PUBLIC EVENTS AND EXCHANGES

Since 2009, CEALS has organized over 75 public events and exchanges with leading scholars, practitioners, and officials on a wide range of topics related to East Asian legal systems. Major events during the 2022-2023 academic year included:

Virtual Panel on Current Challenges in the US-China Trade and Investment Environment with Zheng Liu, Partner in the International Property and Commercial Litigation groups at Rimon Law; Greg Pilarowski, Founder of Pillar Legal; and Jeff Layman, Deputy General Counsel for Venture Global LNG, UC Law SF alumnus, and CEALS Affiliated Scholar (October 2022)

China’s De-territorialized Authoritarian Legality with Margaret Lewis, Professor of Law at Seton Hall University Law School (October 2022).

Rising Tensions in the Taiwan Strait: Danger, Deterrence, and Difficult Policy Decisions with Glenn Tiffert, Research Fellow and Co-chair of the China Global Sharp Power Project at the Hoover Institution. Co-sponsored by the law school Federalist Society chapter (November 2022).

2022 CHINA Town Hall National interactive webcast with Ambassador Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., followed by a local panel on the PRC Constitution at 40: Prospects for Constitutionalism in China, with Changhao Wei, Fellow at Yale Law School Paul Tsai China Center, and CEALS Director Keith Hand Co-sponsored by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (November 2022).

What Can American Lawyers Can Do in Japan? with Daigo Takahashi, Corporate Associate at Morrison Foerster and UC Law SF alumnus (February 2023)

Waging External Struggle through Law: How China Is Developing Domestic Legal Capacity to Compete with the United States with CEALS Director Keith Hand Co-sponsored by the Armed Services Legal Association (March 2023)

For a full listing of CEALS public events since 2009, please visit our website here.