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Please join us on June 1, 2017 for a special event at the American Bar Foundation
Book Launch Reception and Discussion:
Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work
We look forward to welcoming members of the ABF community to our Chicago offices to celebrate the recent release of the book and engage in a lively discussion with the authors on what their book reveals about China's future and the American Bar Foundation's role on the global stage. Refreshments will be served and copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.
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Thursday, June 1, 2017
6:00PM-7:30PM
WHERE:
American Bar Foundation
750 N. Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611
We hope you can join us for this event. Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be served beginning at 6:00pm, with remarks by the authors and discussion beginning at approximately 6:30pm.
Space for this event is limited. RSVPs are requested. Please email Jenny Montagne at jmontagne@abfn.org with questions.
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About Criminal Defense in China
Their research draws from 329 interviews with lawyers and rights activists conducted between 2005-2015, as well as analysis of news and social media exchanges, to reveal how lawyers' practice can contribute to a new politics and law in China.
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Sida Liu
Liu is a Faculty Fellow at the ABF and a sociologist of law who has written extensively on Chinese law and socio-legal theory, especially the legal profession in China.
He is an
Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and Affiliated Scholar of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, New York University School of Law. He currently serves as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Terence C. Halliday
Halliday is a research professor at the ABF and a world-renowned sociologist with a focus on global law-making, professions, and international law reforms.
He is Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and an Honorary Professor at the School of Regulation, Justice and Diplomacy, Faculty of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. He serves as co-director of the
Center on Law and Globalization
and is a member of the
Human Rights Watch Chicago Committee
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On January 23, 2017, Halliday helped to organize and co-author an
open letter to China's President Xi Jinping, published in
The Guardian and signed by 29 preeminent jurists, judges, and human rights lawyers from around the world. The letter was a follow-up to a
2016 letter calling on President Xi to adhere to U.N. conventions and universal legal standards.
Click on any icon below to read coverage of Liu and Halliday's research by international news media.
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