Professor Norman P. Ho was the invited presenter for the November 25, 2015 session of the Legal and Constitutional History Colloquium at New York University (NYU) School of Law, where he presented his paper, “The Legal Thought of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.”

Dean Philip McConnaughay presented his paper, “Imitation and Innovation: The Case of Peking University School of Transnational Law,” at a November 19-20 symposium at Shanghai Jiao Tong University on, “Legal Education in Asia: From Imitation to Innovation​.” ​

Professor Sang Yop Kang was an invited speaker at the 21st Century Commercial Law Forum, Fifteenth International Symposium, hosted by Tsinghua University Law School in Beijing on October 31 – November 1, 2015.

STL visiting professor Preston Torbert delivered a lunch-time lecture on October 29, 2015 on “Challenges of Hong Kong’s English-Chinese Bilingual Legislation.” Professor Torbert is the former head of Baker & McKenzie’s China practice.

Professor Thomas Yunlong Man’s new book, English Colonization and the Formation of Anglo-American Polities, 1606-1664, is the first comprehensive examination of the formation of the uniquely “American” form of triadic government in the process of English colonization of North America during the first half of the seventeenth century.

Professor Thomas Man attended the Second International Symposium on Sino Swiss Evidence Science held in Lausanne, Switzerland, September 5 – 9.

Professor Nitzan Shilon presented his working paper, The Case for Managerial Signaling in Deciding Hostile Takeovers, at the 25th Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association (ALEA), which was held on May 15-16 at Columbia Law School.

C.V. Starr Professor of Law Francis Snyder has authored the first major scholarly study of the development of food safety law in China. In his groundbreaking new book, Food Safety Law in China: Making Transnational Law, Professor Snyder traces the development of China food safety law and policy from the 2008 melamine infant formula crisis to today.

Professor Mark Feldman has been appointed to the E15 Task Force on Investment Policy, sponsored jointly by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD).