syllabus

Class 1 (1/26):  Historical Origins and Developments

Readings:

•   Symposium, China and the WTO: Progress, Perils, and Prospects, 17 Colum. J. Asian L. 1 (2003) Read only remarks of Profs. Yu and Jerome Cohen

•   Handout 1:

  • Albert H.Y. Chen, An Introduction to the Legal System of the People’s Republic of China 1-5 (3d ed. 2004)

  • Teemu Ruskola, Legal Orientalism, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 179 (2002)

  • Glenn R. Butterton, Pirates, Dragons and U.S. Intellectual Property Rights in China: Problems and Prospects of Chinese Enforcement, 38 Ariz. L. Rev. 1081 (1996)

Class 2 (1/27):  China and the Rule of Law

Readings:

•   Handout 2:

  • Marc Rosenberg, The Chinese Legal System Made Easy: A Survey of the Structure of Government, Creation of Legislation, and the Judicial System Under the Constitution and Major Statutes of the People’s Republic of China, 9 U. Miami Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 225 (2000)

  • Albert H Y Chen, The Interpretation of the Basic Law—Common Law and Mainland Chinese Perspectives, 30 Hong Kong L.J. 380 (2000)

  • Randall Peerenboom, Globalization, Path Dependency and the Limits of Law: Administrative Law Reform and Rule of Law in the People’s Republic of China, 19 Berkeley J. Int’l L. 161 (2001)

  • Stanley Lubman, Looking for Law in China, 20 Colum. J. Asian L. 1 (2006)

  • Randall Peerenboom, Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom, One Hundred Schools Contend: Debating Rule of Law in China, 23 Mich. J. Int’l L. 471 (2002)

  • Randall Peerenboom, Law and Development of Constitutional Democracy: Is China a Problem Case?, 603 Annals 192 (2006)

Class 3 (1/28):  Actors in the Chinese Legal System

Readings:

•   Handout 3:

  • Marc Rosenberg, The Chinese Legal System Made Easy: A Survey of the Structure of Government, Creation of Legislation, and the Judicial System Under the Constitution and Major Statutes of the People’s Republic of China, 9 U. Miami Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 225 (2000)

  • Sida Liu, Beyond Global Convergence: Conflicts of Legitimacy in a Chinese Lower Court, 31 Law & Soc. Inquiry 75 (2006)

  • Sida Liu, Globalization as Boundary-Blurring: International and Local Law Firms in China’s Corporate Law Market, 42 Law & Soc’y Rev. 771 (2008)

Class 4 (1/29):  Legal Transplants and the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

Readings:

•   Office of USTR, 2008 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers: People's Republic of China (2007) Read only the section on "Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Protection"

• Peter K. Yu, Piracy, Prejudice, and Perspectives: An Attempt to Use Shakespeare to Reconfigure the U.S-China Intellectual Property Debate, 19 B.U. Int’l L.J. 1 (2001) Read only the section on "Differences Between China and the West"

• Peter K. Yu, Intellectual Property, Economic Development, and the China Puzzle, in Intellectual Property, Trade and Development: Strategies to Optimize Economic Development in a TRIPS Plus Era 169 (Daniel J. Gervais ed., 2007) Read only Part II ("Intellectual Property and Economic Development")

• Peter K. Yu, Three Questions That Will Make You Rethink the U.S.-China Intellectual Property Debate, 7 J. Marshall Rev. Intel. Prop. L. 412 (2008)

Class 5 (1/30):  Human Rights, the Internet and the Future of the Chinese Legal System

Readings:

•   Handout 5:

  • Randall Peerenboom, The Fire-Breathing Dragon and the Cute, Cuddly Panda: The Implication of China’s Rise for Developing Countries, Human Rights, and Geopolitical Stability, 7 Chi. J. Int’l L. 17 (2006)

  • Benjamin Liebman & Tim Wu, China’s Network Justice, 8 Chi. J. Int’l L. 257 (2007)

  • Stanley Lubman, Looking for Law in China, 20 Colum. J. Asian L. 1 (2006)

Final Paper Due:  April 17, 2009

Please submit the final paper via email to peter_yu@msn.com.