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Nick Pozek is Assistant Director at the Parker School of Foreign & Comparative Law at Columbia University

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Law July 20, 2021

Heritage Politics in China

The Power of the Past

Yujie Zhu and Christina Maags

Hosted by Nick Pozek
Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past (Routledge, 2020) studies the impact of heritage policies and discourses on the Chinese state and Chinese society. It sheds light on the …
Law February 25, 2021

Protecting Art in the Street

A Guide to Copyright in Street Art and Graffiti

Enrico Bonadio

Hosted by Nick Pozek
There has recently been a sharp increase in cases where corporations have been sued by street and graffiti artists because their artworks had been used and exploited without the artists’ …
Law January 11, 2021

Reinventing Bankruptcy Law

A History of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act

Virginia Torrie

Hosted by Nick Pozek
Reinventing Bankruptcy Law: A History of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (University of Toronto Press, 2020) explodes conventional wisdom about the history of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and in its …
Law January 8, 2021

Entertaining Entrepreneurs

Reality TV's Shark Tank and the American Dream in Uncertain Times

Daniel Horowitz

Hosted by Nick Pozek
The Great Recession threatened the well-being of tens of millions of Americans, dramatically weakened the working class, hollowed out the middle class, and strengthened the position of the very wealthy …
Law November 10, 2020

Queering Law and Order

LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System

Kevin Leo Nadal

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Throughout US history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of lynching, burning, or murdering of LGBTQ people have been documented for …
Law October 5, 2020

Feeding the Dragon

Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, and American Business

Chris Fenton

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For seventeen years, Chris Fenton served as the president of DMG Entertainment Motion Picture Group, a multi-billion-dollar global media company headquartered in Beijing. He has produced or supervised twenty-one films …
East Asian Studies September 21, 2020

Rebel City

Hong Kong's Year of Water and Fire

Zuraidah Ibrahim and Jeffie Lam

Hosted by Nick Pozek
In June of 2019, a proposed amendment to Hong Kong’s Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, sparked widespread protests across the region. Protestors saw in the bill a threat to the judicial independence …