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May 2015 public lecture
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The Long Institute Lecture Series

An Empirical Study of Chinese Business Expansion in the U.S. and Its Legal and Policy Implications
Monday, May 4, 2015, 12:00–1:30 p.m., SB1-5400 at UC Irvine, Merage School of Business (directions)

Presented by Ji Li, Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law–Newark

China’s economic expansion into the United States has generated intense debates and controversies. Some view it as posing a critical challenge to extant U.S. institutions; others see China as a stakeholder of the extant system and that the Chinese investors are by and large “playing our game.” However, theories and hypotheses on the subject abounding, little is yet known how exactly Chinese investors interact with U.S. institutions. Relying on the first large-scale survey of Chinese companies investing in the United States, this article fills the gap with an interdisciplinary study of the adaptation of Chinese investors and their interactions with the U.S. legal and regulatory systems.
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The Long Institute Lecture Series on Chinese Law, Business and Society
The Long Institute Lecture Series on Chinese Law, Business and Society is organized by the John S. and Marilyn Long U.S.-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. The series provides a platform for learning and discussing how legal institutions in the world’s largest legal system and second largest economy shape and are shaped by market and social forces. Read more »

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Lecture Program
DateSpeakerTopic
September 25
Xin He
Mismatched Discourses in the Petition Office of Chinese Courts
October 23 Benjamin Liebman Leniency in Chinese Criminal Law: Everyday Justice in Henan
November 13 Molly Roberts Fear or Friction? How Censorship Slows the Spread of Information in the Digital Age
February 23 Jerome Cohen China Law, International Law and Human Rights
March 5 Victor Shih Chinese Debt: Is it Sustainable?
May 4 Ji Li An Empirical Study of Chinese Business Expansion in the U.S. and Its Legal and Policy Implications