Fall 2022: U.S.-Asia Law Institute Colloquium: Globalization, International Law, and East Asia Law

Professor José E. Alvarez
Professor Chao-ju Chen

FALL 2022
Tuesdays, 8:50 - 10:50 a.m.

LAW-LW.12777.001
2 credits

This two credit colloquium will meet weekly for the fall semester of 2022 on Tuesdays from 8:50 to 10:50am. It addresses select legal issues involving women’s rights and gender in Asia, particularly in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. As indicated on the tentative syllabus schedule at the end, starting with week five of the course, seven guest presenters will address their recent published work or works in progress. Topics for the course will include the patriarchal family, the institution of marriage, transnational LGBTQ rights, discriminatory practices and national and international remedies to address them (such as gender quotas and improved access to justice for women) under instruments like the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

Fall 2022 Schedule of Presenters

Tuesday, September 27

Guest: Ishida Kyoko (Waseda, Japan)
Topic: Women’s Access to Justice in Japan from the Perspectives of Users and the Legal Profession

Tuesday, October 4

Guest: Li Ke
Topic: Marriage Unbound (Ch.1, 6-12, Ch.7)

Tuesday, October 11

Guest: Linda White (Middlebury)
Topic: "Not Entirely Married: Resisting the Hegemonic Patriarchal Family in the Household Registry in Japan," Special Issue: productive encounters: kinship, gender, and family laws in East Asia, postions: asia critique. 29:3 (2021).

Tuesday, October 18

Guest: Sara Friedman (IU) 
Topic: Transnational LGBTQ families

Tuesday, October 25

Guest:  Hyunah Yang (SNU, South Korea)
Topic: Japanese military slaves in South Korea

Tuesday, November 1

Guest: Chang-ling Huang (NTU, Taiwan)
Topic: Gender Quotas and Women in Politics: The East Asian Experience

Tuesday, November 8

Guest: Holning Lau
Topic: Comparative Perspectives on Treating Gender Identity/Expression Discrimination

Tuesday, November 15

Guest: Frank Upham
Topic: Same Sex Marriage and Japan

Tuesday, November 22

Guest: Chao-ju Chen
Topic: Only Paradox to Offer? Family-friendly policies and feminist challenges against marital status discrimination

Tuesday, November 29

Guest: José E. Alvarez
Topic: CEDAW’s Progressive Property Jurisprudence

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Anyone wishing to attend any particular session of the Colloquium above should email Stephany Ramos (Stephany.ramos@nyu.edu) to get a zoom invitation. 

Spring 2022: U.S.-Asia Law Institute Colloquium: Globalization, International Law and East Asia Law

Professor José E. Alvarez
Professor Frank Upham

Spring 2022
Tuesdays, 2:15 - 4:15p.m.

Hybrid/Remote

LAW-LW.12761.001
2 credits

This two credit colloquium will meet weekly for the spring semester of 2022. It addresses select legal issues involving East Asia. Background readings and invited guests will address select issues involving globalization, international law, and comparative law from the perspectives of the countries, societies, and regional organizations of East Asia. As indicated in the tentative syllabus below, it will include discussion of contemporary developments with respect to the arbitration of disputes, regional integration, trade law, academic freedom, the status and rights in Hong Kong, same sex marriage, and environmental law topics.

During the 13 weeks of the course, nine scholars will be presenting their recently published work or works in progress for student comment. The main pedagogical goals of the class are to familiarize students with the ways legal academics engage with and critique scholarship, better prepare students who expect to write research papers either during this class or others, while also introducing contemporary legal issues important to the region.

Spring 2022 Schedule of Presenters

Tuesday, February 1
Guest: Matthew Erie, "China’s Dream of Legal Cosmopolitanism"

Tuesday, February 15
Guest: Daniel Fitzpatrick, "Complex Systems of Property: Institutional Change and Catastrophic Disruption"

Tuesday, March 8
Guest: Trang Mae Nguyen, "Hidden Power in Global Supply Chains"

Tuesday, March 22
Guest: Pasha Hsieh, a chapter from his book, New Asian Regionalism in International Economic Law

Tuesday, March 29
Guest:  Eva Pils, "China’s impact on international human rights law"

Tuesday, April 5
Guest: Larry Catá Backer on China-Hong Kong Relations

Hong Kong Between ‘One Country’ and ‘Two Systems’: Essays From the Year that Transformed the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (2019-2020) (Little Sir Press, 2021)
Chapters 2, 14, 17, 28 & 31

Tuesday, April 12

Guest: Bruce Aronson (USALI affiliate scholar), “The Social Role of Corporations in the Asia-Pacific.”

Tuesday, April 19
Guest: Ayako Hatano, “Toward Aligning with International Gender Goals? Analysis of the Gender Equality Landscape in Japan under the Laws on Women’s Economic and Political Participation and Leadership"

Tuesday, April 26
Guest: Frank Upham, “Litigating for Change: Japan’s Valentine’s Day Same Sex Marriage Cases in Historical, Institutional, and Comparative Perspective”

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Anyone wishing to attend any particular session of the Colloquium above should email Stephany Ramos (Stephany.ramos@nyu.edu) to get a zoom invitation. 

Fall 2020: U.S.-Asia Law Institute Colloquium on Globalization, International Law and East Asia

Professor José E. Alvarez

Professor Frank Upham

At this colloquium, authors do not formally present their papers.  Instead, they engage with reaction papers written by students as well as the hosts, Professors Upham and Alvarez.  To the extent that there is time, participants who are not registered students in the course wishing to add their name to the queue should use the Zoom “Raise Hand” function.

To RSVP for the colloquium & request a copy of the paper, email: Stephany Ramos at stephany.ramos@nyu.edu. 

All events will take place 7:00 to 8:50 PM US Eastern Time.

Colloquium Schedule

Tuesday, Sept. 29: Peter Dutton, Maritime Studies Institute, US Naval War College, Chapters Five and Seven, from a forthcoming book, Securing the Seas: China’s Quest for Maritime Security Through International Law of the Sea
Tuesday, Oct. 13: Matthew Erie, Oxford University, “Chinese Law and Development”
Tuesday, Nov. 10: Chen Chao-ju, National Taiwan University College of Law, “Stigma Costs: The Search for Legal Recognition among LGBT Co-parents in Taiwan” and Frank Upham, NYU, “Japanese Same-Sex Marriage: Prospects for Change”
Tuesday, Nov. 17: Eric Feldman, Pennsylvania Law School, “The Japanese Response to COVID, a Comparative Perspective”
Tuesday, Dec. 1: Margaret Lewis, Seton Hall Law School, “Criminalizing China”