Promoting Rule of Law and Human Rights in Asia

The U.S.-Asia Law Institute serves as a bridge between Asia and America, fostering mutual understanding on legal issues, and using constructive engagement with our partners to advocate for legal reform.

New and Notable

Join scholars and civil society leaders at NYU in taking stock of the status of women and renewed threats to their reproductive, employment, political, and other rights.

Harassment and violence directed at Asians and Asian-Americans has surged since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jennifer Wu (NYU Law 2004) and Lawrence Wee, partners at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, have stepped up to provide pro bono legal representation for victims of Asian hate crimes, including some of the most vicious recent attacks.

Professor Hyun Bang Shin will share his analysis from years of studying urban development and anti-gentrification movements in Asian cities, especially those in South Korea, China, and Southeast Asia. His discussant will be Duke Law Professor Qiao Shitong, who is an expert on property rights in China.

Divorce rates in China have risen sharply over the past three decades, as socioeconomic transformations have reshaped family life and gender relationships. Assistant Professor Ke Li of John Jay College of the City University of New York will discuss her book Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China.

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USALI Perspectives

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with China’s apparent backing (if not complicity), pundits are asking whether the order created by the UN Charter is dead. The question is legitimate.

The Cyberspace Administration of China’s USD 1.2 billion fine levied against Didi Chuxing over the summer is troubling in many ways. It sets a chilling precedent for all Chinese tech firms.

A Chinese court hands down suspended death sentences to a former justice minister and vice public security minister; police arrest the head of the Hong Kong Journalists Association for refusing to show police his ID; the foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea discuss the dispute over compensation for Koreans forced to work for Japanese companies during World War II; South Korean authorities come under pressure to better protect women from stalkers after a murder; Taiwan’s judicial authorities prepare name lists of persons eligible to serve as citizen judges beginning in January.

USALI Faculty Director José E. Alvarez was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the oldest and most prestigious learned societies in the United States, on September 10, 2022. Professor Alvarez was elected in April 2021, but the ceremony was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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