International Law

China's Rising Power and the Hope for a Multi-Polar World

Posted on May 10, 2009
Recently David Pilling of the Financial Times published a thought-provoking article under the title: ?Asia Pays Tribute to Its New Superpower,? which discusses how the rise of China during the time of economic crisis has been perceived within the region and beyond...

China's Rising Power and the Hope for a Multi-Polar World

Posted on May 10, 2009
Recently David Pilling of the Financial Times published a thought-provoking article under the title: ?Asia Pays Tribute to Its New Superpower,? which discusses how the rise of China during the time of economic crisis has been perceived within the region and beyond...

Recommended Reading: The Faculty Lounge

Posted on May 07, 2009
I have been highly benefited from The Faculty Lounge Blog recently and thought that I should share this blog with TLB readers. At the Faculty Lounge, bloggers are mostly law professors who post commentaries and analysis of legal issues and other on-going debates that are either academic-like or accassionally with a more casual tone as they probably often do while chit-chatting at the school's faculty lounge...

Recommended Reading: The Faculty Lounge

Posted on May 07, 2009
I have been highly benefited from The Faculty Lounge Blog recently and thought that I should share this blog with TLB readers. At the Faculty Lounge, bloggers are mostly law professors who post commentaries and analysis of legal issues and other on-going debates that are either academic-like or accassionally with a more casual tone as they probably often do while chit-chatting at the school's faculty lounge...

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An American Life Story

Posted on May 03, 2009
The Washington Post today offers a heartfelt portrait of Justice Souter that invokes much of my admiration and inspiration for the Superior Court Judge- a simple life fills with unwavering public service and modesty. Justice Souter recently announced his retirement from the Highest Court leaving this June when the Court will recess for the year...

An American Life Story

Posted on May 03, 2009
The Washington Post today offers a heartfelt portrait of Justice Souter that invokes much of my admiration and inspiration for the Superior Court Judge- a simple life fills with unwavering public service and modesty. Justice Souter recently announced his retirement from the Highest Court leaving this June when the Court will recess for the year...

Reaching Out to Sri Lanka

Posted on May 01, 2009
I have been regularly following up with the news from Sri Lanka. Images and news from this civil war brought me solemn concern and uneasiness. Here in London, I caught this scene one weekend early this month. A sense of helplessness arrived soon after I stepped deep into the scene seeing men, children, elders and women yelling out loud their urging need and asking for international intervention...

Reaching Out to Sri Lanka

Posted on May 01, 2009
I have been regularly following up with the news from Sri Lanka. Images and news from this civil war brought me solemn concern and uneasiness. Here in London, I caught this scene one weekend early this month. A sense of helplessness arrived soon after I stepped deep into the scene seeing men, children, elders and women yelling out loud their urging need and asking for international intervention...

Over the Worst Yet, Japan?

Posted on April 30, 2009
We don't know for sure, but at least Japan is showing signs of stabilization. Despite growing deflation and addition contraction at 3.3% this year, the Financial Times today reported some stabilizing signs from the second largest economy in the world giving hope that the worst of the recession may be almost over...

Over the Worst Yet, Japan?

Posted on April 30, 2009
We don't know for sure, but at least Japan is showing signs of stabilization. Despite growing deflation and addition contraction at 3.3% this year, the Financial Times today reported some stabilizing signs from the second largest economy in the world giving hope that the worst of the recession may be almost over...

Global Internet Rights and Censorship

Posted on March 28, 2009
The Internet has changed the way information is spread around the world. Internet usage has become ubiquitous in developed countries and it is still growing in less developed countries. The ability of populations to get information through the Internet is treated differently by various countries...

Federal and California State Tax: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Posted on March 25, 2009
If you would like to find out the tax aspects of Obama's stimulus package which seizes about 36% of the stimulus, as well as how the State of California mends its budget crisis through various tax increases, there was a recent discussion on federal and state tax issues given by professor Heather Field and professor Darien Shanske, two respected tax professors at UC Hastings...

Economic Advice From Jim Rogers

Posted on March 21, 2009

Rethinking the Washington Consensus on Trade Liberalization

Posted on March 17, 2009
"?Stabilize, privatize, and liberalize? became the mantra of a generation of technocrats who cut their teeth in the developing world and of the political leaders they counseled"- Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard University Across legal economic disciplines, there have been many arguments regarding the benefits of free trade on developing countries...

Saving the Dragon

Posted on March 07, 2009
In the process of learning about China?s economic development, I often wonder if it was the right policy for China to cut its domestic spending on public services to suppress its currency while exporting most of its capital surplus to the West. Even in pure economic term, shouldn't economic growth equivalent with improvement of social welfare and income distribution? The answer is obvious- there is no promise of such upgrading even in an economy that has been growing at a rapid rate like China...

On Law and Facebook

Posted on March 04, 2009

How Would Karl Marx Respond to Our Global Credit Crisis?

Posted on February 26, 2009
Having born and brought up in a communist country as well as reading Marxism over the years in both social and economic disciplines, I can?t help asking myself the question: ?How would Marx respond to this financial crisis?? The question lingered for weeks...

A Response to the Hysteria about Modernizing American Health Care

Posted on February 19, 2009
Some commentators have been ringing the alarm bells about the health care provisions in the recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (The Stimulus). As I discussed in a previous post, this started with an opinion piece in Bloomberg, which has since been discredited by CNN and others...

Three is Company: How Obama is Coming Between You and Your Doctor

Posted on February 16, 2009
Obama will sign the Stimulus Bill tomorrow and take his first small step toward socialized healthcare and one giant leap toward socializing America. A previous post on TLB warned against blindly listening to Right-Wing Talking Points, but it should be noted that the right-wing talking points are not off the mark in this instance...

Back To The Same Starting Point

Posted on February 15, 2009
It is that time of my life once again, where I return to my root and start working on Vietnam's economic reform. Not that I have never attempted to run away from this subject to gain more breadth on other regions. Yet, this time I found myself coming back to that same initial starting point from my undergraduate years to look closer into Vietnam?s economic performance and its shortcomings...

Beware of Right-Wing Talking Points

Posted on February 12, 2009
While I fully support efforts to keep an eye on what is in the massive Stimulus Bill, there is a new lie coming out of the right-wing echo chamber about a electronic medical record-keeping provision that has made it into usually reliable news outlets like Bloomberg, as highlighted in a recent post on this blog...

Obama is Bush in Sheep's Clothing - Do You See it Yet?

Posted on February 11, 2009
It wasn't GTMO or the promise to bring troops home from Iraq and send them right back to Afghanistan that made it clear. It was simply the Obama fear factor. The reason for rushing the stimulus package is "A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe...

Legal Barriers to Responding to the Global Economic Crisis

Posted on February 08, 2009
As the global economic slowdown worsens, the world?s major economic powers seem to agree that the key to fixing things (or lessen the damage) is massive spending. At the time of this post, at least thirty-four countries have announced ambitious stimulus plans...

Summer Opportunities for 1L Student Abroad

Posted on January 29, 2009
When I arrived in Hong Kong in July last year for the Duke Summer Abroad Program at Hong Kong University, I was surprised to find that many Duke students had already finished a summer internship with law firms either in Japan, Korea or China prior to their arrival in Hong Kong...

Thinking Through the Year of the Earth Ox

Posted on January 27, 2009
Harvard's political economist, Dani Rodrick, recently posted some new thoughts regarding 2009. In his entry named "Looking Forward To 2009", Rodrick detailed four major determinative tickets that may make the world better or worse in the upcoming year: 1...

What Is More?

Posted on January 25, 2009
If you have not given up on following distressing news from the credit crisis, George Soros (a well respected Wall Street guru) recently published his analysis regarding our government's options on bailing out the banks. After watching Paulson helplessly aggravated the situation on his first round of spending the Tarp money, Soros sees that our leader has two options: (1) nationalizing the banks or (2) buying out the toxic assets and leave the banks to the market force...

Recommended Reading: Crashing Down Now!

Posted on January 11, 2009
Happy New Year, and I apologize for the prolonged hiatus. Various circumstances have prevented me from re-engaging the blogosphere earlier but such is life, and I will hopefully have more time now to blog. Nevertheless, during my hiatus, there was one blog I consistently read that has always been highly informative, fascinating, and accurate: Crashing Down Now! If you're not reading this blog, then I suggest you start...

This Blogger Needs a Brief Hiatus

Posted on May 27, 2008
The time has come for me to take a break from the blogging world and focus my attention on preparing for the California Bar exam. It has been a pleasure blogging throughout my law school tenure, and I look forward to returning after I take the Bar exam in July...

I Want a Certificate in Space Law, Too!

Posted on May 13, 2008
As I am coming out of finals, graduating from law school, and staring the Bar exam dead in the eye, I am fascinated by this article on Res Communis about the first law student to graduate with a specialty in space law. It should come as no surprise that I'm planning a career in transnational law but I take my hat off to anyone that is planning a career in space law-- that is just too international and out-of-this-world cool! I'll admit it, I'm jealous! The University of Mississippi Law School is the only ABA-accredited law school in the nation...

Factory in China Accidentally Makes Free Tibet Flags

Posted on April 28, 2008
A factory in China has been manufacturing 'Free Tibet' flags (h/t Foreign Passport Blog). According to the BBC, the factory owner said the flags were ordered from outside China, and he did not know the flags were a symbol for a free Tibet. The flags are known as the Snow Lion Flag and they have been banned in China...

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