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Interdisciplinary research forum on East Asian law and economics
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Status: Active Cluster
Description
Coordinating Faculty
About the Cluster:
The purpose of this project is to continue to cultivate an inclusive, collaborative, and yet openminded interdisciplinary research network to help support faculty and students at Duke and beyond, who have an interest in or would benefit from research in East Asia law and policy with a strong focus on law and economics and related fields. It will provide a safe, inclusive, open, and thought-provoking forum for sharing, discussing, and critiquing their research ideas, methodologies, data sources, and findings and providing timely feedback.
East Asia Law and policy is inherently multidimensional, with researchers from almost all fields related to East Asia, including many of our APSI core faculty members, addressing challenges and issues relating to it. Understanding theories, principles, research methods, data, and other sources available across disciplines, as well as the overall legal and policy framework in the region, would undoubtedly inform the development of each individual field.
For the current year, we are expanding the scope to include research areas such as computational law and data analysis in addition to our initial focus on law and economics. There is a growing need to incorporate data-driven and machine learning methodologies to complement traditional research approaches in law, economics, and the social sciences. As data becomes an increasingly important resource for research, we believe that it is essential to support research involving judicial and legal data across jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific region.
Team
Leaders
- Shitong Qiao
- Daniel Xu
- Alex Zhang