October 18, 2009

The concept of the Rule of Law means different things depending on the cultural context.  Law professor James Feinerman, the James M. Morita Professor of Asian Legal Studies and the Director of Asian Law and Policy Studies, discusses contracts and legal assumptions among various cultures.  He  has been a Fulbright scholar in Japan, and he has studied law in China as a Fulbright lecturer and a MacArthur fellow, and he is the co-author of "The Limits of the Rule of Law in China" (University of Washington Press); and "China After the WTO: What You Need to Know Now."