The Limits of Rule of Law in China and Human Rights Diplomacy: The Yang Jianli CaseChina Law Center We are delighted to announce that Andrea Worden, a Fellow with The China Law Center, will lead our Workshop on March 23. She will give a presentation entitled "The Limits of Rule of Law in China and Human Rights Diplomacy: The Yang Jianli Case." Prior to coming to Yale Law School, Ms. Worden was a senior counsel for the Congressional Executive Commission on China (www.cecc.gov), where she monitored and reported to Congress and the Administration on human rights and rule of law issues in China. She previously served as counsel at O'Melveny & Myers and as a staff attorney with the Appellate Staff at the Department of Justice. Ms. Worden also clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Alaska Supreme Court. She has an M.A. in modern Chinese history from Stanford, where she also obtained her law degree. After graduating magna cum laude from Yale University, Ms. Worden taught English in China for two and a half years (in Tianjin and Changsha) with the Yale-China Association (of which she is now a trustee). Her fellowship was cut short, however, by the events of June 4, 1989. After returning to the U.S., she became a member of the Executive Committee of the newly created Human Rights in China (HRIC) and wrote and spoke widely on the pro-democracy protests of 1989. Ms. Worden's account of the protests in Changsha appears in The Pro-Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces (ed. Jon Unger, 1991). In addition to human rights, her current research interests include criminal procedure, civil society development, and worker rights issues in China. Ms. Worden serves as an informal adviser to several individuals and organizations on issues relating to China's criminal justice process. Ms. Worden has asked that, in preparation for the workshop, we read the attached articles. Please print out the materials and bring them to the workshop. For more information on Yang Jianli's case, visit www.yangjianli.com. The first attachment includes the following articles in Word format, most of which can also be found online:
The second attachment is http://www.freedom-now.org/pdfs/ChinavDissentIHT7-26-03.pdf an Op-ed by Freedom Now president, Jared Genser (adviser to Yang Jianli's family) in PDF format. The workshop will meet at our usual time and place at 4:10 PM - 6:00 PM in Room 124. Paul Gewirtz, Jonathan Hecht, and Jamie Horsley To update your email address or to be added to or removed from this list, please reply to this email or contact Eric Miller.
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