The Conference/Roundtable brings together academics, practitioners, and civil society actors from China, the United States, Spain, Germany, Israel, and Italy, each bringing a unique national and regional perspective to the discussion of COVID-19 in its transnational effects. These effects are simultaneously local (manifesting in specifically contextual ways) and global, manifesting in tendencies to convergence in some respects of principles, practices, and outlook.
Sun Ping
Sun Ping is an Associate Researching Professor at the School of Law, East China University of Political Science and Law. Prof. Sun’s research focuses on 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, human dignity and person in the constitutional law. He has published two books and dozens of articles, and was invited to have lectures about China’s constitutional law at Columbia Law School, Penn State Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Shanghai-NYU. From Oct. 2018 to July 2019, he was a U.S.-China Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the US-Asia Law Institute, NYU Law School.
Flora Sapio
Dr. Sapio is a political scientist and a China scholar, who has taught and/or lectured about themes related to the law and politics of China 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, commentaries on contemporary issues, and a founding member of the European China Law Studies Association. She currently works at her Alma Mater, the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” (Italy).
Keren Wang
Assistant Teaching Professor in Communication Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania State University ( Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University (2018); M.A., The Pennsylvania State University (2013); B.A., Drexel University (2010)). He studies rhetorical theory, political communication, and history of ideas that shape globalization and its discontents. Publications include Legal and Rhetorical Foundations of Economic Globalization: An Atlas of Ritual Sacrifice in Late-Capitalism (1st ed. Oxford: Routledge, 2019). To learn more about his research and teaching interests please access his personal website: http://sites.psu.edu/kerenw/
Maria Chara Murallo
Assistant Professor of Private International Law, University Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, España, Law Faculty, Department of Private Law, https://bit.ly/2ELNxdG. Law Degree (University of Bologna). Master in Public and Private International Law and European Union Law (University of Bologna). Master’s Degree in Peace, Conflict and Development Studies (University Jaume I). Doctor cum laude from the Universitat Jaume I (University Jaume I). Jaime Brunet Award for the best doctoral thesis for the promotion of Human Rights, Public University of Navarra (2016). She was a Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Finance and Accounting, University jaume I, research group “Sustainability of Organizations and Management of Social Responsibility – Financial Markets” (2016-2018); Researcher in the “SMART Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade” European Project (2016-2020) and “Global climate constitution: governance and law in a complex context” Project (2017-2019); Researcher in the European Project “Human Rights in Business” (2014-2016), Department of Private Law, University Jaume I. Project coordinator: Professor Francisco Javier Zamora Cabot. .Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-chiara-marullo-57721253/
Gao Shan
Penn State Law (SJD 2018), licensed in New York and China. He currently works for Thomson Reuters Corporation in Minnesota. As a member of Coalition for Peace and Ethics, Dr. Gao has worked to provide guidance for Chinese immigrants in New York State. He produced and distributed the legal education and guidance pamphlet, Know your Rights, an Information Guide to Basics of New York State Legal System (CPE, 2018) under the supervision of professor Backer. His academic research focus on the dynamic interaction between law and social order through the lens of commercial activities of multinational corporations. His S.J.D thesis: The Evolution of China’s Foreign Investment Policy and Law captured the modernization of China’s commercial legal system during the past three decades, provided a well documented chronicle of the evolving foreign investment system during the pre-trade-war era (1949-2016).
Pini Miretski
Deputy Director, Planning and Program Development Division, JDC. Pini Miretski has over fifteen years of experience in an international humanitarian relief organization. In 2014, Pini received his PhD in International Law, which dealt with Transnational Corporations and Human Rights from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has also undertaken concentrated training on nonprofit management at Columbia University, NY. Pini has several published articles on the role of non-State actors in international law and human rights. His academic interests focus on international legal theory and the role of nongovernmental actors in transnational law. At his work, Pini focuses on strategic planning and innovation at the field of humanitarian relief.
Sun Yuhua
Associate Professor at East China University of Political Science and Law since 2015, with areas of specialization in Constitutional and Administrative Law. Education: PH.D, East China University of Political Science and Law, 2013; post-doctoral studies at Fudan University, 2015; Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, 2015-2016. He has received national scholarships (China) in 2012, and recognized in 2012 as Academic New Talent in Shanghai. He received a China Legal Talent Award for Postgraduate Law Students in 2013. He received funding for the National Social Science Fund Project “How to Resolve the Controversies Over the Compensations For the Victims of Compulsory Immunization” in June 2014. Representative publications: include “Judicial Review Criteria for the Principle of Equality in the Basic Law of the Macao SAＲFrom the Perspective of Typical Cases (Journal of Henan University of Economics and Law, 2019(6)); “Making China’s Constitutional Review System Suitable and Effective for China (Science of Law: Journal of Northwest University of Political Science and Law, 2018(2)); “Establishing a Legal System for the Investigation of Official Crimes Compatible with Supervision Reform” (Law Science, 2017(7)); “The ‘one place, two inspections’ issue should be handled through Annex III of the Hong Kong Basic Law” (Political Science and Law, 2017(7)).
Miaoqiang Dai
Nicolas Scholz
Independent researcher. Graduate of Ludwig Maximilians University (Munich) (MS 2018) with experience in Emerging Security Challenges Division, NATO (2019); Sino-German Cooperation Industrie 4.0 (2018-2019); Konrad Adenauer Siftung (2016) . Web Information here.
Alice Hong
Ms Hong is an MIA candidate at the School of International Affairs at Penn State University and the President of the Research Network for Law and International Affairs at Penn State. Her interests include International Development and International Relations. She has been involved with various campaigns and conferences related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and applies those experiences to her research.
Larry Catá Backer
W. Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar, Professor of Law and International Affairs at Pennsylvania State University (B.A. Brandeis University; M.P.P. Harvard University Kennedy School of Government; J.D. Columbia University). He researches in the areas of economic globalization, corporate social responsibility, international affairs, global governance, trade and finance, and on Party-State systems, with specific focus on China and Cuba. He teaches courses in corporate law, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), multinational corporations, international institutions, as well as on the law and religion and constitutional law. He has lectured in South America, Europe and Asia. In addition to journal articles and contributions to collected multi-authored works, his publications include Elements of Law and the U.S. Legal System (Carolina Academic Press forthcoming 2020), Cuba’s Caribbean Marxism: Essays on Ideology, Government, Society, and Economy in the Post Fidel Castro Era (Little Sir Press 2018); Comparative Corporate Law (Carolina Academic Press 2002), and an edited collection of essays, Harmonizing Law in an Era of Globalization (Carolina Academic Press, 2007). He has published over one hundred articles and book chapters in journals in the U.S., Latin Americas, China, and Europe. His short essays on many of these topics may be found on his blogsite: “Law at the End of the Day”. Website HERE.
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