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Randall Peerenboom
Professor of Law
Born Green Bay, Wisconsin, 1958
B.A. University of Wisconsin, 1980
M.A. Chinese Religion, University of Hawaii, 1987
Ph.D. Comparative Philosophy, University of Hawaii, 1990
J.D. Columbia, 1993
UCLA Law faculty since 1998
peerenbo@law.ucla.edu
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Randy Peerenboom teaches courses on International Human Rights, Legal Theory and Chinese Law, including a course on Doing Business in Society and a course on Law & Society.
Before joining the faculty, he spent one year litigating in Hawaii and then four years negotiating international transactions in Beijing with a major international law firm. He continues to be Of Counsel at Yiwen Law Firm, where he advises on various aspects of foreign investment in China. In addition, he often serves as an expert witness on PRC legal issues, and has been a consultant to the Ford Foundation and the Asian Development Bank on legal reforms and rule of law in China.
He has written more than sixty articles and several books on Chinese law and philosophy. His books include The Rights of Asians Today: A Comparative Legal Study of Twelve Asian Countries, France and the U.S. (Randall Peerenboom, Carole Petersen & Albert Chen eds., forthcoming RoutledgeCurzon, 2005); Asian Discourses of Rule of Law: Theories and Implementation of Rule of Law in Twelve Asian Countries, France and the U.S. (ed., RoutledgeCurzon2004); China’s Long March Toward Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2002); Doing Business in China (General Editor with Thomas Jones, Juris Publishing, 2000); Lawyers in China: Obstacles to Independence and the Defense of Rights (Lawyers’ Committee on Human Rights, 1998); Law and Morality in Ancient China: The Silk Manuscripts of Huang-Lao (SUNY Press, 1993).
Current research interests include human rights and legal reforms in China and Asia; administrative detention and criminal law issues; a study of the relationship between rule of law and human rights; and critique of the human rights movement; and a philosophical exploration of a form of Confucian communitarianism as an alternative to western liberal democracy.
