Benjamin L. Liebman
Encyclopedia
Benjamin L. Liebman is the Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law and the director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School
. He is widely regarded as one of the world's pre-eminent scholars of contemporary Chinese law. He is the son of Lance Liebman
and Carol B. Liebman. He is the brother of Jeffrey B. Liebman.
Columbia Law School
Columbia Law School, founded in 1858, is one of the oldest and most prestigious law schools in the United States. A member of the Ivy League, Columbia Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Columbia University in New York City. It offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in...
. He is widely regarded as one of the world's pre-eminent scholars of contemporary Chinese law. He is the son of Lance Liebman
Lance Liebman
Lance Liebman is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the current Director of the American Law Institute. He received his B.A. from Yale University 1962, grauduating summa cum laude, and earned a M.A. in history from Cambridge University in 1964. He graduated magna...
and Carol B. Liebman. He is the brother of Jeffrey B. Liebman.
Education
- B.A., Yale UniversityYale UniversityYale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
1991 - B.A., University of OxfordUniversity of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
1993 - J.D., Harvard Law SchoolHarvard Law SchoolHarvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...
1998
Positions
- Robert L. Leiff Professor of Law and Director, Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School, 2011-
- Professor of Law and Director, Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School, 2007-2011
- Associate Professor of Law and Director, Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School
- Sullivan & Cromwell, London, 2000-2002
- Law Clerk, Justice David H. Souter, Supreme Court of the United StatesSupreme Court of the United StatesThe Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...
, 1999-2000 - Law Clerk, Judge Sandra Lynch, United States Court of AppealsUnited States court of appealsThe United States courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal court system...
, First Circuit, Boston, 1997-1998 - Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York and BeijingBeijingBeijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
, Summer 1997 - Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social SciencesChinese Academy of Social SciencesThe Chinese Academy of Social Sciences , established in 1977, is the premier and highest academic research organization in the fields of philosophy and social sciences as well as a national center for comprehensive studies in the People's Republic of China. It was described by Foreign Policy...
, Beijing, Summer 1996 - Attorney, Coudert BrothersCoudert BrothersCoudert Brothers LLP was a New York-based law firm with a strong international outlook that practiced from 1853 until its dissolution in 2006.-History:...
, Beijing, 1994-1995