| The Long Lectures on Chinese Law, Business and Society | The Ecology of Law Firm Growth in China | | a public lecture by | Sida Liu | (Assistant Professor of Sociology of Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation)
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| | | Introduction to the Seminar | In the global legal services market, China has some of the youngest law firms, but also some of the largest. In the past decade, several Chinese corporate law firms have grown into mega-firms with offices in China and abroad, with hundreds or even thousands of lawyers in total. As part of the Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies (GLEE) Project, this study uses the case of China to develop an ecological theory of law firm growth. Read more »
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| About the Speaker | Sida Liu is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. He received his LL.B. degree from Peking University Law School and his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. His current research interests focus on the historical change, social structure, political mobilization, and globalization of the legal profession. Read more » | |
| | | | | | Date: | October 25, 2013 | | | Time: | 3:00 - 4:30pm | | | Location: | University of California, Irvine, School of Law, 401 Peltason Dr., Irvine, CA 92697-8000 - Map & Directions
| | | Room: | LAW 3500 | | | Information: | Jack Hsu | jghsu@uci.edu
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| | The Long Lecture Series on Chinese Law, Business and Society | The Long Lecture Series on Chinese Law, Business and Society is organized by the John S. and Marilyn Long US-China Institute for Business and Law. The series offers presentations of state of the art research on how law, business and society interact in China or in relation to China. It seeks to form a platform to learn and discuss how in the world’s largest legal system and second largest economy legal institutions shape and are shaped by market and social forces. Read more »
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| | Lecture Program |
Date | Speaker | Topic |
October 25 |
Sida Liu |
The Ecology of Law Firm Growth in China |
November 18 |
Glenn D. Tiffert |
Legal Education in Republican and Maoist China |
November 21 |
Alex Wang |
Climate Change Policy in China |
December 2 |
Josh Perles |
Protecting US Intellectual Property in China through Investments |
January
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Yang Su |
Demobilizing the Law: The Life Cycle of Labor Disputes in China |
February
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Benjamin Liebman |
To be confirmed and topic to be announced. |
March
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Benjamin van Rooij |
Duty to Obey the Law: Chinese and Comparative Perspectives |
April
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CK Lee
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The Enigma of Chinese Capitalism in Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Zambian Copperbelt
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May
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Rachel E. Stern |
Globalization and Foreign Law Firms in China |
Fall 2014
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Jerome A. Cohen |
To be confirmed and topic to be announced. |
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