[CALS Seminar] on “A Brief History of Inequality in China: The State, The Market, The Family, and Law” by Visiting Research Professor, Dr Teemu Ruskola

Visiting Research Professor, Dr Teemu Ruskola, visited CALS from 2 Jan to 6 Feb 2020 and presented a seminar on “A Brief History of Inequality in China: The State, The Market, The Family, and Law”.

Dr Ruskola is a Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. After graduating from Yale Law School, he worked as an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, in New York and Hong Kong. Prior to joining Emory, he was Professor of Law at American University in Washington, DC. His research interests include Contracts, Business Associations, Comparative Law, and Chinese Law. His wide-ranging scholarship addresses questions of legal history and theory from multiple perspectives, comparative as well as international, frequently with China as a vantage point. CALS is very pleased to have had Dr Ruskola visit us!

“I am enormously grateful to CALS for hosting me at NUS. It is an ideal place for comparative research on Chinese law, in a way that’s mindful of regional and global connections as well. The faculty and staff have been amazingly generous with their time and insights!” – Dr Teemu Ruskola