GLAS Activities

The Center organizes presentations, conferences and other events on cutting-edge issues regarding how law develops and operates in a globalized world. 

2023-2024

GLAS & Long US-China Institute | Yun-chien Chang - Property Law: Comparative, Empirical, and Economic Analyses

The UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law, and Society and the UCI Long US-China Institute welcome Yun-chien Chang to discuss his book, Property...

Nov 30, 2023 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

GLAS & Long Institute | Benjamin Liebman - Redefining Legality in China

The UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law and Society and the UCI Long US-China Institute welcome Benjamin L. Liebman, Robert L. Lieff Professor of...

Jan 30, 2024 4:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

GLAS & Long US-China Institute | Taisu Zhang - The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation

The UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law and Society and the UCI Long US-China Institute welcome Taisu Zhang to discuss "The Ideological...

Feb 16, 2024 2:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

GLAS & Long US-China Institute | Sungjoon Cho - Fortress v. Pangea: Gazing into World Society

The UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law and Society and the UCI Long US-China Institute welcome Sungjoon Cho to discuss "Fortress v. Pangea:...

Feb 22, 2024 12:00pm
Law Building (LAW), LAW 3500, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine , CA 92697, United States

Events Archive

Events Archive

  • There is considerable discussion of a decline in, or even the dismantling of, the rule of law, both at the national and international levels. Many of these developments...
    UCI LAW
    SEP 16, 2022 8:30AM 
  • The UCI Law International Justice Clinic and Center on Globalization, Law and Society (GLAS) host a conversation with David Kaye, Sima Samar, Richard Bennett and Karima...
    UCI LAW
    APR 4 12PM 

See full descriptions of 2021 and 2022 events

  • Fair Elections and Free Speech Center | Global Elections I: Israel, The Netherlands & Uganda
    Threats to the fairness of elections, and the open debate that democracies require, have not been limited to the United States. Already in 2021, several elections worldwide...
    SEP 1, 2021 12:15PM 
  • GLAS & CBGHP | Colonialism, Capitalism, and Race in International Law
    This symposium centers on racial constructions and their effects as social, cultural, and legal phenomena. They are transnational, if not global. This workshop will address... 
  • Fair Elections and Free Speech Center | Global Elections II: Germany
    Germany faces its most important election in a generation, as the September 26th ballot is the first one that Chancellor Angela Merkel will not contest since she became...
    SEP 20, 2021 8AM 
  • UCI Long US-China Institute & GLAS | Angela Zhang, China’s Great Reversal in Regulating the Platform Economy
    In this webinar, Angela Zhang will discuss China’s recent regulatory crackdown over the tech sector. The webinar will draw upon insights from her new book Chinese Antitrust...
    OCT 14, 2021 5PM 
  • UCI Long US-China Institute & GLAS | Shen Wei, Decoding Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaties
    This webinar will investigate China’s bilateral investment treaties (BITs) regime through various approaches, including textual analysis, case study, comparative study and...
    NOV 18, 2021 6PM 
  • Fair Elections and Free Speech Center | Global Elections III: Hong Kong
    Over the course of the past two years, Beijing has harshly imposed its will on Hong Kong, adopting a National Security Law in 2020 that has been used ever since to crush...
    NOV 30, 2021 12:15PM 
  • Fair Elections and Free Speech Center | A Conversation with 2021 Nobel Prize Laureate Maria Ressa
    The Nobel Committee recognized Maria Ressa’s years of effort defending press freedom in the Philippines, in the face of legal and political attacks by the government, and for...
    FEB 2, 2022 5PM 
  • Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Gregory Shaffer
    Gregory Shaffer, Chancellor's Professor of Law at UCI Law, will present his recently published book, Emerging Powers and the World Trading System: The Past and Future of...
    FEB 11, 2022 12PM 
  • Global Hong Kong Studies @ UC & GLAS | The Arab Spring Abroad: Implications for Hong Kong
    Dana Moss (Notre Dame) has proposed the idea of “transnational repression” to rethink how authoritarian states could threaten dissidents in exile and suppress their “voice...
    FEB 15, 2022 6PM 
  • UCI Long US-China Institute & GLAS | Patrick Zheng, "The Future of Arbitration in China" | 2/17/2022
    The UCI Long US-China Institute and UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law, and Society welcome Patrick Zheng to discuss "The Future of Arbitration in China." Arbitration has...
    FEB 17, 2022 6PM 
  • UCI Long US-China Institute, GLAS & CERLP | Sida Liu, "Where Rookies Prevail: Digital Habitus and Age-based Earnings Differentials in Online Legal Services"
    The UCI Long US-China Institute and the UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law, and Society and Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession welcome Sida Liu...
    FEB 24, 2022 12PM 
  • UCI Long US-China Institute, GLAS & CLEANR | Dr. Shi Han, China’s Quest for Alternative GDP Measurement
    The UCI Long US-China Institute, UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law, and Society, and UCI Law Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources welcome Dr. Shi Han to...
    MAR 9, 2022 5PM 
  • UCI Long US-China Institute & GLAS | Robert Chu, "Geopolitical Challenges and Global Corporate Legal Practice"
    The UCI Long US-China Instutute and UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law, and Society welcome Robert Chu to present, "Geopolitical Challenges and Global Corporate Legal...
    MAR 16, 2022 4PM 
  • UCI Long US-China Institute & GLAS | Dr. Jiangnan Zhu, "China’s Globalized Anticorruption Campaign"
    The UCI Long US-China Institute and UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law, and Society welcome Dr. Jiangnan Zhu to present, "China’s Globalized Anticorruption...
    APR 6, 2022 6PM 
  • International Law Faculty Panel
    The International Law Society at UCI Law will be hosting a panel with international law faculty. Hear from five UCI Law professors about careers in international law and...
    LAW BUILDING (LAW)
    APR 12, 2022 12PM
     

See full descriptions of 2020 and 2021 events

  • GLAS/ILJ | Transnational Legal Ordering of Privacy and Speech
    This symposium, hosted by the Center on Globalization, Law, and Society with the UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law, will assess the role...
    SEP 11, 2020 8AM
     
  • GLAS | Joseph DiMento, "Polar Shift: The Arctic Sustained"
    The UCI Center for Global Peace & Conflict Studies (GPACS) Colloquium Series hosts GLAS affiliate Joseph DiMento, Distinguished Professor of Law. What do people imagine when...
    OCT 22, 2020 12:30PM
     
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    Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Laura Enriquez
    Laura Enriquez, Assistant Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at UCI School of Social Sciences, will be discussing her book, "Of Love and Papers: How Immigration Policy...
    OCT 30, 2020 12PM
     
  • GLAS | Recalibrating International Trade Law
    This workshop brings together leading scholars from around the world to discuss recalibrating international trade law in light of US-China relations. Agenda > Participants...
    DEC 7, 2020 10AM
     
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    Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Ji Li
    Ji Li, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law at UCI School of Law, will be presenting his paper, "Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the American...
    JAN 15, 2021 12PM
     
  • Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Swethaa Ballakrishnen
    Swethaa Ballakrishnen, Assistant Professor of Law at UCI School of Law, will be discussing their book, "Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India's...
    JAN 22, 2021 12PM
     
  • UCI Careers in International Law Panel
    On Tuesday, February 9th at 12 PM, the International Law Society, co-sponsored by the Center on Globalization, Law, and Society (GLAS), will host a Careers in International...
    FEB 9, 2021 12PM
     
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    GLAS | Challenging Trump's WeChat Ban, Hosted by UCI Long U.S.-China Institute
    The UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law, and Society invites you to this event hosted by the UCI Long U.S.-China Institute: Challenging Trump's WeChat Ban A conversation...
    APR 5, 2021 12PM
     

See full descriptions of 2019 and 2020 events

  • GLAS: Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice
    This conference brings together leading scholars from around the world to stimulate conversations between those whose work examines transnational trends in areas of criminal...
    LAW BUILDING (LAW)
    SEP 21, 2018 8:30AM
     
  • Intellectual Life Workshop: Asif Qureshi
    As part of the UCI Law & Korea University School of Law Joint Symposium, Asif Qureshi, Professor of International Economic Law at the Korea University School of Law, will...
    LAW BUILDING (LAW)
    NOV 19, 2018 12PM
     
  • GLAS Joan Barata, "New Platform Regulations in the EU and Their Impact on Freedom of Expression: Right to Be Forgotten, Copyright, Terrorism, and More"
    EU institutions and member States have recently proposed, and in some cases adopted, several legislative texts which directly affect the legal status of responsibilities and...
    UCI SCHOOL OF LAW
    JAN 15, 2019 5PM
     
  • ILS: Careers in International Law
    ILS: Careers in International Law
    The International Law Society (ILS), the Career Development Office (CDO) and the Center on Globalization, Law, and Society (GLAS) are co-sponsoring a panel discussion with...
    EDUCATION BUILDING (EDU)
    FEB 4, 2019 12PM
     
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    GLAS: The International Law of Black Panther
    Professor David Kaye will discuss individual scenes from the film, Black Panther, and their implications in terms of international law. Prerequisite: having viewed the film.
    EDUCATION BUILDING (EDU)
    FEB 13, 2019 12PM
     
  • GLAS Speaker: UN Special Rapporteur Dire Tladi Presents His Report on Peremptory Norms of International Law
    GLAS Speaker: UN Special Rapporteur Dire Tladi Presents His Report on Peremptory Norms of International Law
    Dire Tladi, Global Visiting Professor of Law at UCI Law, Member of the UN International Law Commission and its Special Rapporteur on Peremptory Norms of General International...
    UCI SCHOOL OF LAW
    FEB 25, 2019 12:10PM
     
  • ILS/GLAS Panel: International Law in Year Three of the Trump Administration
    ILS/GLAS Panel: International Law in Year Three of the Trump Administration
    Members of UCI Law's international law faculty will discuss International Law in Year Three of the Trump Administration: Where We Are and Where Might We Be Going? Moderated...
    UCI SCHOOL OF LAW
    MAR 14, 2019 12PM
     
  • GLAS | The World Trade Organization and its Dispute Settlement System in Crisis
    GLAS | The World Trade Organization and its Dispute Settlement System in Crisis
    GLAS welcomes Ricardo Ramirez to discuss current challenges faced by the WTO and its international dispute settlement system. Mr. Ramirez served on the WTO Appellate Body from...
    UCI SCHOOL OF LAW
    APR 1, 2019 3PM
     
  • GLAS & CLEANR | Sea of Shadows Film Screening
    GLAS & CLEANR | Sea of Shadows Film Screening
    Sea of Shadows is a feature documentary that follows undercover investigators, environmentalists, journalists, and the Mexican Navy on their last-minute effort to rescue the...
    UCI SCHOOL OF LAW
    APR 1, 2019 4:30PM
     
  • Can Online Hate Be Controlled? Companies, Governments, and the Freedom of Expression
    Can Online Hate Be Controlled? Companies, Governments, and the Freedom of Expression
    What is hate speech? Is it subject to regulation under human rights law or domestic law around the world? Should different rules apply in the online environment than in other...
    UCI SCHOOL OF LAW
    APR 11, 2019 5PM
     

See full descriptions of 2018 and 2019 events

  • GLAS: Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice
    This conference brings together leading scholars from around the world to stimulate conversations between those whose work examines transnational trends in areas of criminal...
    LAW BUILDING (LAW)
    SEP 21, 2018 8:30AM
     
  • Intellectual Life Workshop: Asif Qureshi
    As part of the UCI Law & Korea University School of Law Joint Symposium, Asif Qureshi, Professor of International Economic Law at the Korea University School of Law, will...
    LAW BUILDING (LAW)
    NOV 19, 2018 12PM
     
  • GLAS Joan Barata, "New Platform Regulations in the EU and Their Impact on Freedom of Expression: Right to Be Forgotten, Copyright, Terrorism, and More"
    EU institutions and member States have recently proposed, and in some cases adopted, several legislative texts which directly affect the legal status of responsibilities and...
    UCI SCHOOL OF LAW
    JAN 15, 2019 5PM
     
  • ILS: Careers in International Law
    The International Law Society (ILS), the Career Development Office (CDO) and the Center on Globalization, Law, and Society (GLAS) are co-sponsoring a panel discussion with...
    EDUCATION BUILDING (EDU)
    FEB 4, 2019 12PM
     
  • GLAS: The International Law of Black Panther
    Professor David Kaye will discuss individual scenes from the film, Black Panther, and their implications in terms of international law. Prerequisite: having viewed the film.
    EDUCATION BUILDING (EDU)
    FEB 13, 2019 12PM
     
  • GLAS Speaker: UN Special Rapporteur Dire Tladi Presents His Report on Peremptory Norms of International Law
    Dire Tladi, Global Visiting Professor of Law at UCI Law, Member of the UN International Law Commission and its Special Rapporteur on Peremptory Norms of General International...
    UCI SCHOOL OF LAW
    FEB 25, 2019 12:10PM
     
  • ILS/GLAS Panel: International Law in Year Three of the Trump Administration
    Members of UCI Law's international law faculty will discuss International Law in Year Three of the Trump Administration: Where We Are and Where Might We Be Going? Moderated...
    UCI SCHOOL OF LAW
    MAR 14, 2019 12PM
     
  • GLAS | The World Trade Organization and its Dispute Settlement System in Crisis
    GLAS welcomes Ricardo Ramirez to discuss current challenges faced by the WTO and its international dispute settlement system. Mr. Ramirez served on the WTO Appellate Body from...
    UCI SCHOOL OF LAW
    APR 1, 2019 3PM
     
  • GLAS & CLEANR | Sea of Shadows Film Screening
    Sea of Shadows is a feature documentary that follows undercover investigators, environmentalists, journalists, and the Mexican Navy on their last-minute effort to rescue the...
    UCI SCHOOL OF LAW
    APR 1, 2019 4:30PM
     
  • Can Online Hate Be Controlled? Companies, Governments, and the Freedom of Expression
    What is hate speech? Is it subject to regulation under human rights law or domestic law around the world? Should different rules apply in the online environment than in other...
    UCI SCHOOL OF LAW
    APR 11, 2019 5PM
     
  • Diego Gil McCawley, "The Bureaucratization of Neoliberal Reforms: A Case Study of Chile's Housing Law and Policy," May 4, 2018
    The Teaching Fellow for the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies and Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School will discuss the hegemony of neoliberal regimes in the developing world. A joint presentation with the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture Socio-Legal Studies Workshop Series.
  • A. Claire Cutler, The Politics of Private Transnational Governance by Contract, April 19, 2018
    The Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria will discuss her edited volume focusing on the emergence and operation of new forms of governance that are developing through a variety of transnational contractual practices, institutions, and laws in multiple sectors and areas of economic activity. 12:00-1:00 p.m., Law 3750. Details >
  • David Kinley, Necessary Evil: How to Fix Finance by Saving Human Rights, April 3, 2018
    The Professor of Human Rights Law at The University of Sydney will discuss his 2018 book on the social function of finance and the ways that cooperation between finance and government may promote human rights and social justice. 12:00-1:00 p.m., Law 3500. Details >
  • Thomas R. Graham, "The WTO Appellate Body under Challenge," March 26, 2018
    The U.S. member of the WTO Appellate Body discussed the differences between U.S. and international views on dispute settlement and the current crisis at the Appellate Body.
  • Gregory Shaffer, "Legal Realism and International Law," March 22, 2018
    The GLAS Director and Chancellor's Professor of Law discussed his work in progress. A presentation of the Center for Legal Philosophy's Law, Reason, and Value Colloquium.
  • E.Y. Park, "Challenges, Pitfalls, and Strategies in International Arbitration," March 12, 2018
    Dr. E.Y. Park, Vice President of the London Court of International Arbitration, will discuss the challenges, pitfalls, and strategies in international arbitration. Hosted by the Korea Law Center. Details >
  • Alec Stone Sweet, "Arbitral Lawmaking and State Power: An Empirical Analysis of Investor-State Arbitration," February 28, 2018
    The Professor of Law at National University of Singapore, will present his work as part of the UCI Law Intellectual Life Workshop series. 12:00-1:00 p.m., Law 3500.
  • David Trubek, "Emerging Economy Legal Professions in the Age of Globalization," February 8, 2018
    The Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Dean of International Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Law School discussed the Project on Globalization, Lawyers and Emerging Economies (GLEE), analyzing the growth of the corportate legal complex in Brazil, India, and China and its impact on lawyers and society in each country. Details >
  • Reconceiving Trade Agreements for Social Inclusion, February 9-10, 2018
    The current multilateral trading system is under challenge. With the election of President Trump in the United States, and the steady rise of neo-nationalist parties in Europe, the new trade policy mantra is that trade must be made more inclusive. But how is that to be achieved? The traditional trade policy approach to trade and social policy is typically in two steps. In the first step, countries sign international trade agreements to combat protectionist pressures and thereby mutually enhance national welfare. In the second step, recognizing that trade creates “losers” as well as “winners,” countries support those harmed through domestic social policy. This workshop explored whether the traditional approach of calling for countervailing domestic policy is sufficient, and whether trade agreements must be redesigned to integrate, whether directly or indirectly, social policy concerns. It explored and critiqued different ways that this might be done, whether in trade agreements themselves, or in other agreements, so that domestic policy to address social and developmental needs are facilitated. Details >
  • Manoj Mate, "Global Solar Trade Wars," November 8, 2017
    Professor Manoj Mate, visiting scholar at Harvard Law School's East Asian Legal Studies program, presented his working paper, "Global Solar Trade Wars." Details >
  • Legal Strategies to Address Climate Change in the North American Arctic, October 27–28, 2017
    This roundtable, supported by the UCI Law Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources (CLEANR), brought together a small number of leading attorneys, academics, and experts working on a range of issues concerning the U.S. and Canadian Arctic to assess potential legal strategies, including litigation as well as other advocacy techniques, to address the challenges of climate change in the region. The goals of the roundtable were to foster dialogue, advance knowledge, and develop practical policy solutions. Participants shared experiences and explored alternative strategies and recommendations, including indigenous perspectives, and examined opportunities for effective legal action.
  • The Globalization of Legal Education: A Critical Study, September 8-9, 2017
    In this joint symposium, GLAS and CERLP hosted leading international scholars to discuss issues concerning the globalization of legal education, with topics ranging from global hierarchies and the international movement of students and faculty, to legal education strategies in the Global South. Participant contributions will be published in a symposium edition of the UCI Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law. Details >
  • Artistic Freedom Around the World, April 13, 2017
    Meeting of Experts: Artistic expression is under threat worldwide. Authoritarian governments jail cartoonists for sedition, lock up poets and painters for blasphemy, prosecute rappers for insulting the state, and illegally censor filmmakers. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression David Kaye– the UN’s principal monitor for freedom of expression worldwide – is launching a new effort to revive the protections guaranteed to artistic expression in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In order to launch this new initiative, the Special Rapporteur and the Artistic Freedom Center (AFC) convened a workshop to examine the definitions, standards, and human rights law pertaining to artistic freedom of expression, identify the key threats, and collect stories of artists’ experiences on the ground.  
  • ILS Panel: The Trump Administration and its Impacts on International Law and Foreign Relations, April 6, 2017
    How has the new administration affected life beyond U.S. borders? What actions are other governments taking in response to these effects? How are U.S. relations changing with traditional allies and long-standing enemies? UCI Law’s international law experts Professor David Kaye, Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Professor Gregory Shaffer, and Professor Christopher Whytock discussed these questions, among other topics, related to the international legal landscape since President Trump took office. The event was co-hosted by the Center on Globalization, Law, and Society and the International Law Society. Video >
  • Freedom of Opinion and Expression in Cuba, March 23, 2017
    Hosted by the UCI Law International Justice Clinic, GLAS, and the International Institute on Race, Equality, and Human Rights, this discussion addressed the struggles for freedom of expression in Cuba, moderated by Prof. David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, and featuring Berta Soler from Ladies in White, and Roberto de Jesus Guerra from Hablemos Press. Details >
  • Book Talk with David Sloss, March 9, 2017
    Professor David Sloss (Santa Clara University School of Law) discussed his new book, The Death of Treaty Supremacy: An Invisible Constitutional ChangeDetails >
  • GLAS Workshop: China and International Economic Law and Institutions, February 2-3, 2017
    This workshop, supported by the UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law, and Society, and the UCI Long U.S.-China Institute, brought together leading scholars with original work that addresses, from different perspectives, the impact of China on international economic law and institutions, and the impact of international law and institutions in China. Details >
  • World Indigenous Law Conference, October 19-22, 2016
    The World Indigenous Law Conference is held every two years and was hosted in October in North America for the first time. This international forum aims to gather Indigenous lawyers, practitioners, academics and those interested in furthering their understanding of issues facing Indigenous Peoples. This third such international law convening focused on Indigenous Peoples’ legal issues, rights, and strategies. Details >
  • Tim Sellers: Law, Reason, and Emotion, September 22, 2016
    GLAS visiting scholar and Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland, Sellers discussed law, reason, emotion, justice, legitimacy and effectiveness as they relate to one another and to the power and purposes of law. Co-sponsored by the Legal Philosophy Colloquium. Event Details and Abstract >
  • Constitution-Making as Transnational Practice,September 9-10, 2016
    Co-hosted by the ABF’s Center on Law and Globalization, this conference/symposium brought together leading scholars and policymakers from the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and South Asia on constitution making. They addressed the actors, networks, norms and processes in constitution making from a transnational and comparative perspective, examining constitution making in every region of the world. 
  • Workshop on Legal Pluralism, August 26, 2016
    Organized under the aegis of the Commission on Legal Pluralism and UC Irvine School of Law, the objective of the workshop was to facilitate a dialogue between North America-based scholars working in the field of legal pluralism. The meeting brought together an interdisciplinary group of 12–14 experts to explore topics in non-state law and its relation to the state, based on working papers of the participants
  • UC Irvine Annual China Conference: Poor China/Rich China: Poverty, Wealth, and Inequality, May 13, 2016
    Rising China is imagined as a land of success, where living standards have shot up in a short space of time, and where a new middle class now thrives. This conference did something different: it examined two polar sides of the wealth spectrum, and asked: Why and how did the country’s economic reform produce a new rich and a new poor? Details >
  • Environmental Governance and Management in the Arctic, April 22, 2016
    The changing state of the Arctic Ocean is opening up the region to new interests and added stressors, creating new challenges for marine resource management in the Arctic. Building on a January 2015 conference on Arctic governance, this roundtable brought together national and international Arctic experts to discuss existing and emerging issues in Arctic marine governance. The program included a lunchtime public lecture on “Why the Arctic Matters” by Honorable Fran Ulmer, Chair, U.S. Arctic Research Commission. Details >
  • Baby Markets Congress, April 1-3, 2016
    This international meeting brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, policy-makers, civil society advocates, journalists, activists, and others to explore the shifts in family-making, reflecting trends in single- and same-sex parenting as well as the ways in which heteronormativity constructs legal and social norms in child custody, child-rearing, and family planning. Details >
  • Jordan Paust, Thursday, March 17, 2016
    The Mike and Teresa Baker Law Center Professor of International Law at the Law Center of the University of Houston is a scholar of international law, human rights, and national security law. He discussed “Human Rights Law as Law of the United States.”
  • Southern California International Law Workshop, February 19, 2016
  • Long Institute Distinguished Lecture by James Fallows, February 1, 2016
    The renowned writer and commentator spoke on “Is it Time to Reassess Our Relationship With China?” Details >
  • Global Justice Summit 2016, January 29, 2016
    Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History, UC Irvine School of Humanities, was the featured speaker, on Politics and History of China Conflicts. Details >
  • Corporate Responsibility in the Information and Technology Sector, January 25-26, 2016
    Organized by Prof. David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, this workshop brought together about 20 people, largely from the NGO space, to brainstorm what we expect will be a major and possibly defining project of the special rapporteurship over the coming years. Discussion extended to the specific space of ICT—social media, search, ISPs, telcos, surveillance industry, etc.
  • Public Conference on Freedom of Expression, January 22–24, 2016
    Timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, this conference looked at the changing parameters of freedom of expression in a rapidly shifting world. Speakers included renowned political activists, scholars and journalists, including Edward Snowden via Google Hangout. Events at UCI Law included a Cartoonists’ Roundtable, and a discussion of “The Law and the Changing Parameters of Free Expression,” featuring UCI Law Prof. David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. Details >
  • “The Sophistication of a Primitive Legal System: International Law’s Curious Neglect in Analytic Jurisprudence,” November 19, 2015
    Presented by Robert D. Sloane, Boston University School of Law, at UC Irvine Law, Reason and Value colloquium (co-sponsored by the School of Humanities). 
  • Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Theorizing Transnational Legal Ordering,” November 13, 2015
    Presented by Gregory Shaffer, UCI Law. Details >
  • Long Institute Lecture: “Renewable Futures and Industrial Legacies: Wind and Solar Energy in China, Germany, and the United States,” November 5, 2015
    Presented by Jonas Nahm, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University.
  • Dialogue+Screening: Miners Shot Down, October. 22, 2015
    Pre-screening dialogue with director Rehad Desai, Professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard and Professor Frank B. Wilderson III. Co-sponsored by GLAS and UCI School of Humanities. Details >
  • Who Cares? Workshop on the Economies, Technologies and Ethics of Aid, October 1-2, 2015Flier (PDF) >
  • Department of Commerce Patent and Trade Office Workshop on Patent Management and Protection in China, May 21, 2015 Details >
  • Journal Symposium: Transnational Legal Orders for Private Law and Business Regulation, May 13-14, 2015 Details >
  • Comparing China: Hopes and Fears of a Rising Power, April 27, 2015 Details >
  • Asian Law Academy, April 15-16, 2015
    A two-day series of CPD Accredited workshops for lawyers with an Asian dimension to their practice seeking to learn more about current legal developments. Presented by Asia Desk Forum, with UCI Law Prof. Carrie Menkel-Meadow as co-leader, in Victoria, Canada. 
  • The ICC and the Inter-American Court in Colombia, presented by Alexandra Huneeus of University of Wisconsin Law School, April 16, 2015 Details >
  • International Trade & Investment Law: Comparisons, Empirical Studies, New Technologies, Public Policy, March 20, 2015
    This workshop explored topics in international investment and trade law and their potential interface based on working papers of participants. Details >
  • China’s New Environmental Actors: Roundtable, March 19, 2015 Details >
  • The State of Legal Education and Legal Profession Regulation in Japan Today, March 11, 2015. presented by Colin Jones of Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Long Institute Lecture: Victor Shih on Chinese Debt: Is it Sustainable?, March 5, 2015 Details >
  • Global Justice Summit, January 30-31, 2015
    Drafting of new constitution for Soma nation (experiential simulation of negotiations for new constitution), held every year with different fact situation and different speakers. 2015 speakers were Professor Wayne Sandholtz, USC Department of Political Science and Law School, and Professor Paula Garb, UCI Center for Global Peacemaking. Details >
  • China 20/20 Looking Forward Roundtable, February 19, 2015
    This three-part Expert Speaker Series explored China’s changing dynamics. How will the country look over the next 20 years? Details >
  • Long Institute Distinguished Lecture by Jerome Cohen: Xi Jinping’s Rule of Law at Home and in the World, February 23, 2015 Details >