Hilary K. Josephs
Dean's Distinguished Research Scholar of Asian Law
Professor of Law
College of Law
Syracuse University
Biography:
A.B., Radcliffe College
J.D., University of Hawaii
Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor Josephs graduated from Radcliffe College summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She received a Ph.D. in East Asian languages and civilizations with a specialization in Chinese history and literature. Prior to her law teaching career, she clerked for the Supreme Court of Hawaii and spent several years in private practice in New York City as a corporate attorney. She has published articles on labor law, international law, foreign investment, and comparative law. Her publications include the book Labor Law in China (2d ed. 2003). She co-authored The Global Workplace-International and Comparative Employment Law: Cases and Materials (2007). She has served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, American Society of Comparative Law; as Chair, Comparative Law Section, American Association of Law Schools; as External Examiner for the University of Hong Kong Law Department; and as External Reviewer, Hong Kong Research Grants Council. She was elected to membership in the International Academy of Comparative Law in 2000.
Publications:
Articles:
Measuring Progress under China’s Labor Law: Goals, Processes, Outcomes, 30 Comp. Lab. L. & Pol’y J. 373 (2009).
The Global Workplace: International & Comparative Employment Law Cases & Materials (co-authored with Roger Blanpain, Susan Bisom-Rapp, William R. Corbett & Michael J. Zimmer)(2007).
Learning from the Developing World, 14 Kan. J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 231 (2005).
Legal Institutions And Their “Proper” Place In Economic Development: India and
Reconciliation, 18 Emory Int’l L. Rev. 53 (2004).
Labor Law in China: Choice and Responsibility (rev. ed. 2003).
Upstairs: Trade Law; Downstairs, Labor Law, 33 Geo. W. Int’l L. Rev. 849 (2001).
The Upright and the Low-Down: An Examination of Official Corruption in the United States and the People’s Republic of China, 27 Syr. J. Int’l L. & Comm. 269 (2000).
Review of Symeonides et al, Conflict of Laws: American, Comparative, International: Cases and Materials, 60 La. L. Rev. 1123 (2000).
The Multinational Corporation, Integrated International Production, and the U.S. Antidumping Laws, 5 Tulane J. of Int'l & Comp. L. 51 (1997).
Labor Law in a "Socialist Market Economy": The Case of China, 33 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 559 (1995).
(With D. Harvey & M. Landergan), Independence for Tibet: An International Law Analysis, 8 China L. Rep. 21 (1995).
Defamation, Invasion of Privacy, and the Press in the People's Republic of China, 11 UCLA Pac. Basin L.J. 191(1993).
The Chinese Democracy Movement in U.S. Perspective, 10 UCLA Pac. Basin L.J. 285 (1992).
Labor Law in China: Choice and Responsibility (Butterworth Legal Publishers: 1990).
Labor Reform in the Workers' State: The Chinese Experience, 2 J. of Chinese L. 201 (1988).
Books:
LABOR LAW IN CHINA: CHOICE AND RESPONSIBILITY (Butterworth, 1990)
Han Minzhu ed. CRIES FOR DEMOCRACY (1990) (contributor).
Tahirih V. Lee ed., CONTRACT, GUANXI, AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN
CHINA (1997) (contributor).