Spring 2010
Colloquium: Chinese Law and Society
January 26
Jonathan K. Ocko, Professor of History and Department Head, NCSU
"Concepts of Justice in Late Imperial China"
February 2
Klaus Mühlhahn, Professor of History, University of Indiana, Bloomington
"Intelligence Wars: Security, Sovereignty, and Information in China, Ca. 1940"
February 9
Wang Zhiqiang, Professor of Law and Legal History, Fudan University Law School
"The Case Precedents in Qing China"
February 16
Lily L. Tsai, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"When Being Fair Means Breaking the Rules: Citizen Criteria for Procedural Justice and State Legitimacy"
February 23
Martin K. Dimitrov, Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth
"Citizen Complaints and Popular Accountability under Authoritarianism: Evidence from Pre-1989 Eastern Europe and Post-1978 China"
March 2
Nicholas C. Howson, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
"Speaking Law to Political-Economic Power: China's Derivative Lawsuit Mechanism and the Limits of Private Law"
March 9
Robert Hegel, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Washington University, St. Louis
"The Opacity of Texts: Reading Qing Judicial Narratives"
March 23
Chen Xi, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Place and Petitioning in China: From the Qing Dynasty to the Reform Era"
March 30
Daniela Stockmann, Assistant Professor, Leiden University
"Corporate Social Responsibility with Chinese Characteristics: Advertising as a Means of Campaigning on Chinese Television"
April 6
Eugenia Y. Lean, Associate Professor of History, Columbia University
"The Slippery Matter of Trademarks: Copycat Soap Companies, the Question of Authenticity, and Sino-British Diplomacy in 1930s China"
April 13
Margaret K. Lewis, Associate Professor of Law, Seton Hall University
"The Exclusionary Rule in a State of Flux: China, Taiwan, and the United States"
