CAS Initiative Lecture: "From Modernism to Participation in East Asian Law" by Tom Ginsburg

• Event Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2013
• Time: 4:00 pm–5:30 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

The Center for Advanced Study's Initiative on Cultures of Law in Global Contexts is an ongoing project pursuing interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities and law. We take as our focus the frictions obtaining among multiplicities of justice, including issues of social order and state power, terrorism and ultranationalism, sustainability and economic development, and medical law and ethics. We explore the vexed history of applying international law principles developed in the West; the imposition of ideas of personhood through biomedical ethics and law; inter-state collaboration and conflict in defining terrorism; cultural approaches to financial regulation and monetary policies; and problems in law and economics arising from globalization.

"From Modernism to Participation in East Asian Law"
Tom Ginsburg
The University of Chicago Law School

Legal reform has been on the agenda for East Asian states for the last two decades and has led to significant transformations of legal institutions in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China. The reforms include overhauls of legal education, new quasi-jury systems, and new methods of selecting judges. This lecture analyzes these reforms from a comparative perspective, arguing that they reflect a shift away from the dominant system of bureaucratic rationality toward one of "participatory legitimacy," but also cautions that the current configuration is likely to be unstable.

This Center for Advanced Study event is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of English, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, George A. Miller Endowment, and Ledyard R. Tucker Fund.