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Jerome Cohen on Chen Guangcheng [Media Round-up]
Following blind ‘barefoot lawyer’ and activist Chen Guangcheng’s escape from prolonged confinement, and the continuing developments in his story, Professor Jerome A. Cohen has been actively responding to media requests for information. We will provide links to many of the reports on this story in which he has been cited or interviewed here.
[Photo: Cohen visits Chinese "barefoot lawyer" Chen Guangcheng in his rural village home in 2003. (© Joan Lebold Cohen)]
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USALI Co-Director Jerome Cohen and Associate Fellow Margaret K. Lewis Speaking in Taiwan, Dec 11
This December 9-14, the U.S.-Asia Law Institute is co-sponsoring a Human Rights dialogue with the Taipei Lawyers Association and other groups from East Asian jurisdictions.
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Spotlight
Jerome Cohen on latest Criminal Procedure Law draft
On Thursday, March 8, 2012, the revised draft of the criminal procedure law was formally introduced to the national legislature in China, including stricter revisions that restrict the police’s power to secretly detain people–at least on paper. Professor Cohen’s commentary is available here.
The Seventeenth Annual Timothy A. Gelatt Dialogue: China’s Quest for Justice
On November 7, 2011, NYU’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute hosted the Seventeenth Annual Timothy Gelatt Dialogue on the Rule of Law in Asia, a roundtable discussion with the theme “China’s Quest for Justice.” We are pleased to offer complete video of the 2011 Gelatt Dialogue here as well as a photo gallery and guest list.
“Lost in Translation” – The “rule of guanxi 關係”, an alternative to the rule of law?
Although it still remains largely unsettled, the topic of “guanxi” seems to have slipped from the radar screens of sociologists, anthropologists as well as of China scholars in general. In sharp contrast and as a matter of real life experience, “guanxi” is alive and kicking as it were, i.e. a far from outdated phenomenon. The term of “guanxi” comes up with strikingly frequent regularity in every day social conversations, especially those suggesting corrupt behaviour. Therefore, it would seem imperative rather than meaningless or out-dated to re-examine existing “guanxi”- studies, especially the analytical approaches they have taken.
Jerome A. Cohen’s Blog
Conspiracy Speculations and the Chen Guangcheng Case Sino-American relations have long been plagued by unsubstantiated conspiracy theories that undermine needed efforts to develop mutual trust between the world’s two most important countries. Yet events continue to spawn intriguing speculative possibilities, and who can resist spinning out seductive hypotheses to explain apparent riddles in the behaviour of either or both governments, especially when China’s oppressive censorship exaggerates the role of rumours?
Multimedia
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In the News
Jerome Cohen on Taiwan Election Results On January 14, 2012, President Ma was announced as the winner of the Taiwan presidential election. Professor Jerome Cohen’s commentary on the election results appeared throughout Taiwanese media.
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Ford Foundation – Program Officer Position This position is not offered by NYU or the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, but posted here for the convenience of our readers. POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Program Officer Reforming Civil and Criminal Justice Systems – China Equality and Justice Unit Democracy, Rights and Justice SUMMARY DESCRIPTION: The Program Officer will be responsible for developing, monitoring, and coordinating grant [...]
