Asian Law Perspectives

This course introduces students to Asian legal systems and recent developments in Asian law. The course will be taught by a team of professors, each covering a different segment of the course. The team of teachers will consist of Professor Holning Lau, Professor Fu Qiang from Northwest University (Xi’an, China), and Professors Haochen Sun and Po Jen Yap from the University of Hong Kong.

The course will survey a range of legal topics, including property, intellectual property, torts, constitutional law, and legal philosophy. A variety of Asian jurisdictions will be discussed. Several weeks will focus specifically on Chinese law.