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Brown, Ronald C. 包伦仁

CCS Faculty
Professor of Law

2515 Dole St., Honolulu, HI 96822
Office: Law 241, (808)956-6549
Department: 956-7966
Fax: 956-6402

BS 1965, University of Toledo
JD 1968, University of Toledo
LLM 1970, University of Michigan

Formerly Professor of Law on the Faculty of William and Mary School of Law, Professor Brown joined the faculty at Hawai‘i and has served as Associate Dean and as Director of the Pacific-Asian Legal Studies Program. Professor Brown served as Director of the UH Center for Chinese Studies from 2000 to 2006. Professor Brown's teaching specialties include labor and employment law, employment discrimination law, arbitration, Chinese law and Asia-Pacific comparative labor law. He has authored numerous articles and published a book entitled Understanding Chinese Courts and Legal Process: Law with Chinese Characteristics (Kluwer, 1997), and has a new book, Understanding Labor & Employment Law in China (Cambridge, 2009). Professor Brown has worked in China under the USIA’s professional-in-residence program, has served as a Consultant with the World Bank, and has lectured throughout Asia on comparative labor law topics. He has taught Comparative Labor Law at Beijing and Tsinghua University Law Schools and currently serves as a foreign advisor to Peking University on graduate law programs. He conducts legal exchange and international training programs for Chinese lawyers, judges, law drafters, and prosecutors under arrangements with the key government legal agencies. During 2004–2005, Professor Brown was in China as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, teaching at both Peking University Law School and Tsinghua University Law School.

China-Related Courses

  • Law 520 China-U.S. Comparative Employment Law
  • Law 556 Asian Comparative Labor Law
  • Law 586 Law and Society in China
  • Chinese Law in CBA/JAIMS CHEMBA Program

Publications

  • Understanding Labor & Employment in China (Cambridge 2009).
  • China's Labor Dispute Resolution, (Oxford: Foundation for Law, Justice, and Society, 2008).
  • Understanding Chinese Courts and Legal Process: Law with Chinese Characteristics (Kluwer, 1997).
  • China's New Labor Contract Law, 3 China Law Reporter 4 (July, 2007).
  • Harmonizing Domestic Labor Law Reforms with Global Labor Law Standards, Chapter 10, International Economic Law and China in Its Economic Transition, Huiping Chen (ed) (Chinese Law Series, William S. Hein & Co., Inc. 2007)
  • China's Collective Contract Provisions: Can Collective Negotiations Embody Collective Bargaining? 16 Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 35 (2006).
  • China's Employment Discrimination Laws During Economic Transition, 19 Columbia J. of Asian Law 361 (2006).
  • Globalization and the Law “Global Common Law” Chapter 12, Fairnes, Globalization, and Public Institutions, Dator, Pratt, and Seo (eds) (University of Hawaii Press 2006)