Workshop Program

 

Yale University, Henry R. Luce Hall

34 Hillhouse Avenue

New Haven, Connecticut

 

Sessions to be held in Room 203

 

Friday, 28 March

2:00pm Opening Remarks

 

Frances Rosenbluth, Yale University
Margaret Levi, University of Washington, Seattle

 

2:15pm Session I: Establishing the Rule of Law

“Public Finance and Land Disputes in Rural China” (to be discussed at the workshop)

Susan Whiting, University of Washington, Seattle

"The Role of Law in China's Economic Development" (with Donald Clarke and Peter Murrell) a more comprehensive piece on the relationship between law and economics in contemporary China (a contextual piece; not to be discussed).

 

“How Weak Institutions Can Produce Strong Regimes: Patents, Lawyers and the Improbable Creation
of an Intellectual Property Regime in China, 1985-2007”

Pierre Landry, Yale University

 

“Under What Circumstances Does Law Travel, And Travel Well?”

Iza Hussin, University of Washington, Seattle

 

Discussant: Mat McCubbins, University of California, San Diego

6:30pm Dinner
The Union League Café
1032 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut

 

 

Saturday, 29 March

 

8:30am Continental Breakfast
Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall

 

9:00am Session II: The Rule of Law and the Nature of Government

“Local Determinants of the Enforcement and Defiance of Village Election Laws in China”
Mayling Birney, Princeton University

 

“The Dimensions of the Rule of Law and the Mexican Transition to Democracy”
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Stanford University (co-authored with Beatriz Magaloni)

 

“The Political Origins of “Rule-by-Law” Regimes”
Tamir Moustafa, Simon Fraser University

 

Discussant: Jack Knight, University of Washington, St. Louis

12:00pm Lunch
Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall

 

12:45pm Session III: Why and When Does the Rule of Law Persist?

“Exploring the Longevity of Constitutional Order”
Tom Ginsburg, University of Illinois

 

“The Origins of Institutional Crises in Latin America: A Unified Strategic Model and Test”
Gretchen Helmke, University of Rochester

 

“The Reasons for Compliance with Law”
Margaret Levi, University of Washington, Seattle
Tom Tyler, New York University (co-authored with AUDREY SACKS)

 

Discussant: Robert Nelson, Northwestern University and American Bar Foundation

 

3:45pm Session IV: Reflections and Concluding Remarks