Workshop
on
Law and Society in Transition and
Developing Countries
9-10 November 2007
Lubar Commons (7200 Law)
University of Wisconsin Law School
Sponsors:
Global Legal Studies Center
Division of International Studies
Worldwide Universities Network (WUN)
Workshop on Law and Society in Transition and Developing Countries
9-10 November 2007
Lubar Commons (7200 Law)
University of Wisconsin Law School
Program
Friday, November 9, 2007
8:30-9:00
Registration and Coffee
9:00-9:15
Welcome and Introduction
Heinz Klug, University of Wisconsin Law School
9:15-10:45
Panel 1: Emerging Themes in the Study of Law and Society in
Developing and Transitional Countries
This first panel will begin a discussion of the legal and societal themes
that are emerging in transitional and developing nations.
Chair: Joseph Thome, University of Wisconsin Law School
“Law and the New Developmental State”
John Ohnesorge, University of Wisconsin Law School, and
David Trubek, University of Wisconsin Law School
“The Global in the National: The Changing Role of the State and the
Rule of Law”
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra & University of
Wisconsin Law School
“The Challenge of Law and Society in Transition and Developing
Countries”
Kathryn Hendley, University of Wisconsin Law School & Department of
Political Science
10:45-11:00
Break
11:00-12:30
Panel 1: Emerging themes, continued
Chair: Elizabeth Mertz, University of Wisconsin Law School
“Globalization and the Welfare State”
Kerry Rittich, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
“Developing Legal Professions: The Chinese Case”
Jingwen Zhu, Renmin University of China School of Law
“Economic and Social Rights”
Heinz Klug, University of Wisconsin Law School
12:30-2:00
Lunch for Workshop Participants
The next three panels will present individual work-in-progress or a brief
overview of a topic.
2:00-3:30
Panel 2: Economic Law
Chair: Stewart Macaulay, University of Wisconsin Law School
Allison Christians, University of Wisconsin Law School
Diogo Coutinho, University of São Paolo & Center for Analysis and
Planning, Brazil
Jason Yackee, University of Wisconsin Law School
3:30-3:45
Break
3:45-5:15
Panel 3: Public Law and Courts
Chair: Penelope Andrews, Valparaiso University School of Law
Alexandra Huneeus, University of Wisconsin Law School
Chris Maina Peter, University of Dar es Salaam
Dongsheng Zang, University of Washington School of Law
Saturday, November 10, 2007
8:45-9:15
Coffee
9:15-11:00
Panel 4: Mobilization of Law
Chair: David Trubek, University of Wisconsin Law School
Scott Cummings, University of California, Los Angeles
Steven Meili, University of Wisconsin Law School
Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin Law School
Louise Trubek, University of Wisconsin Law School
11:00-11:15
Break
11:15-1:00
Panel 5: Issues in Studying the Role of Law in Developing and
Transition Countries
Chair: Heinz Klug, University of Wisconsin Law School
Sumudu Atapattu, University of Wisconsin Law School
Diogo Coutinho, University of São Paolo & Center for Analysis and
Planning, Brazil
Titi Liu, University of Washington School of Law
Chris Maina Peter, University of Dar es Salaam
Jingwen Zhu, Renmin University of China School of Law
1:00-2:30
Lunch for Workshop Participants
Biographies of Participants
Penelope Andrews is a Visiting Professor of Law, Valparaiso University School of Law (on
leave from CUNY Law School). She worked at the Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg,
South Africa, before pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University, where she received an
LL.M. degree. Prior to joining the faculty at CUNY, she taught anti-discrimination law and
policy as well as Aboriginal law in Melbourne, Australia. Professor Andrews has written
extensively on human rights issues in the South African and Australian global contexts and
appears frequently on panels addressing issues of international human rights, women, and racial
minorities. She is active in a variety of international human rights and peace organizations and
serves on the Africa Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch and the Friends of the
Constitutional Court of South Africa. She is a contributing co-author of The Post-Apartheid
Constitutions: Reflections on South Africa’s Basic Law.
Sumudu Atapattu is Associate Director of the Global Legal Studies Center of the University of
Wisconsin Law School. She received an LL.M. degree in Public International Law and a Ph.D.
degree in International Environmental Law from the University of Cambridge, U.K., and is an
Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. She has taught a seminar, “Selected
Problems in Environmental Law: International Environmental Law,” at the UW Law School
since 2003. Prior to coming to Madison, she was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law,
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, where she taught Environmental Law and Public International
Law. She has also worked as a Senior Consultant to the Law & Society Trust, a human rights
non-governmental organization in Colombo, Sri Lanka. In 2003 she was appointed the Lead
Counsel for Human Rights and Poverty of the Center for International Sustainable Development
Law based in Montreal, Canada. Her book, Emerging Principles of International Environmental
Law, was published in Fall 2006 by Transnational Publishers, New York.
Allison Christians is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
She received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and her LL.M. in Taxation from
New York University School of Law; she became a member of the New York Bar in 2000. Prior
to joining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Law School, Professor Christians taught J.D.
and LL.M. courses in federal and international income taxation at Northwestern University
School of Law, and before that she practiced tax law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New
York, where she focused on the taxation of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions,
spin-offs, restructurings, and associated issues and transactions involving private and public
companies. Professor Christians’ scholarly interests include foreign policy, globalization,
competition, and development aspects of taxation.
Diogo R. Coutinho is Professor of Law at the University of São Paulo (USP), where he teaches
economic law and political economy, and Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis
and Planning (CEBRAP). Prof.essor Coutinho also coordinates research related to constitutional
case law and precedents in civil law countries at the Brazilian Society of Public Law (SBDP). He
holds a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from the University
of São Paolo. He has written on regulatory reform, privatization, competition, distributive
policies, development, and democratization in Brazil.
Scott L. Cummings is Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, Law
School where he teaches Business Associations, Professional Responsibility, and Community
Economic Development. He is currently faculty chair of the Epstein Program in Public Interest
Law and Policy. His scholarship focuses on the organization and practice of public interest law,
and he is currently working on projects that examine the operation of small public interest firms,
the development of public interest law systems abroad, and the role of lawyers in the antisweatshop movement in Los Angeles. Professor Cummings’ articles appear in the STANFORD
LAW REVIEW, the CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW, the DUKE LAW JOURNAL, and the UCLA LAW
REVIEW. As a law school student, Professor Cummings served as executive editor of the
HARVARD CIVIL RIGHTS-CIVIL LIBERTIES LAW REVIEW. He clerked for Judge A.
Wallace Tashima of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge James B. Moran of the
Northern District of Illinois. In 1996, Professor Cummings was awarded a Skadden Fellowship
to work in the Community Development Project at Public Counsel in Los Angeles, where he
provided transactional legal assistance to nonprofit organizations and small businesses engaged in
community revitalization efforts.
Kathryn Hendley is Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at the University of
Wisconsin Law School. Her research focuses on legal and economic reform in the former Soviet
Union. She is currently engaged in an interdisciplinary project aimed at understanding how
business is conducted in Russia and the role of law in business transactions and corporate
governance. This project has been funded by the World Bank, the National Science Foundation,
and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. Professor Hendley teaches
Contracts, as well as courses related to her interest in Russia, such as Russian Law, International
Business Transactions, Comparative Law, and Transitions to the Market. She has served as a
consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development and the World Bank in their work
on legal reform in Russia. Professor Hendley is currently the Director of the Center for Russia,
East Europe, and Central Asia, which receives Title VI funding from the U.S. Department of
Education.
Alexandra Huneeus is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She
studies the judicialization of politics, the politics of human rights, and legal culture in Latin
America. Her doctoral dissertation centered on the Chilean judiciary’s changing attitude toward
cases of Pinochet-era human rights violations. She teaches sociology of law, human rights, Latin
American legal institutions, and international law. Before joining the UW faculty in 2007,
Professor Huneeus was a fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development,
and the Rule of Law. She received her Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley (2006), and her J.D. from Boalt
Hall, the Berkeley Law School (2001).
Heinz Klug is Director of the Global Legal Studies Center and Professor of Law at the University
of Wisconsin Law School. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Associate in the School of
Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Growing up in Durban,
South Africa, he participated in the anti-apartheid struggle, spent 11 years in exile, and returned
to South Africa in 1990 as a member of the ANC Land Commission and a researcher for Zola
Skweyiya, chairperson of the ANC Constitutional Committee. Professor Klug has presented
lectures and papers on the South African constitution, land reform, and water law, among other
topics, in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, Germany, South Africa, the Netherlands, and at
several U.S. law schools. His research interests include: constitutional transitions, constitutionbuilding, human rights, international legal regimes, and natural resources. His current teaching
areas include Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights and
Humanitarian Law, Property, and Natural Resources Law.
Titi Liu is currently the Garvey Schubert Barer visiting professor in Asian Law at the University
of Washington School of Law. Her research and teaching focus on Chinese law and society,
comparative criminal procedure, and public interest law. She was the Law and Rights program
officer in China for the Ford Foundation from July 2000 to March 2007. She is a graduate of
Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Stewart Macaulay is Malcolm Pitman Sharp Professor & Theodore W. Brazeau Professor at the
University of Wisconsin Law School. He is a graduate of Stanford Law School. Professor
Macaulay is internationally recognized as a leader of the law-in-action approach to contracts,
having pioneered the study of business practices and the work of lawyers related to the questions
of contract law. He has written extensively on subjects ranging from lawyers and consumer law
to private government and legal pluralism. He has been published in such journals as the
WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW, the LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW, and LAW & POLICY. He authored Law
and the Balance of Power: The Automobile Manufacturers and Their Dealers and co-authored
Law & Society: Materials on the Social Study of Law with Lawrence Friedman and John Stookey
as well as Contracts: Law in Action with John Kidwell, Bill Whitford, and Marc Galanter. In
1996, he published Organic Transactions: Contract, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Johnson
Building. Macaulay was President of the Law and Society Association from 1985 to 1987, and in
1995 he won LSA’s Harry Kalven Prize. He was the Director of the Chile Law Program of the
International Legal Center in Santiago during 1970 and 1971. He was also a member of the
Board of Advisors to the Reporter for the Restatement (Second) Contracts of the American Law
Institute. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In February 2004, he
won the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation Annual Outstanding Scholar Award.
Chris Maina Peter is a Professor of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He holds
LL.B and LL.M degrees from the University of Dar es Salaam and a Ph.D. from the University of
Konstanz in Germany. He teaches Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law,
Refugee Law, Human Rights, and Jurisprudence. Professor Peter has been a Visiting Professor at
the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden, and the
University of Bayreuth in Germany. He has written and edited several books, including Law &
Justice in Tanzania: Quarter of a Century of the Court of Appeal (Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na
Nyota Publishers, 2007); Searching for Sense and Humanity: Civil Society and the Struggle for a
Better Rwanda (Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2006); Fundamental Rights and Freedoms in
Tanzania (Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 1998); Human Rights in Tanzania:
Selected Cases and Materials (Cologne, Germany: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 1997); and Human
Rights in Africa: A Comparative Study of the African Human and Peoples’ Rights Charter and
the New Tanzanian Bill of Rights (New York/Westport, Connecticut [USA]: Greenwood Press
Inc., 1990).
Steve Meili is Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Consumer Law Clinic at the
University of Wisconsin Law School. He has written extensively on legal institutions and the
legal profession in Latin America. His publications include “‘Of Course He Just Stood There:
He’s the Law’: Reflections on Cultural Depictions of Cause Lawyers in Post-Authoritarian Chile”
(forthcoming in The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers); “Cause Lawyering for Collective Justice:
A Case Study of the amparo colectivo in Argentina” in The World Cause Lawyers Make (2005);
“Latin American Cause Lawyering Networks” in Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era
(2001); “Legal Education in Argentina and Chile” in Educating for Justice Around the World
(1999); and “Cause Lawyers and Social Movements: A Comparative Perspective on Democratic
Change in Argentina and Brazil” in Cause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional
Responsibilities (1998). He also wrote the chapter on comparative approaches to consumer
protection law in Legal Systems of the World (2002). In addition to his clinical teaching, he
teaches courses in Civil Procedure, Immigration Law, and Consumer Law and Pretrial Advocacy.
Elizabeth Mertz is Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Senior
Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. She recently published a study of first-year
law school education, funded partly by the ABF and also by the Spencer Foundation, The
Language of Law School: Learning to “Think Like a Lawyer” (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Her current empirical research focuses on the social construction of “senior status” in the legal
and liberal arts academies. In addition, she conducts research and writes on law and language,
legal translation, and family violence. She has been elected a Fellow of the American
Anthropological Association, a Trustee and Executive Board Representative of the Law &
Society Association, and was a guest editor of a special issue of the LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW.
She is a past Editor of LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY. Her areas of interest include family law, legal
process, law and language, law and social science, the legal profession, and legal education.
John Ohnesorge is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Vice
Director of the East Asian Legal Studies Center. He received his B.A. degree from St. Olaf
College (1985), his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School (1989), and his S.J.D.
from Harvard Law School (2001). He has spent several years in East Asia, first as a teacher and
law student in Shanghai in the 1980s, and then as a lawyer in private practice in Seoul in the
1990s. During the course of his S.J.D. studies, Professor Ohnesorge spent the 1997-98 academic
year as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany, on a fellowship
from Harvard’s Center for European Studies. In 2000 he served as a lecturer at Harvard Law
School, co-teaching the Pacific Legal Community seminar with Professor William P. Alford.
From 2000 to 2001 he clerked for Federal District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel (D. Mass) and then
joined the UW faculty. He teaches Business Organizations, Administrative Law, Chinese Law,
and Law and Modernization.
Kerry Rittich is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and the Women’s and Gender
Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. She teaches and writes in the areas of international
law and international institutions, law and development, human rights, labor law, and critical and
feminist theory. Among her publications are Recharacterizing Restructuring: Law, Distribution
and Gender in Market Reform (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002); (with Joanne
Conaghan, University of Kent), Labour Law, Work and Family: Critical and Comparative
Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2005); “Core Labour Rights and Labour Market
Flexibility: Two Paths Entwined?” Permanent Court of Arbitration/Peace Palace Papers, Labor
Law Beyond Borders: ADR and the Internationalization of Labor Dispute Resolution (Kluwer
Law International, 2003); and “The Future of Law and Development: Second Generation
Reforms and the Incorporation of the Social” in David M. Trubek and Alvaro Santos, eds., The
New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge
University Press, 2006). She has written a number of analyses of precarious work and labor
market governance in the new economy, including a report for the Law Commission of Canada.
Her current projects included collaborative work on social and economic rights in Sub-Saharan
South Africa. Kerry Rittich obtained an LL.B. from the University of Alberta in 1992 and an
S.J.D. from Harvard University in 1998. She was Law Clerk to Madame Justice Claire
L’Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada in 1992-93. Professor Rittich was the
Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard Law School and the
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, in 2004, and she was a Jean
Monnet fellow at the European University Institute in 2005.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal),
Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Global Legal Professor
at the University of Warwick (England). He earned LL.M and J.S.D. degrees from Yale
University. Professor Santos is Director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of
Coimbra and has written and published widely on the issues of globalization, sociology of law
and the state, epistemology, social movements, and the World Social Forum. His most recent
books in English are The Rise of the Global Left: The World Social Forum and Beyond (London:
Zed Books, 2006); Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization, and Emancipation
(London: Butterworths, 2002); (editor) Another Democracy is Possible: Beyond the Liberal
Democratic Canon (London: Verso, 2005); Another Production is Possible: Beyond the
Capitalist Canon (London: Verso, 2006); Another Knowledge is Possible: Beyond Northern
Epistemologies (London: Verso 2007); Global Cognitive Justice: Prudent Knowledge for a
Decent Life (Lanham: Lexington Books 2007); and (co-editor with Cesar Rodriguez-Gavarito)
Law and Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Mitra Sharafi joined the University of Wisconsin Law School in Fall 2007. She holds two law
degrees (BA, Cambridge 1996; BCL, Oxford 1998) and a Ph.D. in history (Princeton, 2006). Her
doctoral dissertation, a study of law and identity in the Parsi or Indian Zoroastrian community of
colonial India and Burma, was awarded the 2007 South Asia Council’s Dissertation Prize.
Having grown up in Canada with an Iranian father and an American mother, Sharafi’s personal
interest in comparative cultures led her to India, where the personal law system combines the
common law with the religious legal traditions of Hindu, Muslim, and other communities.
Sharafi first traveled to India as a law school student on the fiftieth anniversary of Indian
independence in 1997 and has returned many times since, particularly for archival research at the
Bombay High Court in Mumbai. In 2006-07, she spent six months in India, during which time
her work took her also to Pakistan and Myanmar. Sharafi’s research interests include the legal
history of marriage, divorce, and trusts in colonial South Asia; Parsi and Zoroastrian studies; legal
pluralism; and the history of the legal profession in the British Empire. She is an organizer of the
Law and Society Association’s International Research Collaborative on South Asian Colonial
Legal History. Professor Sharafi joined UW following a two-year research fellowship at Sidney
Sussex College, Cambridge University, and a brief visiting fellowship at Griffith University’s
Socio-Legal Research Center in Australia. She teaches Contracts I at the UW Law School.
Joseph Thome is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School. His research
and teaching focus on the processes of legal reform in Latin America and on legal issues of social
and economic change in Latin America and Africa. He has served as a consultant for the World
Bank in Equatorial Guinea and for the U.S. Agency for International Development to evaluate its
projects across Latin America. In addition, he has lectured and consulted on land tenure issues in
South Africa. Professor Thome has also conducted research on land tenure and legal issues in
Chile, Equatorial Guinea, Honduras, Panama, Spain, Brazil, and Colombia, as well as holding
visiting professorships at the Catholic University Law School and Diego Portales University Law
School, both in Chile. He teaches Comparative Law, seminars related to legal change in Latin
America, and Contracts I and II.
David M. Trubek is Voss-Bascom Professor of Law Emeritus and Senior Fellow of the Center
for World Affairs and the Global Economy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His main
interests are in socio-legal studies and global political economy. He has written on law and
development, the legal profession, civil litigation, EU law and policy, new governance, critical
legal studies, transnational regulation, and social theory. Professor Trubek has helped to develop
and manage numerous academic projects and institutions in law and international studies. He has
been active in the Law and Society Association and was a founder of the Conference on Critical
Legal Studies. He was the founding Director of the UW Law School’s Institute for Legal Studies
and from 1989-2001 served as the University’s Dean of International Studies and Director of the
International Institute. Trubek has taught at Yale and Harvard Law Schools and the Catholic
University Law School of Rio de Janeiro and has been Visiting Scholar in Residence at the
European University Institute, the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, the London School of
Economics, the Harvard Center for European Studies, and the Joaquim Nabucco Foundation in
Recife, Brazil. His most recent edited books are The New Law and Economic Development: A
Critical Appraisal (with A. Santos) (Cambridge, 2006) and Max Weber's Economy and Society: A
Critical Companion (with Camic and Gorski) (Stanford, 2005).
Louise Trubek is Clinical Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Director of
the Health Law Project. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Yale Law
School. Professor Trubek teaches Health Law and Regulatory Governance and is the author of
papers on health care, new governance, and soft law. She is an editor of the March 2008 special
issue of the journal REGULATION & GOVERNANCE and is on the board of directors of the
Wisconsin United for Health Foundation. In fall 2007, she is co-teaching a course entitled
“Problems in Administrative Law: Regulatory Reform” with Professor David M. Trubek. This
seminar includes readings and research on U.S and European Union healthcare and
environmental governance. David and Louise Trubek are researching and writing on regulatory
reform topics in the United States and the European Union. In addition, Louise continues to write
and teach on public interest lawyering, particularly linking domestic and international lawyering.
In 2005, she lectured on new developments in clinical legal education at law schools in
Colombia, South America. Her article “Crossing Boundaries: Legal Education and the New
Public Interest Law” was published in the 2005 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW. She is the cofacilitator of a working group entitled “After Public Interest Law: Global Perspectives on Social
Transformation.” This group is publishing a special issue of the UCLA INTERNATIONAL
LAW JOURNAL in 2008. She is the co-author, with Julie Nice, of the casebook “Poverty Law:
Theory and Practice,” published by West Publishing in 1997, with a 1999 Supplement.
Jason Yackee is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. His
research centers on international investment law, international economic relations, and foreign
arbitration. He teaches Contracts, International Investment Law, International Arbitration, and
other courses. Professor Yackee’s recent publications include “A Bias toward Business?
Assessing Participant Influence in Notice and Comment Rulemaking” (with Susan Webb Yackee,
68 JOURNAL OF POLITICS, Feb. 2006); “Are BITs Such a Bright Idea? Exploring the Ideational
Basis of Investment Treaty Enthusiasm” (U.C. DAVIS JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND
POLICY, 2006); “Choice of Law Considerations for International Forum Selection Agreements:
Whose Law Applies?” (UCLA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
2004); “American Interests and IMF Lending” (with Thomas Oatley, International Politics,
2004); and “Note: A Matter of Good Form: The (Downsized) Hague Judgments Convention and
Conditions of Formal Validity for the Enforcement of Forum Selection Agreements” (DUKE LAW
JOURNAL, 2003). Professor Yackee graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from
University of Pittsburgh, obtained M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political science (International
Relations) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and earned a J.D., summa cum
laude, from Duke University School of Law where he was an editor for the DUKE LAW JOURNAL.
Prior to joining the faculty at the UW Law School, Professor Yackee was a Fellow at the
University of Southern California Gould School of Law and a law clerk to Chief Judge James B.
Loken, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He has also clerked with the U.S.
Department of Commerce, Office of the Chief Counsel of International Commerce, and was a
summer associate with Steptoe & Johnson LLP.
Dongsheng Zang is Assistant Professor at the University of Washington School of Law. He
joined the faculty full-time in 2006, after serving as a visiting professor in 2005-06. Professor
Zang’s academic interests include international trade law and the comparative study of Chinese
law, with a focus on the role of law and the state in response to social crises in the social
transformation in China. He holds S.J.D. and LL.M. degrees from Harvard Law School, in
addition to his LL.M. from Renmin University (Beijing) and an LL.B. from the Beijing College
of Economics. His doctoral dissertation, “One-way Transparency: The Establishment of the
Rule-based International Trade Order and the Predicament of Its Jurisprudence,” was awarded the
2004 Yong K. Kim ’95 prize. He was a research fellow at the East Asian Legal Studies program
at Harvard Law School during the 2004-05 academic year.
Jingwen Zhu is Professor of Law at the Renmin University of China Law School, Director of the
Center for Law and Globalization, and Vice President of the Jurisprudence Association of China.
He earned his law degree at Renmin University in 1982. As a CLEEC Scholar, he studied at the
East-West Center, Hawaii (1987-88); as a Fulbright Professor, he visited at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison School of Law (1996-1997); and as a senior visiting professor, he studied at
the Leiden University School of Law, Holland (1999-2000). He has taught a course titled
“Chinese Legal Culture--formal and informal perspectives” at the European Academy of Legal
Theory, KUB, Brussels, since 2002. His academic interests include jurisprudence, sociology of
law, and comparative law. His books and articles are extensive and include Jurisprudence
(1997), Comparative Sociology of Law (2001), The Rule of Law State under Globalization
(2006), and Report on China Law Development: Database and Indicators (2007).