Legal Profession

William P. Alford, The Legal Profession, in Encyclopedia Britannica (2004).

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, 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).

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.

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, Comment, Looking Beyond: Placing Area Studies Front and Center in Policy, Academia, and Beyond, Harv. Asia Pac. Rev., Winter 1996-97, at 7,…

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

William P. Alford, A Second Great Wall? China’s Post-Cultural Revolution Project of Legal Construction, 11 Cultural Dynamics 193 (1999).

William P. Alford & Chien-chang Wu, Qing China and the Legal Treatment of Mental Infirmity: A Preliminary Sketch in Tribute to Professor William C. Jones,…

William P. Alford, “Second Lawyers, First Principles”: Lawyers, Rice-Roots Legal Workers, and the Battle Over Legal Professionalism in China, in Prospects for the Professions in…

Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal Profession in East Asia (William P. Alford ed., Harvard Univ. Press 2007).

Prospects for the Professions in China (William P. Alford, Kenneth Winston & William C. Kirby eds., Routledge 2010).

William P. Alford, Tribute to Professor Abram Chayes, A Man Without Boundaries, 42 Harv. Int’l L. J. 3 (2001).

William P. Alford, Tasselled Loafers for Barefoot Lawyers: Transformation and Tension in the World of Chinese Legal Workers, 1995 China Q. 22.

William B. Rubenstein, In Community Begins Responsibilities: Obligations at the Gay Bar, 48 Hastings L.J. 1101 (1997).

William B. Rubenstein, Queer Studies II: Some Reflections on the Study of Sexual Orientation Bias by the Legal Profession, 8 UCLA Women’s L.J. 379 (1998).

William B. Rubenstein, My Harvard Law School, 39 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 317 (2004).

William B. Rubenstein, Procedure and Society: An Essay for Steve Yeazell, 61 UCLA L. Rev. Discourse 136 (2013).