Center for Asian Law

The Center for Asian Law (CAL) at Penn is a collaborative faculty and student effort to nurture innovative thinking on and analysis of international, and comparative law and policy in Asia.

Events

April 8th, 2019

Monday, April 8, 2019
11:00 AM Roundtable Discussion on Judicial Reform in China
Peking University Professor Fu Yulin will lead a roundtable discussion, in Chinese, on the implementation of announced judicial reforms to date, and what the future may hold for the Supreme Court’s reform program.

Perelman Center, 4th floor CSSC conference room

News

Penn Law hosts symposium on Courts, Law, and Politics in the United States and Asia

The multi-day symposium, “Courts, Law, and Politics in the United States and Asia,” was jointly hosted by Penn Law’s Center for Asian Law , the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, Waseda University Law School, and Penn’s Perry World House .
CAL Professor, Jacques deLisle, discusses the South China Sea Arbitration Decision

In a recently published article for the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Professor deLisle assesses the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s unanimous decision on the South China Sea dispute.
Professor deLisle Presents on Taiwan’s 2016 Election and Prospects for the Tsai Administration

Professor deLisle served as a moderator and presenter at a conference co-hosted by the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at Brookings and the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) on how the 2016 elections in Taiwan impact domestic and international politics.
CAL’s Eric Feldman Attends Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association

Professor of Law, Eric Feldman, participated in the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association on June 2-3 as both Chair of a roundtable discussion on Disasters, Law, and the State in Comparative Perspective and discussant on a panel on Disasters and Law in the Pacific Rim Region.
Connecting the Unconnected Project

The Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition (CTIC) is embarking on a new initiative to gather empirical data on new approaches to helping the more than 3 billion of the world’s 7 billion citizens connect to the Internet.