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Ronald C. Brown |
Ronald C. Brown
BS, University of Toledo, 1965; JD, University of Toledo, 1968; LLM, University of Michigan, 1970.
Formerly Professor of Law on the Faculty of William and Mary School of Law, Professor Brown joined the faculty at Hawai`i in 1981 and has served as Associate Dean and as Director of the Pacific-Asian Legal Studies Program. Professor Brown also served as the University's Director of the Center for Chinese Studies from 2000-2006. His experience includes working as an attorney with the National Labor Relations Board, representing management and labor in labor relations matters, acting as private impartial arbitrator in labor-management disputes and serving as state-appointed public fact-finder in Hawai`i public sector disputes. 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 recently published a book entitled Understanding Chinese Courts and Legal Process: Law with Chinese Characteristics. 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 University Law School and currently serves as a foreign advisor to BEIDA 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. In 2004-2005, Professor Brown was in China as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, teaching at both Peking University Law School and Tsinghua University Law School.
Teaching Areas:
Labor Law, Employment Law, Employment Discrimination Law, Asia Comparative Labor Law, Chinese Law, US-China Comparative Labor Law
Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
Understanding Chinese Courts and Legal Process: Law with Chinese Characteristics (Kluwer).
China's Collective Contract Provisions: Can Collective Negotiations Embody Collective Bargaining? 16 Duke J. of Comp. and Int’l Law 35 (2006).
China's Employment Discrimination Laws During Economic Transition, 19 Columbia J. of Asian Law 361 (2006).
China's New Labor Contract Law, 3 China Law Reporter 4 (July, 2007).
China's Labor Dispute Resolution, Oxford: Foundation for Law, Justice and Society (2008).
