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.