Frank Upham, one of the world's leading authorities on Japanese law, will deliver the Cornell Law School's 2004-05 Clarke Lecture Monday, Nov. 8, at 4:30 p.m. at the A.D. White House on campus. His talk, "Rule of Law Lessons: For China, From Japan, Through an American Lens," is free and open to the public, as is the reception that follows.
Upham is the Wilfe Family Professor at New York University School of Law. His book Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan won the Thomas J. Wilson Prize. Since then he has developed a unique sociological approach to a broad range of subjects in both Japanese and Chinese law, from environmental and land use policy to jurisprudence, the nature of judging and legal reform.
The talk is sponsored by the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture at the Law School. The program aims to bring a broad interdisciplinary focus to the study of law in east Asia. Through research, teaching and dialogue among scholars, policy-makers and members of civil society, the program seeks to further the understanding of legal problems in the East Asian region and to develop new ways of thinking about transnational law, politics and culture. For more information, see http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/international/asianlaw.
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