Professor Margaret Lewis’s research focuses on the intersection of Chinese legal studies with criminal procedure, criminal law, and international law. She joined Seton Hall Law School as an Associate Professor in 2009.

Professor Lewis is a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and travels frequently to Asia, having recently given presentations at National Taiwan University, Renmin University School of Law, and National University of Singapore, among other universities. Her publications have appeared in the Virginia Journal of International Law, New York University Law Review, and the Asian Journal of Criminology.  

Most recently before joining Seton Hall, Professor Lewis served as a Senior Research Fellow at NYU School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute where she worked on criminal justice reforms in China. Following graduation from law school, she worked as an associate at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York City. She then served as a law clerk for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Diego, California. After clerking, she returned to NYU School of Law where she was awarded a Furman Fellowship.

Professor Lewis received her J.D., magna cum laude, from NYU School of Law, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and was a member of Law Review. She received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Columbia University and also studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China. 

She is a member of the Asian Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar and a board member of the American Friends of Bucerius Law School, one of Germany’s leading law school.

Academic

Book Review – The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia, 11 Punishment & Soc’y __ (forthcoming 2009)

Taiwan’s New Adversarial System and the Overlooked Challenge of Efficiency-Driven Reforms, 49 Va. J. Int’l L. 651 (2009)

China’s Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime,Asian J. of Criminology, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2007), pp. 179-96

Note, An Analysis of State Responsibility for the Chinese-American Airplane Collision Incident, 77 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1404 (2002)

Other Publications

Corruption: Spurring China to Engage in International Law, China Rights Forum, No. 1 (2009), pp. 90-96

Law’s Repeal Raises Bar for Beijing, S. China Morning Post, Jan. 24, 2009, at A11 (with Jerome A. Cohen)

Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition: Human Rights Implications, China Rights Forum, No. 2 (2007), pp. 83-99 Translations

Co-translator, Republic of China, Judicial Yuan, Interpretation No. 636, February 1, 2008 Presentations

The Enduring Importance of Police Repression: “Laojiao,” the Rule of Law and Taiwan’s Alternative Evolution – The Impact of the 1989 Pro-Democracy Movement and its Repression on the Evolution of the Politics, Economy, and International Relations of the PRC, City University, Hong Kong (June 2009)

Plea Bargaining: A Worldwide Trend Comes to China? – Renmin University Law School, Beijing (March 2009)

Learning From the American System of Pre-trial Detention – College of Law, Taiwan National University, Taipei (December 2008)

China’s Re-education Through Labor and Taiwan’s Technical Training Institutions – Thirteenth Annual Timothy A. Gelatt Dialogue on Law and Development in Asia, New York University School of Law (October 2008)

China and the Future of the United Nations Convention against Corruption: The Unresolved Challenge of Implementation – Inaugural Asian Society of International Law Young Scholars Workshop, National University of Singapore (September 2008) (By invitation through competitive selection of 15 abstracts from over 300 submissions)

Taiwan’s Criminal Justice Revolution and Continuing Reforms – Goldstock Criminal Law Seminar, New York University School of Law (April 2008)

China’s Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime – International Conference on Organized Crime in Asia, National University of Singapore (June 2007)