Clarke Program in East Asia Law & Culture Conference on “Gender Equality in the Legal Profession in East Asia: Empirical Perspectives”

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Monday, April 10, 2023

Yun-chien Chang (Director of the Clarke Program) introductory remarks

Wei Gao: “Gender Equality as a Social Process: Opportunities and Dilemmas of Female Judges in Chinese Courts” Commentator: Kristen Underhill

Xiaohong Yu, co-authored with Zhaoyang Sun: “Gender Norm and Sentencing Disparity in China”
Commentator: Kristin Underhill

Ching-Fang Hsu: “Gender Difference and Disparity: Women in Taiwan’s Legal Profession”
Commentator: Michael Heise

Kyoko Ishida: “Hope in Despair: The Gender Gap in the Legal Profession in Japan”
Commentator: Yun-chien Chang

Yun-chien Chang: “Gender Preference in Testate Succession:
An Empirical Study of Estate Distribution in Wills”
Commentator: Michael Heise

Helene Whalen-Bridge: “Where are We Now? Stories of
Gender Impact in Singapore’s Legal Profession”
Commentator: Stewart Schwab

Hai Jin Park: “Assessing Gender Bias in a Digital
Platform for Lawyers: A Web-based Experiment in South Korea”
Commentator: Stewart Schwab

Yun-chien Chang, Jack G. Clarke Professor in East Asian Law
Wei Gao, Assistant Professor at KoGuan Law School
Michael Heise, William G. McRoberts Professor in the Empirical
Ching-fang Hsu, Assistant Professor at National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Hai Jin Park, Associate Professor at Hanyang University School of Law
Stewart Schwab, Jonathan and Ruby Zhu Professor of Law
Kristen Underhill, Professor of Law
Helena Whalen-Bridge, Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law
Kyoko (Ishida) Yoshimura, Professor at Waseda Law School, Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Xiaohong Yu, Lecturer, Dept. of Political Science, Tsinghua University