Clarke Program

The Clarke Program brings a broad interdisciplinary and humanistic focus to the study of law in East Asia. Through research, teaching, and scholarly dialogue, it seeks to expand the purview of legal scholarship and to develop new ways of thinking about transnational law, politics, and culture.

The program, funded by a gift to Cornell Law School by Jack and Dorothea Clarke, sponsors a variety of activities and events, including fellowships, conferences, lectures, collaborative research projects, short and long-term scholarly exchanges, and student exchanges.  

The Clarke Program’s mission is to foster collaboration—across disciplines, across cultures, and between established scholars and innovative young researchers—that brings to light new questions, and new answers on subjects of pressing contemporary concern.

Recent News

• The Clarke Program, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the Tobin Project are collaborating to seek a new understanding of global financial markets.  View a description of the 11/6/09 workshop here.
  
• View the Clarke Program Annual Report here.
• The Cornell Law School Library now subscribes to Lexis Japan. To register for a login and password, email Thomas Mills at the Cornell Law Library. To log in, click here.
• The University of Tokyo Press recently published papers from "Hope in Law and the Economy," an international conference co-sponsored by the Clarke Program and University of Tokyo's Institute of Social Science.  The papers were edited by the Institute of Social Science and published as Volume 4 in a four-volume series, Kibogaku (hope studies).
  
• Mori-Hamada-sponsored research by Annelise Riles, Clarke Program Director, and Takashi Uchida, Former Professor of Law at University of Tokyo, was recently cited by Chinese Law Prof Blog.