SemesterFall Semester, 2020
DepartmentSelective Courses of Master Level, International College of Innovation
Course NameLaw and Sustainable Development in East Asia
InstructorCHEN PO LIANG
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

Course Schedule & Requirements




























































































































Week



Topic



Content and Reading Assignment


 
 

1



Guidance



Sep 17, 2020



 


 

2.



Political Development & Dimension of Development



Sep 24, 2020



Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay, Ch. 1-3


 

3.



Fall Break



Oct 1, 2020



 



 


 

4.



State Building: Chinese tribalism to great Han System



Oct 8, 2020



Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order, Ch. 6-9



 


 

5.



Imperial Chinese Legal Thoughts



Oct 15, 2020



Derk Bodde & Clarence Morris, LAW IN IMPERIAL CHINA 1-35; 39-51 (1967).



 


 

6.



Law and Society in Imperial China



Oct 22, 2020



William P. Alford, Of Arsenic and Old Laws: Looking Anew at Criminal Justice in Late Imperial China, 72 CAL. L. REV. 1180, 1190-1227 (1984).



Jonathan K. Ocko, “I'll Take It All the Way to Beijing: Capital Appeals in the Qing”, THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, Vol. 47/2, 1988, pp.291-315


 

7.



China’s Hundred Years of Revolution



Oct 29, 2020



Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles of the People (Sanminzhuyi), available at http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/sunyat.html



Andrew Nathan, CHINESE DEMOCRACY 45-66, 107-19 (1988).



 


 

8.



Chinese Legal Reform



Nov 5, 2020



Elizabeth Perry, Chinese Conceptions of Law from Mencius to Mao—and Now, PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS 6(1): 37-51 (2008)



Tom Ginsburg, Administrative Law and the Judicial Control of Agents in Authoritarian Regimes, in Ginsburg and Moustafa, eds., RULE BY LAW: THE POLITICS OF COURTS IN AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES (2008)


 

9.



Judiciary and development in Indonesia



Nov 12, 2020



Guest Speaker


 

10.



Human Rights in Indonesia



Nov 19, 2020



Guest Speaker


 

11.



The Strong Asian State



Nov 26, 2020



Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay, Ch. 23-25.


 

12.



Japanese Legal History and Social Change



Dec 3, 2020



Curtis Milhaupt, et al. THE JAPANESE LEGAL SYSTEM 1-37



Daniel Foote, Law in Japan, Ch. 1-3.


 

13.



Lawyers, Judges and Criminal Justice in Postwar Japan



Dec 10, 2020



Curtis Milhaupt, et al. THE JAPANESE LEGAL SYSTEM 117-47, 402-18 (to Sec III); 431-56.



 


 

14.



Japanese Constitution I



Dec 17, 2020



Constitution of Japan, Arts. 1-9; available at http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/constitution_and_government_of_japan/constitution_e.ht ml



Elkins et al, Baghdad, Tokyo, Kabul, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm? abstract_id=1022686 pp. 17-24.



Po Liang Chen & Jordan Wada, Can the Japanese Supreme Court Overcome the Political Question Hurdle?, 26 WASH. INT'L L.J. 349 (2017).



 


 

15.



Japanese Constitution II



Dec 24, 2020



Guest Speaker


 

16.



The legal system and the economic, political and social development: the case of Hong Kong and Singapore



Dec 31, 2020



Guest Speaker


 

17.



East Asia: Rule of Law v. Rule by Law -- Two Developing Model



Jan 7, 2021



Tamanaha, Brian, “The Primacy of Society and the Failures of Law and Development,” Cornell International Law Journal, Vol. 44, 2011, pp. 209-247.



Hiroshi Matsuo, The Rule of Law and Economic Development: A Cause or a Result?


 

18.



Students’ presentation



Jan 14, 2021



 


 


 


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

TBA


Requirement/Grading

 



Weekly Discussion Questions and Participation  20 pts.



Two Written Assignments                              20 pts.



Take-Home Midterm                                       20 pts.



Take-Home Final Paper (Book Review)                  40 pts.


Textbook & Reference
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