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Margaret K. Lewis

Associate Professor of Law

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Professor Margaret K. Lewis, Presuming Innocence, or Corruption, in China at Case Western Reserve Law's School Faculty Colloquium.

Prof. Margaret K. Lewis guest blogged on IntLawGrrls.

Prof. Margaret K. Lewis, panelist at Sentencing in Capital Cases in China and the United States, Evidence Law Research Institute, Northwest University of Politics and Law, Xi'an.

Prof. Margaret K. Lewis, panelist at Chinese Criminal Procedure Law Reform: What it Means for Defense Lawyers, The Procuratorate, and Evidence Heard at Trial, Science of Criminal Law Institute, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai campus.

Prof. Margaret K. Lewis, panelist at Conference On Human Rights Development in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, Taipei Bar Association and Taiwan Association for Human Rights, Taipei.

Prof. Margaret K. Lewis, National Committee on US-China Relations' Annual Town Hall, Cranford.

Prof. Margaret K. Lewis, discussant on  Mike McConville’s book Criminal Justice in China, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Prof. Margaret K. Lewis, panelist at China's Quest for Justice, Timothy A. Gelatt Dialogue on the Rule of Law in Asia, NYU Law School.

National Association of Women Judges Annual Conference, Seton Hall Law, October 14 and 15.

Prof. Lori A. Nessel, panel on Prevention of Human Trafficking.

Prof. Linda Fisher and Prof. Shavar D. Jeffries, panel on Foreclosure Crisis, Access to Education, Prisoner Reentry.

Prof. Kevin B. Kelly and Prof. Jessica Miles, panel on Domestic Violence Issues.

Prof. Lori A. Nessel and Prof. Margaret K. Lewis, panel on Immigration Considerations in Your Courtroom.

Prof. Michael Risinger, panel on Daubert Issues.

Professor Margaret K. Lewis, guest blogging on Concurring Opinions this month.

Professor Margaret K. Lewis, at a roundtable on Current Conditions for Human Rights Defenders and Lawyers in China, and Implications for U.S. Policy at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Washington.

Professor Margaret K. Lewis, panelist on Hooligans at the Conference on Criminal Justice and Taiwan's Constitutional Court, NYU Law School and National Taiwan University, NYC, April 1-2nd.

Professor Margaret Lewis, The Role of Law in China's Strained "Harmonious Society" for the Oregon World Affairs Council, Northwest China Council, and University of Oregon.

Professor Margaret Lewis quoted in the Jan. 9th Los Angeles Times regarding an Orange County businessman who is not being allowed to leave China without resolving a contract dispute.

Professor Margaret K. Lewis, commentator at the Winston Lord Roundtable on Asia, the Rule of Law, and U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City. The topic is Law and Taiwan's Democratic Development.

Professor Margaret Lewis, Criminal Justice Reform In China, University of Tennessee College of Law Faculty Colloquium.

Professor Margret Lewis, speaker, Conference on The Comparative Study of East Asian Criminal Penalty Systems at the College of Criminal Law Science, Beijing Normal University.

Professor Margaret Lewis, review, David T. Johnson & Franklin E. Zimring, The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia in 12 Punishment and Society No. 1

Professor Margaret Lewis, presenter, The Exclusionary Rule in China at Columbia Law School's Colloquium on Chinese Law and Society.

Professor Margaret Lewis, opening speaker, Regulation Difficulties with Trade and Intellectual Property at Rutgers Law School's Symposium on Human and Economic Dimensions of the Law in Asia.

Professor Margaret Lewis, The Exclusionary rule in China at Marquette Law School as part of our Junior Scholar's Exchange.

Professor Margaret Lewis, The Exclusionary Rule and Police Behavior: Developments in the PRC and Taiwan at Legal Reform in China at Washington University.

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Margaret K. Lewis

Associate Professor of Law

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. Her recent publications have appeared in the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, Columbia Journal of Asian Law, and Virginia Journal of International Law. 

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. After clerking, she returned to NYU School of Law and 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.

PUBLICATIONS

LAW REVIEW ARTICLES


Presuming Innocence, or Corruption, in China, 50 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. (forthcoming 2012)

The Tension Between Leniency and Severity in China's Death Penalty Debate, 24 Colum. J. Asian L. (forthcoming 2011) (invited submission)

Controlling Abuse to Maintain Control: The Exclusionary Rule in China, 43 N.Y.U. J. Int'l. L. & Pol. 629 (2011) (awarded Jerome A. Cohen Prize for International Law and East Asia)

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

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

OTHER JOURNAL ARTICLES


China's Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Asian J. of Criminology, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2007)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS


Report of the Mission to China of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 48 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 519 (2010) (with Jerome A. Cohen et al.)

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

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

International Law Takes Center Stage in Legal Education, Nat'l L.J. (September 7, 2009)

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

Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition: Human Rights Implications, China Rights Forum, No. 2 (2007)

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS


The Enduring Importance of Police Repression: Laojiao, the Rule of Law and Taiwan's Alternative Evolution, in The Impact of China's 1989 Tienanmen Massacre (Routledge, 2010) (with Jerome A. Cohen)

BOOK REVIEWS


David T. Johnson & Franklin E. Zimring, The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia, 11 Punishment & Soc'y 109 (2010)

PRESENTATIONS


On Becoming a Lawyer (Keynote Speaker), Seton Hall University School of Law Orientation (August 2011)

Congressional Executive Commission Roundtable, Current Conditions for Human Rights Defenders and Lawyers in China, and Implications for U.S. Policy (Panelist), Washington, DC (June 2011)

Prosecuting Corruption and the Presumption of Innocence – Criminal Justice in China: Comparative Perspectives, Centre for Rights and Justice, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong (May 2011)

Review and Suggestions for Taiwan’s Criminal Procedure Reform, Presentation to the Judicial Yuan, Taipei, Taiwan (May 2011)

The Role of Law in China’s Strained ‘Harmonious Society’, Oregon World Affairs Council (co-sponsored by the Northwest China Council and University of Oregon), Portland, Oregon (February 2011)

Criminal Justice Reform in China, Faculty Colloquium, University of Tennessee College of Law (September 2010)

Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: A Round Table on China’s Legal System Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Jerome A. Cohen, NYU School of Law (September 2010)

The Exclusionary Rule in a State of Flux: China, Taiwan, and the United States, Colloquium on Chinese Law and Society, Columbia University (April 2010)

Developments in Criminal Justice in China: The Exclusionary Rule, Faculty Colloquium, Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee (April 2010)

Second Sino-American Dialogue on the Rule of Law and Human Rights (Dialogue Participant), National Committee on United States-China Relations, Beijing and Xiamen (December 2010)

China and the Law of the Sea: Theory and Practice (Commentator), The Winston Lord Roundtable on Asia, the Rule of Law, and U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations, New York (October 2010)

The Exclusionary Rule in China, Workshop on Chinese Legal Reform, Yale Law School (October 2010)

Law and Taiwan’s Democratic Development (Commentator), The Winston Lord Roundtable on Asia, the Rule of Law, and U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations, New York (September 2010)

Prosecutors in the United States: The Challenges of Federalism and Discretion, Taiwan National University, Taipei (June 2010)

The Comparative Study of East Asian Criminal Penalty Systems (Panel Chair), New York University School of Law & Beijing Normal University School of Law, Beijing (May 2010)