October 21st, 2015, Professor Austen Parrish visited CUPL and delivered a meaningful speech. Professor Parrish is the Dean of Indiana University Bloomington-Maurer School of Law. Professor Parrish is a well-known and widely published scholar in transnational law and the use of domestic law institutions to address global changes.

Firstly, Professor Zhang Baosheng and Professor Wang Zhuhao expressed warm welcome to Professor Parrish and gave a simple introduction of him.

Secondly, Professor Parrish gave a quite brief but complete introduction to his law school: Indiana University Bloomington-Maurer School of Law from the perspectives of the past, the current and the future. It’s a prestigious law school with a quite long history, having excellent students all over the world including judges, law professors, and lawyers. Besides, Indiana University Bloomington-Maurer School of Law has a very deep connection with our university, especially with our Institute. Every year, many students and teachers come to IUB to peruse further study of law. Also, Professor Parrish talked a lot about their LLM and JD program.

Thirdly, Professor Parrish focused his speech on cross-border litigation and extraterritorial jurisdiction from a view of North America. Professor Parrish gave an overview of the issue, as globalization continues, corporations and individuals increasingly find themselves in complex cross-border disputes involving multiple parties. The appropriate way to resolve these transnational controversies has become a key issue for policymakers and legal academics, as the number of these cases increase. Then he talked about two famous cases, which are Trail Smelter Arbitration (U.S. v. Canada) and Pakootas v. Teck Cominco. He expressed how to resolve transboundary disputes and global challenges and what role domestic courts should have in transnational dispute resolution. Then, Professor Parrish talked about different approaches to solve the disputes, including international agreement, unilateral agreement and hybrid approaches. In the end, Professor Parrish expressed his hope that more students could come to IUB Maurer School of Law for further study.

Finally, there were some students asking questions about IUB Maurer School of Law, LLM, JSD programs and the transnational disputes cases. Professor Parrish gave very clear and detailed answers to those questions.

Professor Parrish’s speech was very interesting and thought-provoking, giving students, teachers and even lawyers many new ideas. The audience gave Professor Parrish an enthusiastic applause at the end of the speech.