Sida Liu
@ProfLiuSida
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Professor of Law and Sociology @HKULaw , Director @CCPL_HKULaw . Researching and writing on Chinese law, professions, and social spaces.
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Finally got a copy of this forgotten classic of the Chicago School.
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Yesterday I discovered Goffman’s 1980 interview in which he called himself “a structural functionalist” and criticized Blumer’s symbolic interactionism as a “primitive approach” that doesn’t go anywhere. Studying sociological theory is fun!
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In 2022-2023, I’m serving as Chair of Section on Sociology of Law
@SocLawSection
at the American Sociological Association
@ASAnews
. Check out our section’s brand new website here (made by
@ashleytrubin
):
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On Monday August 8, at 4:00-5:30pm, Lily Liang and I will present our new paper “Suzhi: Distinction and Discrimination in a Rapidly Changing China” in the Frontiers of Global Theorizing session.
#ASA2022
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My coauthored book The Asian Law & Society Reader (with Lynette Chua & David Engel) is being published this month! Join us for the hybrid book launch event at
@nus_law
at 10-11:30am, March 7 (SGT), with four distinguished speakers commenting on the Reader.
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I’ve been teaching a reading-intensive undergrad theory course Law and Social Theory
@UTM
for several years and most students struggle in it. But today I received this feedback on the course from a former student who just got into grad school and it really made my day.
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I gave a zoom presentation on “How to quit Bourdieu?” 《如何戒掉布迪厄？》 two years ago and now it is published in Tsinghua Social Sciences:
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I’m shocked and deeply saddened by the passing of Prof. Lauren Edelman. Laurie is not only a legendary sociolegal scholar but also the most helpful & caring senior colleague in the field. She supported me at some critical moments of my career and I’m forever grateful. R.I.P. 🙏
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Got the page proofs of my favorite book chapter today. Can’t wait to see it out in print in Vol. 2 of the epic Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies in 2022!
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My new paper with Sitao Li
@li_sitao
"How to Do Empirical Legal Studies without Numbers?" will be published in the Hong Kong Law Journal (Vol. 53) soon. We demonstrate how a "scientific turn" in the 2010s has made empirical legal research in China almost exclusively about
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It was a pleasure visiting the Yale-NUS College today and presenting my work in progress on the career mobility of Hong Kong lawyers. What a beautiful campus and an exciting group of young scholars!
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Congrats to my
@UofT_Sociology
student Eduardo Cornelius for publishing his first article in the Law & Society Review! -- "Discursive mismatch and globalization by stealth: The fight against corruption in the Brazilian legal field."
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Warm congratulations to Dr. Di Wang
@deediwang
for successfully defending her PhD dissertation
@UWSoc
today! We’re all so proud of you!
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I am excited to visit Shenzhen for the first time in 16 years and give a talk this evening
@PKUSTL
on the internationalization journey of Chinese law firms.
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Just had a great panel discussion on our forthcoming book The Asian Law & Society Reader at the ALSA 2022 meeting. Many thanks to
@ssballakrishnen
, Kwai Ng & George Radics for the insightful comments!
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The 2022 Asian Law and Society Association annual meeting has just begun in Hanoi, Vietnam. The ALSA President Lynette Chua is giving the presidential address.
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This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending the 2023 Law and Social Sciences annual conference in Kunming, my father’s hometown. This year’s conference theme is legal anthropology in China and there were many exciting presentations, especially from junior scholars. I also
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My article with
@JuanWangPoliSci
"Ordering Power under the Party: A Relational Approach to Law and Politics in China" was one of the most cited
@AsianJofLS
articles in the past 5 years!
Google Scholar's 2022 scholar metrics have been released. Check out
@AsianJofLS
's most cited articles in the past five years (2017-2021):
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Congratulations to
@UofT_Sociology
student and my coauthor
@TsuiPamela
for winning the
@ASAnews
2023 Best Graduate Student Paper in the Sociology of Sexualities Award!
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It feels awesome to receive two excellent new books from friends on the same day. Both are from ethnography-based dissertations and took the authors many years to complete!
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This past weekend I attended the 8th Chinese Sociology of Law Annual Conference in Changchun. Really enjoyed learning from scholars and students who are doing cutting-edge research on judicial reforms, legal consciousness, law and data science, and many other fascinating topics!
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A special issue on labor law in China, edited by my co-editor Mary Gallagher
@MaryGao
, has been published in Volume 7, Issue 2 of the China Law and Society Review (CLSR). It consists of two articles written by leading Chinese labor law scholars, Chang Kai and Dong Baohua. Check
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On May 25 (Wednesday), at 8:00-9:15pm HKT/8:00-9:15am EDT, I'll present a work in progress on the career paths of Hong Kong lawyers at two historical turning points at the Sociology Department
@UM_1981
. Zoom link here:
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The China Law and Society Review, a peer-reviewed sociolegal journal hosted at
@HKULaw
, is now welcoming submissions from scholars and students working on Chinese law-related topics. See Call for Papers here:
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! The China Law & Society Review, edited by
@donaldcclarke
@MaryGao
@ProfLiuSida
& Susan Trevaskes, is now welcoming submissions for its upcoming issues.
Guidelines:
Submit here:
CLSR:
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Excited to introduce the forthcoming special issue of the China Law and Society Review on the Chinese procuratorate, with three excellent articles by Grace Mou, Lin Xifen & Wu Wanqiang, and
@miket_32
! Check them out here:
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Three
@UofT_Sociology
faculty members (Ronit Dinovitzer,
@ronleviutoronto
& myself) have been elected as the Chair of the
@SocLawSection
in five years. This must be an ASA record. Congrats, Ron!
Professor Ron Levi from the University of Toronto Sociology Department has been elected as the Chair-Elect for the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association. Ron will serve in 2022-3 as Chair-Elect and in 2023-24 as Chair. Congratulations Ron!
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Two talks in Beijing this week: 1) “The Legal Profession’s Spatial Mobility” at Tsinghua University; 2) “University Education and the Future of Knowledge” at Beijing Sanlian Bookstore.
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It's my great honour to write the first blog post for
@SocLawSection
's "Law in Action" blog! Check it out here:
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I’m flying to LA tomorrow but I still completed the ASA COVID-19 daily wellness check for today…can’t wait for my first in-person conference trip since March 2020!
#ASA2022
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I’ll give two talks at Zhejiang University Guanghua Law School next week. Looking forward to seeing many colleagues and friends in Hangzhou!
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Happy Lunar New Year! (With two lovely greeting cards from
@HKULaw
&
@HKUniversity
Social Sciences)
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This weekend, at 9-11am 5/15 Sunday Beijing time/9-11pm 5/14 Saturday EDT, I will give a virtual talk on "The Social Spaces of Law" at my alma mater
@PKU1898
. Live broadcast link:
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It was great presenting a draft of my new paper with Gihad Nasr - "On Drifting Apart" - at CSA annual conference today, in a wonderful panel titled "Sociology of Space, Place, and Time". Lots of food for thought from Q&A.
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My Chinese article "Social Spaces: From Georg Simmel to Erving Goffman" is published in 《社会学研究》 now. It is open access and PDF can be downloaded from the journal's official website:
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I’ll give an in-person talk at the Division of Social Science at HKUST tomorrow:
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Congratulations to my
@UofT_Sociology
student Sitao Li for publishing his first article "Face-work in Chinese routine criminal trials" in the Law & Society Review!
@law_soc
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On Feb 27, at 11:30am HKT, I’ll present a new social theory paper, “On Drifting Apart,” at the University of Macau
@UM_Sociology
. It’s a hybrid talk and all are welcome to join.
Join us on Feb 27 11:30 am for Prof. Liu Sida's talk "On Drifting Apart". See more below.
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For the past 4 years I've been using law firm partner mobility data from the Hong Kong Lawyer journal to study lawyers' professional careers. Now I am deeply honoured to have the opportunity to report some of our preliminary findings in the same journal:
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Exciting news from
@ASAnews
-- my coauthored paper with Lily Liang, "Suzhi: Distinction and Discrimination in a Rapidly Changing China", got into the Theory Section's "Frontiers of Global Theorizing" session!
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On April 24, at 4:00-5:30pm HKT,
@HKULaw
will hold a book launch event for The Asian Law & Society Reader. We’ve invited five sociolegal scholars in HK, Macau & Shanghai to comment on the Reader. Please join us in person or on Zoom!
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Salmon run at Old Mill. If you look closely enough you can actually spot a salmon trying to jump up the dam!
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At SFO airport, waiting for my first flight out of North America since 2019. Looking forward to attending the TRIALS Workshop 3
@nus_law
in Singapore next week!
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The rising dominance of inequality research is a tragic development for American sociology. It makes the discipline narrow, intolerant, and boring.
I love you, sociologists, but do *all* of us have to work on inequality?
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2022 ALSA award ceremony - my
@HKULaw
colleague
@shahlafali
is presenting the distinguished book award.
@LokaneetaJinee
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Volume 6 of the China Law and Society Review has been published, including the first issue on the procuratorate and the second issue on law and technology. Open access articles by
@pepperblackcat
@China_Digital
@Strat122
:
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My JPO article with Daniel Blocq, Ali Honari & Anson Au, "Professional Flows: Lateral Moves of Law Firm Partners in Hong Kong, 1994–2018", is published online now. It took us 3 years to do this research, and I'm thrilled to see it out!
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Great discussions at the
@CALS_NUS
book launch event today. Many thanks to our commentators, moderator
@georgeradics
,
@MatthewErie
and others who offered insights on the status and future of Asian law & society scholarship!
[CALS] "The Asian Law & Society Reader" Book Launch
7 March 2023 (Tuesday), 10.00am to 11.30am (SGT)
Register:
Get the book : (enter the discount code "TALSR22" at checkout).
#calsnus
#booklaunch
#asianlawandsociety
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So wonderful to see and talk to so many friends and colleagues working on Chinese empirical legal studies! We also had a large audience on Zoom from around the world (but they missed the exquisite food and beautiful view
@HKUniversity
).
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Finished TRIALS Workshop 3 with an incredible amount of good food (for thought and for stomach). Many thanks to our hosts Lynette Chua, David Engel &
@CALS_NUS
- I even got a certificate from them!
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At 10-11:30am Tuesday, please join our session “Becoming a sociologist of law”, featuring
@ellenberrey
@ashleytrubin
Emily Ryo, Elizabeth Chiarello & Kwai Hang Ng and aiming at giving advice to younger generations of sociologists interested in the
@SocLawSection
!
#ASA2022
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My review of Dezalay & Garth's new book Law as Reproduction and Revolution is out on FirstView
@LSI_Journal
. It's open access: Legal Elites and the Fading History of Global Legal Imperialism
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Our “Lawyers and State Transformations” session is at 2:45-4:30pm this afternoon. Come join us!
#LSA2023
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Many thanks to
@CSLSatBerkeley
for hosting a book event for The Asian Law & Society Reader yesterday. We had a stimulating discussion and it was wonderful to see many friends in the Bay Area!
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The Asian Law & Society Reader, now available on Amazon:
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Check out our
@HKULaw
Global Academic Fellow &
@ccplhku
Fellow Jiahui Duan's new
@LSI_Journal
article on sexual harassment in China -- Sexual Harassment in Irregular Chinese Workplaces: Business Dinners, Team-Building Activities, and Social Media
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I spoke with
@SCMPNews
on the potential risks of Article 34 of the proposed Public Security Administration Punishments Law. Its vague expressions of “national feelings” could be abused by street-level police officers in everyday law enforcement.
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My talk
@PKU1898
this Friday (10/27): “The City and the North: Canada in the Chicago School of Sociology.”
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Excited to return to
@nus_law
to participate in the “Legal Professionals and Conservatism in Asia” workshop, a joint project by
@HKULaw
@nus_law
@MelbLawSchool
.
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My new article in the Chinese Journal of Comparative Law -- The Decline of Two Forces in Chinese Law and Governance
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Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies, Vol. 2: Comparisons and Theories is out in print! It was my honour to contribute a theory chapter "Between Rules and Power" to this collective effort by leading scholars in the field. Check out the book here:
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For those who like empty streets in Hong Kong, this is Causeway Bay on Sunday. Sorry to disappoint you.
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“The Rule-of-Law Myth and Its Advocates,” my review of Professor Andrew Boon’s new book Lawyers and the Rule of Law, is now published in
@OxfordCSLS
’s Frontier of Socio-Legal Studies:
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Last week I participated in the TRIALS workshop
@nus_law
that Lynette Chua & David Engel organized and it was my most rewarding Zoom conference experience in 2021. The future of law & society research in Asia is bright!
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I was an ABF doctoral fellow 15 years ago and it changed my life as a law and society scholar. Please apply!
Are you or do you know a doctoral student or postdoc looking for a research fellowship? The ABF is currently accepting applications for several two-yr fellowships aimed at fostering the next gen. of law and society scholars. Apply by 1⃣/1⃣7⃣.
#academicjobs
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