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Guidance
Sep 17, 2020 |
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Political Development & Dimension of Development
Sep 24, 2020 |
Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay, Ch. 1-3 |
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Fall Break
Oct 1, 2020
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4. |
State Building: Chinese tribalism to great Han System
Oct 8, 2020 |
Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order, Ch. 6-9
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5. |
Imperial Chinese Legal Thoughts
Oct 15, 2020 |
Derk Bodde & Clarence Morris, LAW IN IMPERIAL CHINA 1-35; 39-51 (1967).
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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 |
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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).
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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) |
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9. |
Judiciary and development in Indonesia
Nov 12, 2020 |
Guest Speaker |
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10. |
Human Rights in Indonesia
Nov 19, 2020 |
Guest Speaker |
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11. |
The Strong Asian State
Nov 26, 2020 |
Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay, Ch. 23-25. |
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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. |
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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.
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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).
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15. |
Japanese Constitution II
Dec 24, 2020 |
Guest Speaker |
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16. |
The legal system and the economic, political and social development: the case of Hong Kong and Singapore
Dec 31, 2020 |
Guest Speaker |
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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? |
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18. |
Students’ presentation
Jan 14, 2021 |
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