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Speakers’ short bio (in alphabetical order)
Sarah Biddulph
Sarah Biddulph is Associate Professor and Reader in the Law School, the University of Melbourne. She teaches and researches in the area of Chinese law. Her work has focussed on contemporary Chinese administrative law, criminal procedure, labour, comparative law and the law regulating social and economic rights. Her recent publications include Legal Reform and Administrative Detention Powers in China Cambridge University Press, 2007 and she is the co-editor of Examining Practice Interrogating Theory: Comparative Legal Studies in Asia Brill, 2008. She has been working on a project with Associate Professor Sean Cooney and Associate Professor Zhu Ying looking at the regulatory responses to non or delayed payment of wages in China. She currently holds an ARC Fellowship to examine the ongoing attempts to reform the powers of administrative detention exercised by the Chinese police.
Yves Dezalay
Yves Dezalay is Directeur de recherches au C.N.R.S (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). After some early research on the construction of the Single Market and its effects on legal practices in European countries - Marchands de droit (Paris, Fayard, 1992); Professional Competition and Professional Power, Lawyers, Accountants and the Social Construction of Markets (with D. Sugarman; London, Routledge, 1995)-, he has been working with Bryant Garth on the emergence of an international legal field and the restructuring of State and political elite (with a particular attention to specific topics such as international commercial arbitration, trade disputing and human rights networks. Together they wrote or edited four books: Dealing with virtue: International Commercial Arbitration and the Emergence of an International Legal Order (University of Chicago Press, 1996; awarded both the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, from the Law & Society Association and the Sociology of Law Section Prize of the American Sociological Association), The Internationalization of Palace Wars: Lawyers, Economists and the Contest for Latin American States (University of Chicago Press, 2002), Global Prescriptions: The Production, Exportation, and Importation of a New Legal Orthodoxy (University of Michigan Press, 2002), and Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2010). In 2009, he received the “International Scholar Prize,” an award given every two years to a non-American scholar by the Law & Society Association.
Bryant G. Garth
Bryant G. Garth is Dean and Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School. He began his tenure as Dean in the fall of 2005. Prior to that time, he served for fourteen years as Director of the American Bar Foundation in Chicago and four years as Dean of Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington. His research focuses on the legal profession and on the globalization of law. His most recent books (with Yves Dezalay) are The Internationalization of Palace Wars: Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American States (University of Chicago Press) and Global Prescriptions: The Production, Exportation, and Importation of a New Legal Orthodoxy (edited volume, University of Michigan Press, 2002). He and Yves Dezalay are currently finishing a new book tentatively entitled Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire, which will be published this year by the University of Chicago Press. He currently chairs the advisory board of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement and serves on the executive coordinating committee of the “After the J.D.” study of lawyer careers. He is also co-editor of the Journal of Legal Education.
Bengt Lundell
Bengt Lundell is a senior lecturer in Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, Lund University. He is also executive director of the project Strengthening Legal Education in Vietnam. He is also a member of the faculty of China EU School of Law at China University of Political Science and Law. He is specialized in Swedish Constitutional and Administrative Law. Currently, he is involved in research on Law and development. He received a PhD in Political Science.
Stig Toft Madsen
Stig Toft Madsen is a Danish anthropologist cum sociologist who has worked on a variety of issues in South Asia. He wrote a magister's thesis called A Study of Indian Lawyers in 1979 and published his Swedish dissertation State, Society and Human Rights in South Asia in 1996. Recent articles include EU-India Relations: An Expanded Interpretive Framework in Gaens et al. The Role of the European Union in Asia: China and India as Strategic Partners.
Yoshitaka Wada
Yoshitaka Wada is Professor of Law at Waseda Law School. After graduated from Kyoto University, he has been engaged in studies on theory of law and society, dispute resolution and legal profession as a professor of law at Kyushu University and Waseda Law School. His recent research interests include healthcare dispute resolution, legal education and international comparative study of dispute resolution behavior. He is a principal investigator of a Japanese team on the Asia Pacific Dispute Resolutuin Research project organized by University of British Columbia. He has published numerous books in Japan, including Process of Dispute Negotiation (Shinzansya, 1991), Dispute Resolution (Shinzansya, 1994), Deconstruction of Sociology of Law: Beyond Postmodern Perspectives (Kobunsya, 1996) and Promise of Sociology of Law (Horitsubunkasya, 2004) that was dedicated to Professor Tanase. He served as a member of the program committee for 2003 Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association and Executive Officer of Japanese Association of Sociology of Law from
2005 to 2008.
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