Sasakawa Peace Foundation - USA

About the Panelists

Main Speaker

Mr. Yasuaki Onuma is Professor of International Law, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Law and Politics. He holds an LL.D. from the Graduate School of Law, University of Tokyo. Mr. Onuma’s book Jinekn, kokka, bunmei (Human Rights, States and Civilizations (1998) is presently being translated into English and Chinese. The English version will be published by Columbia UP, and the Chinese version by Sanlian Publishing House in Peking. Both will be publishedprobably this year (2001). Other English language publications include "Towards an Inter-civilizational Approach to Human Rights," in Joanne Bauer and Daniel Bell, eds., The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999).

Discussants

Dr. James V. Feinerman is James M. Morita Professor of Asian Legal Studies, and Director, Asian Law and Policy Studies at Georgetown University. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale and a J.D. from Harvard. Dr. Feinerman is dedicated to the study of international and comparative law, especially China, Japan and Asia, corporations, and corporate finance. Professor Feinerman joined the Law Center faculty as a visiting professor for the 1985-86 academic year. Immediately after law school he studied in the People's Republic of China. Subsequently, he joined the New York firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell as a corporate associate. During 1982-83, Professor Feinerman was Fulbright Lecturer on Law at Peking University. In 1986, he was a Fulbright researcher in Japan. In 1989, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship to study China's practice of international law. During the 1992-93 academic year, he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. From 1993-95, on leave from the Law Center, Professor Feinerman was the Director of the Committee on Scholarly Communications with China. Professor Feinerman served as Editor-in-Chief of the ABA's China Law Reporter from 1986-1998.

Ms. Catharin Dalpino is Deputy Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies and a Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she researches and writes on U.S. policy responses to political change in Asia. Her specialty is domestic Chinese political affairs. Ms. Dalpino was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (1993 -97). Prior to 1993, Ms. Dalpino was a career officer with The Asia Foundation (1983-93). Her assignments with the Foundation included a term as its Washington Representative (1992-93); Washington Director of the Foundation's Center for Asian-Pacific Affairs (1991-92); the Foundation's Representative for Thailand, Laos and Cambodia (1988-90); and Coordinator for the Luce Scholars Program (1986 -88). Ms. Dalpino was also a Resident Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1990-91), and a Policy Analyst with the World Bank (1981-82). Two of her recent books include Anchoring Third Wave Democracies: Problems and Prospects for U.S. Policy (Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, 1998) and Deferring Democracy: Promoting Openness in Authoritarian Regimes (Brookings, 2000). The latter book concerns political change in China and policy options for the United States. In 2001 Brookings will publish her book on the political consequences of the Asian economic crisis. She is presently researching a book on the political dynamics of cross Straits relations. Ms. Dalpino is Adjunct Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University.

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