Lead Faculty

Sapio, Flora

Professor Flora Sapio (Hab. Associate Professor), is a principal investigator of the research project “China’s Social Credit Initiative in a Global Context”, an initiative conducted by the Coalition for Peace and Ethics and by FLIA. She has been an honorary non-resident fellow at the Australian National University, and held appointments at s universities in Europe and Asia. She is internationally renowned for her sophisticated analyses of themes related to globalization, and ranging from legal theory to politics, from economy and society to political communication. She has taught or given lectures and presentations in China, the Hong Kong SAR, the United States, Australia, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Sweden. She is the author or editor of five books and more than 40 research articles in English and Chinese, a commentaries on contemporary issues, and a peer reviewer for major Western academic publishers.

Sun Ping

Dr. Sun Ping is an Associate Researcher at the Center for Rule of Law in China, East China University of Political Science and Law. Dr. Sun’s research focuses on the constitutional law, fundamental rights, right to privacy, data protection, and freedom of expression. His current research focuses on social credits and data protection, defamation law and free speech. He has published a book and dozens of articles and was invited to have lectures about Chinese Constitutional law at Columbia Law School, Penn State Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Shanghai-NYU.

Facilitators

Gao Shan

Gao Shan received his SJD from the Pennsylvania State University School of Law in 2017.  He is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York and is licensed in China. He has translated significant works of Chinese U.S. and European jurisprudence and is the author or co-author of a number of essays on issues of Chinese and comparative law and jurisprudence.

 

 

Wang Keren

Keren Wang studies rhetorical theory and criticism from comparative and global perspectives. His research focuses on exploring the genealogy of ideas, including the divergent histories of philosophy, of literature and art, of science and religion, and of political and legal thought that underpin contemporary discourse on globalization and international affairs.

 

 

 

Zhu Shaoming

Zhu Shaoming is the Founder & President of the Foundation for Law and International Affairs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nicolas Scholz

Nicolas Scholz M.A. Political Science, Ludwig-Maxmilians-University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dai Miaoqiang

Dai Miaoqiang is Program Director of the Simulation for Law and International Affairs Program. He is currently a student at Penn State University School of International Affairs (MIA expected 2019).

 

 

 

 

Moderator

Backer, Larry Catá

Larry Catá Backer is the W Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law & International Affairs at the Pennsylvania State University . His research focuses on governance-related issues of globalization and the constitutional theories of public and private governance, with an emphasis on institutional frameworks for public-private law governance systems. Recent work centers on issues of  problems of translation between Western and Marxist Leninist (especially Chinese) constitutional systems. He teaches courses in corporate law, corporate social responsibility, multinational corporations, transnational law, and international organizations.  His publications include Lawyers Making Meaning (2013) and Signs in Law, A Source Book (2014) (both with Jan Broekman), casebooks, Elements of Law and the U.S. Legal System (forthcoming 2017), Law and Religion (2015, with Frank Ravitch), Comparative Corporate Law (2002), Harmonizing Law in an Era of Globalization (editor, 2007), and a number of articles and contributions to published collections of essays. Shorter essays on various aspects of globalization and governance appear on his essay site, “Law at the End of the Day.”