2010 Symposium

The Asian Century?

February 26, 2010

If the Nineteenth Century belonged to Britain, and the Twentieth Century belonged to the United States, will the Twenty-First Century belong to Asia? If so, what will this mean for human rights, including women's and gay rights, and for economic development?

Three out of every five people in the world live in Asia. Yet, the continent has largely been at the periphery of the international order. The rapid economic development of China and India over the last two decades has made Asia more central to the international system.

This Symposium, to be published in the UC Davis Law Review in 2011, will ask how the rise of Asia might bolster or hamper efforts to expand human capabilities. To consider this issue, the Law Review will bring together some of the nation's leading scholars, with expertise on multinational corporations, intellectual property, human rights, gay rights, the status of rural persons, national security law, and constitutional law.

Confirmed Participants

• Professor Martha Nussbaum (Keynote Speaker) — Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago Law School
• Professor Afra Afsharipour — Acting Professor of law, UC Davis School of Law
• Professor Keith Aoki — Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
• Professor Anupam Chander — Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
• Professor Tom Ginsburg — Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law school
• Professor Anil Kalhan — Associate Professor of Law, Drexel University School of Law
• Professor Holning Lau — Associate Professor of Law, UNC School of Law
• Professor Lisa Pruitt — Professor, UC Davis School of Law
• Professor Teemu Ruskola — Professor of Law, Emory Law School
• Professor Peter Yu — Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law, Drake Law School

For more information, please phone (530) 754-7644 or email .