Same-sex Marriage in Northeast Asia and America: Sin, Sacrament, or Something Else?

Thursday, November 14, 2019
Furman Hall, Room 318
245 Sullivan Street
New York, New York, 10012
12:15 - 1:50 PM

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About the Speaker

Frank Upham is a professor at NYU Law where he teaches the basic property course, as well as courses on advanced property topics, law and development, and comparative law and society with an emphasis on East Asia and the developing world. His scholarship focuses on Japan and China, and his book Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan received the Thomas J. Wilson Prize from Harvard University Press. Recent scholarship includes “Japanese Same Sex Marriage: Prospects for Change,” “From Demsetz to Deng: The Impact of Forty Years of Chinese Growth on Property Theory,” and “Resistible Force Meets Malleable Object: The Story of the ‘Introduction’ of Norms of Gender Equality into Japanese Employment Practice.” His most recent book, The Great Property Fallacy: Theory, Reality, and Growth in Developing Countries, employs an empirical study of the roles of property rights in development from the English enclosures to contemporary Cambodia. His current project is a comparative study of the interaction of legal doctrine, social and economic structure, and culture in gender discrimination in France, Japan, and the United States.