Event

6:00pm - Panel

7:00pm -Town Hall webcast on U.S.-China Relations

Pre-webcast Panel, featuring:

• Ira Belkin, Executive Director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute: Prior to joining the Institute in September 2012, Belkin served as a program officer at the Ford Foundation in Beijing, where he worked on law and rights issues. His grant-making supported Chinese institutions working to build the Chinese legal system, to strengthen the rule of law and to enhance the protection of citizens’ rights, especially the rights of vulnerable groups. Prior to joining the foundation in 2007, Belkin combined a career as an American lawyer and federal prosecutor with a deep interest in China, and spent seven years working to promote the rule of law in China. 
• Amy Gadsden, Executive Director of Penn Global: Dr. Gadsden will be leaving her current post of associate dean for Strategic and International Initiatives in the Penn Law School. She is highly experienced in global research and policy, especially related to China, including work earlier in her career at the International Republican Institute and the US Department of State.  For the past year, she has also overseen the Law School’s cross-disciplinary programs. She has extensive experience at the University of Pennsylvania, having worked at the Law School since 2009 and earned her PhD in history in 2005, with a dissertation on the rule of law in early 20th century China
• Jacques deLisle, Director of the Center for East Asian Studies: Jacques deLisle’s research and teaching focus on contemporary Chinese law and politics, including: legal reform and its relationship to economic reform and political change in China, the international status of Taiwan and cross-Strait relations, China’s engagement with the international order, legal and political issues in Hong Kong under Chinese rule, and U.S.-China relations. His writings on these subjects appear in a variety of fora, including international relations journals, edited volumes of multidisciplinary scholarship, and Asian studies journals, as well as law reviews. DeLisle is also professor of political science, director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Penn, deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China and director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He has served frequently as an expert witness on issues of P.R.C. law and government policies and is a consultant, lecturer and advisor to legal reform, development and education programs, primarily in China.

Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.) was the 39th President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981. Under Carter’s leadership, on January 1, 1979, the United States established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. In 1982, he became University Distinguished Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and founded The Carter Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that addresses national and international issues of public policy. Since leaving office, President Carter has visited China 12 times, including most recently in September 2014.

The National Committee on United States-China Relations is the leading national, non-partisan public affairs organization devoted exclusively to building constructive and durable relationships between the United States and China.

* Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Contemporary China and the Foreign Policy Research Institute