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2007 Graduate Student Paper Competition AnnouncementAuthor(s): Anya Bernstein, Cheng-Yi Huang and Leandra ZarnowSource: Law & Social Inquiry, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Summer, 2007)Published by: Wiley on behalf of the American Bar FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20108718 .

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2007 Graduate Student Paper Competition Announcement We are pleased to announce the results of Law and Social Inquiry's 2007

Graduate Student Paper Competition. The co-winners are: Anya Bernstein

(PhD candidate, Anthropology Department, University of Chicago), Cheng Yi Huang (JSD candidate, University of Chicago Law School), and Leandra

Zarnow (PhD candidate, Department of History, University of California?Santa

Barbara). The Editors offer their sincere congratulations to all three authors.

The winning papers will be published during 2008 in a forthcoming issue of the Journal. In the meantime, we are pleased to take this opportunity to honor and acknowledge our winning authors and to supply readers with

the abstracts of their papers as a foretaste of what to expect.

The Social Life of Regulation in the Taipei City Government

Anya Bernstein

Looking at the role of law in the work of administrators in the Taipei, Taiwan city government, I find that laws play an important role in the self

presentation of state agencies to the international community. But in the

actual work of administration, legality is a relatively slight, and a relatively

morally devalued, factor. State action is generally figured in the same terms

as other social action?held up to an ideal of consensus and cultural coherence

and judged by its ability to fulfill obligations and nurture ongoing relationships. This research has implications for our understanding of democracy's many

different manifestations, while also making a methodological contribution

to an interculturally portable conception of the legal consciousness.

Enacting the "Incomprehensible China": International Circulation of Legal

Knowledge and Japanese Reconstruction of the Qing Empire, 1903-1915

Cheng-Yi Huang

Japanese colonialism, since its debut at the end of the nineteenth

century, had a great ambition to reformulate Chinese law and politics. One

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of the monumental works undertaken by the Japanese colonial government in Taiwan, The Administrative Law of the Qing Empire (Shinkoku Gy seih), functioned to advise the Chinese government on how it should modernize

its law and politics. In this paper, I examine the hybridized legal analysis in

The Administrative Law of the Qing Empire and articulate how it reconstructed

the Chinese politico-juridical order through the lens of modern European

jurisprudence. In addition, I examine how the Japanese legal scholars who

produced The Administrative Law of the Qing Empire located their cultural

identity in the process of reinterpreting imperial Chinese law. My analysis

helps to identify not only the political ambition of the Japanese project of

civilizing China, but also, through it, Western legal knowledge's hidden

epistemological colonization of East Asia. In general, the enterprise of

Japanese legal reconstruction in the early twentieth century helps us to

rethink the legal sensibilities that were lost in the process of transnational

reinterpretation of both imperial Chinese law and modern European law.

In the process of illuminating the previous century's structural transformation

of East Asian law, the paper reveals a multifaceted confrontation of worlds

of meaning.

Braving Jim Crow to Save Willie McGee: Bella Abzug and the Fight for Civil Rights, 1948-1951

Leandra Zarnow

This article considers the role of Bella Abzug, lead counsel for Willie

McGee from 1948-1951, in shaping the legal defense of this Mississippi rape case during the appeals process. Arguably the greatest cause celebr? of the

American Left since Scottsboro, no case left a more indelible mark on Abzug than representation of McGee. Equally so, Abzug's race- and sex-based argu

ment expressed most vividly beginning in 1950, reshaped McGee's legal defense by exposing the sexual color line at the heart of this Southern rape case argued at the height of Jim Crow and the domestic Cold War. The

article contends that Abzug's decision to bring her client's assertion that he

had a consensual interracial relationship with his accuser, white woman

Wiletta Hawkins, into the legal record, was her greatest contribution to civil

rights legal discourse. In so doing, she urged the courts, as well as liberal

civil rights lawyers, albeit unsuccessfully, to pursue a more radical civil rights

agenda than outlawing public segregation, as ultimately achieved in Brown

v. Board of Education.

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