November 15, 2022
The East Asian Studies Department is hosting Ke Li to hold a lecture with a Q&A for our first Flaherty Lecture of the year.
Ke Li is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the John Jay College of the City University of New York. Her research focuses on law, legal professions, courts, women’s rights, and contentious politics in contemporary China. After receiving a joint Ph.D. in sociology and criminal justice at Indiana University, Bloomington, Ke turned her research into articles, published in the Law & Society Review, Law & Policy, the China Law and Society Review, and Sociological Forum.
Recently, Ke published a book, Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China (Stanford University Press 2022). Using data from multiple sources—participant observations, interviews, j udicial statistics, government publications, and news articles—this book shows how women’s legal mobilization and rights contention can forge new ground for our understanding of law and politics, culture and the state, and power and inequality in an authoritarian context.
Her lecture will discuss topics discussed in her book of the same name.
Further information
- Location: Stern Great Room
- Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Cost: Free