May 14, 2004

The Paper Chase Comes to China

By JEN LIN-LIU

U.S. universities aid efforts toward Western-style legal education -- and reform

On a cold Sunday afternoon in March, 12 time zones away from home, John H. Laub's voice is about to give out. Mr. Laub, a professor of criminology at the University of Maryland at College Park, has been lecturing to several dozen students about different theories of criminal law since 8 a.m. He is jet-lagged, having arrived in China only 48 hours ago. And even though PowerPoint and a modern projector are

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