Clarke Program in East Asian Law & Culture Presents: Young Scholar Workshop on “Empirical Legal Studies in the Sinophone Region”

PRESENTERS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

Patrick Chung-Chia Huang “Legal Networks and Judicial Outcomes: Evidence from Taiwan”
Yuhao Wu “Discretion at the Margins: An Empirical Study of Prosecutorial Decision-Making in Chinese Misdemeanor DUI Cases”
Keng-Wei Fan “Sentencing Deliberation as an Educational Forum: Evidence from Taiwan’s Citizen Judge System”
Yali Peng “Professional Identity and Enforcement Realities: How Institutional Roles Shape Corruption Perceptions”
Isabelle Zhang “Government Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China”
James Si Zeng “Litigation Settlement under a Hierarchical Legal System: Evidence from Disclosure by Listed Corporations in China”
Wanqiang Wu “Between Punishment and Reintegration: Empirical Reflections on Parole Practices in China”
Yutian An “From Visibility to Shadows: The Impact of Police Discretion on Prostitution in Response to Legal Changes”

5:10 p.m. – Conclusion of Day One

PRESENTERS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

Xiaohong Yu: “The Boundaries of Capital: How Geography Shapes the Right to Counsel”
Leo You Li: “Micro Legality, Macro Embedding: How Judicial Reform Strengthens the Integration of Courts into China’s Governance Networks”
Weicheng Chen: “Jury instruction complexity and exposure of out-of-court information”
I-An Su: “Killing the Oblivious: Analyzing Successful and Unsuccessful Incompetency-to-Be-Executed Cases in the United States”
Thomas Y. Lu: “Dissecting Judicial Reasoning in U.S. Copyright Damage Awards: A Discourse-Based LLM Analysis”
Shao-Man Lee: “Intersectional Moral Biases in Large Language Models: Evidence from the Moral Machine Experiment”
Chanyuan Wang: “What Determines Whether Parties Select Arbitrators? An Empirical Study Based on Case Characteristics”

5:10 p.m. End of Presentations and Closing Ceremony

Yun-chien Chang, Jack G. Clarke Professor in East Asian Law

Dawne Chutkow, Visiting Professor of Law and Executive Editor of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

Valarie Hans, Charles F. Rechlin Professor of Law

Michael Heise, William G. McRoberts Professor in the Empirical

Chang-Ching Lin, Chair & Professor, Department of Economics, National Cheng Kung University

Stewart Schwab, Jonathan and Ruby Zhu Professor of Law

Jed Stiglitz, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Kristen Underhill, Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Professor of Law

Eleanor Wilking, Assistant Professor of Law & Gearns-Russo Family Faculty Fellow

Weimin Zho, Professor, Sichuan University Law School