The East Asian Legal Studies Center is pleased to welcome Neysun Mahboubi from the University of Pennsylvania to give a talk on China's Administrative Litigation Law.  The talk, titled "Revision of China's Administrative Litigation Law: Opportunity Seized or Lost?" will be held on November 18th from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM in Lubar Commons, on the 7th floor of the Law School.  Lunch will be provided.

About the talk: Passage of China's Administrative Litigation Law in 1989 reflected and marked the culmination of a particularly vibrant period in Chinese legal and even political reform.  Many of the practical obstacles to successful administrative litigation in the years have likewise reflected the boundaries of reform.  For the community of administrative law scholars and practitioners in China that first coalesced around the passage of the Administrative Litigation Law, the prospect of revising the law has long appeared as a good opportunity to try addressing at least some of those systematic limitations.  Against the backdrop of history and expectations, this talk offers a preliminary evaluation of the actual revision of the Administrative Litigation Law that was finally adopted on November 1st.  In the immediate aftermath of the Communist Party's Fourth Plenum meeting and a decision on promoting the "rule of law," the revision also serves as a valuable early litmus test.

About Neysun Mahboubi: Neysun A. Mahboubi is a Research Scholar of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania.  His primary academic interests are in the areas of administrative law, comparative law, and Chinese law, and his current writing focuses on the development of modern Chinese administrative law.  He is co-chair of the international committee on the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, consults for the Asia Foundation on Chinese administrative procedure reform, and moderates the Comparative Administrative Law Listserv hosted by Yale Law School.  Previously, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, and a Tutor-in-Law at Yale Law School.  He has also taught at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.  He served as a trial attorney in the Civil Division (Federal Programs Branch) of the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a law clerk to Judge Douglas P. Woodlock of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.  He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and an A.B. in Politics and East Asian Studies from Princeton University.

Submitted by EALSC News on November 12, 2014

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