Towards the Future: Developments in Chinese Law and Society

The Columbia Society of International Law presents the Friedmann Conference on Chinese Law.

Panel #1: How has China implemented its new anti-monopoly law?

• Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
• Moderator: Scott Hemphill, Associate Professor and Milton Handler Fellow, Columbia Law School
• Panelist #1: Yee Wah Chin, Of Counsel, Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti, LLP
• Panelist #3: Salil Mehra, James E. Beasley Professor of Law, Temple University
• Panelist #3: Wentong Zheng, Associate Professor of Law, State University of New York at Buffalo

Panel #2: What role does the internet play in encouraging free speech in China? What role should the United States play in fostering Chinese free speech?

• Time: 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM
• Moderator: Timothy Wu, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
• Panelist #1: Guobin Yang, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College
• Panelist #2: Morton Sklar, Founding Executive Director Emeritus (Retired) of the World Organization for Human Rights USA, Lead Counsel for Chinese Internet Detainees in the Yahoo! case
• Panelist #3: Brian Harley, Irish Solicitor, 2010 L.L.M. Candidate at Columbia Law School

Panel #3: What is and should be the role of the legal profession in China?

• Time: 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
• Moderator: Benjamin Liebman, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School
• Panelist #1: Jerome A. Cohen, 2010 Recipient of the Wolfgang Friedmann Award, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, New York University Law School
• Panelist #2: Thomas Kellogg, Program Director and Advisor to the President, Open Society Institute
• Panelist #3: Tiancheng Wang, Visiting Scholar, New York University Law School

Wolfgang Friedmann Banquet
Begins at 6:30 PM at Faculty House. Attendance only by R.S.V.P. to the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.