Benjamin L. Liebman

• Seeing the Shadow: Party Documents in Chinese Courts in BERKELEY J. OF INT’L L (with Benjamin Liebman, Rachel Stern, Eva Gao, Xiaohan Wu & Margaret Roberts) (forthcoming 2025).
• Contesting and Controlling Abortion in China’s Courts in COLUM. J. GENDER & L. (with Molly Bodurtha, Benjamin Liebman, Chenqian Li & Xiaohan Wu) (forthcoming 2024).
• Rolling Back Transparency in China’s Courts, in COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW (with Rachel E. Stern, Xiaohan Wu, and Margaret Roberts) (2023).
• Liability Beyond Law: Conceptions of Fairness in Chinese Tort Cases, in ASIAN JOURNAL OF LAW & SOCIETY (with Rachel E. Stern, Wenwa Gao, and Xiaohan Wu) (2023).
• Closing Open Governments: Grassroots Policy Conversion of China’s open Government Information Regulation and Its Aftermath, in COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES (with Jieun Kim, Rachel E. Stern, and Xiaohan Wu) (2022)
• Automating Fairness: Artificial Intelligence in the Chinese Courts, in COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW (with Rachel Stern, Margaret E. Roberts, and Alice Z. Wang) (2021)
• Ordinary Tort Litigation in China: Law Versus Practical Justice?, in JOURNAL OF TORT LAW (2020)
• Mass Digitization of Chinese Court Opinions: How to Use Text as Data in the Field of Chinese Law (with Margaret Roberts, Rachel Stern, and Alice Wang) (2020)
• On Constructing a Knowledge Base of Chinse Criminal Cases, in JURIX (with Xiaohan Wu, Rachel E. Stern, Margaret E. Roberts, and Amarnath Gupta) (2019)
• Toward Building a Legal Knowledge-Base of Chinese Judicial Documents for Large-Scale Analytics, in JURIX (with Amarnath Gupta, Alice Z. Wang, Kai Lin, Haoshen Hong, Haoran Sun, Rachel E. Stern, Subhasis Dasgupta, and Margaret E. Roberts) (2017).
• Authoritarian Justice in China: Is There a Chinese Model?, in THE BEIJING CONSENSUS? HOW CHINA HAS CHANGED THE WESTERN IDEAS OF LAW AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (CHEN WEISTENG, ED.) (Cambridge University Press 2017)
• Law in the Shadow of Violence: Can Law Help to Improve Doctor-Patient Trust in China?, COLUM. J. ASIAN L. (2016)
• REGULATING THE VISIBLE HAND: THE INSTITUTIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF CHINESE STATE CAPITALISM (BENJAMIN L. LIEBMAN & CURTIS J. MILHAUPT, EDS.) (Oxford University Press, 2016)
• Introduction: The Institutional Implications of China’s Economic Development (with Curtis J. Milhaupt) and SOEs and State Governance: How State-Owned Enterprises Influence China’s Legal System (with Zheng Lei & Curtis J. Milhaupt) in REGULATING THE VISIBLE HAND: THE INSTITUTIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF CHINESE STATE CAPITALISM (BENJAMIN L. LIEBMAN & CURTIS MILHAUPT, EDS.) (Oxford University Press, 2016)
• Leniency in Chinese Criminal Law: Everyday Justice in Henan, 33 BERKELEY J. INT’L L. 153 (2015)
• China’s Law-Stability Paradox, in CHINA’S CHALLENGES: THE ROAD AHEAD (AVERY GOLDSTEIN & JACQUES DELISLE, EDS.) (Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania 2015)
• Legal Reform: China’s Law-Stability Paradox, DAEDALUS (Spring 2014)
• Article 41 and the Right to Appeal (proceedings of Social Change and the Constitution – a Conference on the Occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Constitution of the PR China of 1982, Free University in Berlin, 2015)
• Malpractice Mobs: Medical Dispute Resolution in China, 113 COLUM. L. REV. 181 (2013)
• Professionals and Populists: The Paradoxes of China’s Legal Reforms, in CHINA BEYOND THE HEADLINES, THIRD EDITION (TIMOTHY WESTON & LIONEL JENSEN, eds.) (Rowman & Littlefield 2012)
• The Media and the CourtsL Toward Competitive Supervision?, 208 CHINA Q. 833 (Dec. 2011)
• A Return to Populist Legality? Historical Legacies and Legal Reform, in MAO’S INVISIBLE HAND (ELIZABETH PERRY AND SEBASTIAN HEILMANN, eds.) (Harvard University Press 2011)
• A Populist Threat to China’s Courts?, in CHINESE JUSTICE: CIVIL DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN POST-REFORM CHINA (MARY GALLAGHER & MARGARET WOO, eds.) (Cambridge University Press 2011)
• Changing Media, Changing Courts?, in CHANGING MEDIA, CHANGING CHINA (Susan Shirk ed., Oxford University Press 2010)
• Introduction to The 60th Anniversary of the PRC: A Retrospective on the Chinese Legal System, 23 COLUM. J. ASIAN L. 1 (2009)
• Assessing China’s Legal Reforms, PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THIRTY YEARS OF REFORM AND OPENING-UP, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (2008) (also 23 COLUM. J. ASIAN L. 17 (2009)
• Reputational Sanctions in China’s Securities Markets, 108 COLUM. L. REV. 929 (2008) (with Curtis Milhaupt)
• Scandal, Sukyandaru, and Chouwen, 106 MICH. L. REV. 1041 (2008) (reviewing MARK D.WEST, SECRETS, SEX AND SPECTACLE: THE RULES OF SCANDAL IN JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES)
• China’s Courts: Restricted Reform, 191 CHINA Q. 620 (Sept. 2007)
• China’s Courts: Restricted Reform, 21 J. ASIAN L. 1 (2007) (expanded version)
• China’s Network Justice, 8 CHI. J. INT’L L. 257 (2007) (with Tim Wu)
• Innovation through Intimidation? An Empirical Account of Defamation Litigation in China, 47 HARV. INT’L L.J. 33 (2006)
• Introduction: Celebrating Stanley Lubman, 19 J. ASIAN L. i (2006) (with R. Randle Edwards)
• Watchdog or Demagogue? The Media in the Chinese Legal System 105 COLUM. L. REV. 1 (2005)
• Lawyers, Legal Aid, and Legitimacy in China, in RAISING THE BAR (Alford & Miyazawa eds. 2004)
• Clean Air, Clear Process? The Struggle over Air Pollution Law in the People’s Republic of China, 52 HASTINGS L.J. 703 (2001) (with William P. Alford)
• Legal Aid and Public Interest Law in China, 34 TEXAS INT’L L.J. 211 (1999)
• Autonomy through Separation?: Environmental Law and the Basic Law of Hong Kong, 39 HARV. INT’L L.J. 231 (1998)
• Note, Class Action Litigation in China, 111 HARV. L. REV. 1523 (1998)
• The Supreme Court, 1996 Term – Leading Cases, Old Chief v. United States, 111 HARV. L. REV. 360 (1997)
• Recent Legislation, Congress Imposes New Restrictions on Use of Funds by the Legal Services Corporation, 110 HARV. L. REV. 1346 (1997)

Works Appearing in Translation

• Zhongguo de Lüshi, Falü Yuanzhu yu Hefaxing [Lawyers, Legal Aid and Legitimacy in China], in ZHONGGUO SHEHUI ZHUANXING SHIQI DE FALÜ FAZHAN [CONTEMPORARY CHINESE LEGAL DEVELOPMENT] 587-632 (Xu Chuanxi ed. 2004)
• Les Acciones Collectivas En China [Class Action Litigation in China], in PROCESOS COLECTIVOS 425 (Antonio Gidi & Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor eds. & Angela Liliana Sanchez Rojas trans. 2003)
• “Pizi” Yu Wenxue: Wang Shuo Xiaoshuo Zhong de Yuyan, Quanwei yu Shuli [Reluctant Ruffians: Language, Authority, and Alienation in Wang Shuo’s Fiction] in WANG SHUO PIPAN (Zhang Dexiang & Jin Huimin eds. & Dong Zhilin trans. 1993)

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