EXPERTS ADVISORY

ANN ARBOR—Elite members of China’s Communist Party plan to gather Oct. 20-23 for their “fourth plenum,” a planning meeting that is expected to focus on strengthening the nation’s rule of law.

Professors at the University of Michigan are available to discuss the legal, political and economic aspects of the closely watched meeting in Beijing. They include:

Nicholas Calcina Howson, professor of law, can discuss legal system and political-legal institutional issues in China. He writes and lectures widely on Chinese law topics, focusing on the Chinese judiciary and administrative agencies, corporate and securities law and constitutional law. He has acted as a consultant to the Ford Foundation, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and various Chinese government ministries and administrative departments, in particular with respect to the formulation of key Chinese statutes. Contact: (734) 615-2892 or [email protected] Profile: http://bit.ly/1vozFMp

Lynda Oswald, professor of business law, focuses on intellectual and real property law issues. Oswald has taught at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, Hopkins-Nanjing Center in Nanjing and the School of Transnational Law at Peking University. Contact: (734) 763-9827 or [email protected] Profile: http://bit.ly/1wee6fF

Mary Gallagher, director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, can address the political aspects of legal reforms. Gallagher is an associate professor of political science whose interests include comparative politics of transitional and developing states as well as labor issues. Contact: (734) 615-9154 or [email protected] Profile: http://bit.ly/1wQCm7N

Yuen Yuen Ang, assistant professor of political science, can discuss how corruption affects governance, especially at the local level. Contact: [email protected]. Profile: http://bit.ly/1oeJMmf Watch Ang discusses Chinese corruption in this video: http://bit.ly/1antDge

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