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China: Law ◊ Finance ◊ Security

 

Sponsored by:

The University of Iowa College of Law

The University of Iowa Center for International Finance & Development

Journal of Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems

International Law Society

The University of Iowa International Programs

Center for Asian & Pacific Studies

The University of Iowa Student Government

 

Friday, February 10, 2006

University of Iowa College of Law
Levitt Auditorium

 

8:45  A.M.                  Registration and Breakfast

 

9:45 A.M.                  Welcoming Remarks

§         Professor Eric Andersen, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Iowa College of Law

 

Introduction to the Program

§         Professor Enrique Carrasco, Director, University of Iowa Center for International Finance and Development

 

10:00 A.M.                  Opening Remarks

§         Congressman Jim Leach

 

10:50 A.M.                  Panel One: Rule of Law in China

 

§         Professor Larry Catá Backer, The Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University

“Chinese Constitutionalism, Sange Daibiao (The ‘Three Represents’) and the Rule of Law”

 

§         Professor John Ohnesorge, University of Wisconsin, Assistant Director, East Asian Legal Studies Center

“China’s Developing Administrative Law”

 

§         Mr. Xiaoping Chen, Editor-in-Chief, China Law Digest, SJD Student University of Wisconsin

“Chinese Rule of Law: From the Perspective of the Rights Advocacy Movement”

 

Moderator: Professor John C. Reitz, University of Iowa College of Law, Associate Dean of International and Comparative Law Programs

 

12:30 P.M.                          Luncheon: Developments in China’s Financial Sector

 

§         Dr. Jason Li, Visiting Professorial Fellow, Southern Methodist University Institute of International Finance, Commerce & Technology, Assistant Professor of Financial Law, Head of International Development, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

“China’s Securities Markets: Progress, Problems, and Possible Solutions”

 

§         Mr. Ting Zhong, Research Fellow, Southern Methodist University Institute of International Finance, Commerce & Technology

Presenting “China (PRC) and Its ‘Long March’ Toward a Modern Banking System,” by Professor Joseph Norton

 

2:15 P.M.                     Break

 

2:30 P.M.                    Panel Two: Security Across the Taiwan Strait

§         Professor Lung Chu Chen, Professor of Law, New York Law School, Founder and President, New Century Institute

“Taiwan: The Case for Independence”

§         Professor Zhengyuan Fu, former Professor, University of California, Irvine

                                          “China's Perspective of the Taiwan Issue”

 

Moderator: Professor Marcella David, University of Iowa College of Law

 

4:15 P.M.                    Closing Remarks

§         Helen Yu, Erin Peterson, and David Pendergast, Principal Student Organizers and Creators of the Program

 

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