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The Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture “Bringing a broad interdisciplinary and humanistic focus to the study of law in East Asia� Annelise Riles, Director
The Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture
A M e s sage f rom t h e D i r e c t o r On March 12, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Clarke Program. So much has happened in ten years: the Program has organized 25 conferences, workshops and symposiums, welcomed over 100 speakers in its colloquium series, hosted more than two dozen visiting scholars from East Asia, and each year brought high-profile speakers from around the world to the Cornell campus to deliver its annual Clarke Lecture. When the program inaugurated ten years ago, we had two goals: We wanted to become one of the very best programs in Asian law in the US by emphasizing a broad, humanistic, interdisciplinary approach to the study of law. And we wanted to serve as a conduit for a much deeper, stronger connection between the law school and the many other excellent programs within the University from which we could learn and to which we felt the law school could also contribute. In all humility, I think we can claim success in these two goals, thanks to the tremendous generosity and commitment of so many friends, colleagues, and supporters at Cornell and around the world. So, for those of you who could not be with us in Ithaca last March: thank you. So what is the Clarke Program’s goal for the next ten years? We have set for ourselves an even more presumptuous dream: We want to transform the Trans-Pacific dialogue to help create a new regional intelligentsia of academics, professionals and policy-makers suited to taking on the tremendous challenges now facing the region. We called this new initiative, a virtual think tank of leading thinkers from around the Asia-Pacific, now holding discussions in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean, Meridian 180,
after the international dateline that divides the Pacific. It was inaugurated at our celebration on March 11. Meridian 180 is not meant to replace but to complement our ongoing activities at Cornell and around the world. Indeed, we see the potential for new synergies between different kinds of projects. This report offers an overview of the many ways the Clarke Program has continued to expand in 2012. As always, we are proud of the work of the scholars and experts representing many fields who came to our program to conduct research or present their findings. You will read about new collaborative research projects, and short and long-term academic exchanges inaugurated since 2011. Finally, this report will provide a preview of upcoming events, developments and directions for the program for 2013 and beyond. As always, we remain especially grateful for the generous gift of Jack G. Clarke that has supported this program since 2002. Other sources of funding include Cornell University’s Jeffrey Sean Lehman Fund for Scholarly Exchange with China, the Cornell Law School’s Clarke Business Law Institute, the Cornell University Institute for the Social Sciences, the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, and the gift of Anthony and Lulu Wang. I would be particularly grateful for your feedback, questions, or suggestions concerning anything you read here. Please write to me directly at ar254@cornell.edu. Annelise Riles, the Jack G. Clarke ‘52 Professor of Far East Legal Studies; Director, Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture and Professor of Anthropology
“The name of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture was chosen with care. By emphasizing the words ‘law’ and ‘culture,’ we wanted to underscore the distinctive approach Cornell is taking to our engagement in that region of the world.” Stewart J. Schwab, Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
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Tenth Anniversary Celebration and Official Launch of Meridian 180
Clarke Professor of Far East Legal Studies and professor of anthropology. The event also observed the official launch of the program’s latest initiative, Meridian 180. The Clarke Program, funded by a gift to the Law School from Jack and Dorothea Clarke, sponsors a variety of activities and events, including fellowships, conferences, lectures, collaborative research projects, and scholarly exchanges, as it seeks to expand the purview of legal scholarship and to develop new ways of thinking about transnational law, politics, and culture.
During the evening John J. Barceló, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of International and Comparative On March 12, 2012 the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Elizabeth and Arthur Reich Director of the Law and Culture celebrated its tenth anniversary and the Berger International Legal Studies Program spoke to the official launch of Meridian 180. The event, held in the guests and proposed a toast. Joining him in toasting the new wing of the Johnson Museum of Art, celebrated the “incredible amount of interchange and intellectual tenth anniversary of the Clarke Program in East Asian vibrancy” created by the Clarke Program and bolstered Law and Culture, founded by Annelise Riles, the Jack G. by its newest project were Stewart J. Schwab, the Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law; Yuji Genda, professor at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo; Hirokazu Miyazaki, director of the East Asia Program and associate professor of Anthropology, Cornell University; and Clarke Program director Annelise Riles. Looking on was Jack G. Clarke LL.B.’52 himself, whom Riles thanked for his “phenomenal commitment.”
Professor Yuii Genda and Stewart Schwab
Jack Clarke and Annelise Riles
Xingzhong Yu and Satsuki Takahashi
John J. Barcelo
Annelise Riles
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Meridian 180 Meridian 180 is a unique, non-partisan community of exceptional intellectuals and visionary policymakers based in Asia, the United States, and around the world, who are interested in new ways of thinking about the challenges that confront the peoples and nations within Asia and across the Pacific. Unlike typical “think-tank” formats, Meridian 180 carries out true collaboration, builds networks, fosters intensive, long-term dialogue, and is training a new generation of scholarship in new methodologies. Meridian 180’s online platform allows members to converse remotely in English, Chinese, or Japanese, with translation provided by our Clarke Program Postdoctoral Fellows. These conversations are often continued in workshops and conferences and other types of collaborative projects and developed and disseminated in various types of publications. It has been a whirlwind of activity for Meridian 180 this year. Meridian 180 was officially launched in a joyous celebration held at Cornell University’s Johnson Museum of Art on March 12, 2012 (see page 1). Yet even before this, our first forum was held back in March 2011, and since then we have hosted sixteen multilingual forums and our membership has reached 422 members. Forum
topics in 2011 included the repercussions of the environmental disasters in Japan during March 2011; methodological questions in comparative law; current problems in financial-markets regulation; role of global intellectuals; financial governance; the “Occupy” movement; and central banks in question. This year, visits to our website have increased by 30% compared with last year. Forum topics in 2012 included: n
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How to bring closure to crises?
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What role can intellectuals and professionals play in crises…?
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Keyword: Risk
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Keyword: Apology
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Keyword: Privacy 2.0
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A Strategic Plan for Meridian 180
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Keyword: Happiness
One of Meridian 180’s ongoing projects has concerned the contentious issue of the so-called “comfort women.” In Fall 2012 Meridian 180 held a cross-campus and inter-disciplinary “brainstorming session” at Cornell Law School and the session’s participants included prominent visiting scholars from Korea and Japan. Watch for continuing developments in 2013 with this important project. Meridian 180 and Korea Another milestone for our program in 2012 is the Korean interface completed for the Meridian 180 website, and we look forward to Korean language conversation and debates in our forums. Korea occupies a crucial strategic position in East Asia—politically, economically, and culturally— and the addition of the Korean language medium will enable us to further engage Korean communities within and without Korea. The Clarke Program is deeply grateful to Cornell University’s East Asia Program for their grant to make this possible. New Faces This year, Meridian 180 welcomed a new Executive Director of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, Elise Anne DeVido, Ph.D.; Naruhito Cho, J.D., Postdoctoral Associate and Japanese translator for the Meridian program; and Zhaoxin Jiang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate and Chinese translator for the Meridian program. Eojean Kim, J.D., serves as Korean Consultant and Diana Biller, J.D. candidate, served as Fall 2012 Editor.
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Strategic Plan Now that Meridian 180 is over one and a half years old, a “Strategic Plan” has been drawn up to guide the growth and development of the Meridian for the next three to five years and we invite all Meridian 180 members to offer comments and suggestions to improve this draft, a work in progress. Forthcoming Forums Meridian 180 will hold two forums in late January 2013 in tandem with a Symposium entitled “The Changing Politics of Central Banks” organized by the Cornell International Law Journal, followed later in the year by Meridian 180’s exciting collaborative project at the World Trade Organization Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland. Learn more about Meridian 180 Visit us at meridian-180.org To become a member and join this unique community, you can apply for an account http://meridian-180.org/user/register You can read summaries of our forums http://meridian-180.org/forums/summaries Meridian 180 is the most significant part of our larger initiative to broaden the Clarke Program’s online presence. See what’s new on our English Facebook page: www.facebook.com/clarkeprogram and on the Japanese page, www.facebook.com/clarkeprogramjp. Join in on Twitter: www.twitter.com/clarkeprogram and on Weibo, China’s major microblog: www.weibo.com/meridian180.
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International Conference Cornell University, Ithaca
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“Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami One Year Later: How Can We Bring Closure to Crises?” A conference on the one-year anniversary to address the many issues raised by the natural and nuclear disasters, their aftermath, and their surrounding histories. Diverse experts explored these questions in terms of economics, business, law, disaster response, religion, social activism, and history. The overall focus of the conference and the Meridian 180 online forums was the question of how to bring closure to such crises. This question was explored in terms of economics, business, law, disaster response, social activism, and history. The Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture celebrated its 10 year anniversary and official launch of the Meridian 180 project on the last day of the conference. A video recording of all the proceedings is posted online: http://eap.einaudi.cornell.edu/3-11-2012_conference.
C O N F E R E N C E P R E S E N TAT I O N S I N C L U D E D :
Yuji Genda, University of Tokyo “Hope beyond the Disaster: New Thoughts and New Firms.” Hirokazu Miyazaki, Cornell University “Saving TEPCO: Financial Market Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan.” Annelise Riles, Cornell University “Market Totalitarianism.” Shuhei Kimura, Fuji Tokoha University “Between Hope and Nostalgia: Reconstruction in a Coastal Town of Iwate Prefecture.” Satsuki Takahashi, Princeton University “Modernity as Mirage: Oceanic Frontiers and Rural Development in Pre- and Post-Fukushima Japan.” Hiroyuki Mori, Ritsumeikan University “Asbestos Disasters in the Great East Japan Earthquake.” Chika Watanabe, Cornell University “Kizuna (bonds) after the Great East Japan Earthquake.”
Ms. Watanabe will introduce and present short excerpts from a pre-recorded video interview with [Pre-recorded Video] Keiko Kiyama, General Secretary, NGO JEN (interviewed January 20, 2012) Jane Marie Law, Cornell University “Religious Communities in Japan Respond to the Tsunami.” Shigeki Uno, University of Tokyo “Political Amnesia and Disorder in Post-3/11 Japan.”
A Dialogue with Tokyobased Cornell Alumni Regarding the Role of Professionalism and Expertise in Japan’s Reconstruction Effort M O D E R AT O R S :
Hirokazu Miyazaki, Cornell University (in Ithaca) Annelise Riles, Cornell University (in Ithaca)
T O K Y O PA R T I C I PA N T S INCLUDE:
John Whitman, Cornell University (in Tokyo); Jotaro Fujii (Hotel School, 1981), a Tokyo-based food service and restaurant management consultant; Takayuki Kihira (Law School, LLM, 2006), Mori, Hamada, Matsumoto Law Office, Tokyo (in Ithaca); and Shin Sakurai (College of Architecture, Art and Planning, 1993), Kume Sekkei, Tokyo.
Professor Sakai will introduce and present short excerpts from two pre-recorded video interviews with: [Pre-recorded Video] Ichiyo Muto, Co-President, People’s Plan Study Group (interviewed January 4, 2012) and [Pre-recorded Video] Yukio Yamaguchi, Co-Director, Citizen’s Nuclear Information Center, Tokyo (interviewed January 5, 2012) Steffi Richter, University of Leipzig “Post-Fukushima Japan and New Dimensions of Protest.” PA N E L M O D E R AT O R S :
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Brett de Bary, Cornell University Naoki Sakai, Cornell University “Fukushima within the Configuration of the U.S. Cold War Strategy: The Question of Power in Relation to Knowledge Production.”
J. Victor Koschmann, Cornell University Susumu Hirano, Chuo University, and Visiting Scholar, Cornell Law School “TEPCO and Japan’s Nuclear Compensation Act.”
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Professor Xingzhong Yu Joins Cornell Law School Faculty
Xingzhong Yu joined the permanent faculty of Cornell Law School as the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Professor in Chinese Law, in January 2012. Professor Yu is familiar with Cornell, having served in fall 2010 as the Wang Distinguished Visiting Professor. He taught a course on Chinese law, lectured on traditional Chinese views of justice, and participated in workshops of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture. He then returned to the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where he teaches constitutional law and jurisprudence. “Cornell has an excellent program on East Asian law and culture, under the able directorship of Professor Annelise Riles, whose work has laid a solid foundation for further development of Chinese legal studies,” said Yu. “I expect to offer general as well as specialized courses in Chinese law, assist Cornell faculty members whose research interests include Chinese law, and work with Cornell to establish academic relations with universities in Greater China. All these efforts require great care and enormous amounts of energy, and I am happy that I now have the opportunity to take up these challenges.” Professor Yu’s academic interests include Chinese law and legal history, social theory, comparative legal philosophy, constitutional law, and cultural studies of law. Prior to joining Cornell Law School, he was with the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) where he taught jurisprudence, constitutional law and Chinese law. He holds an LLM and SJD from Harvard Law School, and while there was a lecturer on law, senior research fellow in East Asian Legal Studies, and visiting associate professor. He has held various visiting academic positions at Beijing University’s Department of Law, Jilin University, Shandong University, Northwest University of Politics and Law, Columbia Law School, and the Australian National University. He was the Wang Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School in the fall semester of 2010. As an Associate at Chicago’s Baker & McKenzie (19951998), he assisted clients doing business in China, providing expertise on Chinese law relating to foreign invested enterprises.
Professor Xingzhong Yu
“I expect to offer general as well as specialized courses in Chinese law, assist Cornell faculty members whose research interests include Chinese law, and work with Cornell to establish academic relations with universities in Greater China. All these efforts require great care and enormous amounts of energy, and I am happy that I now have the opportunity to take up these challenges.” Xingzhong Yu
His 1995 J.S.D. dissertation on A Theory of Civil Order s was written under the guidance of Chinese Law specialist William P. Alford. He is the author of numerous articles and three books, including Rule of Law and Civil Orders (2006).
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The 2012 Clarke Lecture was delivered by Robert Dohner, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia, US Department of the Treasury. “US Policy and the Changing Economic and Financial Landscape of East Asia
Clarke Lecture Each year the Clarke Lecture brings one or more high-profile scholars to Cornell to deliver a major public lecture. While at Cornell, the Clarke Lecturers also meet informally with faculty and students from across the university.
Robert Dohner
In his position at the Treasury, Robert Dohner is responsible for the region extending from Pakistan and India through China, Korea, and Japan. He has previously served as the Department’s Director of the East Asia Office, Tokyo Financial Attaché, and Director of the Office of Central and Eastern Europe. Before joining Treasury, Dohner was a Senior Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, a Principal Economist at the OECD, and Senior Economic Adviser to Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs Robert Zoellick during the first Bush Administration. He also taught economics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and he has worked at the GATT and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
In his lecture, “U.S. Policy and the Changing Economic and Financial Landscape of East Asia,” Dohner explained some of the trends and forces that have shaped the region’s economies in recent years and also addressed such involvement by the U.S. as its participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Dohner concluded with four take-away points: Future growth in the region is not a given; in order to succeed, East Asian nations need to grow in ways different from the past; domestic, or even regional, efforts alone may not be sufficient to drive effective economic reform; and the U.S. has a huge economic interest in East Asia and remains vital to growth in the region.
“There’s really no one better, I think, to serve as our tenth Clarke lecturer than Deputy Assistant Secretary Robert Dohner. He is probably the major figure defining what the U.S. position is on our evolving relationships in East, Southeast, and South Asia in the financial field.” Annelise Riles 5
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Colloquium Series In the Clarke Program Colloquium Series, faculty, law students and senior graduate students meet over lunch to discuss works-in-progress on law and culture in East Asia. This informal setting encourages discussion, and the focus on new and cross-disciplinary research provides a nuanced view of Asian institutions and practices. Because these discussions constitute an integral part of two for-credit courses—the colloquium course and a seminar—the Colloquium Series offers a unique and appealing way for Cornell students to learn directly from prominent scholars and intellectuals about the legal culture of East Asia. The 2012 series was organized in conjunction with The Cornell Society for the Humanities year-long theme project on Risk. The series explored how the law and how states describe, produce and manage risk from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
FA L L 2 0 1 2 C O L L O Q U I U M SERIES:
The Regulation and Management of Risk Yayo Okano, Professor Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University, Japan
below: Haochen Sun, Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and Deputy Director of Law and Technology Center at HKU, a Visiting Professor University of California Davis, 2012
“The Logic of Security/ The Ethics of Care: From Japan at Risk.” Dongsheng Zang, Associate Professor of Law, Academic Director of Chinese Legal Studies University of Washington School of Law “China’s International Behavior: A Critique of Cultural Conception of Risk in International Politics” Haochen Sun, Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and Deputy Director of the Law and Technology Center at HKU, a Visiting Professor University of California Davis Law School, fall 2012 “Can Louis Vuitton Dance with Hiphone? Rethinking the Idea of Social Justice in Intellectual Property Law” Jacques deLisle, Professor of Law & Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
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right: Annelise Riles, Colloquium series Fall 2012
“Exceptional—and Ordinary— Powers in an Exceptional State: Patterns and Lessons
Yayo Okano, Professor Graduate School of Global Studies Doshisha University Japan
from China’s Use of Law to Address Threats to Security and Order”
Long Han, Professor of Law, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Visiting Scholar Cornell law School
Hirokazu Miyazaki, Director East Asia Program, Associate Professor of Anthropology Cornell University “Saving TEPCO: Risk, Trust and Financial Market Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan” Han Long, Professor of Law, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Visiting Scholar Cornell Law School “Legal Analysis of Accusations on the Renminbi Exchange Rate”
Xingzhong Yu, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School “Judicial Risk and Assessment of Judges in China.”
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Scholarly Exchange The Mori Hamada & Matsumoto Exchange The Mori, Hamada & Matsumoto Exchange sponsors faculty exchanges between Cornell Law School and leading Japanese universities. Cornell Law faculty travel to Japan, and faculty of Japanese universities travel to Cornell to collaborate on research projects, give seminars, and teach courses. The Mori Hamada & Matsumoto Exchange Program is supported with funds provided by the Mori Hamada & Matsumoto law firm. THE MORI HAMADA DISTINGUISHED VISITORS:
Yayo Okano is Professor of Political Philosophy at Doshisha University, Kyoto Japan. Her specialty is North American contemporary political philosophy and feminist theory. She is the author of Feminizumu no Seijigaku (The Politics of Feminism: Introducing the Ethics of Care to the Global Society, Misuzu Shobo, 2012 ), Citizunshippu no Seijigaku (Citizenship as Politics: the Criticism of Nation States, Enlarged version, Hakutaku-sya, 2009) and Hou no Seijigaku (Law as Politics, Seido-sya, 2001). Her English publications include “Reconciliation over Past Sexual Slavery in Japan: The Case of the Comfort Women” in Muta Kauze and Beverley Anne Yamamoto (eds), The Gender Politics of War Memory (Osaka: Osaka University Press, 2012).
Taiwan Ministry of Justice Program Through this program, which was established in 2008, visiting scholars from the Taiwan Ministry of Justice, pursue research on criminal justice topics under the supervision of Cornell Law School
faculty, present lectures, take courses, and participate in workshops with faculty and students. THE CLARKE VISITING RESEARCHERS:
Yu-Lung Yin, the 2012-13 Clarke Visiting Researcher, has served as assistant of attorneys-at-Law prosecutor in the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office for eight years. He received his Bachelor of Law degree from National Chung Cheng University, and Masters of Law degree from Soochow University Law School where he completed courses pertaining to human rights, the jury system, intellectual property and various regulations, and also passed the Lawyer Examination. Yin’s interest in financial regulation, money laundering and corruption issues, and how jurors evaluate financial evidence, prompted him to finish the MBA program of the Division of Finance at the Institute of Finance, National Cheng Kung University in January 2011. He became a specialist in these financial issues. In 2012, the Ministry of Justice of the R.O.C. appointed him to come to Cornell Law School to further his research. Ju-Hui Amy Tsai, the 2012-2013 Clarke Visiting Researcher, has served as a lawyer, and a prosecutor in Taiwan’s Tao-yuan District Prosecutors’ Office, and the Shih-lin District Prosecutors Office. She received her Bachelor of Law degree from National Taiwan University in July 2001, and also passed the Lawyer Examination. One year later, she attended National Chiao-Tung University to study for her Masters in Law degree. Then she served as a trainee for judges and prosecutors from 2003 to 2005, and a prosecutor since 2005. Meanwhile, she continued her course of studies and received her Masters of Law degree from the Institute of Law for Science and Technology, National Chiao-Tung University. The Ministry of Justice of the R.O.C. newly initiated an experimental scheme of restorative justice in 2010, and order to gather information about implementation, due process, cases, and relative fields of restorative justice in U.S., the Ministry of Justice of the R.O.C. appointed her to come to Cornell Law School to do research in this field.
P ro g r a m Hi g h l i g h t s for 2011-2012
Clarke Program welcomes new staff The program is happy to welcome three new staff people who joined the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture in summer 2012. We introduced a new leadership position of Executive Director and we welcome Elise A. DeViido. We have also hired two new Postdoctoral Associates to work with the Meridian 180 project as translators, Naruhito Cho and Zhaoxin Jiang. Elise Anne DeVido is Executive Director of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture at Cornell Law School. Prior to joining the Clarke Program in August 2012, Dr. DeVido taught East Asian history at St. Bonaventure University in New York for three years. From 19952009, she taught in the history departments of National Taiwan University, National Chengchi University, and National Taiwan Normal University. She served as SecretaryGeneral of the Taipei Ricci Institute for Chinese Studies from 1999-2001. Dr. DeVido was trained in modern Chinese history, has undertaken research in China, Taiwan, and Vietnam, and has published widely on Taiwan’s Buddhist nuns, comparative “Engaged Buddhism,” and modern Vietnamese Buddhism. To fund her research, she received numerous grants, including major awards from the National Science Council (Taiwan) for 2005-2007 and 2007-2009. She received her B.A. (cum laude) in History from Cornell University, an M.A. in Regional Studies-East Asia from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University.
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Naruhito Cho is a post-doctoral Associate for the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture. Naruhito was born in 1983 in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, and grew up in Hokkaido, Japan. Naruhito earned his B.A. from Middlebury College (2006) and his J.D. from University of Minnesota Law School (2011). He is a member of the New York Bar. As a member of the University of Minnesota law clinic, Naruhito has represented low income taxpayers and recent immigrants in relation to their disputes with the IRS and the Minnesota Department of Revenue. Jiang Zhaoxin is the Chinese Postdoctoral Associate for the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture. Zhaoxin received a Ph.D in history from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, an M.A in history from Stanford University, an M.A. in Law from Beijing University, and a B.A. in law from Yantai University. Before joining Clarke program, Zhaoxin had been an associate law professor in Shandong University for four years. He has published a monograph book on Chinese republican legal history, and has published a number of articles in Chinese journals.
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Pro g r a m H ig h l ig h t s fo r 2 0 1 1 -2 0 1 2
Outreach Presentations: The Cornell Death Penalty Project continues to be involved with the first (and only) death penalty clinic in China. Chinese law students at the Chinese University of Political Science and Law are working with Chinese academics and criminal defense lawyers on capital appeals pending before the Supreme People’s court of China. The Director of John Blume the Cornell Death Penalty Project, John Blume, hosted Professor Hongyao Wu of the Chinese University of Political Science and Law and several of his colleagues during their visit to Cornell to learn about American Clinical Education in general and the Cornell Capital Punishment Clinic in particular. This year, a visiting scholar from China, Wang Songbo, who worked with Professor Wu in the China clinic, is spending a year at Cornell Law School learning about both American capital litigation and clinical legal education. Several other Chinese visiting scholars have visited Cornell during the last 12 months investigating issues such as wrongful convictions, the insanity defense and the development and presentation of mitigating evidence in capital cases. Professor Blume intends to spend a month in China during the summer of 2013 working with Professor Wu and his students on cases and giving a series of lectures on capital litigation.
On-Campus Outreach and Cross-Campus Collaboration: One of the central missions of the Clarke Program is to foster a greater collaboration between Cornell Law School and other colleges, schools and units across the Cornell campus. Regardless of their major, undergraduate students are welcome to join our events and every year, more graduate students contribute to and benefit from the Clarke Program’s commitment to graduate training and interdisciplinarity.
“The radical interdisciplinarity of the Clarke Program’s Law and Culture Seminar is essential to our generation of aspiring scholars and practitioners, especially those concerned with the need to link theory and practice. This course has made me rethink both the unique role of my discipline—anthropology—while also questioning ways in which the discipline needs to speak to and be stretched in response to the study of law, politics, economics, and philosophy.” Emily Hong, PhD Candidate, Anthropology
“The Meridian 180 community’s unmatched sophistication, the originality of their ideas, and their commitment to transcending cultural and disciplinary divides has provided me with a vibrant intellectual environment that has enriched my studies at Cornell immensely. World class initiatives like this are what make the Clarke Program such an inspiring place in which to think, to learn, and to conduct research.” Vincent Ialenti, Ph.D. candidate, Anthropology Department, Cornell University
“The Clarke Program, from its lecture series to Meridian 180, has allowed me to meet, listen to, and engage in meaningful discussion with leading scholars from many disciplines. Further, working on Meridian 180 has productively challenged my own thinking and writing.”
Pro g r a m H ig h l ig h t s fo r 2 0 1 3
Coming Highlights
It will investigate both the role of accountability given the expanding powers of central banks and the increasingly interwoven world of global finance; as well as the practical ramifications of recent and proposed transparency reforms.
An International Conference in Beijing, China June 14-15, 2013 “Comparative Law in the Post-Global Age: Transmigration and Innovation”
Clarke Lecture 2013: Sun-Uk Kim, President, Ewha Womans University On October 28, 2013 Sun-Uk Kim, President of Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea will deliver the 2013 Clarke Lecture at Cornell Law School.
Upcoming Visitor: Shaw-wu Jung In the spring of 2013 Cornell Law School will welcome Professor Shaw-wu Jung, National Chi Nan University Graduate Institute of Anthropology, Taiwan, as a Clarke Program Scholar.
Symposium in New York City February 22-23, 2103
With the support of the Jeffrey S. Lehman Fund for Scholarly Exchange in China and Co-sponsored by the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, Cornell Law School, and Tsinghua University Law School The conference seeks to bring together scholars of different backgrounds but with the same academic interest to exchange their views and to provide a venue for exploration of ideas to broaden the understanding of comparative law issues in a glocalized world. Invited participants will include Cornell Law faculty members, scholars, practitioners or government officials from Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mainland China, South Korea and Taiwan.
Clarke Lecture 2014: Katsuito Iwai, Visiting Professor, International Christian University and Senior Research Fellow, Tokyo Foundation In March 2014 Professor Katsuito Iwai will deliver the Clarke Lecture at Cornell Law School.
“Central Banks and the Changing Politics of Financial Governance” A symposium sponsored by the Cornell International Law Journal. The symposium is organized in conjunction with Professor Annelise Riles and the Meridian 180 project.
Diana Biller, 3rd year law student, Cornell Law School 9
Clarke Program Administration Annelise Riles
Director
Elise DeVido
Guillaume Ratel
Donna K. Hastings
Executive Director
Program Coordinator
Assistant Program Coordinator
Naruhito Cho
Zhaoxin Jiang
Vincent Ialenti
Postdoctoral Associate
Postdoctoral Associate
Meridian 180 Editor
The Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture Myron Taylor Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-4901 For further information on Cornell Law School’s Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, please visit www.lawschool.cornell.edu/international/clarke_program or e-mail asianlaw@cornell.edu. You can now also follow the Clarke Program on Facebook (www.facebook.com/clarkeprogram) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/clarkeprogram)
“You can’t understand the meaning of a legal contract without understanding the culture – religion, kinship, markets – from which it arose.” Annelise Riles