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SUMMARY:Gender\, Class\, and Youth: The Formation of Civic Democracy in Asia in the Post-Developmental State Era
DESCRIPTION:Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: \nCo-sponsored with the Asia Center\, the Korea Institute\, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nPanelists: \n\nNetiwit Chotiphatphaisal\, Harvard Divinity School Fellow\, Publisher\, and Democracy Activist\nMing-sho Ho\, Professor\, Department of Sociology\, National Taiwan University\nEleana Kim\, Professor\, Anthropology and Asian American Studies\, University of California\, Irvine\nHyun Mee Kim\, Professor\, Department of Cultural Anthropology\, Yonsei University\nAnthony J. Spires\, Professor\, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies\, The University of Melbourne\nKiyoteru Tsutsui\, Director\, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center\, Professor of Sociology\, Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor of Japanese Studies\, Stanford University\n\nModerator: James Robson (James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute) \nEvent details can be found on the Harvard-Yenching Institute website.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/hyi-roundtable-2026/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)
CATEGORIES:Event of Interest,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221121T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221121T123000
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SUMMARY:Trials Heard by a Foreign Ear: A Study of Chinese Jurors’ Comprehension of English Trials in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk \nSPEAKER \nEva Nga Shan Ng\, Assistant Professor\, Translation Programme\, School of Chinese\, the University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23 \nCHAIR/DISCUSSANT \nNicholas Harkness\, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nIn-person talk – Seating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. \nStudies in jury comprehension have hitherto mainly explored Anglo-American courts and focused on examining English-speaking jurors’ ability to understand legal discourse\, particularly with respect to jury instructions. Such studies reveal doubts about jurors’ comprehension of the legalese in jury instructions and argue for the use of plain English to make jury instructions accessible to lay jurors. This paper reports findings of a study contextualized in the Hong Kong courtroom\, where criminal trials in the High Court are routinely heard by local Chinese jurors presumed to have a sufficient command of the language used in court\, be it English or Chinese. This study aims to test the validity of  the presumption about Chinese jurors’ ability to understand trials conducted in English\, which they speak as a second or even a foreign language (L2)\, and to explore how L2 jurors’ comprehension might be further compromised due to a lack of proficiency in English. A random sample of local Chinese eligible for jury service (N=53) are recruited from the community to take part in the study\, which comprises a demographic survey of the subjects\, as well as a test of their comprehension of courtroom discourse using authentic audio recordings of two trials from the High Court of Hong Kong. The results of this study show an average listening comprehension level of around 41% by the subjects\, with some attaining below 25%. The results also show that the subjects’ listening comprehension problems are not limited to legalese. Taking the Voice Projection Framework (Heffer 2018) as a point of reference\, this study suggests that while discursive voicing is largely to blame for the subjects’ comprehension problem\, as in studies with native English-speaking jurors\, in the case of L2 jurors\, the speakers’ physical voicing of courtroom discourse is demonstrated and perceived by the subjects to be a major factor in impeding their comprehension of the courtroom discourse. This paper argues that making courtroom discourse accessible to L2 jurors means more than improving the discursive voicing\, but physical voicing matters as much\, if not more. This paper also discusses the possibility of providing interpretation for jurors in need of the service to ensure equal participation in jury service by people randomly selected from the community and to mitigate the jury dilemma. \nEvent details on the Harvard-Yenching Institute website \nSponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and East Asian Legal Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/eva-nga-shan-ng-2022/
LOCATION:Harvard Yenching Institute\, Common Room #136
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170126T120000
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SUMMARY:Dignity\, Life\, and Capital Punishment: An Analysis of Comparative Constitutional Jurisprudence
DESCRIPTION:Harvard-Yenching Institute Talk \nJimmy Chia-Shin Hsu\nAssociate Research Professor\, Institutum Iurisprudentiae\, Academia Sinica;\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar \nChair/Discussant: Michael Rosen\nProfessor of Government\, Harvard University \nThe abolition of capital punishment has gathered steam globally over the past three decades. However\, the controversy remains active in many countries. Where effective judicial review is available\, the death penalty has often been one of the major constitutional issues faced by the judiciary. The fundamental issue in these cases is whether capital punishment violates human dignity and right to life. This talk surveys how this issue is tackled by the high courts of Hungary\, South Africa\, the United States\, Japan\, and South Korea. The analysis is two-fold. The first is methodological\, analyzing the standards of review\, and identifying four major approaches\, including the absolute approach\, the cruelty approach\, marginal proportionality\, and systemic proportionality. The second is theoretical\, analyzing how these courts understand the concept of human dignity and its relationship to the right to life. The presentation will identify and reconstruct the different conceptions of human dignity in these judicial decisions. \nSponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Co-sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/dignity-life-and-capital-punishment-an-analysis-of-comparative-constitutional-jurisprudence/
LOCATION:Harvard Yenching Institute\, Common Room #136
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161116T133000
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SUMMARY:Diffusion and Transformation of Trusts: From England to East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Harvard-Yenching Institute Talk \nMasayuki Tamaruya\nProfessor\, Rikkyo University\, Japan\nEALS Visiting Scholar\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar \nChair/Discussant: \nRobert H. Sitkoff\nProfessor\, Harvard Law School \nTrust is a legal term that is notoriously difficult to define. Functionally\, it is an arrangement where a person (settlor) entrusts certain assets to another (trustee) so that the latter will hold and manage them for the benefit of a third person (beneficiary). The basic framework of trust law was formulated by the English court\, and since the mid-eighteenth century\, the use of trusts has spread to a number of jurisdictions around the globe with great varieties of application. This talk will explore the two routes of trust diffusion. One route left England and went east\, round the Cape of Good Hope and onwards\, namely\, South Africa\, India\, Singapore and Hong Kong. The other route went west\, across North America\, and then to Japan\, Taiwan and South Korea. The two routes first merged in early twentieth century Japan\, but the process did not end there. During the latter half of the twentieth century\, major trust practices flourished and innovative trust legislation was passed in East Asian jurisdictions\, with mainland China forming one of the focal points of global evolution of trust law today. The historical study will illuminate the complex interaction of social\, economic and geopolitical factors that shape the evolution of law across jurisdictional borders. \nSponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Co-sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies and the Asia Center.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/diffusion-and-transformation-of-trusts-from-england-to-east-asia/
LOCATION:Harvard Yenching Institute\, Common Room #136
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Event,Talk/Panel
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SUMMARY:The Mongol Way: Administration\, Justice\, and Law in Qing Mongolia
DESCRIPTION:Harvard-Yenching Institute Talk \nErdenchuluu Khohchahar\nAssistant Professor\, Hakubi Center for Advanced Research\, Kyoto University\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar \nChair/Discussant: Mark C. Elliott\nMark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Department of History\, Harvard University \nMany Mongolian-language archival documents have revealed the existence of at least three realms of judicial practice in Qing Mongolia (1644-1912): the Qing colonial legal system\, the native Mongolian way of justice\, and the contradiction\, or\, more broadly\, the relationship between the two. This talk takes insight from the Mongolian context\, differing from mainstream scholarship that tends to assume the Qing colonial legal system had a widespread effectiveness in Mongolian society at that time. In other words\, it explores the native Mongolian justice system during the Qing dynasty\, and to some extent\, its relation with the Qing colonial legal order. By looking at the justice system\, which was closely interrelated to both administration and law\, this talk analyzes how and why native Mongolians persistently preserved and innovatively developed their own traditional legal-administrative order under Qing colonial rule. The narrative of the “Mongol way” has implications for theories of imperialism and law. \nEvent details on the Harvard-Yenching Institute website: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/mongol-way-administration-justice-and-law-qing-mongolia/ \nSponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Co-sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/the-mongol-way-administration-justice-and-law-in-qing-mongolia/
LOCATION:Harvard Yenching Institute\, Common Room #136
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SUMMARY:The Changing Status of House Tenants in Modern Chinese Law
DESCRIPTION:Harvard-Yenching Institute Talk \nDr. Sun Huei-min\nAcademia Sinica\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar \nChair/Discussant: Professor William Alford\nHarvard Law School \nSponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Co-sponsored by EALS and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/the-changing-status-of-house-tenants-in-modern-chinese-law/
LOCATION:Vanserg Hall\, Common Room
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Event,Talk/Panel
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