Past Events

CBGHP: Confronting American Health Disparities: Crisis Pregnancy

10/14/2022
12:00:00 AM to 12:00:00 AM

In this year-long series, Confronting American Health Disparities, we amplify urgent health concerns related to women and LGBTQ communities. In the United States, health disparities track along nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery, too often resulting in unequal treatment, poor health outcomes, and sadly, even death. From birth to death, race, sex, disability and LGBTQ discrimination interferes with achieving wellness and wellbeing. This series takes up these important concerns and centers racial, reproductive, disability, and socioeconomic justice as imperative to a healthy and well-functioning democracy.

The Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy (CBGHP) serves as a reference point for research, policy development and advocacy concerning science, biotechnology, bioethics and healthcare in the United States and abroad.

GLAS | The Rule of Law in Transnational Context

9/17/2022
8:30:00 AM to 12:30:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000

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 revolve around institutional concerns, such as the erosion of independent judicial mechanisms to safeguard the rule of law, but they extend beyond them in terms of norms and practices. These concerns entail a series of questions that are transnational in their scope and implications. This symposium explores what current developments suggest, and how to respond to them. Participants are leading experts on conceptualizing the rule of law and empirically studying rule-of law-challenges globally, in different regions and countries, and involving international institutions.

Participants:

Jeremy Farrall (ANU)

Tom Ginsburg (Chicago)

Tyrell Haberkorn (Wisconsin)

Terry Halliday (American Bar Foundation, Chicago)

Martin Krygier (Monash, Sidney)

Dilek Kurban (Berlin)

Ji Li (UCI Law)

Jens Meierhenrich (LSE, London)

Anne Peters (Max Planck, Heidelberg)

Alejandro Ponce (WJP, Washington DC)

Xisca Pou Giménez (UNAM)

Wayne Sandholtz (USC)

Kim Scheppele (Princeton)

Gregory Shaffer (UCI Law)

Brian Tamanaha (Washington University)

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GLAS | The Rule of Law in Transnational Context

9/16/2022
8:30:00 AM to 5:00:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000

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 revolve around institutional concerns, such as the erosion of independent judicial mechanisms to safeguard the rule of law, but they extend beyond them in terms of norms and practices. These concerns entail a series of questions that are transnational in their scope and implications. This symposium explores what current developments suggest, and how to respond to them. Participants are leading experts on conceptualizing the rule of law and empirically studying rule-of law-challenges globally, in different regions and countries, and involving international institutions.

 Participants:

Jeremy Farrall (ANU)

Tom Ginsburg (Chicago)

Tyrell Haberkorn (Wisconsin)

Terry Halliday (American Bar Foundation, Chicago)

Martin Krygier (Monash, Sidney)

Dilek Kurban (Berlin)

Ji Li (UCI Law)

Jens Meierhenrich (LSE, London)

Anne Peters (Max Planck, Heidelberg)

Alejandro Ponce (WJP, Washington DC)

Xisca Pou Giménez (UNAM)

Wayne Sandholtz (USC)

Kim Scheppele (Princeton)

Gregory Shaffer (UCI Law)

Brian Tamanaha (Washington University)

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CBGHP: Confronting American Health Disparities: Reproductive Landscape Post-Roe

6/8/2022
11:00:00 AM

In this year-long series, Confronting American Health Disparities, we amplify urgent health concerns related to women and LGBTQ communities. In the United States, health disparities track along nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery, too often resulting in unequal treatment, poor health outcomes, and sadly, even death. From birth to death, race, sex, disability and LGBTQ discrimination interferes with achieving wellness and wellbeing. This series takes up these important concerns and centers racial, reproductive, disability, and socioeconomic justice as imperative to a healthy and well- functioning democracy.

For the third event of the series we will have an intimate conversation about the future of reproductive rights in the post-Roe world.

As the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization clearly underscored, the Supreme Court appeares poised to overturn the historic and precedential decision in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and eliminate the constitutional rights to abortion. Join us for an intimate discussion between Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and UCI Law School's Chancellor's Professor and author, Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood, Michele B. Goodwin. Dean Chemerinsky and Professor Goodwin will examine the current moment in constitutional jurisprudence, survey the broader legal landscape, and forecast the outlook for reproductive rights in a seemingly imminent post-Roe America. These Constitutional scholars will discuss about the broader implications a decision to overturn Roe could have on other Supreme Court decisions that rely on it to protect aspects of personal privacy such as contraceptive use, marraige, child custody, consensual sex among adults, and others.

International Law Faculty Panel

4/12/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

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 answers to any other questions you might have.

Panelists include:

Aziza Ahmed
Professor of Law

David Kaye
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, International Justice Clinic
Co-Director, Fair Elections and Free Speech Center

Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Distinguished Professor of Law and Political Science

Christopher Whytock
Vice Dean and Professor of Law
Co-Director, Center in Law, Society and Culture

Moderated by:

Gregory Shaffer
Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science
Director, Center on Globalization, Law, and Society
President, American Society of International Law

UCI Long US-China Institute & GLAS | Dr. Jiangnan Zhu, "China’s Globalized Anticorruption Campaign"

4/6/2022
6:00:00 PM to 7:00:00 PM

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 Campaign."

Abstract:

Individuals who take advantage of global networks to flee abroad with allegedly corrupt proceeds comprise an important yet understudied group of corruption suspects. This research project characterizes them as “globalized corruption fugitives”. Under President Xi Jinping, China actively began to pursue such suspects. Based on a list of China’s 100 wanted fugitives issued through Interpol Red Notices, supplemented with interviews and documentary data, we profile major features of these suspects and investigate how they evade repatriation to China. We also study China’s burgeoning extraterritorial anticorruption regime and find that an anti-money laundering mindset is being embraced by the Chinese government to “seize the fugitives” by “tracing the money”. This approach can help China with its second anticorruption battle, which takes place on foreign soils, by overcoming some roadblocks due to countries’ legal- political differences.

About the Speaker

Dr. Jiangnan Zhu is an associate professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the director of the Contemporary China Studies program of the Faculty of Social Sciences. She earned her Ph.D in Political Science and Master of Mathematical Models of Social Sciences from Northwestern University and received her bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Economics from Peking University. Her primary research interest lies in corruption and anticorruption in China, including elite politics, political trust, and information politics involved in anticorruption campaigns. Her research has appeared in many leading journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Public Administrative Review, Governance, The China Journal, International Journal of Press/Politics, and more, in addition to several edited volumes. Her research has received the sponsorship of the General Research Fund of Hong Kong and the Research Output Prize of HKU.

UCI Long US-China Institute & GLAS | Robert Chu, "Geopolitical Challenges and Global Corporate Legal Practice"

3/16/2022
4:00:00 PM to 5:00:00 PM

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 Practice."

Abstract:

Deal lawyers had an extraordinary year in 2021. The financial results of large American law firms for the past year show unprecedented increases in revenue and profit, driven especially by M&A activity. Yet all is not well in Big Law. Frustrated by inefficiencies and complacency at law firms, clients are rethinking their relationships with external counsel, enhancing in-house legal capacity and turning to technology. Ambivalent about their work and lacking a sense of purpose, associates at large firms are resigning at rates previously unseen, even as firms announced multiple rounds of salary increases and bonuses over the course of the year. At the most senior level, partners are departing for larger paychecks at other firms or leaving practice altogether, as the “partnership” no longer conveys a meaningful notion of collective stewardship and commonwealth. In short, the institutional framework that has defined large American law firms over the past 50 years shows remarkable fragility in this period of extraordinary profits, exemplifying what Adolf Berle called the “profitable but usually undistinguished bondage”.

The challenges facing corporate legal practice, but also the opportunities, are particularly stark against the backdrop of geopolitical shifts across the Asia-Pacific region.  In 2022 – 50 years after Richard Nixon made his first trip to Beijing and also 50 years after Australia established diplomatic ties with the PRC – the prospects for interesting transactional work involving a U.S.- China or Australia-China nexus are decidedly more somber than in years past.  The truth is, the challenges of geopolitics have been difficult for Big Law because practice has become routinized to a significant extent.  Across the region over recent periods, Big Law has often appeared flat-footed, when circumstances demanded wise, agile counsel. 

Although not all transactional failures could have been rescued, at least some in recent years may have benefited from a more thoughtful approach to transactional practice – one that combines an investment in advanced analytical tools and the cultivation of resourceful personnel, backed by a firmwide commitment and a more inclusive and transparent governance regime.  Such a reimagining of the institutional setting of practice may yet redeem deal lawyers from their profitable but undistinguished bondage.

About Robert Chu:

Robert Chu is the Founder and Managing Partner of Grundrisse Group, and leads the Group’s development, investment and advisory projects worldwide, focused on technological, institutional and geopolitical change, with particular interest in culturally complex situations that can be intelligible and actionable if pursued with diligence, honesty and cleverness. He is also the Chairman of Lexagle, a Singapore-based service-tech startup.

Mr. Chu was a Partner at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and headed the firm’s practice in Beijing, Melbourne and Sydney. He led the structuring and execution of some of the most challenging M&A and capital markets transactions across the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, Europe and the Gulf region over the past 20 years. In addition, he was a member of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Managing Partners’ Committee.

Mr. Chu serves as an advisor to the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard University, as the Co-Leader of the Banking and Finance Working Group of the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs at Northwestern University and as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Committee for the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the Peter A. Allard School of Law of the University of British Columbia. Mr. Chu received his S.B. and S.M. in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T. and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

UCI Long US-China Institute, GLAS & CLEANR | Dr. Shi Han, China’s Quest for Alternative GDP Measurement

3/9/2022
5:00:00 PM to 6:30:00 PM

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 present, "China’s Quest for Alternative GDP Measurement."

Abstract

Single-minded pursuit of GDP by governments at various levels has been one of the most important drivers for China’s economic miracle. Meanwhile, this has also led to severe environmental pollution and ecosystem deterioration. Over the last two decades, China started to search for alternative yardsticks to supplement the GDP assessment. Three alternative economic evaluation initiatives stand out: 1) accounting Green GDP from 2004 on, 2) policy pilots in compiling natural resource balance sheets since 2015, and 3) more recent trials in calculating the Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP) for different regions. These green accounting initiatives have converged in a recent policy experiment which aims at amplifying the provision of ecosystem services as public goods through better capturing the value from largely unmarketable ecosystem services. This talk will discuss China’s efforts in developing green accounting approaches to supplement the GDP metrics, assess the current pilots in capturing nature's value in a government-dominated context, and distill some lessons from China’s unique policy experiment thus far.

About the Speaker

Dr. Shi Han has 30-years' experience in planning and implementing sustainable development in China starting right after the Rio Conference in 1992. His research has been centered on greening industrial development through circular economy, eco-industrial parks, decarbonization and ESG. Since 2014, he has led the conducting of three natural capital accounting projects in Sanya City, Hainan Province; Beilun District, Zhejiang Province; and Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Dr. Shi Han has taught sustainability-related courses at Sichuan University, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University ICB. He obtained his Ph.D. in industrial ecology from Yale University and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Tsinghua University.

UCI Long US-China Institute, GLAS & CERLP | Sida Liu, "Where Rookies Prevail: Digital Habitus and Age-based Earnings Differentials in Online Legal Services"

2/24/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM

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 (University of Toronto) to discuss "Where Rookies Prevail: Digital Habitus and Age-based Earnings Differentials in Online Legal Services" (with Yao Yao, University of Ottawa).

Abstract

This project investigates how and why the field of digital professional work can generate unconventional age-based earnings differentials that advantage younger workers. Analyzing a service archive dataset from a major online legal service platform in China, the study finds that, contrary to the patterns of income inequality in traditional legal fields, younger lawyers earn more than older lawyers in the digital legal field. Further analyses of the platform work content and interviews with lawyers working on this platform suggest that the platform’s mechanism for distributing work opportunities makes mature lawyers’ expertise and capital less useful. Meanwhile, the digital legal field places added value on younger lawyers’ digital habitus and turns it into a new form of cultural capital, manifested in their proficiency and effectiveness in digital communication. While their digital habitus helps younger lawyers outperform older lawyers in online platform-based services, however, this advantage in a lower-status subfield may reinforce their disadvantaged positions in the whole profession. By examining habitus and capital in the emerging digital legal field, this research deepens the understanding of the impact of digital technologies on knowledge-intensive occupations.

About Sida Liu

Sida Liu is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Toronto. He received his LL.B. from Peking University Law School and his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. Professor Liu has conducted extensive empirical research on China’s legal reform and legal profession. In addition to his empirical work, he also writes on theories of law, professions and social spaces. Professor Liu is a Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, a Vice President of the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies, as well as an affiliated scholar of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute at New York University and the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. In 2016-2017, he was a Member of Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study.

UCI Long US-China Institute & GLAS | Patrick Zheng, "The Future of Arbitration in China" | 2/17/2022

2/17/2022
6:00:00 PM to 8:00:00 PM

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 become an important alternative to litigation in China over the last three decades. There are more than 270 arbitral institutions dealing with hundreds of thousands of cases every year, and the caseloads and quanta of disputes are growing exponentially each year.

China is not an UNCITRAL Model Law regime, and the Chinese Arbitration Law (CAL) has a lot of characteristics unfamiliar to foreign practitioners. The Supreme People’s Court (SPC), in particular, plays a pivotal role in addressing various issues silent or unclear in the CAL.

On 30 July 2021, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of China released proposed revisions to the CAL for public consultation, which will be the first substantial change since its promulgation in 1994. On 21 January 21, 2022, the SPC issued a Memorandum which has made significant changes to judicial review of arbitration and the current arbitration system as a whole.  

In this Seminar, Patrick Zheng, a partner from Llinks Law Offices in Beijing and renowned arbitration and litigation lawyer, will introduce the current legal framework of arbitration in China and will give an in-depth analysis of some key issues and prospects for future development. His topics will include arbitrability, court intervention, finality and res judicata, separability of arbitration agreements, third parties in arbitration, conflict of laws in Chinese arbitration and foreign arbitration institutions in China, among others.

About Patrick Zheng

Patrick Zheng has been active in China's international arbitration community for more than 25 years and he is one of the most well-known and highly regarded international dispute lawyers in China. He was credited by Chambers as a Leading Individual in 2013 and by The Legal 500 as one of the five Leading Individuals in China Dispute Resolution Practice in 2012.

Zheng has significant experience in international arbitration and litigation involving Chinese parties and Chinese law. He handled more than 400 China -seated international cases as counsel or panel arbitrator, including representing nearly one hundred cases before foreign arbitral tribunals and courts. He has extensive experience with CIETAC, LCIA, HKIAC, SIAC, ICC and SCC arbitrations, as well as court litigations in Mainland China, Hong Kong, London and the United States. Some of his notable cases include representing ZTE for US investigation on its alleged violation of sanctions against Iran, representing PetroChina for its arbitration case in SIAC and representing the Government of Yemen against Beijing Urban Construction Group on an ICSID case. He also helped a US client successfully obtain 28 U.S.C Section 1782 application in the United States District Court, Northern District of California in aid of CIETAC arbitration, which was the first ever in the history of Chinese arbitration.

Zheng obtained his LL.B. degree at Fudan University, School of Law and LL.M. degrees at the University of International Business and Economics, School of Law and UC Berkeley School of Law. He is qualified to practice law in China and New York, and is an experienced arbitrator in a number of Chinese and international arbitral institutions.

Global Hong Kong Studies @ UC & GLAS | The Arab Spring Abroad: Implications for Hong Kong

2/15/2022
6:00:00 PM to 7:30:00 PM

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 after exit” in the democratic first world. In this seminar, we will read two chapters of her recent book The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes, and discuss its implications for studying Hong Kong diasporas. Kennedy Wong (University of Southern California) will serve as our commentator to kick off the discussion.

Speaker

Dana Moss (University of Notre Dame) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Her recent book, The Arab Spring Abroad, investigates how and to what extent anti-regime diaspora activists in the US and Great Britain mobilized to support the 2011 uprisings in Libya, Syria, and Yemen. Her article, “Transnational Repression, Diaspora Mobilization, and the Case of the Arab Spring” on Social Problems, received the 2017 Best Scholarly Article Award (ASA Section on Global and Transnational Sociology), Winner of the 2017 Best Article Award (ASA Section on Peace, War & Social Conflict), and Winner of a 2017 Honorable Mention Award for the Louis Wirth Best Article Award (ASA Section on International Migration).

Discussant

Kennedy Chi-pan Wong (University of Southern California) is a Ph.D. Student in Sociology at the University of Southern California. He is conducting ethnographic field research on the Hong Kong immigrant groups in the United States that support the democratic movement in Hong Kong. In particular, he examines how diaspora politics work in everyday actions and clash with local hostland politics. His recent work, “From Helmets to Facemasks” on Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, shows how collective emotions sustain diaspora mobilization from homeland uprising to global pandemic.

You will have access to the book chapters once you register. This is a discussion-only seminar. Please read the book chapters ahead of time.

Event hosted by Global Hong Kong Studies @ University of California and co-sponsored by the UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law, and Society; UCLA Center for Chinese Studies; UCLA Asia Pacific Center; UC San Diego 21th Century China Center; UCI Sociology Department; and UC San Diego International Institute. 

Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Gregory Shaffer

2/11/2022
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM

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 International Economic Law (Cambridge 2021).

The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts.  The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.

If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.

Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Spring is TBD. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2022 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.

Confronting American Health Disparities: Race, Class, and Maternal Mortality in the United States

2/9/2022
5:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM

In this year-long series, Confronting American Health Disparities, we amplify urgent health concerns related to women and LGBTQ communities. In the United States, health disparities track along nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery, too often resulting in unequal treatment, poor health outcomes, and sadly, even death. From birth to death, race, sex, disability and LGBTQ discrimination interferes with achieving wellness and wellbeing. This series takes up these important concerns and centers racial, reproductive, disability, and socioeconomic justice as imperative to a healthy and well-functioning democracy. 

This event is the first in a multipart series that addresses the urgency of health disparities in the United States. This event features speakers Nourbese Flint, Dr. Tabetha Harken, Judge Glenda Hatchett, and Charles S. Johnson, IV to discuss issues at the intersection of race, sex, and class related to maternal mortality. According to the CDC, about 700 women die each year in the United States as a result of pregnancy or delivery complications. Maternal mortality affects pregnant women of all races and classes but the effects on women of color and women of lower socio-economic groups is staggering. As more and more women are being forced by the state to endure pregnancy and labor, the urgency of this issue comes to the fore. The panelist will explore what these issues mean in medicine, society, and law, drawing from personal and professional experiences. 

This event is eligible for Continuing Legal Education credit. To obtain certification, please contact CWLC at cwlc@cwlc.org.

Please join us for the rest of the Series: 

Confronting American Health Disparities: Access to Abortion and Health Care in the United States – April 6, 2022, 5:00 PM PST | 8:00 PM EST

Confronting American Health Disparities: Title X and Access to Contraception in the United States – June 8, 2022, 5:00 PM PST | 8:00 PM EST

Confronting American Health Disparities: Social Determinant of Health and Well-being – September 7, 2022, 5:00 PM PST | 8:00 PM EST

Confronting American Health Disparities: Crisis Pregnancy – October 14, 2022, 5:00 PM PST | 8:00 PM EST

Fair Elections and Free Speech Center | A Conversation with 2021 Nobel Prize Laureate Maria Ressa

2/2/2022
5:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM

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 her advocacy in the global fight for freedom of expression. Founder and CEO of the innovative digital news outlet in Manila, Rappler.Com, Ressa has brought her fight for journalism to a global audience, from national capitals to Facebook.

In this special event, Ressa will be in conversation with Professor David Kaye. They will explore the themes of her Nobel Lecture, the struggles she wages for press freedom and the roles and responsibilities of the dominant social media platforms.

About Maria Ressa
A journalist in Asia for more than 35 years, Maria Ressa co-founded Rappler, the top digital only news site that is leading the fight for press freedom in the Philippines. As Rappler's CEO and president, Maria has endured constant political harassment and arrests by the Duterte government, forced to post bail ten times to stay free. Rappler's battle for truth and democracy is the subject of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival documentary, A Thousand Cuts.

In October 2021, Maria was one of two journalists awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her "efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace." Read more >

Co-sponsored by the UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law, and Society

Fair Elections and Free Speech Center | Global Elections III: Hong Kong

11/30/2021
12:15:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM

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 protest, debate, and independent media. The next Hong Kong legislative elections, scheduled for December 19^th, will thus be taking place in a new environment of repression. With leading analysts and commentators, we will explore the particular challenges posed to democracy activists, social media companies, and others in the contest of Hong Kong’s elections.

Co-sponsored by the Center on Globalization, Law, and Society

Speakers Include:

Glacier Kwong
Glacier Kwong is a political activist from Hong Kong. She is a PhD candidate in law at the University of Hamburg. She is also currently the Digital Rights Research Fellow at Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC), a leading organization for the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong and Hong Kongers overseas led by fellow activist Samuel Chu. Previously, she was the spokesperson of the non- governmental organization (NGO) Keyboard Frontline, monitoring privacy abuses and censorship on the web.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is the author of Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (Columbia Global Reports, 2020) as well as five earlier books. He is Chancellor's Professor of History at UC Irvine, where he also plays a leading role in the Forum for the Academy and the Public and holds a courtesy appointment in the School of Law.

Moderated by Melissa Chan
Melissa Chan is an Emmy-nominated journalist based between Los Angeles and Berlin. She has reported everywhere from Cuba to Canada, Mongolia to Moscow, North and South Korea. These days she focuses on transnational issues, often involving China’s influence beyond its borders. She has written for The New York Times where she was nominated for a Loeb Award — business journalism’s highest honor — and for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Time, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and more. As a contributor to the Vancouver-based Global Reporting Centre, she investigates the complexities of global trade and its costs on ordinary people.

UCI Long US-China Institute & GLAS | Shen Wei, Decoding Chinese Bilateral Investment Treaties

11/18/2021
6:00:00 PM to 7:00:00 PM

This webinar will investigate China’s bilateral investment treaties (BITs) regime through various approaches, including textual analysis, case study, comparative study and empirical study. The general consensus is that the evolution of China’s BIT regime has its underlying logic, which follows an investment liberalization trend and fits China’s changing role from a key capital-importing state to a major capital-exporting state. A similar trend is evident in Chinese BIT- making and BIT policy. In this talk, Professor Shen Wei  investigates these theoretical assumptions and looks into some of the loopholes in Chinese BITs.

About Shen Wei

Shen Wei is KoGuan Distinguished Professor of Law at Shanghai Jiaotong University Law School, Global Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, and L. Bates Lea Professor of Law at Michigan Law School. He is an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and has written and edited 10 books and more than 200 articles in English and Chinese journals.

UCI Long US-China Institute & GLAS | Angela Zhang, China’s Great Reversal in Regulating the Platform Economy

10/14/2021
5:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM

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 Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation (Oxford University Press) and new article Agility Over Stability: China’s Great Reversal in Regulating the Platform Economy to unravel the complicated dynamics in the Chinese regulatory process.

About Angela Zhang

Angela Zhang is an associate professor of law and the director of the Centre for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong.  An award-winning legal scholar, Angela is a highly sought-after commentator on Chinese antitrust issues. Before joining the University of Hong Kong, Angela taught at King’s College London and practiced law for six years in the United States, Europe, and Asia.  To learn more about Angela, visit: angelazhang.net

Fair Elections and Free Speech Center | Global Elections II: Germany

9/20/2021
8:00:00 AM to 9:00:00 AM

Germany faces its most important election in a generation, as the September 26^th ballot is the first one that Chancellor Angela Merkel will not contest since she became Germany’s leader in 2005. The country goes to the polls at a time of increased popularity of the far right, as disinformation and hate speech are major concerns, and with new social media laws seeking to frame the landscape of democratic debate. We will drill down into the intersection of democracy and digital politics with a preview of the election’s challenges. Experts in German politics, law, and digital space will participate in this conversation.

Speakers Include:

Sabine Frank, Head of Governmental Affairs and Public Policy YouTube DACH/CEE, Google Germany
Sabine Frank has been Head of Government Affairs and Public Policy for YouTube in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Central and Eastern Europe since March 2020. Before that, she was in charge of regulation, and consumer and youth protection in the Google policy team in Germany. Before joining Google, she was the full-time managing director of the association "Voluntary Self-Control Multimedia Service Providers eV" (FSM) for more than 10 years. As part of her job, Frank currently holds a number of honorary positions, including being a member of the advisory board of klicksafe and deputy chairwoman of the board of the FSM.

Falk Steiner, Journalist, Berlin
Falk Steiner worked as Senior Expert for digitalization in the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Megatrends program. He grew up with home computers, since the mid-1990s with TCP/IP stack, and studied political science in Bonn and Berlin, focusing on digital, European, foreign, and security policy, and the history of political ideas. Before joining the Bertelsmann Stiftung, he spent six years as a correspondent for Deutschlandfunk in Berlin, covering political and digital debates.

Natascha Strobl, Political Scientist, Vienna
Natascha Strobl, born in Vienna in 1985, is a political scientist and Scandinavian scholar. Under #NatsAnalyse, she writes analyses on right-wing extremism, in particular on the identitarians and the new right. In addition to her numerous articles written on her topic, she also gives many lectures and workshops. She can be found on Twitter at @natascha_strobl.

Moderated by Christian Mihr, Executive Director of Reporters Without Borders Germany RSF Germany
Christian Mihr has been the Executive Director of Reporters Without Borders Germany (RSF Germany) since 2012. He deals with questions of cyber censorship and online surveillance, online safety, press freedom in the digital age, media pluralism and the accountability of intelligence services in the digital world, as well as promoting the public sphere with access to information laws. His current job at RSF has global reach, with special interest in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Russia. Prior to joining RSF Germany, Christian worked as an editor and freelancer for several print- and online-media in Germany and Ecuador, and as a journalism trainer in Southern Russia. He studied journalism with a specialization in Latin American Studies and Political Science at the Catholic University of Eichstätt- Ingolstadt and the University of Santiago de Chile.

With introductory remarks by:
Fair Elections and Free Speech Center Co-Director David Kaye

Co-sponsored by the UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law, and Society

GLAS & CBGHP | Colonialism, Capitalism, and Race in International Law

9/18/2021

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 the construction of race in international law (both historically and contemporaneously) and thus its ongoing legacy.  We combine this with a look forward at the role that international law (has and) could play as a normative resource to address and redress institutionalized racial discrimination within countries.

Speakers Include:

Tendayi Achiume, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Jose Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law, NYU School of Law
Thiago de Souza Amparo, Professor, FGV Direito SP
James Anaya, University Distinguished Professor and Nicholas Doman Professor of International Law, University of Colorado Law School
Penelope Andrews, Professor of Law, New York Law School
Antony Anghie, Professor, The University of Utah College of Law
Asli Bali, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
James Cavallaro, Co-Founder and Executive Director, University Network for Human Rights
James Gathii, Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law and Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Hirokazu Miyazaki, Kay Davis Professor, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
KS Park, Professor of Law, Korea University School of Law
Catherine Powell, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Sergio Puig, Professor of Law, The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Annelise Riles, Executive Director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies and Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzerk School of Law
Silvia Serrano Guzmán, Associate Director of the Healthy Families Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown Law
Matiangai Sirleaf, Nathan Patz Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Anna Spain Bradley, Professor of Law and Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, UCLA School of Law
Dire Tladi, Professor of International Law, University of Pretoria

GLAS & CBGHP | Colonialism, Capitalism, and Race in International Law

9/17/2021

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 the construction of race in international law (both historically and contemporaneously) and thus its ongoing legacy.  We combine this with a look forward at the role that international law (has and) could play as a normative resource to address and redress institutionalized racial discrimination within countries.

Speakers Include:

Tendayi Achiume, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Jose Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law, NYU School of Law
Thiago de Souza Amparo, Professor, FGV Direito SP
James Anaya, University Distinguished Professor and Nicholas Doman Professor of International Law, University of Colorado Law School
Penelope Andrews, Professor of Law, New York Law School
Antony Anghie, Professor, The University of Utah College of Law
Asli Bali, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
James Cavallaro, Co-Founder and Executive Director, University Network for Human Rights
James Gathii, Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law and Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Hirokazu Miyazaki, Kay Davis Professor, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
KS Park, Professor of Law, Korea University School of Law
Catherine Powell, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Sergio Puig, Professor of Law, The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Annelise Riles, Executive Director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies and Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzerk School of Law
Silvia Serrano Guzmán, Associate Director of the Healthy Families Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown Law
Matiangai Sirleaf, Nathan Patz Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Anna Spain Bradley, Professor of Law and Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, UCLA School of Law
Dire Tladi, Professor of International Law, University of Pretoria

Supreme Court Review: The State of Reproductive Rights and Justice in America

9/14/2021
5:30:00 PM to 6:45:00 PM

• Michele Bratcher Goodwin, Chancellor's Professor of Law & Founding Director, Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy, author, Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood
• Joia Crear-Perry, MD, FACOG, and Founder and President, National Birth Equity Collaborative
• Tabetha Harken, MD, MPH, Professor and Division Director, Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCI Medical School
• Lisa Ikemoto, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
• Mary Ziegler, Stearns Weaver Miller Professor, Florida State University College of Law, author, Abortion and The Law in America: Roe v. Wade To The Present

Moderator:

• Tanya Acker, Judge, CBS Television Show, Hot Bench and Host, "The Tanya Acker Show"

Presented by UCI Law and the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy.

Reference materials:

Michele Goodwin, Policing the Womb: The New Race & Class Politics of Reproduction (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Michele Goodwin, Constitutional Gerrymandering Against Abortion Rights, 94 NYU L. Rev. 61 (2019) (with Erwin Chemerinsky).

Michele Goodwin, Abortion: A Woman’s Private Choice, 95 Tex. L. Rev. 1189 (2017) (with Erwin Chemerinsky) (reprinted in 2018 Edition of Women and the Law, Tracy Thomas eds.).

Michele Goodwin, Fetal Protection Laws: Moral Panic and the New Constitutional Battlefront, 102 Calif. L. Rev. 781 (2014).

Media:

Ms. Magazine: The Texas Abortion Ban Is History Revisited 

Slate: The Sinister Origins of the Texas Abortion Law, and Why Democrats Are So Unprepared to Do Anything About It (with Dahlia Lithwick)

KQED: By 5-4 Vote, Supreme Court Refuses to Block Texas Abortion Law, Most Restrictive in Nation

Letters and Politics: Talking Reproductive Rights: The Future, the Present and the Past.

Bloomberg News: After Texas Abortion Ruling, Progressives Brace for SCOTUS Term 

KPCC 89.3: What Texas’ 6-Week Abortion Ban Might Mean for Roe v . Wade Means for Roe 

The Times of India: Guns for hire: New US abortion law sparks debate on bounty hunters 

France News Live: Pourquoi le Texas Abortion Restriction Act ravive le débat des chasseurs de primes 

La Nacion: Nueva ley antiaborto de EE. UU. suscita un debate sobre los cazarrecompensas 

Le Monde: La très restrictive loi sur l’avortement au Texas rappelle que les chasseurs de primes existent toujours aux Etats- Unis 

KPFA: Talking Reproductive Rights: The Future, the Present, and the Past

Fair Elections and Free Speech Center | Global Elections I: Israel, The Netherlands & Uganda

9/1/2021
12:15:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM

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 have shown the challenges to a fair ballot in the digital age. We will kick off our global discussion of these challenges, and the steps governments and social media companies should be taking, with a focus on elections in Israel, The Netherlands, and Uganda, examining examples of the prevalence of disinformation and the role of social media.

Speakers include:
Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, Senior Fellow; Head, Democracy in the Information Age Program, The Israel Democracy Institute
Lillian Nalwoga, Programme Manager, Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)
Alice Stollmeyer, Founder & Executive Director, Defend Democracy

Co-sponsored by the Center on Globalization, Law, and Society

GLAS | Challenging Trump's WeChat Ban, Hosted by UCI Long U.S.-China Institute

4/5/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM

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

Advancing Women's Equality: Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice

3/10/2021
10:00:00 AM to 11:00:00 AM

This program is part of a four-part 2021 series: Advancing Women's Equality: Confronting Barriers to Full Inclusion and Progress. In this series, we address women's status in the United States through a civil liberties lens, examining how histories of race, sex, immigration, and LGBTQ discrimination undermine constitutional equality. The series identifies historic and contemporary legal and social barriers to women's advancement and identifies pathways forward.

Our program on March 10, 2021, Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice, features Michele Goodwin (ACLU of MN and National Executive Committee Member); Priscilla Ocen (Professor of Law and co-author of the influential policy report, Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected ); June Carbone. (ACLU of MN, Professor of Law, and author of Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture); Priscilla Smith (Clinical Lecturer at Yale Law School and pathbreaking reproductive rights attorney); and Alanah Odoms (Executive Director of the ACLU of Louisiana). They will engage in a robust discussion about the future of Roe v. Wade, how the Supreme Court might rule on litigation in the pipeline, and offer insights on the current state of affairs related to reproductive liberties and justice, paying close attention to class, race, LGBTQ status, and disability rights.

Reckoning and Reconciliation: Art, Architecture, and Culture in Contested Sites and Bodies

2/19/2021
9:00:00 AM to 12:00:00 PM

Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy at the University of California, Irvine School of Law and the UConn Law School co- host Reckoning and Reconciliation: Art, Architecture, and Culture in Contested Sites and Bodies.  This online symposium. will consist of three, hour-long panels related to art, architecture, and culture respectively.

Additional details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reckoning-reconciliation-art-architecture-culture-in- contested-sites-tickets-140451079961 

UCI Careers in International Law Panel

2/9/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM

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 Law Panel. The event will feature the following speakers: 
Sarah Hafeez (https://www.pillsburylaw.com/en/lawyers/sahar-hafeez.html) ;
Citlalli Ochoa (https://ijrcenter.org/about/who-we-are/citlalli-ochoa/)
Luke Boughen (https://www.f3law.com/images/attorneys/pdf/Luke_Boughen.pdf) ;
Please mark your calendars for what will be a great event!

Race, Sex, and Policing

2/8/2021
10:00:00 AM to 11:00:00 AM

CBGHP and ACLU-MN present "Race, Sex, and Policing" the second in a four part series

This program is part of a four-part 2021 series: Advancing Women's Equality: Confronting Barriers to Full Inclusion and Progress. In this series, we address women's status in the United States through a civil liberties lens, examining how histories of race, sex, immigration, and LGBTQ discrimination undermine constitutional equality. The series identifies historic and contemporary legal and social barriers to women's advancement and identifies pathways forward.

Our program on February 8, 2021, Race, Sex, and Policing in America features Michele Goodwin (ACLU of MN and National Executive Committee Member); Nusrat Choudhury, the Roger Pascal Legal Director of the ACLU of Illinois; Amy Fettig, the Executive Director of the Sentencing Project; and Judge Glenda Hatchett, former Chief Presiding Judge and department head of one of the largest juvenile systems in the nation.

Their conversation will grapple with the historic and modern-day challenges involving women, policing, and incarceration. What are the lessons that can be learned from a history of policing rooted in race and sex discrimination? How have money-bail systems affected women? How does policing affect women even after they've been incarcerated, such as in cases of solitary confinement? This program addresses the glaring lack of consideration given to how policing is perceived, which results in rendering women invisible as victims and targets in the criminal justice system. 

Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Swethaa Ballakrishnen

1/22/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM

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 Professional Elite."

The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts.  The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.

If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.

Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.

Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Ji Li

1/15/2021
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM

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 Legal System ."

The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts.  The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.

If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list and would like to receive a copy of the paper, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.

Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.

Advancing Women's Equality "Women, Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice"

1/13/2021
10:00:00 AM to 11:00:00 AM

U.S. prisons, detention centers, and jails can be deadly for women. Physical and sexual violence and medical neglect are common experiences for incarcerated women.  

Women, Mass Incarceration, and Criminal Justice, features a robust discussion about how mass incarceration affects women's lives, including their reproductive health and rights. They explain how histories of racial and sexual discrimination result in the mass incarceration of vulnerable women and they explore the tragic consequences for incarcerated women, including shackling, forced sterilizations, denial of medical care, and sexual violence.

FEATURING:

• Aziza Ahmed, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
• Cynthia Chandler, ESQ., Co-Founder, Critical Resistance and Justice Now
• Michele Goodwin, ACLU of MN & National Board Executive Committee Member
• Erika Cohn, Documentary Filmmaker & Director Belly of the Beast

REGISTER at: https://bit.ly/37x3CUn

GLAS | Recalibrating International Trade Law

12/7/2020
10:00:00 AM to 12:00:00 PM

This workshop brings together leading scholars from around the world to discuss recalibrating international trade law in light of US-China relations. Agenda >

Participants Include:

Julian Arato
Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School

Rachel Brewster
Jeffrey and Bettysue Hughes Professor of Law
Duke Law

Henrique Choer Moraes
Diplomat
Embassy of Brazil

Kathleen Claussen
Associate Professor of Law
University of Miami School of Law

Harlan Cohen
Gabriel M. Wilner/UGA Foundation Professor in International Law
University of Georgia School of Law

J. Benton Heath
Assistant Professor of Law
Temple University Beasley School of Law

Kristen Hopewell
Canada Research Chair in Public Policy
University of British Columbia

Robert Howse
Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law
NYU Law

Jeff Kucik
Associate Professor of Political Science and Law (by courtesy)
The University of Arizona

Nicholas Lamp
Assistant Professor
Queen's University Faculty of Law

Timothy Meyer
Professor of Law
Vanderbilt Law School

Serio Puig
Professor of Law
The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

Anthea Roberts
Professor
Australian National University School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet)

Sonia Rolland
Professor of Law
Northeastern University School of Law

Gregory Shaffer
Chancellor's Professor of Law
UCI Law

Mark Wu
Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law
Harvard Law School

CBGHP | Women on the Frontlines: COVID and Beyond

10/30/2020
8:00:00 AM to 10:00:00 AM

This year, the Cornell Law Review will host, Women on the Frontlines: COVID and Beyond,  an online symposium that examines the political, economic, social, and legal status of women. The symposium makes interventions along the lines of sex, race, and class to understand the persistence of women’s inequality and invisibility at a critical juncture in American history marked by both the 150^th and 100^th year anniversaries of the 15^th and 19^th Amendments, respectively, as well as troubling contemporary times demarcated by the COVID-19 pandemic, political turmoil, and racial unrest.  As the authors show, the pandemic exacerbates underlying systemic patterns of discrimination against women. 

The Cornell Law Review cultivates this special symposium at a critical juncture in American history and as such, brings to light the various ways in which women consistently labor and serve at the forefronts of society, constituting the foundation of essential workers, performing critical services from child to medical care.  Yet, even during pandemic, women, especially women of color, suffer persistent economic constraints; health and death disparities; obstruction of rights; and the troubling perceptions of fungibility and expendability.  The symposium takes up these compelling issues and more to elevate the discourse about the role of women and pathways toward a more just society.  

Additional Details: https://bit.ly/375nJce

Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Laura Enriquez

10/30/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM

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 Affects Romance and Family."

The Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working at the intersections of law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts.  The Workshop also features a series of book talks, in which authors will discuss their recently published work.

If you are not on the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture mailing list, or to request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please e-mail centers@law.uci.edu.

Thank you for your support of the Socio-Legal Studies Workshops. In anticipation of continued restrictions on in-person gatherings, fall workshops are currently scheduled on Zoom. Links will be provided in confirmation emails upon registration. Updates with any changes for fall, as well as registration details for 2021 workshops, will be circulated as additional campus guidance is provided.

GLAS | Joseph DiMento, "Polar Shift: The Arctic Sustained"

10/22/2020
12:30:00 PM to 1:45:00 PM

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 they hear Arctic? Even among well-versed global watchers the Arctic is not well known. It is a region of 37 million square kilometers with its lands; several million people including members of hundreds of indigenous peoples groups; of reindeer, walrus and seals; a few cities, some very industrial, of tens of thousands of people; of tundra and  forests; numerous tiny settlements including the most northern in the world; and nuclear-fueled icebreakers.

In this talk, DiMento will address the present conditions of the Arctic and lay out what its future could be: pristine, developed, populated, or “sustained”—based on our responses to environmental changes and what we mean by, and work  to, “sustain.”  He will describe briefly the environmental and social trends in the region and conflicts that arise therein. He will explain societal collective activity [rules and civil society] to influence the future of the Arctic and how conflicts are [often] resolved.  What a good or less good future for the region looks like is in one sense a subjective conclusion. Does it matter if the Arctic becomes more temperate or a place where traditional practices are modified aiming to improve standard of living?  Another view demands assessment that is less subjective.

The 1619 Project: Intersecting Realities: Health, Race, and the Ongoing Legacies of Slavery and Jim Crow

10/15/2020
5:00:00 PM to 6:30:00 PM

Moderator:  Gwendolyn R. Majette (Cleveland-Marshall College of Law)

Speakers:

• Sabrina Strings (Sociology)
• Candice Taylor Lucas (Health Sciences)
• Michele Goodwin (Law)
This event is 60 minutes and will include a Q&A session. For those who are interested, please stay for a bonus 30 minute facilitated discussion.

Discussion Facilitators:

• Srimayee Basu (English)
• Sherine Hamdy (Anthropology)

Suggested Podcast/Readings:

• The 1619 podcast episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started
• Janeen Interlandi, “Why doesn’t the United States have universal health care? The answer has everything to do with race,” pp. 44-45
• Linda Villarosa, “Myths about physical racial differences were used to justify slavery - and are still believed by doctors today," pp. 56-57
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad, “The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric gustiest as the ‘white gold’ that fuels slavery," pp. 70-77

To read the 1619 Project, see:  (www.pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf) To access the podcasts, see: (https://guides.lib.uci.edu/oceanproject)
To participate in The 1619 Project in 2020: Student Showcase (one minute reflection videos eligible for gift card drawings), see: bit.ly/1619Showcase

The 1619 Project in 2020
#UCI1619Project

The 1619 Project, published by the New York Times, retells the history of the U.S. by foregrounding the arrival 401 years ago of enslaved Africans to Virginia. Through a series of essays, photos, and podcasts, the 1619 Project charts the impact of slavery on the country’s founding principles, economy, health care system, racial segregation of neighborhoods and schools, popular music and visual representations. Conversations around the 1619 project have served as a flashpoint for intensive ideological debates about its content and impact. It has been both widely lauded and subjected to critiques from academics, journalists, pundits and policymakers who challenge its accuracy and its interpretation of history. Conservative politicians even seek to defund schools that teach the project. What is the power of the 1619 Project to reframe our understanding of U.S. history and our contemporary society? How might we go beyond the 1619 Project to develop an even fuller understanding of the centrality of slavery and race in the U.S. and in the broader Atlantic world?  Join us for month plus exploration of The 1619 Project, which culminates in the visit of Nikole Hannah- Jones, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the project.

The 1619 Project series is presented by UCI Humanities Center and is co-sponsored by: UCI Illuminations: The Chancellor’s Arts & Culture Initiative, UCI Black Thriving Initiative, School of Humanities, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, School of Education, School of Law, School of Social Ecology, School of Social Sciences, UCI Libraries, Academic English, Composition Program, Center for Latin American Studies, Center on Law, Equality, and Race, Center for Medical Humanities, International Center for Writing and Translation, Literary Journalism and Center for Storytelling, Office of Inclusive Excellence, Student Affairs, Staff Assembly, AAPI Womxn in Leadership and Academic and Professional Women of UCI.

GLAS/ILJ | Transnational Legal Ordering of Privacy and Speech

9/12/2020
8:00:00 AM to 12:00:00 PM

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 of private companies and governments at the intersection of privacy and freedom of expression and opinion.

As of now, regulatory pressure on the companies has involved either privacy or content (i.e., expression). But in recent years, there has been increasing pressure on companies that have implications for privacy and expression. For instance, in the context of GDPR in Europe, efforts to protect personal data are clashing with desires to increase research access to platforms, especially social media. In the context of the surveillance industry, where targeted monitoring interferes with both privacy and communications, regulatory efforts will have to overcome hurdles of secrecy and national security claims. In the context of developments of Artificial Intelligence, massive problems of privacy and data may give rise to new significant problems of bias and discrimination, including in areas pertaining to speech. This symposium will address the intersection of privacy and speech.  It will examine how norms and policies develop in the private sector, key states, and through international organizations and transnational networks. It will evaluate, in part, how norms and practices developed in the private sector can shape public law norms, and how public law norms shape private sector practices. It will assess these developments in transnational and global context in terms of processes of transnational normative development and legal ordering through private practice (including different forms of regulation by algorithms) and public law.

View full schedule and participant list >.

GLAS/ILJ | Transnational Legal Ordering of Privacy and Speech

9/11/2020
8:00:00 AM to 3:00:00 PM

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 of private companies and governments at the intersection of privacy and freedom of expression and opinion.
 

As of now, regulatory pressure on the companies has involved either privacy or content (i.e., expression). But in recent years, there has been increasing pressure on companies that have implications for privacy and expression. For instance, in the context of GDPR in Europe, efforts to protect personal data are clashing with desires to increase research access to platforms, especially social media. In the context of the surveillance industry, where targeted monitoring interferes with both privacy and communications, regulatory efforts will have to overcome hurdles of secrecy and national security claims. In the context of developments of Artificial Intelligence, massive problems of privacy and data may give rise to new significant problems of bias and discrimination, including in areas pertaining to speech. This symposium will address the intersection of privacy and speech.  It will examine how norms and policies develop in the private sector, key states, and through international organizations and transnational networks. It will evaluate, in part, how norms and practices developed in the private sector can shape public law norms, and how public law norms shape private sector practices. It will assess these developments in transnational and global context in terms of processes of transnational normative development and legal ordering through private practice (including different forms of regulation by algorithms) and public law.

View full schedule and participant list >

COVID-19 Presentation & Panel: SCRC Experts Address COVID-19 Pandemic

5/14/2020
7:00:00 PM to 8:00:00 PM

Virtual Presentation
Thursday, May 14, 2020
7PM - 8PM, PST


Facebook: www.facebook.com/UCIStemCell
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/UCITLTC
You do not need to join/log into Facebook or Youtube to access the livestream.

For SCRC COVID-19 news, visit www.stemcell.uci.edu/News/covid_19 _news.php.

Featuring:
Ming Tan, MD
Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases
Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Introduction to SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19

Ed Monuki, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair
Pathology & Lab Medicine
Current Status of Testing for COVID-19

Michele Goodwin, JD, LLM, SJD
Chancellor's Professor
Director, Center for Biotech & Global Health Policy
Bioethics of Reopening Society

Daniela Bota, MD, PhD
UCI ASCC Director
Senior Associate
Dean for Clinical Research
COVID-19 Clinical Trial Landscape

Gross Hall: A CIRM Institute | www.stemcell.uci.edu

 

COVID-19 & the Law: Quarantine and the Limits of Government Action

5/13/2020
5:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM

Join us on May 13th at 5:00 PM (PST), in an intellectual webinar featuring UCI Law Prof. Michele Goodwin and moderated by UCI Foundation Chair, and UCI Law Board of Visitor Member, Julie Hill. Topic: "Quarantine and the Limits of Government Action."

CLE credit available.

Webinar details will be emailed to those who RSVP.

CBGHP Live Panel Discussion: Reproductive Health & Rights in a Time of Coronavirus

5/12/2020
5:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM

Reproductive Health and Rights in the Time of COVID 
 

With the Supreme Court on the verge of deciding the fate of Roe v. Wade, with opponents of reproductive rights exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to further deny access to abortion and birth control, and with pregnant women in the U.S. at increased risk of dying, our hour-long discussion about the impact of this global pandemic on reproductive health and rights - May 12th (8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT) -  is a MUST WATCH EVENT. 

Civia Tamarkin, director, Birthright: A War Story, will be joined by:

• Michele Goodwin, author of Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood, Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine
• Mary Ziegler, author of Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v Wade to the Present and professor at Florida State University College of Law, specializing in the legal history of reproduction, the family, sexuality, and the Constitution
•  Dr. Amy Addante, OB/GYN, Physicians for Reproductive Health Leadership Training Academy
   

Watch the film.

Confronting Maternal Mortality

3/11/2020
6:00:00 PM to 7:30:00 PM
Feminist Majority Foundation
433 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90212

This event takes place off campus.

Maternal mortality is a devastating issue, which now disproportionately affects American women.  The United States now leads the developed world as the nation with the highest rate of maternal deaths.  In fact, Texas is considered the deadliest place in all of the developed world for a pregnant woman.  The rate of maternal deaths in the United States surpasses England, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, and all other peer nations.  Indeed, the United States ranks among a very small set of nations where the maternal mortality rate has actually increased in recent years.  For women of color, the dangers of carrying a pregnancy to term is even more grave.  Black women are 3.5 times more likely on average to die during or shortly after giving birth than their white counterparts.  In some southern states, pregnant Black women are five to seventeen times more likely to die than their white counterparts due to maternal mortality.

This important arm-chair discussion brings the urgency of these matters into focus.  Moderated by Chancellor's Professor Michele Goodwin, we will be joined by esteemed guests whose personal experiences and expertise help to inform the content and contexts of these issues.

A Conversation on Protecting Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in Times of Political Crisis

3/5/2020
4:00:00 PM to 6:30:00 PM
Beckman Center
100 Academy Way

GLAS | Emerging Powers and the World Trading System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law

2/29/2020
8:00:00 AM to 4:00:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000

This workshop brings together leading scholars to address the shifting dynamics within the world trading system—both between and among states and institutions, and in terms of the intersecting domains of politics, economics, and law. Participants discuss the current state of play within the international economic order, considering how this ordering has taken place, and what is at stake for its future.

Participants

Swethaa Ballakrishnen
Assistant Professor of Law and (by courtesy) Sociology
UCI School of Law

Rachel Brewster
Jeffrey and Bettysue Hughes Professor of Law
Duke University School of Law

Kathleen Claussen
Associate Professor of Law
University of Miami School of Law

Joseph Conti
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jacques deLisle
Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law & Professor of Political Science
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Jennifer Hillman
Senior Fellow for Trade and International Political Economy
Council on Foreign Relations

Nicolas Lamp
Assistant Professor
Queen's University Faculty of Law

Ji Li
John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law
UCI School of Law

Tim Meyer
Professor of Law Vanderbilt Law School Sonia Rolland Professor of Law
Northeastern University School of Law

Wayne Sandholtz
John A. McCone Chair in International Relations and Professor of International Relations and Law
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Alvaro Santos
Professor of Law
Georgetown Law

Gregory Shaffer
Chancellor’s Professor of Law and
Director, Center on Globalization, Law, and Society
UCI School of Law

Christopher Whytock
Vice Dean and Professor of Law
UCI School of Law

Claire Wright
Visiting Professor of Law
UCI School of Law

Mark Wu
Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law
Harvard Law School

Saving Lives Through Gun Violence Restraining Orders

2/28/2020
12:00:00 PM to 5:00:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000

Co-sponsored by Brady Orange County, UCI Law, UCI Initiative to End Family Violence, and UCI Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy

You can always give back a gun, but you can’t give back a life: that’s the principle behind Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) laws. This little-known and recently enacted tool enables the people closest to someone in crisis to act before tragedy strikes. GVROs (often called “extreme risk protection orders”) provide family members, household members, and law enforcement with a civil court process for temporarily removing firearms and ammunition from someone who poses a significant risk of harm to themselves or others. GVROs, which also prohibit firearm purchases for the duration of the order, are intended to create safer circumstances for individuals at risk of harm to seek treatment and access resources while preventing firearm fatalities.

This conference recognizes the uniquely American epidemic of gun violence and how easy access to firearms is a significant risk factor for injury and death, particularly for individuals in crisis. Researchers and practitioners from across California will explore opportunities and challenges to utilizing GVROs, including in the context of family violence, and potential for the GVRO remedy to save countless lives.

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Amy Barnhorst

Vice Chair for Community Mental Health

UC Davis Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Featured Speakers

Nicole R. Crosby

Chief Deputy City Attorney

San Diego City Attorney’s Office

John C. Hemmerling

Assistant City Attorney

San Diego City Attorney’s Office

Jane Stoever

Clinical Professor of Law

Director, Domestic Violence Clinic

Director, UCI Initiative to End Family Violence

UCI School of Law

Julia Weber

Gun Violence Restraining Order Implementation Fellow

Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence

Camiella Williams

Trustee

Prairie State College

National Organizer

Fight4AFuture Network

Lunch and refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. UCI guest parking is $2/hour. To request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please contact centers@law.uci.edu.

4.0 hours of MCLE credit approved by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.

IJC & GLAS | Rebecca MacKinnon, "Rebooting U.S. Global Internet Policy for Democracy and Human Rights"

2/20/2020
5:00:00 PM to 6:30:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000

How should American policy promote and protect internet freedom? Can human rights provide a framework for constraining the behavior of technology companies? What would a ‘reboot’ of U.S. internet policy look like after Trump?

Join us for a lecture and discussion with Rebecca MacKinnon, one of the leading voices for human rights online. MacKinnon, a fellow with the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, is the founder and director of Ranking Digital Rights and a co-founder of Global Voices. Her 2012 book, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom, was one of the first to address the way in which governments were beginning to use the internet to interfere with fundamental rights. She serves on the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists and was a founding member of the Global Network Initiative. Rebecca, fluent in Mandarin Chinese, was CNN’s Beijing bureau chief from 1998-2001 and Japan bureau chief from 2001-2003. She has held fellowships at the New America Foundation, Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the Open Society Foundation, and Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy.

Supported by the UCI Law International Justice Clinic and Center on Globalization, Law, and Society.

Borders & Belonging: Can a Woman be Elected President? A Conversation that Matters

2/18/2020
11:30:00 AM to 1:00:00 PM
HG 1010 and 1030

2020 is the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote in the United States.  But, what is the difference between having the legal right to suffrage (for some women) and the actual practice of political power?  Join us for the "Conversations that Matter: Borders & Belonging" Series, sponsored by the UCI Humanities Center.

11:30 Lunch in HG 1010 (Please rsvp by February 11: bit.ly/MsPresident)
Noon, HG 1030 Roundtable Conversation

Susan Masten, Current Vice- Chair and former Chair of the Yurok Tribe, past President of the National Congress of American Indians, Founder and Co-President of Women Empowering Women for Indigenous Nations

Melissa Ramoso, UCI Alumna, "proud Filipino American," only female council member of Artesia City, and State Chair of the Asian Pacific Islander Caucus of the California Democratic Party 

Kaaryn Gustafson, UCI Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Academic Community Engagement

Co-sponsored by Womxn's Hub, Center on Law, Equality, and Race, Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, Office of Inclusive Excellence, Asian American Pacific Islander Staff Association, AAPI Womxn in Leadership, Academic & Professional Women of UCI, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Illuminations

CBGHP Colloquia - Book Talk with Christopher Lehman

2/13/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000

Join Chancellor's Professor Michele Goodwin and Professor Christopher P. Lehman in conversation about his latest book,  Slavery's Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State, which explores the flow of money from southern slave plantations to Minnesota’s business and real estate properties, exposing the hidden history of northern complicity in building slaveholder wealth.

After the event, copies of Professor Lehman’s book will be available for purchase and signing.

Christopher P. Lehman is a professor of ethnic studies at St. Cloud State University and currently serves as chair of the Department of Ethnic, Gender, and Women's Studies. In the summer of 2011, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University for the National Endowment for the Humanities's Institute "African American Struggles for Freedom and Civil Rights, 1865-1965." He is the author of six books, the most recent of which is "Slavery's Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State."

This event is free and open to the public. 

Light lunch will be served. 

Please RSVP, as space is limited. 

Map and Directions

 UCI guest parking is $2/hour.

Careers in International Law

2/12/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

This event will feature attorneys from the area who specialize in international business transaction and litigation. These attorneys will be here to answer students’ questions about what a career focusing in international law looks like and what it takes to become a successful international law practitioner.

An Intimate Conversation With Ruha Benjamin On Race & Technology

2/8/2020
11:30:00 AM to 1:00:00 PM
Feminist Majority Foundation
433 South Beverly Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90212

Join the California Women's Law Center & The Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy for an intimate conversation with Ruha Benjamin

RSVP here.

About this Event

Professor Ruha Benjamin will speak on artificial intelligence and its implications for democracy, race, and empowerment. Her work investigates the social dimensions of science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and inequity, health and justice, knowledge and power. Dr. Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and founder of the JUST DATA Lab. She is the author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (2013) and Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019) https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/

Since its founding in 1989, the California Women’s Law Center (CWLC) has served as a unique advocate in California, working in collaboration with allies to protect, secure, and advance the comprehensive civil rights of women and girls, with a particular emphasis on low-income women and girls. CWLC has unparalleled expertise in women’s legal issues and has been a champion for effective strategies to protect and advance women’s rights. CWLC has advocated for and achieved policy change on a wide range of issues including gender discrimination and equality, Title IX enforcement, women’s health and reproductive justice, economic security, and violence against women.

"A New Jim Code: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life"

2/7/2020
2:00:00 PM to 3:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

Ruha Benjamin
Associate Professor of African American Studies
Princeton University

Talk Abstract

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this talk, I present the concept of the “New Jim Code" to explore a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity: by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies, by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions, or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. We will also consider how race itself is a kind of tool designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice and discuss how technology is and can be used toward liberatory ends. This presentation takes us into the world of biased bots, altruistic algorithms, and their many entanglements, and provides conceptual tools to decode tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold, but also the ones we manufacture ourselves.

Speaker Bio

Dr. Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founder of the JUST DATA Lab, and author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (2013) and Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019) among other publications. Her work investigates the social dimensions of science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and inequity, health and justice, knowledge and power. Professor Benjamin is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Institute for Advanced Study, and the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton. For more info visit www.ruhabenjamin.com.

Presented by UCI Law Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy and UCI Department of Informatics. 

This event is free and open to the public. 

Reception will follow the talk. Light refreshments will be served. 

Please RSVP, as space is limited.

Map and Directions

UCI guest parking is $2/hour.

The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South

1/31/2020
4:00:00 PM to
Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway (SBSG)

In The End of the Cognitive Empire Boaventura de Sousa Santos further develops his concept of the "epistemologies of the South," in which he outlines a theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical framework for challenging the dominance of Eurocentric thought. Noting the declining efficacy of established social and political solutions to combat inequality and discrimination, Santos suggests that global justice can only come about through an epistemological shift that guarantees cognitive justice. Such a shift would create new, alternative strategies for political mobilization and activism and give oppressed social groups the means through which to represent the world as their own and in their own terms.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is Director Emeritus of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and has written and published widely on the issues of globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, social movements and the World Social Forum in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Danish, Romanian and Polish.

Co-Sponsored by School of Social Sciences, UCI Department of Global and International Studies, and the UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law, and Society

Social Media & Social Movements from Hong Kong to Silicon Valley and Beyond

1/30/2020
6:00:00 PM to 7:30:00 PM
Humanities Gateway
UC Irvine Campus, Irvine, CA 92697

Focus on continuing crisis in Hong Kong and issues associated with online censorship.

Moderated by Liz Carter and featuring both authors, with book signing to follow.

This event will celebrate the release of two new books by UCI faculty that are both appearing in the Columbia Global Reports series. Both deal with and seek to place into context issues that were in the news throughout 2019 and continue to make headlines in 2020. Vigil, by Jeffrey Wasserstrom of the School of Humanities (Chancellor's Professor of History), focused on the continuing crisis in Hong Kong.

Speech Police, by David Kaye of the School of Law (who is also the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Freedom of Opinion and Expression), deals with issues associated with online censorship.

Liz Carter is the author of Let 100 Voices Speak: How the Internet is Transforming China and Changing Everything (I.B. Tauris, 2015)

Cosponsors: The Center on Globalization, Law, and Society (GLAS), the Forum for the Academy and the Public and the History Department

CBGHP Colloquia - Book Talk with Aziza Ahmed

1/23/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

Join Chancellor's Professor Michele Goodwin and Professor Aziza Ahmed for a discussion of her forthcoming book, Feminism's Medicine: Law, Risk, Race, and Gender in an Epidemic. Against a linear narrative of scientific discovery and progress, Feminism’s Medicine argues that it was women’s rights lawyers and activists that fundamentally altered the legal and scientific response to the epidemic by changing core conceptions of who was at risk of contracting HIV.

Aziza Ahmed is Associate Professor of Law at Northeastern School of Law. She is an expert in health law, human rights, property law, international law, and development. Her interdisciplinary scholarship focuses on issues of both domestic and international law.

This event is free and open to the public. 

Light lunch will be served. 

Please RSVP, as space is limited.

Map and Directions

UCI guest parking is $2/hour.

CERLP | GLAS | Ji Li, "'Going Out' and Going In-House: Internal Legal Capacity Building by Chinese Companies in the US"

12/9/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
UCI School of Law

1.0 hour of MCLE credit approved by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar- approved MCLE provider.

The “in-house counsel movement” of the past few decades, with its far-reaching implications for the legal profession and corporate governance, has attracted a great deal of academic attention. Few scholars, however, have explored the recent global expansion of emerging market companies and their in-house legal capacity building in developed host countries. In this talk, Professor Li will discuss his article investigating the employment of in-house legal counsel by Chinese companies in the US. According to this study, the employment of in-house legal counsel, subject to multi-institutional influence, varies according to the size of Chinese firms’ US operations, their listing status and ownership structure, and the duration of their US investments. The findings contribute to several ongoing policy and theoretical debates, including those concerning foreign direct investment, in-house counsel movement, multinational companies, the legal profession, and the expansion of Chinese companies in the US and in other developed countries.

The full draft paper will be circulated to event registrants.

About Ji Li

Professor Li joined UCI Law in July 2019 as the John S. and Marilyn Long Professor of U.S.-China Business and Law. Prior to the appointment, he was Professor of Law and Zhuang Zhou Scholar at Rutgers University and a member of the Associate Faculty of the Division of Global Affairs.

Professor Li received a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University and a J.D. from Yale Law School where he was an Olin Fellow in Law, Economics and Public Policy. After law school, he practiced corporate and tax law for several years in the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.

Professor Li’s teaching and scholarship explore a broad range of topics including Chinese law and politics, international business transactions, contracts, comparative law, and empirical legal studies.

KLC & GLAS | Nadia Rendak | IMF in the Changing World: Recent Developments and Challenges

11/20/2019
1:00:00 PM to 2:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

The UCI Law Korea Law Center and the Center on Globalization, Law, and Society welcome Nadia Rendak, Senior Counsel in the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to discuss the role of the IMF, an institution established following WWII to promote international monetary cooperation, in the international financial architecture of today. Ms. Rendak will address some recent developments at the Fund, as well as challenges the organization faces. 

About Nadia Rendak
Ms. Rendak is Senior Counsel at Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She joined the IMF in 2000 and has since worked on a wide range of issues related to the IMF financing and surveillance operations, including exchange system issues, corporate and household insolvency, sovereign debt, and cooperation with other international institutions and organizations.

Light lunch and refreshments will be provided.

GLAS | James Cavallaro, "The Inter-American System of Human Rights"

11/18/2019
3:30:00 PM to 5:30:00 PM
UCI School of Law

The Center on Globalization, Law, and Society welcomes James Cavallaro, President of the University Network for Human Rights and former Commissioner of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, to discuss recent developments within the inter-American system of human rights.

GLAS | Angela Zhang, "The U.S.-China Trade Negotiation: A Contract Theory Perspective"

11/13/2019
4:30:00 PM to 5:30:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

The UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law, and Society (GLAS) welcomes Dr. Angela Zhang, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong, do discuss her paper, "The U.S.-China Trade Negotiation: A Contract Theory Perspective."

Abstract:
The article applies contract theory to analyze the dynamics of the ongoing trade negotiation between the United States and China. The United States complained that previous bilateral engagements with China had yielded empty promises from China without substantial progress in the legal protection for intellectual property rights (IPRs). Thus, in this round of trade negotiations, the United States insisted upon a rigid trade agreement, hoping that China would more credibly commit to its promises. China, on the other hand, preferred a flexible agreement that would allow it substantial leeway in determining how to write and enforce its own laws. The row regarding contract specificity directly resulted in an impasse. This article argues that the U.S. trade negotiators have overlooked the incomplete nature of the trade agreement. First, the United States cannot predict every contingency that might occur during the execution of the trade agreement. The Chinese government retains the residual control over its domestic laws and possesses vast discretion in enforcement. Second, it is very costly to enforce this trade agreement. The bilateral trade agreement can neither be enforced by a third party nor will it be self-enforcing. As illustrated by the Sino-U.S. IPR disputes in the 1990s, bilateral trade agreements are constantly renegotiated and the United State lacks the credibility to impose sustained tariff sanctions on China. Third, the cost of writing the agreement is very high. A rigid agreement is more visible to the Chinese domestic audience, who suspects the U.S. motive for triggering the trade war is to contain China’s rise. Moreover, a rigid agreement appears imbalanced and easily invokes the long and painful historical memory of Chinese subjugation to western powers. The Trump administration therefore has overestimated the benefit of writing a rigid contract while underestimating the price of dignity to the Chinese government in acceding to the U.S. demand. Economic integration, a means for countries to hold hostage of each other to promote peace and prosperity, is more effective than a rigid trade agreement in resolving the Sino-U.S. trade conflict.

About Dr. Angela Zhang
Dr. Angela Zhang is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on applying an interdisciplinary approach to the study of transnational legal issues that bear on businesses. Dr Zhang’s work has appeared in leading international law journals and she is a four-time recipient of the Concurrence Antitrust Writing Award. Before joining academia in 2013, Dr Zhang practiced for six years in the United States, Europe, and Asia. She received her LLB from Peking University in 2004 and her JSD (2011), JD (2008), and LLM (2006) from the University of Chicago Law School.

Long Institute, GLAS & CLEANR | Nengye Liu, "The Future of the Polar Regions in the Shadow of US- China Competition"

11/4/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
UCI School of Law

The United States has played a pivotal role in driving several international law developments at the poles. A key example is the establishment of the Antarctic Treaty during the Cold War. In contrast, China, as a rising power, has only been actively involved in Polar governance in recent years. US-China relations, however, have entered into a new era of strategic rivalry. From trade to cyber security, from the South China Sea to outer space, the existing international order is being shaped by competition between the United States and China - the world's two great powers. Even at the ends of the Earth, the Arctic and Antarctic have not escaped the impact of the contest between the two largest economies in the world. This presentation aims to examine the impact of a new type of US-China relationship as it pertains to the development of international law in the Polar Regions. It first assesses the legal and policy implications of China's rise in the Arctic and Antarctic. Then the presentation turns to US-China competition in the Polar Regions. The presentation concludes with some predictions about the future of Polar governance in the context of the escalating US-China strategic rivalry.

About Nengye Liu

Dr Nengye Liu is a Senior Lecturer at Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide. He was educated in Wuhan (China, LLB and LLM) and Ghent (Belgium, Doctor of Law). Prior to moving to Australia, he had worked at King & Wood Mallessons (Shenzhen, China), Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Future Ocean Cluster of Excellence (Kiel, Germany) and University of Dundee (United Kingdom, as a EU Marie Curie Fellow).  Dr Liu's current research centres on China's role in global ocean governance, with particular focus on the Polar Regions.

Intimate Lies and the Law - Book Talk with Jill Hasday & Michele Goodwin

10/21/2019
2:00:00 PM to 3:00:00 AM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000

Join Michele Goodwin and Jill Elaine Hasday for a provocative book talk on intimate lies, where Professor Hasday systematically examines deception in sexual, marital, and familial relationships. She uncovers the hidden body of law that shields intimate deceivers from legal consequences.

After the event, copies of Professor Hasday's book, Intimate Lies and the Law, will be available for purchase and signing.

Presented by the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, and its Reproductive Justice Initiative. 

This event is free and open to the public. 

Please RSVP, as space is limited.

Map and Directions

UCI guest parking is $2/hour.

Simon Tam & Michele Goodwin in Conversation

10/18/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

Join Simon Tam and Michele Goodwin in conversation about the First Amendment, race, intellectual property, and taking on the government. Simon Tam is an acclaimed author, musician, activist, and troublemaker. Tam is best known as the founder and bassist of The Slants, the world’s first and only all-Asian American dance rock band. As the named party in one of the most high-profiled intellectual property law cases in modern history, Tam offers a unique and nuanced perspective about his legal journey from the applicant’s point of view. Michele Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California Irvine, an Executive Committee Member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and author of the forthcoming book, Policing The Womb.

After the event, copies of Simon Tam's memoir, Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court, will be available for purchase and signing.

Presented by the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, as part of its Constitutional Book Talks Series for 2019-2020. 

Co-sponsored by the UCI Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology Clinic.

This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided,

Please RSVP, as space is limited.

UCI guest parking is $2/hour.

GLAS | Henry Gao | A New Chinese Order for Economic Governance: Trade, Investment, Technology and Data Regulation

9/26/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

Henry Gao, Professor of Law at Singapore Management University School of Law, will discuss A New Chinese Order for Economic Governance: Trade, Investment, Technology and Data Regulation.

China is incrementally developing a new, decentralized model of trade governance through a web of finance, trade, and investment initiatives involving memorandum of understandings, contracts, and trade and investment treaties. In this way, China could create a vast, Sino-centric, regional order in which the Chinese state plays a nodal role. Chinese state-owned and private enterprises have now internationalized and integrated within Sino-centric global production chains. It is a hub and spokes model, with China at the hub. In this paper, we first examine China’s export of an infrastructure- based development model (Part A) before turning to its creation of a complementary web of free trade and investment agreements (Part B), and an indigenous innovation policy (Part C). The paper theorizes and empirically traces how this forms part of the broader evolving ecology of transnational trade legal orders.

The paper is available here.

ASIL Careers in International Law Training Session

9/17/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
Multipurpose Academic and Administrative Building Irvine, CA 92697

The American Society of International Law will be conducting a robust discussion on the international law field, job searching, resume prep skills and practical steps that students can take to prepare for the job search.

GLAS: Transnational Fiduciary Law Conference

9/7/2019
9:00:00 AM to 1:00:00 PM
UCI School of Law

This conference is a convening of the UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law, and Society (GLAS) and the Institute for Corporate and Capital Markets Law at Bucerius Law School.  It brings together legal scholars working in both common law and civil law traditions to open new inquiries into the theory, doctrine, and practice of transnational fiduciary law, including both private fiduciary law and public fiduciary law.

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GLAS: Transnational Fiduciary Law Conference

9/6/2019
9:00:00 AM to 5:10:00 PM
UCI School of Law

This conference is a convening of the UCI Law Center on Globalization, Law, and Society (GLAS) and the Institute for Corporate and Capital Markets Law at Bucerius Law School.  It brings together legal scholars working in both common law and civil law traditions to open new inquiries into the theory, doctrine, and practice of transnational fiduciary law, including both private fiduciary law and public fiduciary law.

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Sex, Society, & The Law Book Series Workshop: How To Publish Your Manuscript

8/21/2019
2:00:00 PM to 4:00:00 PM

Harvard University, Petrie-Flom Center, 23 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Join Chancellor's Professor Michele Goodwin, the Senior and Founding Editor of Sex, Society, & The Law In The 21st Century (University of California Press) as she leads an intimate workshop on how to bring your manuscript to press. This workshop has limited seating and is especially geared toward newer voices interested in expanding their writing portfolios or moving their published articles, dissertations and theses into the broader academic market. The workshop will include advising on crafting the prospectus, sample chapters, and courting publishers. The session is hosted at Harvard University's Petrie Flom Center on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 from 2:00pm-4:00pm (EDT)

Professor Goodwin will also host private, one on one conversations with authors interested in pitching ideas for the series from 10am-1pm (EDT) on August 21, 2019. For a private meeting, please contact Brittany Taylor at: btaylor@law.uci.edu and register before August 16, 2019.

Can Online Hate Be Controlled? Companies, Governments, and the Freedom of Expression

4/11/2019
5:00:00 PM to 6:30:00 PM
UCI School of Law

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 public forums? What are the advantages and disadvantages of public regulation of private social media companies? We expect a dynamic and provocative roundtable discussion with leading global experts, featuring:

Susan Benesch, Harvard University, Dangerous Speech Project
Kim Malfacini, Facebook
Yin Yadanar, Free Expression Myanmar
Ani Zonneveld, Muslims for Progressive Values

Moderated by Professor David Kaye, UCI Law and UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression

Film Screening: The Power to Heal

4/4/2019
11:45:00 AM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

Power to Heal is an hour long documentary that tells the story of the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is how a new national program, Medicare, was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country.

Our rescheduled date marks the 51st anniversary of Dr. King's death. Before he passed away, Dr. King shared, "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." We look forward to contributing to a more equitable conversation on health and healing. A light lunch will be provided.

GLAS | The World Trade Organization and its Dispute Settlement System in Crisis

4/1/2019
3:00:00 PM to 4:30:00 PM
UCI School of Law

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 2009 to 2017, and is Founding Partner of RRH Consultores S.C., which provides legal advice in the field of international trade law. As legal counsel, arbritrator, and judge, he has participated in nearly 50 disputes in several areas of international economic law brought under different agreements. Mr. Ramirez is also a Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he is Chair of the International Trade Professors Association.

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GLAS & CLEANR | Sea of Shadows Film Screening

4/1/2019
4:30:00 PM to 6:30:00 PM
UCI School of Law

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 Earth’s smallest whale—the Vaquita—from extinction.

When Mexican drug cartels and Chinese traffickers join forces to poach the rare totoaba fish in the Sea of Cortez, their methods threaten to destroy virtually all marine life in the region, including the elusive and mysterious whale species known as the vaquita porpoise.

But a team of scientists, conservationists, investigative journalists and undercover agents put their lives on the line to save the last remaining vaquita and bring the international crime syndicate to justice.

Film Screening: "Birthright: A War Story"

3/19/2019
6:00:00 PM to 8:30:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

This feature length documentary highlights the vast array of reproductive healthcare restrictions across the country and how they have created barriers for pregnant women. It sheds light on the real healthcare crisis these laws create, as well as the criminalization of pregnant women. Civia Tamarkin, the director and executive producer, will join Professor Goodwin for a talkback discussion.

Film Screening: "62 Days"

3/14/2019
11:30:00 AM to 1:00:00 PM
University Club
801 E. Peltason Drive, Irvine, CA

62 DAYS is a 30 minute documentary film about Marlise Muñoz, a brain-dead pregnant woman whose family was forced to keep her on life support against her wishes. This film shows the human story behind the headlines, and shines a light on a controversial law.

Lunch included. Suggested donation $25.00

ILS/GLAS Panel: International Law in Year Three of the Trump Administration

3/14/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
UCI School of Law
401 E. Peltason Dr., Irvine, CA 92697-8000

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 by:
Greg Shaffer, Chancellor's Professor of Law; Director, Center on Globalization, Law, and Society

Panelists:
Joe DiMento, Distinguished Professor of Law
David Kaye, Clinical Professor of Law; Director, International Justice Clinic
Leah Litman, Assistant Professor of Law
Manoj Mate, Visiting Professor of Law

Hosted by the International Law Society and Center on Globalization, Law and Society

GLAS Speaker: UN Special Rapporteur Dire Tladi Presents His Report on Peremptory Norms of International Law

2/25/2019
12:10:00 PM to 1:15:00 PM
UCI School of Law
401 E. Peltason Dr., Irvine, CA 92697

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 Law (Jus Cogens), will discuss his current report on jus cogens to the UN International Law Commission. The UN General Assembly created the International Law Commission in 1948 for the “promotion of the progressive development of international law and its codification.” Jus cogens norms are fundamental norms of international law from which States may not contract out, whether through treaty or other means. The report addresses the question of regional vs. general jus cogens and outlines an illustrative list of peremptory norms recognized by the Commission. This report has not yet been published by the UN and it is a special privilege for us to discuss it with Professor Tladi before it goes public.

Professor Tladi teaches international law in the Department of Public Law at the University of Pretoria, where he serves as a Fellow at the Institute of Comparative and International Law in Africa. He is also a member of the Institut de Droit International, and was formerly a Principal State Law Adviser for International Law in South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation.

Copies of the report will be sent to those who register to attend.

Trauma, Policing & The 13th Amendment: The Long Arc to Freedom

2/22/2019
12:15:00 PM to 5:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

This symposium reflects the growing national conversation about the harms imposed on families and communities from money bail and plea-bargaining to incarceration and reentry. Often, those who suffer the most are the economically vulnerable who lack the means to access justice. Very often, the most invisible will be women and girls.

Join us as we examine the systematization and institutionalization of policing, its origins, and modern impacts. Rooted in our exploration is the consideration of the 13th Amendment--its aspirational goals and flawed underpinnings. We consider how the legacy of the 13th Amendment both liberates through the abolition of slavery and yet serves as a tool to exploit the vulnerable by permitting slavery so long as an individual is convicted of a crime.

This symposium features two streams. First it highlights the devastating impact of trauma resulting from policing. We realize that policing is a broad term and we intentionally use it to reflect profiling, the surveillance of vulnerable communities, disparate police stops, frequent frisks, escalations that lead to arrests and even deaths, as well as abuse of prosecutorial discretion, resulting in additional institutional phenomenon with real-life consequences on the ground. Second, the symposium seeks to open a conversation about novel interpretations of the 13th Amendment.

Schedule and Panelists (PDF)

Required Reading for CLE Credit

• Abel, Brady's Blind Spot (PDF)

• Abel, Cops and Pleas - Police Officers' Influence on Plea Bargaining (PDF)

• Abel, Baston's Appellate Appeal and Trial Tribulations (PDF)

• Davis, Whytock, State Remedies for Human Rights (PDF)

• Goodwin, Invisible Women: Mass Incarceration's Forgotten Casualties (PDF)

• Gustafson, The Criminalization of Poverty (PDF)

This event is approved for 4.0 hours of Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UC Irvine School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.

Reinventing ReEntry Workshop Simulation

2/22/2019
8:30:00 AM to 11:00:00 AM
University Club
801 E Peltason Dr Irvine, CA 92697

Please join us for a rare opportunity to learn how reentry from incarceration is experienced. In this award-winning simulation, participants experience the real-life opportunities and significant challenges of gaining reentry in society, from looking for jobs and housing to balancing a $25 per week food budget. Joined by Reinventing ReEntry founder and president, Sue Ellen Allen, we will strategize how to reduce barriers and create new pathways for opportunities.

GLAS: The International Law of Black Panther

2/13/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

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.

ILS: Careers in International Law

2/4/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

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 professionals who work in different areas of International Law. If you would like to learn about this career path please join us! Lunch will be served for those who RSVP. The panel will be moderated by Professor Shaffer.

GLAS Joan Barata, "New Platform Regulations in the EU and Their Impact on Freedom of Expression: Right to Be Forgotten, Copyright, Terrorism, and More"

1/15/2019
5:00:00 PM to 6:30:00 PM
UCI School of Law

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 liability of online platforms. Such legislation covers a wide range of topics, including privacy, national security, audiovisual media services, and copyright, and raises relevant issues vis-a-vis the current liability exemption regime established in the so-called e-commerce Directive. Despite the fact that this regime formally remains untouched and valid, legislative changes are progressively eroding its main principles and showing a tendency towards transforming online intermediary platforms into private regulatory bodies (in terms of rule-making, interpretation, and enforcement). What are the risks of such tendency vis-a-vis freedom of expression?  What are the current debates in the EU on these matters? What is the impact of the case law of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights?

Joan Barata is Consulting Intermediary Liability Fellow with the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society.  An international expert in freedom of expression, freedom of information, and media regulation, Barata was previously a Principal Adviser to the Representative on Freedom of the Media at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and Secretary General of the Catalan Audio-Visual Council in Spain. He has advised international organizations, NGOs, governments, legislators, and regulators throughout the world.

Intellectual Life Workshop: Asif Qureshi

11/19/2018
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

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 present his paper, “Contextualising International Law in Northeast Asia."

Hosted by the Korea Law Center and co-sponsored by GLAS.

GLAS: Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice

9/22/2018
8:30:00 AM to 12:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

This conference brings together leading scholars from around the world to stimulate conversations between those whose work examines transnational trends in areas of criminal justice and leading theorists of transnational legal orders. It aims to improve our understanding of transformations in criminal law and policy catalyzed by the growing intensity and complexity of interactions between local, national, and transnational sites. We aim to map the emerging landscape of the transnational ordering of criminal justice, understand its formation, analyze its effects, and evaluate the implications for understanding the normative grounds for the exercise of authority in the criminal justice field.

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GLAS: Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice

9/21/2018
8:30:00 AM to 5:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000

This conference brings together leading scholars from around the world to stimulate conversations between those whose work examines transnational trends in areas of criminal justice and leading theorists of transnational legal orders. It aims to improve our understanding of transformations in criminal law and policy catalyzed by the growing intensity and complexity of interactions between local, national, and transnational sites. We aim to map the emerging landscape of the transnational ordering of criminal justice, understand its formation, analyze its effects, and evaluate the implications for understanding the normative grounds for the exercise of authority in the criminal justice field.

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