Join the Law Students for Human Rights for a discussion with Rayhan Asat and Kenneth Roth about China’s reshaping of international law to achieve its authoritarian agenda via a case study of the Uyghur homeland.
USALI Adjunct Faculty Advisor Peter A. Dutton reviews “China's Law of the Sea”
USALI Research Scholar Chi Yin writes Op-Ed on China's illegal COVID-19 measures
USALI Research Scholar Chi Yin wrote an op-ed on China’s illegal COVID-19 measures that was published by the South China Morning Post on December 18, 2022: “Law on my side: How Chinese are protesting against illegal local Covid-19 measures.”
Institute News: Chinese LGBT rights activist speaks at USALI
USALI in the news: China Daily cites Halegua’s GBVH report
"Beijing’s Crackdown on Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Hong Kong" by Michael C. Davis
Event Recording: Divorce in China
Event Recording: Reforming the Global Public Health Regime: Asian Perspectives
Colloquium: China’s Global Ambitions and U.S. Policy with CFR's Elizabeth Economy
Join the NYU Law Colloquium on Law and Security on Thursday, April 15, 2021, from 3:20 to 5:20 PM for a presentation by Elizabeth Economy of the Council on Foreign Relations entitled, “China’s Global Ambitions and U.S. Policy.” If you are interested in attending, please email Theresa Allison at allisont@mercury.law.nyu.edu for Zoom link.
Conversation about Evidence Rules in the US and China
Recorded on April 5, 2021 (Chinese Language Only)
In this program hosted by无讼学院（Wusong Network Technology), USALI Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor Ira Belkin, Research Scholar Amy Gao, and Professor Guo Zhiyuan from China University of Political Science and Law introduce a five-part bilingual course on the U.S. Evidence Rules produced by USALI and currently being offered for free in China by Wusong. Professor Belkin explains why we made the course and its key takeaways. Professor Guo discusses the relevance of the US evidence rules for China. The three-way conversation was livestreamed in China on April 5.
Politico China Watcher: "China 2021: Experts make their one big prediction"
WSJ: In China, a #MeToo Case Gets Its Day in Court
On December 2, 2020, the Wall Street Journal published a story about a court hearing in a sexual harassment case in Beijing. This article included a quote from Affiliated Scholar Aaron Halegua. Halegua began researching this sexual harassment and discrimination as part of a USALI project, which happened to take place just after the #MeToo movement erupted in the US.
Event Recordings: Law, Justice and Human Rights in China
Video recordings of all ten episodes of the acclaimed online seminar, “Law, Justice and Human Rights in China,” taught by USALI Faculty Director Emeritus Jerome A. Cohen and former USALI Visiting Scholar and Grove Human Rights Scholar at Hunter College Teng Biao, are available online here. Seminar readings are available here. USALI Executive Director Katherine Wilhelm moderates.
Event Recording: The Rise of China and International Law
Recorded October 21, 2020
One of China’s leading scholars writing about international law from a Chinese perspective, Professor Cai Congyan, will talk about the ways in which an increasingly wealthy and powerful China has evolved from “selective adaptation” of existing international legal norms to “norm entrepreneurship.”
Event Recording: World War II Reparations in Contemporary East Asia
Tim Webster, a professor of law, has dedicated many years to exploring the law, sociology, and politics of East Asia's World War II reparations movements -- which are still ongoing 75 years after the war’s end. Why are the last surviving war victims in Asia and their families still pursuing claims for reparations? Professor Webster will give an overview of the major legal cases, settlement agreements, international treaties, efforts by civil society organizations, and political negotiations to allocate liability for World War II.
Event Recording: China and Authoritarian International Law
International law has mainly been a product of liberal democracies since World War II. But democracy and liberalism are under assault from populists, economic nationalists, and autocrats. Tom Ginsburg, a professor of law and political science, asks what international law might look like if the global trend toward authoritarianism continues. He argues that today’s authoritarian regimes, including China, are using international law to promote their own survival, and may end up reshaping it in important ways.
The Diplomat: The Vagaries of Crime and Punishment in China
The Diplomat: The Misuse of China’s Mental Hospitals
Event Recording: Paul Mozur & Josh Chin: Journalists in the Crossfire
Event Recording: A Discussion of the U.S.-China Technology Relationship & The Politics of Data
In this webinar recorded on May 22, 2020, Samm Sacks, a senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and Cybersecurity Policy Fellow at New America, spoke with Professor Jose Alvarez, USALI’s lead faculty advisor, about the struggle among governments to determine who can access our digital data and how it can be used.