Asia is now at the center of global trade flows as well international treaty negotiations to address them. This is a rare opportunity to hear from two of the world’s foremost authorities on the trade relations between two of the economic superpowers in the region.
Event Recording: The Long View on Reform in Asia
Is the realignment/reform of investment treaty law having an effect of international law more generally? On regional integration in Asia? What areas of reform are not being addressed in ongoing efforts? How does investment treaty reform link with other areas of reform, both domestic and international?
Event Recording: Investment Treaty Reform in Asia: Rule Makers, Takers or Breakers?
Event Recordings: Government Perspectives on Reform – The View from Asian Capitals
As global reform activities continue gaining momentum, what do Asian governments think about these efforts? Are they reflective of the concerns of Asian states? How are governments managing the simultaneous reform of existing treaties and the negotiations of new ones? How are ASEAN countries in particular addressing reform? Is there (or could there be) an ASEAN (or Asian) voice on these issues?
Event Recording: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Anti-Trust
Angela Zhang discusses her new book Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation. Professor Zhang examines the unique ways in which China regulates and is regulated by foreign countries, revealing a “Chinese exceptionalism” that is reshaping global antitrust regulation.
Event Recording: Reforming the Global Public Health Regime: Asian Perspectives
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.
Event Recording: Remaking American Trade Policy with Asia
Deborah Elms talks about prospects for achieving Biden’s trade goals in Asia and the challenges faced by US trade diplomacy in the region. Learn more about the speaker, further reading, and the event.
Event Recording: Ethical Dilemmas of the China Scholar
This panel explores the diverse ethical challenges that may arise when teaching and researching about China from outside China. Concerns about ethical field research and censorship pressures are not new but have been heightened by China’s authoritarian turn and recent events in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. Not since the Vietnam War has China scholarship been so politicized.
Event Recording: Lifting the Corporate Veil on China's State-Owned Enterprises
Event Recording: Building a New Legal Order for the Oceans
Event Recording: How Novel is China’s Use of International Economic Law
Law Professors Fabio Morosini and Michelle R. Sanchez-Badin examine empirical data from Chinese investments in Brazil’s energy sector and find many similarities between China and Brazil in their choice of legal tools. What really sets China apart is the size of its economy, and therefore the greater impact its actions have on the existing legal order.
Event Recording: China’s Overseas Investment and Environmental Accountability
Event Recording: China and the WTO
Event Recording: US-Asia Relations in the Biden Administration
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: COVID's Challenge to Japan and Korea
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: Vietnam’s New Approach to the South China Sea Disputes
In this webinar recorded on May 27, 2020, Trang Phạm Ngọc Minh, a lecturer at Vietnam National University and recent Fulbright scholar in residence at USALI, explained why Vietnam – long suspicious of international law and United Nations institutions – recently filed a note verbale with the United Nations formally protesting China’s claims to historic title to much of the South China Sea and setting out its own claims within the bounds set by the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.