Teemu Ruskola

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Professor of Law

Philadelphia, PA 19104

United States

University of Pennsylvania - School of Arts & Sciences

Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Philadelphia, PA 19104

United States

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1.

Legal Orientalism

Michigan Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 20 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 28 May 2014
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Comparative method, legal theory, Chinese legal history, Orientalism, Confucianism, liberalism, Chinese Exclusion, Chinese-Americans

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Gay Rights Versus Queer Theory: What is Left of Sodomy after Lawrence V. Texas?

Social Text, Vol. 23, Nos. 3-4, pp. 84-85, Fall-Winter 2005
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 16 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2021
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Gay rights, queer theory, legal theory, Lawrence v. Texas, Bowers v. Hardwick, sodomy, liberalism, homosexuality

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The East Asian Legal Tradition

The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Law, Mauro Bussani & Ugo Mattei, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2012, Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 12-190
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 04 May 2012 Last Revised: 28 May 2014
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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East Asia, China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, ius gentium, Confucianism, area studies, comparative law, international law

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Conceptualizing Corporations and Kinship: Comparative Law and Development Theory in a Chinese Perspective

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 1599-1729, July 2000, Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 11-178, Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-119
Number of pages: 132 Posted: 07 Apr 2001 Last Revised: 28 May 2014
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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China, corporation law, comparative corporate governance, family law, state-owned enterprise, legal theory, capitalism, Confucianism, socialism, kinship, PRC Company Law, family law, adoption, marriage, Chinese legal history, legal transplants

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Raping Like a State

UCLA Law Review, Forthcoming, Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 10-111
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 24 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 28 May 2014
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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China, international law, legal theory, queer theory, sovereignty, gender, sexuality, sovereignty, semi colonialism, trade, extraterritorial jurisdiction, kowtow, railroad sovereignty, Unequal Treaties, Eurocentrism, Sinocentrism

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Law Without Law, or is 'Chinese Law' an Oxymoron?

William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 24 Jun 2003 Last Revised: 28 May 2014
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Comparative law, Chinese law, jurisprudence, rule of law, rule of men, Shanghai, International Mixed Court, legal Orientalism

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What is a Corporation? Liberal, Confucian, and Socialist Theories of Enterprise Organization (and State, Family, and Personhood)

Seattle University Law Review, Vol. 37, p. 637, 2014, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-281
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 09 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2014
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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China, corporation, corporate governance, state, family, market, contract, trust, altruism, theory of the firm, state-owned enterprise (SOE), liberalism, Confucianism, socialism, personhood

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Where is Asia? When is Asia? Theorizing Comparative Law and International Law

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 44, p. 102, 2011, Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 11-155
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 May 2011 Last Revised: 28 May 2014
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Asia, Europe, China, time, space, comparative law, international law, legal theory, culture, Eurocentrism, Sinocentrism, Asian values

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China and the Human

Social Text, Vol. 109, No. 1, 2012, Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-121, Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 12-185
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 03 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2016
David L. Eng, Teemu Ruskola and Shuang Shen
University of Pennsylvania - Department of English, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Pennsylvania State University - College of the Liberal Arts
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China, human rights, Eurocentrism, Sinocentrism, humanism, Confucianism, liberalism, postcolonial theory, Marxism, Sinophone, Maoism

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Colonialism Without Colonies: On the Extraterritorial Jurisprudence of the U.S. Court for China

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 71, No. 217, 2008, Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 09-67
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2016
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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United States Court for China, jurisprudence, China, Shanghai, semi-colonialism, imperialism, extraterritorial jurisdiction, conflict of laws

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Home Economics: What is the Difference between a Family and a Corporation?

RETHINKING COMMODIFICATION: CASES AND READINGS IN LAW & CULTURE, Martha M. Ertman and Joan C. Williams, eds., New York University Press, 2005
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 28 May 2014
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Commodification, corporation, family, market, state, contract, trust, altruism, ideology, China, liberalism, Confucianism

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Canton is Not Boston: The Invention of American Imperial Sovereignty

American Quarterly 57.3 (2005) 859-884, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-239
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 May 2013 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2017
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Extraterritorial jurisdiction, extraterritorial imperialism, legal imperialism, China, United States, international law, 1492, Columbus, Chinese Exclusion Laws, immigration law, Unequal Treaties, Treaty of Wanghia, Caleb Cushing, Opium War, Boston Tea Party

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The World According to Orientalism

7 Journal of Comparative Law 1 (2013), Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-279
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 09 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2014
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Orientalism, Edward Said, comparative law, international law, Chinese Exclusion Laws, Oriental despotism, local, global

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China in the Age of the World Picture

Florian Hoffman & Anne Orford eds., Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law, Oxford University Press, 2016, Forthcoming, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-398
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2016
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Minor Disregard: The Legal Construction of the Fantasy that Gay and Lesbian Youth Do Not Exist

Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, Vol. 8, No. 269, 1996, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-280
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 09 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2021
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Gay, lesbian, queer, children, teachers, school, custody, adoption, homosexuality, legal theory, psychoanalysis, heterosexuality, epistemology

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Review of Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks

American Journal of International Law, 112(3), 540-543, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-446
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 10 Sep 2018
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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A Response to Professor Tan's Review of Legal Orientalism

Harvard Law Review Forum, Forthcoming, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-353
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 02 May 2015
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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People, Inc.? Law, Economic Enterprise, and the Development of Inequality in China

Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-449, The American Journal of Comparative Law (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 13 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2020
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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The Dao of Mao: Sinocentric Socialism and the Politics of International Legal Theory

International Law and the Cold War (Matthew Craven, Sundhya Pahuja & Gerry Simpson eds., Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming), Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-450
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 01 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2020
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Law, Sexual Morality, and Gender Equality in Qing and Communist China

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 103, No. 2531, 1994, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-430
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Apr 2017
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Corporation Law in Late Imperial China

Research Handbook on the History of Corporate and Company Law (Harwell Wells ed., Edward Elgar Press 2018), Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-444
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2018
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Afterword: Globalization, Rights, and Work in the Chinese Transformation

China and ILO Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, Chen Yifeng & Ulla Liukkunen eds., Kluwer Law International, 2014, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-278
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 09 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2014
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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China, labor, ILO, political economy, globalization, commodification, markets

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The Limits of Liberal Justice: On Authoritarianism and Instrumental Theories of Law

Asia Pacific Law Review, 2024, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 24-16
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 25 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2024
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Comparative law, socialist law, rule of law, Montesquieu, democracy, Chinese law, authoritarian legality, democracy, authoritarian states, authoritarian regime, China’s governance.

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Beyond Anti-Anti-Orientalism, Or How Not to Study Chinese Law

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 23-15, The American Journal of Comparative Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 01 May 2023 Last Revised: 03 May 2023
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Comparative law, Chinese law, comparative method, politics of comparison, postcolonial theory, legal Orientalism

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Notes on The Neutered Mother, or Toward a Queer Socialist Matriarchy

Emory Law Journal, Vol. 67, No. 1165, 2018, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 07 Aug 2018
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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A Reader's Guide to Legal Orientalism

Ancilla Iuris, 2021, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 22-15
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 08 Mar 2022
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Comparative law, Chinese law, comparative method, politics of comparison, postcolonial theory, Chinese translation of Legal Orientalism, self-Orientalism, legal Orientalism, Oriental legalism

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Postscript: Labour Rights in China's Changing Political Economy

Fundamental Labour Rights in China - Legal Implementation and Cultural Logic, Ulla Liukkunen and Yifeng Chen, eds., Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice 49 (Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2016 Forthcoming), Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-388
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 23 Dec 2015
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Oriental Despotism Inside Out: On the Global Travels of Montesquieu’s De l’esprit des lois

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 24-22
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 25 May 2024 Last Revised: 30 May 2024
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Comparative law, oriental despotism, Chinese Authoritarianism, Montesquieu, legal humanism, political systems, comparative theory, global politics, China

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Book Review: A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination

Law & Literature, Vol 36, p.163, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2023.2268371, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 24-17
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 15 Apr 2024
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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justice, Haiyan Lee, orientalism, socialist China, liberal capitalism, law, history, Chinese legal imagination

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Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law

Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law, Harvard University Press, 2013
Posted: 19 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2013
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

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Law's Empire: The Legal Construction of 'America' in the 'District of China'

Posted: 02 Sep 2003 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2008
Teemu Ruskola
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

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