Social and Environmental Justice: Challenges to China's Olympic Dreams

Lecture by Judith Shapiro
Thursday, April 10, 2008, 4:30-5:30PM
Silverman 240B, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Professor Judith Shapiro of American University will speak on China's social and environmental policy in the context of the upcoming Olympic Games. Judith Shapiro is the Director of the Global Environmental Politics Programs at SIS. Her latest book, Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China, traces the roots of China's current environmental issues to the Mao's Great Leap era environmental policy. Professor Shapiro's current research is on sustainable development in China. Reception to follow.

Event co-sponsored by the East Asia Law Review, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, and the Penn Law Dean's Speaker Fund.

Brown Bag Lunch: April 4, 2008

Join the East Asia Law Review and Prof. Jacques deLisle for a discussion with Ching-yuan Yeh on the recent Taiwan presidential election.

Friday, April 4, 2008 12:00PM

Location: Law School T-253 - Rare Book Room

Dr. Yeh is an LL.M., J.D. and S.J.D. alumnus of Penn Law and is now counsel to the mayor Taipei, Hau Lung-pin. Both the President-elect Ma Ying-jeou and the current President Chen Shui-bian served as mayor of Taipei as their final government positions before becoming president.

Brown Bag Lunch: February 12, 2008

The Penn East Asia Law Review presents you with brown bag lunches with professors distinguished in East Asian legal issues, starting with Professor deLisle!

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:00PM

Location: Law School, T-253

Jacques deLisle is an expert in contemporary Chinese law and politics. DeLisle's research focuses on the law and politics of the People's Republic of China, China's approach to international law, Taiwan's international status, legal change and economic reform in China, Hong Kong's transition to and political-legal development under Chinese rule, and public international law. His writings on these subjects appear in a variety of fora, including international relations journals, edited volumes of multidisciplinary scholarship, and Asian studies journals, as well as law reviews. His Op-Eds and commentaries on law, politics and foreign policy regularly appear in newspapers and specialized foreign policy and Asian affairs media.

Professor deLisle will present "Celebrated Cases and Social Justice / Citizen's Rights: Lessons about Law's (Limited) Promise in China Today."