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The Long Institute at UC Irvine cordially invites you to
The Long Lectures
on Chinese Law, Business and Society
The Ecology of Law Firm Growth in China
a public lecture by
Sida Liu
(Assistant Professor of Sociology of Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation)
Introduction to the Seminar
In the global legal services market, China has some of the youngest law firms, but also some of the largest. In the past decade, several Chinese corporate law firms have grown into mega-firms with offices in China and abroad, with hundreds or even thousands of lawyers in total. As part of the Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies (GLEE) Project, this study uses the case of China to develop an ecological theory of law firm growth. Read more »

About the Speaker
Sida LiuSida Liu is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. He received his LL.B. degree from Peking University Law School and his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. His current research interests focus on the historical change, social structure, political mobilization, and globalization of the legal profession. Read more »
Date:October 25, 2013
Time:3:00 - 4:30pm
Location:University of California, Irvine, School of Law,
401 Peltason Dr., Irvine, CA 92697-8000 - Map & Directions
Room:LAW 3500
Information:Jack Hsu | jghsu@uci.edu

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The Long Lecture Series on Chinese Law, Business and Society
The Long Lecture Series on Chinese Law, Business and Society is organized by the John S. and Marilyn Long US-China Institute for Business and Law. The series offers presentations of state of the art research on how law, business and society interact in China or in relation to China. It seeks to form a platform to learn and discuss how in the world’s largest legal system and second largest economy legal institutions shape and are shaped by market and social forces. Read more »
Lecture Program
DateSpeakerTopic
October 25 Sida Liu The Ecology of Law Firm Growth in China
November 18 Glenn D. Tiffert Legal Education in Republican and Maoist China
November 21 Alex Wang Climate Change Policy in China
December 2 Josh Perles Protecting US Intellectual Property in China through Investments
January
Yang Su Demobilizing the Law: The Life Cycle of Labor Disputes in China
February
Benjamin Liebman To be confirmed and topic to be announced.
March
Benjamin van Rooij Duty to Obey the Law: Chinese and Comparative Perspectives
April
CK Lee
The Enigma of Chinese Capitalism in Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Zambian Copperbelt
May
Rachel E. Stern Globalization and Foreign Law Firms in China
Fall 2014
Jerome A. Cohen To be confirmed and topic to be announced.