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CAP Visiting Scholars and Researchers
The following individuals have served or are currently serving as CAP Visiting Researchers and Scholars:
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| Ayako Harada has been engaged in research on children and family law issues involving child abuse and neglect, child custody, and adoption. She served as a CAP Visitor from February 2008 to March 2009. While she was at Harvard, she focused on American adoption policies and practices. She earned her doctoral degree (LL.D) from Kyoto University in 2007. In 2008, she published a book entitled “America’s Struggle with Child Abuse Crisis: Prevention Efforts and Family Welfare Policies” (written in Japanese). Currently she is a Research Associate at Waseda University Institute of Comparative Law, Tokyo, Japan. |
 Liping Wang is a Law Professor at Shandong University School of Law in P. R. China. She is also a member of Chinese People's Political Consulative Conference in Shandong Province, the president of Family Law Association of Shandong Province and a member of Gender & Law Research Center in the Chinese Association of Social Science. Her research and teaching interests include human rights, civil law and issues related to women, children, family and labor. Liping Graduated from Shandong University in 1986 with B.A in Law, from Xiamen University in 1989 with M.A in Civil Law, and from Shandong University in 2004 with Ph. D in Jurisprudence. She was a 2006-2007 Fulbright Research Visiting Scholar in CAP at Harvard Law School. Her publications include: On the Protection of Privacy in the Information Age (Shandong People's Press,2008), Study on the Parenthood Law (Law Press, 2004) , A Jurisprudential Study of Family Law (Shandong People's Press, 2003) , Children's Rights (Shandong People's Press, 2002), as well as numerous law review articles in China (for example, “A Comparative Study on Child Custody Between The U. S. and China”, Legal Forum Vol. 2, 2008 ). She was very active in participating in the legislations relating to family law, women law and children law. She has won Distinguished Women Worker of Shandong Province Award and Excellent Young Professor in Teaching of Shandong University Award for her outstanding work. For more information about her, please visit http://www.law.sdu.edu.cn/teachers/wangliping.htm. |
Mary Welstead is a visiting fellow at CAP and a visiting professor at the University of Buckingham in the UK with a long standing interest in all aspects of family law. She obtained her PhD in law degree from Trinity College Cambridge UK, and has written extensively in the field of family law. In addition to her current appointments, she has held visiting appointments at McGill University in Montreal, the University of Cambridge UK, and the University of Warwick UK. She has lectured on family law to lawyers and the judiciary in Malaysia and Sri Lanka, and from 2003 -2008 helped to set up the new university, SSST, in Sarajevo. Her major research interests in the field of family law relate to law in a multi-cultural society, technological reproduction and surrogacy, post divorce family financial provision, and most recently, the issue of forced marriage in the UK where the removal of children by their families to be forcibly married abroad has become a serious problem for the UK government. New legislation was enacted in 2008 to deal with the issue. Mary is a member of the International Society of Family Law.
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