Category: Volume 56 Issue 2
Hope in Despair? The Gender Gap in the Legal Profession in Japan (Vol. 56.2)
Kyoko Ishida
While the gender gap in the legal profession is not unique to Japan, the gender gap in numbers (i.e., the gap in the number of male and female lawyers) seems to be being overcome in many jurisdictions. In the case of Japan, however, the situation is desperate: women make up only 27.2% of judges, 26.0%…
Aug 2025
Gender Effect and Gender Norms in Chinese Courts (Vol. 56.2)
Xiaohong Yu & Zhaoyang Sun
The present study sets out to investigate the gender effects observed in Chinese courts by examining the radical disruption and subsequent restoration of Confucian gender norms. While previous scholars have identified gender effects in both criminal and civil cases in China, the factors contributing to these effects and their underlying logic remain unclear. By analyzing…
Aug 2025
Something’s Got to Give: Gender Impact in the Singapore Legal Profession (Vol. 56.2)
Helena Whalen-Bridge
Like other jurisdictions, Singapore has made strides toward eliminating discrimination against women and creating gender parity in the workforce. In the legal profession, Singapore also faces challenges similar to other countries, including work-life balance and attrition of mid-career women lawyers. Thisarticle explores the impact of gender on women in the Singaporean legal profession via in-depth…
Aug 2025
U.S. Inaction on NFT Fraud Problem: International Legal Approaches and Theories to Model (Vol. 56.2)
Jacqueline Stern
Non-fungible tokens are the hot word on the street, the topic of conversation that is getting all the buzz as we learn of preposterous purchases in the million-dollar range for a digital picture. That is right, a digital picture depicting some kind of artwork can be worth millions of dollars, and that is the very…
Aug 2025
Assessing Gender Bias in a Digital Platform for Lawyers: A Web-based Experiment in South Korea (Vol. 56.2)
Hai Jin Park
Since introducing the American-style law school system in 2009, South Korea has seen a significant increase in female law school graduates. However, it is still uncertain how this influx of new female lawyers in the South Korean legal service market would affect the composition of management and partner levels in law firms. As demonstrated in…
Aug 2025
Women Judges in a Masculine Court: How Judicial Authority, Legal Area and the Image of the Ideal Judge are Gendered in the Taiwanese Judiciary (Vol. 56.2)
Ching-fang Hsu
The Taiwanese judiciary has reached gender parity in number in the2020s, so that women judges now occupy more than fifty percent of positionsat all three levels of the court. However, the internal gender dynamics are complex. This Article uses two sets of conceptual tools to analyze and identify themale-centered and masculine features of the Taiwanese…
Aug 2025
Gender Equality as a Social Process: Opportunities and Dilemmas of Female Judges in Chinese Courts (Vol. 56.2)
Wei Gao
This Article presents the full picture of Chinese women’s career path from law school to the courts, from junior judge to court leader. Using up-to-date data and interviews, it provides an informative account of why and how women are currently entering the court system in China, and the obstacles encountered in their rise in the…
Aug 2025
Introduction to Gender Equality in the Legal Profession in East Asia: Empirical Perspectives (Vol. 56.2)
Yun-chien Chang
This issue of the Cornell International Law Journal publishes six articlespresented at the Symposium on Gender Equality in the Legal Profession in EastAsia: Empirical Perspectives. The symposium was co-sponsored by the ClarkeProgram in East Asian Law & Culture at Cornell Law School (which I directsince I became the Clarke Professor of East Asian Law on…
Aug 2025