Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. (This applies to just about every single party in this ongoing brouhaha.)

The shorter and more provocative way to summarize this paper’s findings is: “Here’s some survey experiment evidence that Chinese people might care more about law per se than Americans do.”

After several rounds of online annual conferences, this will be in-person at Peking University.

It was a pleasure talking to Jeannie Naujeck at Duke Law Magazine about my project on Chinese homeowners. And, yes, that book is coming out in January after six years of hard work.

Just about the only thing that would make me spend a November weekend in Toronto…

My sense from this and other sources is that a 5-10% increase in the Asian share of an entering class should be expected after the downfall of Affirmative Action, unless the school aggressively exploits the personal statement loophole left by SCOTUS. nytimes.com/2024/08/21/us/…

Sometimes it’s nice to have your qualitative assessments (in this case, in papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…) reinforced a couple years later by quantitative research. [Empowering through Courts: Judicial Centralization and Municipal Financing in China] voxchina.org/show-3-368.html