Affiliated scholar Aaron Halegua’s report about gender-based violence and harassment in Chinese workplaces was cited in a China Daily article, “Alibaba scandal sparks widespread public debate.”
NPR: How China's Massive Corruption Crackdown Snares Entrepreneurs Across The Country
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.
The Economist: Righting wrongs - China is growing more willing to review dodgy convictions
Carlos Ghosn and Japan’s ‘99% Conviction Rate’
USALI Affiliated Scholar Bruce Aronson’s article on Japan’s criminal justice system was featured in The Diplomat. This article examines Japan’s criminal justice system from a comparative perspective and reveals the nuance behind an often-cited statistic.
Affiliated Scholar Yu-Jie Chen Quoted in BBC Article
Beijing News: It is imperative to lower pretrial detention rates and expand the implementation of non-incarceration measures.
BJNews (Reporter: Wang Jun) Unnecessary detention has long been a problem in judicial practice in China. Zhang Jun, the Chief Prosecutor of the People’s Procuratorate (the SPP), during an address to the national chief prosecutors conference today (January 18, 2020), said that the rates of arrest and pretrial detention must be further decreased, and that it is imperative to expand implementation of non-incarceration measures.
South China Morning Post: An independent inquiry is still the only way to end the protests and keep Hong Kong’s story from ending tragically
Implications of the Hong Kong Extradition Bill with Affiliated Scholar Alvin Cheung
Hong Kong has been in the news over the controversy and protests surrounding the Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation Bill proposed by the Hong Kong government. Our very own Alvin Cheung has been analyzing the situation across a number of platforms.
China Law & Policy Podcast: Frank Upham - Our Man in Wuhan
On May 29, 2019 Elizabeth Lynch interviewed NYU Law Professor Frank Upham in observance of the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. The interview details how in 1989 Professor Upham was a researcher at Wuhan University faculty of law and as a result witnessed the pro-democracy protests that were also occurring in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei Province. Listen / Read Transcript of the Podcast here.
NPR: Professor Jerome Cohen Featured in Discussion about US/China Visas
Academic exchanges between the U.S. and China have blossomed in frequency and scope since relations were normalized in 1978. Now, as relations sour, Chinese scholars and students face suspicions of espionage and spreading propaganda. The U.S. scrutiny is especially intense for Chinese scholars affiliated with state-linked think tanks and research institutions…
Washington Post Op-Ed by Aaron Halegua & Jerome A. Cohen "The Forgotten Victims of China's Belt & Road Initiative"
USALI Faculty Director Jerome A. Cohen and Affiliated Scholar Aaron Halegua recently published an op-ed in the Washington Post discussing the One Belt - One Road Initiative and the Chinese workers dispatched overseas to help make this building infrastructure through deepening economic ties a reality. Read an excerpt below of the article, and read the entire article here.
Affiliated Scholar Aaron Halegua's Ongoing Legal Work in Saipan
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — Seven Chinese men allege in a lawsuit that they were victims of a forced labor scheme while constructing a Saipan casino.
The casino and its contractors violated U.S. trafficking laws by exploiting the workers, the lawsuit said. Saipan is part of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
The Diplomat: "Is Nissan a Japanese Company?"
At this stage the basic facts surrounding the case against former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn remain unclear. It is too early to decide between the two diametrically opposed narratives that have been offered to date: (1) Ghosn is a greedy autocrat who violated laws and company rules to enrich himself at the expense of the company and its stakeholders or (2) Nissan management, aided by inadequate protections for the accused under Japanese law and by the Japanese government, undertook a coup d’etat to rid Nissan of Renault’s control. We may ultimately discover that this case contains elements of both narratives.
Financial Times: China’s globetrotting labourers face dangers and debt
Affiliated Scholar Aaron Halegua quoted and referenced in recent Financial Times article. …Desperate for cash because he had not been paid for two months and fearing he could be deported because he lacked official papers, Jiang Wei and two colleagues turned up at the Chinese consulate in the Zambian capital of Lusaka in search of help.