Professional Writing: Successful completion of appropriate written work in this offering satisfies the professional writing requirement for matriculants to the J.D. program.

Prerequisites: None

Exam Type: No Exam

This seminar will focus on the myriad of legal and related policy questions that are central to the U.S.-P.R.C. relationship. Earlier iterations of this class have addressed issues regarding trade, human rights, technology transfer, Taiwan, corporate governance, AI, climate change, corruption, foreign direct and portfolio investment, disability, the law of the sea, competing visions of law and development (as played out in Africa),  and the role of lawyers. We anticipate covering many of these topics next fall.

In addressing such topics, the seminar will examine the role that China has been playing in a world order in flux. We will consider, inter alia, China’s engagement of existing global norms, ways in which China may (or may not) now or in the foreseeable future be shaping such norms, and their impact on China and the rest of world.  We will do so in a global setting, considering U.S. engagement of such norms, as well as that of selected other countries.

We also anticipate two or more mock negotiations.

Note: Student schedules permitting, in some weeks we may hold multiple sessions.