East Asian Legal Studies

William P. Alford, Foreword, in Ideological Conflict and the Rule of Law in Contemporary China (Samuli Seppänen, Cambridge Univ. Press 2016).

William P. Alford & Yuanyuan Shen, “Law is My Idol”: John C.H. Wu and the Role of Legality and Spirituality in the Effort to Modernize…

William P. Alford, Making a Goddess of Democracy from Loose Sand: Thoughts on Human Rights in the People’s Republic of China, in Human Rights in…

William P. Alford, The More Law, The More…? Measuring Legal Reform in the People’s Republic of China, in How Far Across the River? Chinese Policy…

William P. Alford & Yuanyuan Shen, Have You Eaten, Have You Divorced? Debating the Meaning of Freedom in Marriage in China, in Realms of Freedom…

William P. Alford, Of Lawyers Lost and Found: Searching for Legal Professionalism in the People’s Republic of China, in Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal…

William P. Alford, Robert Van Gulik and the Judge Dee Mysteries, 12 Orientations, Nov. 1981, at 50.

William P. Alford, Zhu Qiwu and the Development of Criminal Law in the People’s Republic of China, 2 UCLA Pac. Basin L. J. 60 (1983).

William P. Alford, Foreword, 4 UCLA Pac. Basin L. J. vii (1985).

William P. Alford, Of Arsenic and Old Laws: Looking Anew at Criminal Justice in Late Imperial China, 72 Cal. L. Rev. 1180 (1984).

William P. Alford, The Inscrutable Occidental? Implications of Roberto Unger’s Uses and Abuses of the Chinese Past, 64 Tex. L. Rev. 915 (1986).

William P. Alford, On the Limits of “Grand Theory” in Comparative Law, 61 Wash. L. Rev. 945 (1986).

Chinese Living Law: An Interview with Professor William Alford, 7 Ariz. J. Int’l & Comp. L. 135 (1989).

William P. Alford, Intellectual Property, Trade and Taiwan: A GATT-Fly’s View, 1992 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 97.

William P. Alford “Seek Truth from Facts”—Especially When They Are Unpleasant: America’s Understanding of China’s Efforts at Law Reform, 8 UCLA Pac. Basin L. J.

William P. Alford, International Commercial Arbitration: An Idiosyncratic Overview, 1992 Korean Forum on Int’l Trade & Bus. L. 43.

William P. Alford, How Theory Does—And Does Not—Matter: American Approaches to Intellectual Property Law in East Asia 13 UCLA Pac. Basin L. J. 8 (1994-1995).

Alford, William P., Don’t Stop Thinking about . . . Yesterday: Why There was No Indigenous Counterpart to Intellectual Property Law in Imperial China, 7…

William P. Alford, Keeping up with the Jones (Standards): A Tribute to Professor William C. Jones, 74 Wash. U. L. Q. 541 (1996).

William P. Alford, Of Jeffersonian Visions: A Critique of Gary Jefferson’s “China’s Economic Future”, 8 J. Asian Econ. 597 (1997).

Alford, William P. & Yuanyuan Shen, Limits of the Law in Addressing China’s Environmental Dilemma, 16 Stan. Envtl. L. J. 125 (1997).