Professor José E. Alvarez
Professor Chao-ju Chen
FALL 2022
Tuesdays, 8:50 - 10:50 a.m.
LAW-LW.12777.001
2 credits
This two credit colloquium will meet weekly for the fall semester of 2022 on Tuesdays from 8:50 to 10:50am. It addresses select legal issues involving women’s rights and gender in Asia, particularly in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. As indicated on the tentative syllabus schedule at the end, starting with week five of the course, seven guest presenters will address their recent published work or works in progress. Topics for the course will include the patriarchal family, the institution of marriage, transnational LGBTQ rights, discriminatory practices and national and international remedies to address them (such as gender quotas and improved access to justice for women) under instruments like the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
Fall 2022 Schedule of Presenters
Tuesday, September 20
Guest: José E. Alvarez
Topic: CEDAW’s Progressive Property Jurisprudence
Tuesday, September 27
Guest: Ishida Kyokoo 石田 京子
Professor, Waseda Law School (Japan)
Topic: Women’s Access to Justice in Japan from the Perspectives of Users and the Legal Profession
Tuesday, October 4
Guest: Li Ke
Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Topic: Marriage Unbound (Ch.1, 6-12, Ch.7)
Tuesday, October 11
Guest: Linda White (Middlebury)
Associate Professor in Japanese Studies, Middlebury College
Topic: "Not Entirely Married: Resisting the Hegemonic Patriarchal Family in the Household Registry in Japan," Special Issue: productive encounters: kinship, gender, and family laws in East Asia, postions: asia critique. 29:3 (2021).
Tuesday, October 18
Guest: Sara Friedman (IU)
Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies
Topic: “The Laws Don’t Protect Us”: Seeking Justice across Borders for Binational LGBT
Tuesday, October 25
Guest: Hyunah Yang 양현아
Professor of Law, Seoul National University School of Law (South Korea)
Topic: Japanese Military Sexual Slavery Issue Viewed from the Position of Postcolonial Korea
Tuesday, November 1
Guest: Chang-ling Huang 黃長玲
Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
Topic: Gender Quotas and Women in Politics: The East Asian Experience
Tuesday, November 15
Guest: Holning Lau
Willie Person Mangum Distinguished Professor of Law
University of North Carolina School of Law
Topic: Comparative Perspectives on Treating Gender Identity/Expression Discrimination as Sex Discrimination
Tuesday, November 22
Guest: Chao-ju Chen
Topic: Only Paradox to Offer? Family-friendly policies and feminist challenges against marital status discrimination
Tuesday, November 29
Guest: Frank Upham
NYU School of Law
Topic: Same Sex Marriage and Japan
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Anyone wishing to attend any particular session of the Colloquium (IN PERSON) above should email Stephany Ramos (Stephany.ramos@nyu.edu).