Honored and grateful to receive the ALSA 2023 Graduate Student Paper Article Award!

there's been such an outpouring of support and grief over the early passing of Professor Xiaohong Xu, a professor of sociology and Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. A memorial fund has been established to support international students in sociology and students…

We've concentrated a lot on the rise of mass incarceration and the prison boom, but we've been surprisingly slow to ask about the prison 'bust.' It turns out, prisons are closing faster than new ones open.

So why the heck are we seeing this surprising decline in prisons?

🧵

New paper (based on a talk I gave this time last year in Joensuu, Finland) Rehabilitation, recognition and misrecognition:
kriminologia.journal.fi/article/downlo…

Available via open access, Veronica Horowitz's 'Mercy and the Construction of Social Control' identifies a set of behaviors and beliefs that state actors seek to elicit from incarcerated persons through the commutation process, which serve to sustain state power and control.

I am excited to host Professor Lao Dongyan’s Zoom talk CCPL at HKU @HKULaw on December 8. Please register in advance if interested: hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regf…

While most studies of sexual harassment in the workplace focus on offices, in this LSI #FirstView , Jiahui Duan of HKU Law and CSLS at UC Berkeley turns to the informal sites where 'yingchou,' or business team-building and drinking take place.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…

My latest article is now live in Gender & Society! Integrating queer and feminist lenses, my ethnography of sex partying in #HongKong explores how straight men and women paradoxically embrace and feel constrained by the regime of normalcy. U of T Sociology Link: doi.org/10.1177/089124…

In an article for U.S.-Asia Law Institute, I look at the new directions that Zhang Jun 张军, President of the Supreme People's Court since March, may be taking the institution usali.org/usali-perspect…

Read this new article by Sida Liu & Sitao Li addressing the methodological question of how to do #empirical legal studies without numbers in #China .
Chinese Law Blog: ccl.law.hku.hk/chinese-law-bl…
Chinese Law eJournal: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Technology and data are not just about numbers in empirical legal studies. The upcoming article by Sida Liu and me in Hong Kong Law Journal makes the case.

Thanks so much to Katie Quinn for compiling the latest roundup of recent articles and books by Punishment & Society CRN scholars! Find it here and in your inbox (if you're in our google group)! punishment-society.blogspot.com/2023/10/member…

New blogpost before I go back to further updating the 'endless' article, on the end of the Supreme People's Court's Judicial Reform Office, after 17 years supremepeoplescourtmonitor.com/2023/09/28/upd…

Professor Lao Dongyan: With unrestrained investment in security, who are we guarding against?劳东燕：对安保无节制投入，究竟在防谁mp.weixin.qq.com/s/culZmnO_Jhdf…

Botero’s searing torture series exhibited not far from the Dean’s office at Berkeley Law is a daily rebuke to those of us who teach law to address the violence at it’s core. May his memory be for blessing law.berkeley.edu/news/boteros/b…

Interesting yet ultimately kind of weird debate (in the form of dueling book reviews and responses) on historical Chinese state formation. Knowing something about both sides, I don’t think either side’s position is really as simple as this back-and-forth makes it sound. Yuhua…

The China Law and Society Review, a peer-reviewed sociolegal journal hosted at @HKULaw, is now welcoming submissions from scholars and students working on Chinese law-related topics. See Call for Papers here:

We're hiring at JSP/Berkeley Law in race & the law. Open rank. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03911

Many thanks to CSLS at UC Berkeley for hosting a book event for The Asian Law & Society Reader yesterday. We had a stimulating discussion and it was wonderful to see many friends in the Bay Area!