Visiting Term: Spring, Fall 2015

Professor Karton has taught at Queen's since 2009. He holds a BA in International Relations and Humanities from Yale (2001), a JD from Columbia Law School (2005),

Spring, Fall 2015

Charles Wharton graduated from Harvard Law School (J.D. cum laude) in June 2012.
He is a former assistant professor of comparative jurisprudence at Renmin University of China Law School. His research interests are at American law, Comparative law, Constitutional law, and Legal Writing.
His stay as a visiting assistant professor at the College of Law, National Taiwan University started from August 2014.

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Der Stiftungslehrstuhl widmet sich der Forschung und Lehre auf dem Gebiet des chinesischen Rechts, sowie des Rechtsvergleichs insbesondere des chinesischen und des deutschen Rechts, aber auch des chinesischen Rechts mit anderen Rechtssystemen Ostasiens. Im Vordergrund stehen die Schnittstellen zwischen normativem Anspruch bzw. normativer Anpassung und praktischer Umsetzung von Recht. Neben der Analyse und Darstellung praxisrelevanter Grundstrukturen treten theoretische Überlegungen rechtlicher Systembildung, wie Aufbau normativ verstärkter Wertmuster und Möglichkeiten, Rechtsrezeption mit autonomer Rechtsentwicklung im Zuge von Rechts- und Justizrefomen miteinander zu verbinden. Dadurch wird nachvollziehbar, wie China versucht kuturelle Vorteile zu bewahren und gleichzeitig kulturelle Defizite abzubauen.

Forschungsschwerpunkte sind:

• rechtliche Systembildung
• Institutionenbildung
• Justizreform
• Strafrechtsreform
• Wirtschaftsstrafrecht
• Wirtschaftsrecht
• Rechtsvergleichung

Durch regelmäßige Vorträge und Publikationen in deutscher, chinesischer und englischer Sprache werden Forschungsergebnisse international zur Diskussion durch die akademische Fachwelt gestellt.

Kooperationen mit chinesischen Partnern vertiefen den fachlichen und persönlichen Austausch.

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Shawn Watts is a Citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and is the Associate Director of the Mediation Clinic. Watts won the Jane Marks Murphy Prize for clinical advocacy and was a Strine Fellow while he was a student at Columbia Law School. He developed and teaches a course in Native American Peacemaking, which is a traditional indigenous form of dispute resolution, and is a member of the Peacemaking Advisory Board of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF).

Watts has mediated in the New York City Civil Court, Harlem Small Claims Court, and the Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, and he has also supervised student mediations in court-related programs in New York City. Watts previously worked an associate in the Finance and Bankruptcy practice group at the New York office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP where, in addition to representing both creditors and debtors in multimillion-dollar bankruptcies, he specialized in Federal Indian Law and tribal finance. 

Watts earned a bachelor of arts from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2000. He served as the President of the National Native American Law Students Association and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar while at Columbia Law School. In addition, he was a Managing Editor of Columbia Law School’s Journal of Law and Social Problems.

Dr Ming-Sung Kuo joined Warwick Law School as an assistant professor in 2010. His research interests are in the fields of constitutional and legal theory, comparative constitutional law (including USA, Europe, and East Asia), administrative law and regulatory theory, and public international law. His recent scholarship has been focused on the issues of legitimacy in relation to the rise of transnational legal orders and the changing relationship between normalcy and exception in the tendency toward what he terms constitutional presentism in contemporary constitutional developments. He has also written on global constitutionalism and global administrative law (with emphasis on transnational governance and postnational legality), European constitutionalism and integration, and the role of judicial review and its bootstrapping in the context of Taiwan's democratic transition. Dr Kuo's publications have appeared in the leading law journals in his fields, including Modern Law Review, International Journal of Constitutional Law, European Journal of International Law, Ratio Juris, and Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. All of Dr Kuo's work on SSRN can be accessed at http://ssrn.com/author=1199599.

Dr Ming-Sung Kuo holds a JSD and an LLM from Yale University in the United States and receives his primary legal education in Taiwan where he earned his LLB and first LLM from National Taiwan University. Before continuing to pursue his doctoral studies, he served as a law clerk to Justice Dr. Tze-chien Wang at Taiwan's Constitutional Court. After passing the general examination for his PhD in Law candidacy at National Taiwan University, he studied at Yale Law School under a Taiwan government scholarship. Following the completion of his doctoral dissertation at Yale, he held postdoctoral research positions in the United States and Europe, including a Max Weber Fellowship at European University Institute in Florence, Italy and a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany.

 Jianlin grew up in Singapore and Taiwan. He obtained his LLB from National University of Singapore, and his LLM and JSD from the University of Chicago. He is qualified to practice in Singapore and New York. He joined the Melbourne Law School in July 2017 after starting his academic career at the University of Hong Kong in 2011.

Bilingual in English and Chinese, Jianlin publishes widely, with a monograph from Cambridge University Press, and in law journals such as Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Law & Social Inquiry, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 公司法评论, 北大法律评论, among many others. His primarily research interests are in the areas of natural resources law and property law, with a particular focus in emerging natural resources (e.g., wind, sunlight, atmospheric moisture) and through a combination of comparative perspectives and economic analysis.

Together with other previous and current research projects that traverse diverse subject matters (e.g., law& religion, corporate law, government procurement, securities regulations, culture war, tax law), his underlying research agenda is to develop an overarching theoretical inquiry that 1) explores how the different forms of state actions—ranging from law, regulation, tax, state ownership, public contract, government speech—have surprisingly similar capacity and propensity (or the lack thereof) to achieve public interest objectives; and 2) critically evaluates the prevailing approach of prescribing distinct legal constraints and normative considerations for each category of state interventions.

Colin Hawes is Associate Professor and Director of Courses in the UTS Law Faculty. He also serves on the management committee of the Australia China Relations Institute.

Dr. Hawes joined the UTS Law Faculty in 2005 after practising law in Vancouver, Canada. He has published numerous articles on Chinese corporate governance and Chinese law and society in international journals such as Law & Society Review and the American Journal of Comparative Law. His second book, The Chinese Transformation of Corporate Culture (Routledge Press 2012) traces the emergence of a uniquely Chinese hybrid corporate form that combines economic, social and political ends. A Japanese edition of the book was published by Chuo University Press in 2015. 

Colin strongly believes in the value of internationalizing legal education. He has been invited by leading international universities to teach corporate law or to conduct research as a visiting professor, including Oxford University (UK), China University of Politics & Law (Beijing), South-Western University of Politics & Law (Chongqing), University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University (Canada), and National Taiwan University in Taipei.

Colin has also advised Chinese and international business executives and corporations on cross-cultural legal issues and minimizing the risks of cross-border legal disputes.

Colin is interested in the intersection between corporations, law and culture: how cultural values impact on the way that corporations behave in different societies, and how multinational business corporations can be held accountable for their actions. He is currently engaged in collaborative research projects on the creative interpretation of corporate law by Chinese judges, and on the offshore governance structures of large Chinese corporations.