The East Asian Legal Studies Center is located at the University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wisconsin U.S.A.
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Since its founding in 1990, the Center has initiated and co-sponsored a variety
of conferences and outreach programs.
The Center also formalizes and expands many of the Law School's academic interactions with universities, government ministries, and the private sector. It provides scholarly exchanges by hosting visitors to the Law School and assisting Law School faculty to visit at universities in East and Southeast Asia.
The Center has been key in the establishment of Executive Masters in Law Programs (EMLP) between the Law School and schools in Shanghai (East China University of Political Science and Law), Bangkok (Thammasat University), and Kyoto (Doshisha University). Students who successfully complete the program will be awarded the University of Wisconsin’s LLM - Legal Institutions degree. Executive Masters Program in the news.
The Center works with the Law School's Graduate Programs to develop special courses. The Center continues to keep in touch with alumni/ae of the Graduate Programs division long after they have graduated.
The Center offers programs and student job positions especially for J.D. students, including summer internships in Thailand and in Vietnam. Reports of past students' experiences in the summer internships as well
as summaries of the Center's activities over the years can be found in
our annual newsletters.
Legal Sources (LLM-LI students) class, Fall 2010
The Center also offers support for students who wish to do independent
research projects in countries of East or Southeast Asia that lead to a
research paper under Law 990 or as a published paper. When Jessica
Harrison was a student at the Law School, she received a travel grant to
do research in Palau. Her paper, Land Determination in the Republic of Palau, is published here. We also periodically publish a
brochure.
Faculty and staff at the Law School with a wide range of
experiences make up the Center staff.
Contact Information:
EAST ASIAN LEGAL STUDIES CENTER
University of Wisconsin Law School
975 Bascom Mall, room 4312
Madison, Wisconsin [WI] 53706-1399 U.S.A
fax: (1) 608-265-2253
telephone: (1) 608-262-9120
ealsc@law.wisc.edu
John Ohnesorge gave a presentation at the U.S.-China Economic Law Conference on February 8, 2011 called “China's Industrial Policy and the Regulation of Foreign Investment.” The conference was jointly organized by University of Michigan Law School, University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, and the Wayne State University Law School.
Center Director Professor John Ohnesorge gave a talk on "Asian Legal Studies in America: 50 Years of Growth and Change," at the Combination and Competition of Law in Asia conference, held at Chonbuk National University in Jeonju, Korea. Professor Ohnesorge was invited as an authority on Asian legal studies in American law schools, and his presentation reviewed the growth of the field, as well as its current trajectories.
UW Law Professor Stephanie Tai is featured in The Harvard Crimson after speaking at Harvard Law School about food safety in China.
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