Theme: Employment Law and Economics

Speaker: Stewart J. Schwab, Professor and Dean of Cornell University

Host: Ling Bin (Associate Professor of PKULC)

Reviewer: Ye Jingyi (Professor of PKULC)

Yu Xingzhong (Associate Professor of Cornell University)

Guo Li (Professor of PKULC)

Xie Zengyi (Associate Researcher of CASS Institute)

Li Haiming(Lecture in Law School of Central University of Finance)

Time: 15:00-17:00, October 17th ,2013

Venue: Room 303, Koguan Building of PKU Law School

Language: English (with Chinese translation)

Organizer: PKU Law School

Employment Law and Social Security Law Institute of PKULS

Economic Law Institute of Peking University ( Economic Law &

Development Academy of PKU)

Appendix 1: Speaker Profile

Professional Biography

Stewart J. Schwab was appointed the Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School on January 1, 2004. He has been a member of the Cornell Law School faculty since 1983. A native of North Carolina, he obtained his J.D. as well as a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan. After Law School, Dean Schwab clerked for Judge Phillips of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and then for Justice Sandra Day O‘Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. Dean Schwab is a leading scholar in economic analysis of law and in employment law. He is currently a Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Employment Law, and in 2008 was named by Human Resource Executive as one of the 50 most powerful employment attorneys in America. Professor Schwab is a popular teacher, having taught many courses in the curriculum, including Torts, Contracts, Corporations, Employment Law, Labor Law, and Empirical Legal Studies, among others.

Education

B.A., Swarthmore College, 1975

M.A., University of Michigan, 1978

J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 1980

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1981

Appendix 2: Peking University Social Law Forum Introduction

"PKU Social Law Forum"is organized by Peking University irregularly, and it is supported by PKU Law School Jia Junling Social Law Academic Fund ,hosted by Peking University Law School Labor Law and Social Security Law Institute. The forum is designed to demonstrate the theory and practice of social law and frontier exploration results of social law, including but not limited to academic conferences, lectures.

Translated by: Zhao Zijie

Edited by: Zhou Yingzi