Brown bag discussion on PRC intellectual property law

The Chinese Legal Studies Association at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (http://www.law.upenn.edu/groups/clsa/) will be hosting a brown bag discussion on PRC intellectual property law with Professor Jacques deLisle on Wednesday, March 2, 2005, at 1:30 PM in Tanenbaum 145 at the Law School. All are welcome.

Center for East Asian Studies mailing list

The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania maintains a mailing list for East Asian-related events and other things that may be of interest to CLSA members. To join the mailing list, send an email to ceas@ccat.upenn.edu requesting to join. For more information about CEAS, visit the CEAS website at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/.

Brown bag discussion on Taiwan's elections and politics and cross-strait issues

The Chinese Legal Studies Association at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (http://www.law.upenn.edu/groups/clsa/) will be hosting a brown bag discussion on Taiwan's elections and politics and cross-strait issues with Professor Jacques deLisle on Monday, February 21, 2005, at 1:30 PM in Tanenbaum 145 at the Law School. All are welcome.

2004-2005 Membership

Officers

President	Vincent A. Pace J.D. '06, vpace@law.upenn.edu
Vice-President	Li Nan LL.M. '05, nli3@law.upenn.edu
Discussion Chair	Xiao Peng LL.M. '05, xpeng@law.upenn.edu
Alumni Liaison	Hsiang-Cheng Huang LL.M. '05, huanghc@law.upenn.edu
Faculty Advisor	Jacques deLisle, jdelisle@law.upenn.edu

Members

Carlos Amy J.D. '05 Sheila Bapat J.D. '07 Ming-Chih Chang LL.M. '05 Wan-An Chang J.D. '06 Zhong Chien J.D. '06 David Foster J.D. '05 Seth Goldstein J.D. '05 Li-Tian Hsieh J.D. '06 Ting-Ya Hsieh LL.M. '05 Chi-Wei Huang S.J.D. Li Hui J.D. '06 Aiko Kamei LL.C.M. '05 Aaron Kornfield J.D. '05 David Kron J.D '05 Gaby Lapus LL.M. '05 Hao Li J.D. '06 Li Li LL.M. '05 Nan Li LL.M. '05 Yang Liu J.D. '06 Yiyun Liu J.D. '07

Jingjing Lu LL.M. '05 Shane Milam J.D. '06 Rongrong Mu LL.M. '05 Drew Norman J.D. '06 Joshua Richards J.D. '06 Judy Shen J.D. '05 Adrian Shum LL.M. '05 Hongyu Sun LL.M. '05 Sophia Tawil J.D. '06 Zhuqing Tong LL.M. '05 Yaling Wang LL.M. '05 Jenny Wu J.D. '07 Xiaoxue Wu LL.M. '05 Timothy Young J.D. '06 Xiaochen Zhang LL.M. '05 Limei Zhao LL.M. '05 Qiaoyi Zhou LL.M. '05 Zheng Zhou J.D. '07 Bernard Zhu J.D. '07

Updated Brown Bag Discussion Topics

CLSA members have suggested the following topics for our brown bag discussions:

- The codification of PRC civil law
- Hong Kong politics and one country, two systems in Hong Kong
- The PRC and the WTO
- PRC bankruptcy law* (to be held after the promulgation of the new bankruptcy law)
- PRC company law* (to be held in late March or early April)
- PRC democratization and elections
- PRC economic reform
- PRC environmental law
- PRC foreign direct investment
- PRC intellectual property law
- PRC law regarding religious freedom
- PRC property law* (to be held during the week of February 14)
- The Results of NPC meeting in March (to be held after the NPC meeting)
- Taiwan's elections and politics* and cross-strait issues (to be held before spring break)

Our discussions have already covered the following topics.

- PRC politics: The death of Zhao Ziyang

Our discussions this semester will generally alternate between Mondays at 1:30PM and Fridays at 1:30PM, locations to be announced.

Discussion Chair

Xiao Peng LL.M. '05 has volunteered to serve as our Discussion Chair. If you have any additional topics to add to our list or any other questions about our discussions, please email him at xpeng@law.upenn.edu.

Brown bag discussion on Chinese politics

The Chinese Legal Studies Association will be hosting a brown bag discussion on Chinese politics with Professor Jacques deLisle on Thursday, February 10, 2005, at 1:30PM in T145. All are welcome.

Brown Bag Lunch Discussions

CLSA will be hosting weekly brown-bag lunches with Professor Jacques deLisle and other guests to discuss issues related to Chinese law. Each week we will cover a different topic chosen by CLSA members. The lunches will be held at the law school, locations TBA.

1. The Chinese Legal Studies Association will be hosting a brown bag discussion on Chinese politics with Professor Jacques deLisle on Thursday, February 10, 2005, at 1:30PM in T145.


2. Thereafter we have tentatively scheduled our brown bag lunches on Mondays and Fridays at 1:30PM, location to be announced each week. If neither of these times work for you, please send an email to vpace@law.upenn.edu.


3. Below is a preliminary list of topics to be discussed. If you have an additional topic that you would like to discuss, please send an email to vpace@law.upenn.edu.
   • Codification of PRC civil law
   • Cross-strait issues
   • Foreign direct investment in the PRC
   • One country, two systems in Hong Kong
   • Politics in Hong Kong
   • Politics in the PRC
   • Politics in Taiwan
   • The PRC and the WTO
   • PRC corporate law
   • PRC economic reform
   • PRC democratization
   • PRC intellectual property law


4. CLSA is looking for a one or more Discussion Chairs. The responsibilities of the Discussion Chair(s) will be the following:
   • To informally moderate the discussions.
   • To choose the topic for each week's discussion based on CLSA member input.
   • To reserve the room at the law school where the discussion will be held.
   • To notify CLSA members and the law school community at large about our discussions.

CLSA Symposium

Nan Li LL.M. '05 has volunteered to serve as our Symposium Director and will be assisted by Zheng Zhou J.D. '07. They and other interested CLSA members will select the topic and participants of the symposium. If you are interested in working on the symposium, please send an email to Nan Li at nli3@law.upenn.edu.

CLSA Mailing List

The CLSA mailing list has just been activated. To join the list, please send an email to vpace@law.upenn.edu.