Asian Law Center
Faculty and Staff
Adjunct and Affiliate Faculty
Veronica Taylor
Affiliate Professor of law
Professor Taylor joined the faculty in 2001. As the former Director of the Asian Law Center she was responsible for the J.D., LL.M., Ph.D., and Visiting Scholar programs in Asian, Comparative and Development Law. She led a team of fifteen faculty and staff who carry out the Center's teaching, research and policy work on Afghanistan, Central Asia, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. She serves as a faculty advisor to the Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal. ... more
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John (Jody) Chafee
Part Time Lecturer
Mr. Chafee is a commercial attorney at Starbucks Coffee Company and was formerly
a principal at Riddell Williams law firm in Seattle. He focuses on technology, corporate
and securities transactions. He received his B.A. in Asian Studies from Dartmouth
College, cum laude, in 1985. He has a Masters of International Studies in Japan
Area Studies (1988) and a J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law (1991).
Mr. Chafee was formerly with the Seattle firm of Lane Powell Spears Lubersky and
served as a foreign legal consultant with Miyake Hatasawa and Yamasaki in Tokyo,
Japan. He is proficient in written and spoken Japanese and is admitted to the Washington
State Bar. He teaches International Contracting, International mergers & acquisitions
in and is co-authoring a text on Law, Development and State-Building with Professors
Taylor, Ramasastry and Bergling.
Elin Cohen
Part Time Lecturer
Dr. Cohen holds a J.S.D degree from Stanford Law School, a L.L.M degree in Sustainable International Development from the UW School of Law and a L.L.M from Stockholm University, Sweden. Specializing in law and international development, she previously worked as an assistant program officer for human rights and democracy for the Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency (SIDA) in Kenya, as well as served as a consultant at the Regional Land Management Unit of SIDA. She held a position as a Research Associate at University of Nairobi, Institute for Development Studies, was a recipient of Fulbright-Hays award to Kenya and has studied international law in France. Dr. Cohen focuses on research and program development of international development projects in East Africa, and teaches in the Ph.D. Program.
Frederick
(Rick) Guinee
Part Time Lecturer
Frederick (Rick) Guinee Professor Guinee has an A.B. from Bowdoin College and a
J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law (1988). Since 2002 he has taught
international contracting and International mergers & acquisitions in the Law
School and business negotiations and general business law in the University of Washington's
Graduate Executive MBA program at the Business School. Prior to teaching at UW,
Professor Guinee practiced for many years in Tokyo (Nishimura & Partners) and
Washington, D.C. (Arnold & Porter). His practice has focused on cross-border
business transactions, international securities offerings, and representing foreign
sovereign entities in litigation in U.S. courts. He is admitted to practice in Washington,
the District of Columbia and Virginia. In Japan, Professor Guinee was admitted as
gaikokuhō jimu bengoshi.
Susan Whiting
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Professor Whiting (Ph.D, Michigan; B.A. Yale) specializes in Chinese and comparative
politics, with particular emphasis on the political economy of transition. She is
also Adjunct Associate Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies.
Her first book, Power and Wealth in Rural China: The Political Economy of Institutional
Change, was published in 2001. She has also contributed chapters and articles
on property rights, fiscal reform, governance, contract enforcement and dispute
resolution to numerous publications. She has done extensive research in China and
has contributed to studies of governance, fiscal reform, and non-governmental organizations
under the auspices of the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the Ford Foundation.
She is participating in the Asian Law Center’s project on access to justice and
legal aid provision in rural China and teaches in the Ph.D. Program.
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Bruce E. Aronson
Affiliate Professor of Law
Professor Aronson (B.A. summa cum laude, Boston; J.D. Harvard) is a Professor of Law at Creighton University specializing in comparative corporate governance. He is an active Japanese law scholar with a wealth of practical experience in Japan. He was a corporate partner at the New York City law firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP (1989-2000), where he was co-chair of the Financial Services Group. Prior to joining Creighton he spent two years each as a Senior Fulbright Researcher at the University of Tokyo and as an Associate Research Scholar at Columbia Law School. He spent the summer of 2010 at the Bank of Tokyo, and has now returned to Japan as a Fulbright Scholar in 2011-12, researching at Waseda Law School. In Spring 2011 he visited UW Law to teach courses in Japanese Law and Comparative Corporate Governance, and convened a Center hosted conference on The Japanese Legal Profession After the 2008 Financial Crisis and the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake.
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Mark Cammack
Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
Prof. Cammack became particularly interested in Southeast Asia during college when
he had an opportunity to live in Indonesia for two years. After law school and a
judicial clerkship with Justice Roland Day of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Professor
Cammack made a second trip to Indonesia, this time as a Fulbright Fellow studying
the country's Islamic court system. Upon returning to the United States, Professor
Cammack served as an assistant district attorney in New York City, and then taught
at Columbia Law School. He joined Southwestern's faculty in 1990 and in 2001, he
was named as the Irwin R. Buchalter Professor of Law. Professor Cammack continues
to research and write about the Indonesian legal system.
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Donald C. Clarke
Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
A valued colleague and an Affiliate Professor of Law at UW, Prof. Clarke joined
the Law School faculty at George Washington University after teaching at the University
of Washington School of Law for many years. Prof. Clarke is a specialist in Chinese
law and has published extensively in journals such as the China Quarterly and American
Journal of Comparative Law on subjects ranging from Chinese criminal law and procedure
to corporate governance. His recent research has focused on Chinese legal institutions
and the legal issues presented by China’s economic reforms.While at UW he founded
and still maintains the Chinalaw discussion list and is a co-editor of Asian Law
Abstracts on the Social Science Research Network.
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Daniel H. Foote
Professor of Law, University of Tokyo Faculty of Law
Prior to moving to the University of Tokyo in 2000, Prof. Foote taught at the University
of Washington School of Law since 1988. He remains a valued colleague and an Affiliate
Professor of Law at UW. An expert on Japanese law and on legal education, Prof.
Foote has been heavily involved in the legal education reform process in Japan and
has served on advisory committees attached to the Headquarters for Promotion of
Justice System Reform (Cabinet-level), the Ministry of Education, the Japanese Association
of Law Schools, and one of the major law school accreditation bodies. With the support
of the Asian Law Center, Prof. Foote edited a monograph etitled Law in Japan: A
Turning Point, a collection of over twenty-five essays by leading scholars on major
fields of Japanese law, which was published in 2008. He also team-teaches the UW
School of Law's International Contracting course offered via video-conferencing with
students in Tokyo University Law School.
Hualing Fu
Professor and Head, Department of Law - The University of Hong Kong Faculty
of Law
Professor Fu Hualing specializes in criminal justice studies, human rights and constitutional
and media law in China. Dr. Fu has published widely, and his recent work includes
National Security and Fundamental Freedoms: Hong Kong’s Article 23 Under Scrutiny
(Hong Kong University Press, 2005) (co-edited with Carole Petersen and Simon Young)
and The Struggle for Coherence: Constitutional Interpretation in Hong Kong
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) (co-edited with Lison Harris and Simon Young). Professor
Fu holds an LLB from Southwestern University, China (1983), an MA from Toronto University
(1988) and Doctor of Jurisprudence from Osgoode Hall Law School (1993). Prior to
taking position as Head of the Department of Law as of 2008, Dr. Fu served as the
Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law at HKU, and in 2006-07 tought
“Human Rights Law in China” at the University of Washington School of Law as the
Garvey Schubert Barer Visiting Professor in Asian Law. Dr. Fu participates in the
Asian Law Center’s Empowering Rural Communities: Legal Aid and the Rule of Law in
Rural China Project.
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John O. Haley
William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law
Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
Prof. Haley is one of the nation's outstanding international and comparative law
scholars and is widely credited with having popularized Japanese legal studies.
In 1969, Haley received a fellowship from the University of Washington and was in
one of the first classes to graduate from the Asian Law Program. After working for
several years in law firms in Japan, he joined the law faculty at the University
of Washington, where he remained for nearly 26 years, as well as directed the Asian
and comparative Law Program. Prof. Haley’s numerous scholarly works span issues
ranging from international trade policy and comparative law to Japanese land-use
law, Japanese and East Asian business transactions and Japanese law and contemporary
society.
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Andrew Harding
Professor of Asia-Pacific Legal Relation, University of Victoria Faculty of
Law
Andrew Harding received his MA (Oxon) in 1974, his LLM (Singapore) in 1984, and
his PhD (Monash) in 1987. He joined UVic's Faculty of Law and the Centre for Asia-Pacific
Initiatives in 2004, where he holds the Chair in Asia-Pacific Legal Relations. He
is a former Head of Department and Professor of Law in the Law Department at the
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and Chair of
SOAS' Centre of South East Asian Studies, having previously taught at the Faculty
of Law, National University of Singapore and as a Visiting Professor at Harvard
Law School. He co-founded and has served as General Editor of Kluwer/ Martinus Nijhoff's
London-Leiden Series on Law, Governance and Development. His interests are in South
East Asian legal studies, comparative public law, law and development, comparative
law theory and environmental law. His recent publications include Law, Government
and the Constitution in Malaysia (1996), and Comparative Law in the 21st Century
(2002).
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Chulwoo Lee
Affiliate Professor of Law
Professor Chulwoo Lee (Ph.D. London School of Economics; LL.M. Georgetown University Law Center; LL.M. Seoul National University) is a Professor of Law at Yonsei Law School, Seoul, specializing in Asian socio-legal studies. He is well recognized for his extensive writings in the areas of law and social theory, social history of law, and citizenship studies. Professor Lee served as managing editor of the Korean Journal of Law and Society (2009-2010) and participates in various academic organizations and activities, including the Organizing Committee for the 2nd East Asian Law and Society Conference to be held in Seoul in September/October 2011. On various occasions he has provided advice for the Immigration Service, Ministry of Justice of the Government of Korea, and was a member of the Special Committee on Nationality Law Amendment (2008-2009). He has been elected President of the Korean International Migration Association and will succeed to the position in 2013. Professor Lee served as the 2011 Garvey Schubert & Barer Visiting Professor of Asian Law, and taught courses on Law and Society in Asia and on Compartive Korean Law.
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Arzoo Osanloo
Associate Professor, University of Washington’s Law, Societies, and Justice Program
Professor Osanloo (Ph.D. 2002/Stanford (Anthropology); J.D. 1993/American University, Washington College of Law) conducts research and teaches courses focusing on the intersection of law and culture, including human rights, refugee rights and identity, and women’s rights in Muslim-majority societies. She focuses primarily on the Middle-East, especially Iran. She also holds Adjunct positions in the Departments of Anthropology, Comparative Religion, Near East Languages and Civilization, and Women’s Studies. Formerly an immigration and asylum/refugee attorney, Arzoo has published in various journals, including American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology and Iranian Studies. Her book, The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran (2009), is published by Princeton University Press.
Saadia
M. Pekkanen
Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of Japan Studies, Jackson School of International
Studies
Professor Pekkanen’s teaching and research interests are in international political
economy and international trade law, with a particular focus on the WTO. Her regional
focus is on Japan, as well as East Asia more broadly. She received her masters in
international affairs from Columbia University (1988), her doctorate in political
science from Harvard University (1996), and a masters at Yale Law School (2004).
Her teaching and research interests are in international political economy, international
trade and investment law, international relations, and foreign policy. Her work
explores the intersection between legal and economic matters involving Japan, and
has recently branched out to examine Japan’s current role and status within Asia
along these dimensions. Pekkanen’s earlier books included Picking Winners? From
Technology Catch-up to the Space Race in Japan (Stanford University Press,
2003), and a co-edited book entitled Japan and China in the World Political Economy
(Routledge, 2005). Her latest book, entitled Japan’s Aggressive Legalism: Law and
Foreign Trade Politics Beyond the WTO (Stanford University Press, 2008),
examines how law has interacted with the concrete interests of Japan’s trade-dominant
industries to dramatically reshape the country’s foreign trade politics.
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