Hope in Despair? The Gender Gap in the Legal Profession in Japan (Vol. 56.2)
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%…
28 Aug 2025
Something’s Got to Give: Gender Impact in the Singapore Legal Profession (Vol. 56.2)
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…
19 Aug 2025
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…
19 Aug 2025
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…
18 Aug 2025
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…
18 Aug 2025
While legal education plays an important role in upholding the rule oflaw and protecting the rights of individuals, there is a dearth of research onthe impact of differences in institutional and cultural contexts on legaleducation. This Article examines the impact of educational systems andculture on the law school experiences of American and Chinese students andassesses…
24 Jul 2025
Son Preference: An Empirical Study of Estate Distribution in Wills, (Vol. 57.2 Spring 2025)
Despite a plethora of normative discussions on gender equality as well as empirical studies on gender discrimination and gender effects in various settings, there is a paucity of large-scale empirical studies on son preference by ordinary people in asset distribution. Using an idiosyncratic data set on more than 1800 notarized or authenticated wills in Taiwan,…
15 Jul 2025
Financial and economic crises, pandemics, border closures, supply chain disruptions, wars, political uncertainty have fundamentally changed the way governments view economic development. Broad-based government interventions are now the order of the day. Many names have been given to the emerging new economics of in-tervention: “homeland economics,” the “new productivism paradigm,” “supply side progressivism,” “neomercantilism,” “new…
15 Jul 2025
A Tale Of Two “States”: Democratic Deficit in Belgium and the European Union (Vol. 57.1, Forum)
In 2024, the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) and Flemish Interest (VB) secured 24 and 20 seats in the federal Chamber of Representatives, respectively, becoming the two largest parties by number of seats. Both parties have actively campaigned for increased Flemish autonomy and eventual independence, a cause which around 37% of Flemish voters support. The N-VA…
25 Apr 2025
Third Countries’ Reactions to the EU CBAM: a Law & Economics Approach (JSDA Conference 2025)
The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a measure of the European Union (EU)aimed at imposing its carbon price on foreign producers of certain carbon-intensive products,with the final goal of addressing the risk of carbon leakage and contributing to the objectives of the Paris Agreement. However, it has been widely perceived by third countries as…
23 Apr 2025