Chinese Administrative Law

October 24, 2012 - "The Future of Chinese Administrative Law" - Penn Program on Regulation recently cosponsored a conference held at Penn Law bringing together a variety of experts on American and Chinese Administrative Law to talk about what can be learned from both countries' systems. A key element in the purpose of the conference is to facilitate a dialogue so as to help agencies be more transparent and cooperative. The conference's organizer, Neyson Mahboubi from the University of Connecticut School of Law and a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Contemporary China, stated that the main goal of the conference was to be able to facilitate a dialogue between the two. Chinese leaders in administrative law included Professor Wang Xixin of Peking University Law School; Professor Song Hualin, Nankai University Law School; Professor Zhou Hanhua of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Law; Professor He Haibo of Tsinghua University School of Law; Lin Yan; and Zheng Chunyan, all of whom presented papers on their own research. American scholars included Jacques deLisle, Director of Penn's Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Professor Stanley Lubman at the University of California, Berkeley Law School; Professor Edward L. Rubin of Vanderbilt University Law School; Professor Nina Mendelson of the University of Michigan Law School; and Carol Ann Siciliano of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Penn Program on Regulation cosponsored the event with co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China and Center for East Asian Studies, the Cardozo Law School’s Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy, the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice and with financial support from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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