The Washington Post published an op-ed written by USALI executive director Katherine Wilhelm…
ChinaFile: What Future for International NGOs in China? by USALI Executive Director Katherine Wilhelm
USALI Executive Director Katherine Wilhelm recently published a commentary as part of a ChinaFile Conversation titled “What Future for International NGOs in China?” Wilhelm wrote:
No organization should compromise its mission in order to keep a China program active. And virtually no one would consciously do that: It could alienate staff and key stakeholders and court public controversy. Staying in China is not an end in itself. At the same time, it is difficult for large organizations to completely ignore China given its impact on the planet. The real dilemma, therefore, is figuring out how to achieve the organizational mission as it applies to China.
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: Paul Mozur & Josh Chin: Journalists in the Crossfire
Event Recap: Exonerated! From Central Park to East Asia
Wrongful convictions occur in every jurisdiction, and legal professionals around the world should collaborate to redress and prevent them. That was the message of ‘Exonerated! From Central Park to East Asia,’ a speaker event held at the law school on Tuesday, October 8, 2019 by the U.S.-Asia Law Institute (USALI) and co-sponsored by the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law and Asia Law Society.
Judicial Activism in Taiwan
USALI’s guest speakers from East Asia often inspire reflection on our own legal and judicial debates from new angles. At a special seminar at USALI on November 1, Chief Justice Tzong-Li Hsu and Justice Jau-Yuan Hwang of Taiwan’s Constitutional Court made a case for judicial activism, which has become a mostly pejorative term in the United States. Chief Justice Hsu argued that Taiwan’s Constitutional Court should “serve as mediator for opposing political forces in the process of transition.”