The East Asian Legal Studies Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School has received a $488,000 grant from the U.S. State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, to fund a two-year project, the "Program in U.S. Administrative Law and Regulatory Practices," which will train officials in the Shanghai government at the municipal and district levels.

The goal of the program is to increase transparency, predictability, legality and fairness in government regulation and in the delivery of services in Shanghai.

The grant was written primarily by John Ohnesorge, the Center's Assistant Director, and Pam Hollenhorst, Associate Director of the Law School’s Institute for Legal Studies. Ohnesorge comments, "We see this program as building upon the successful programs that we already have with the Shanghai judiciary and the Xu Hui District Government in Shanghai."

For more information about the Center and its Shanghai programs, see

http://law.wisc.edu/ealsc/outreach.htm and https://law.wisc.edu/newsletter-media/2007/1592-v32n1.pdf#page=28 (scroll to page 28).

Submitted by on February 22, 2007

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