2019 by pouring into the streets to demand the autonomy, rule of law, and basic freedoms they were promised. Beijing responded on June 30, 2020, by imposing a new National Security Law aimed to snuff out protests. We will hear from Michael Davis, who has taught human rights and constitutional law in Hong Kong for over three decades and is the author of the recently published book, Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law.
Nikkei Shimbun: Have Prosecutors Changed?
Politico China Watcher: "China 2021: Experts make their one big prediction"
The Asia Pacific Journal: Comparative Reflections on the Carlos Ghosn Case and Japanese Criminal Justice
The arrest and prosecution of Nissan executive Carlos Ghosn, together with his dramatic flight from Japan, have focused unprecedented attention on Japan’s criminal justice system. This article employs comparison with the United States to examine issues in Japanese criminal justice highlighted by the Ghosn case.
Event Recording: How Japan Justifies the Death Penalty
Centre for International Law (CIL): "Research and Writing on International Law Topics"
On December 2, 2020 Faculty Director Jose E. Alvarez presented on “Researching and Writing on International Law Topics” as part of a webinar for National University of Singapore’s Centre for International Law (CIL). You may watch the webinar below.
Event Recording: Criminal Justice in Hong Kong Under the National Security Law
Professor Simon Young, a professor and associate dean of Hong Kong University’s Department of Law and a practicing Hong Kong barrister, will discuss how the criminal justice regime created under the new national security law differs from Hong Kong’s established criminal justice regime, and the implications for human rights in Hong Kong.