Date: December 19, 2016 | 9.00 – 15.30
Venue: Tagungsraum, Seminar Building, University of Cologne
Universitätsstraße 37, 50931 Cologne, Germany
9.00–10.00 Discard the Rule of Law! Ideology and Performativity in Chinese Legal Academia
Samuli Seppänen, Chinese University of Hong Kong
10.15–11.15 Pragmatism and the Political: The Dual Role of “Ideology” in the National Judicial Examination
Flora Sapio, Center on China in the World, Australian National University
11.15–12.15 Educating Lawyers in the Party Spirit: A Discussion of “Political Thought” Education in Chinese Law Schools
Eva Pils, King’s College London
13.15–14.15 Political Reliability and the Chinese Bar Exam
Rachel Stern, University of California, Berkeley
14.30–15.30 Politicization of the Chinese Judicial Exam and the Socialist Rule-of-Law Concept
Björn Ahl, University of Cologne
Registration and Contact
Lucas Brang (lbrang2(at)uni-koeln.de)
Abstracts and papers are available here:
Samuli Seppänen, Ideological Conflict and the Rule of Law in Contemporary China
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2801442
Rachel Stern, Political Reliability and the Chinese Bar Exam
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2864690
Björn Ahl, The Politicization of the Chinese National Judicial Examination (2007–2012)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2872473
