Chang Wang, chief research and academic officer with Thomson Reuters – and a regular contributor at Legal Current – has just released Parallel Universes: Essays and Conversations. This, his latest book, is a compilation of essays, conversations, speeches and interviews published from 2012 to 2017 in China Insight, the exclusive English-language American newspaper on US-China …
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Thomson Reuters and CUPL Co-Publish First English-to-Chinese Text on U.S. Constitutional Law
EAGAN, Minn. May 1, 2017 – Thomson Reuters and China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) Press, a leading legal publisher in China, have published Constitutional Law: Lectures, Cases, and Resources by Chang Wang, chief researcher at Thomson Reuters. The two-volume, 1,200-page book is the first English-to-Chinese textbook of U.S. Constitutional Law. Wang has lectured …
Civics 101: The Judicial Branch, with Minnesota State Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea and Chang Wang
By day, Chief Researcher Chang Wang is a hard-working Thomson Reuters employee. But by night, he’s an attorney, law school and college professor, author and budding actor (he’s the serious Chinese guy wearing the dark suits). Recently, Wang brought his students from two different local universities to a private meeting with Minnesota State Supreme Court …
China’s Legal System: 2016 Reviews and 2017 Predictions
According to the Lunar Calendar, with the close of the 2017 Spring Festival on January 28 the Year of the Fire Monkey ended and the Year of the Fire Rooster began. It also is time for our annual review and predictions of China’s legal system. Chang Wang, chief researcher at Thomson Reuters, invited Vivian Wu, …
Thomson Reuters Participates in Civic Engagement Efforts with Chinese Students and Alumni
With Election Day right around the corner and candidates making their final push to voters, a very select group of people met recently to learn more about how the American political system works. The Peking University Alumni Association – Minnesota (PKUAA-MN) and Tsinghua University Alumni Association – Minnesota (TAA-MN) held a joint seminar on civic …
Chang Wang and the “Parallel Universe” of His Legal Career
Earlier this year, the Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA) hosted their second annual panel discussion, “Immigrant Attorneys Among Us – Successes and Challenges of Our Colleagues Who Were Born Outside the U.S.” Among the panelists was Thomson Reuters own Chief Research and Academic Officer Chang Wang, who also a member of the Immigration Council at MSBA. …
China’s Legal System: 2015 Reviews and 2016 Predictions
According to the Lunar Calendar, 2016’s Spring Festival on February 8 marks the end of the Year of the Wooden Sheep and beginning the Year of the Fire Monkey. At this transitional time, Legal Current invited Chang Wang and Christopher Luehr, two Chinese law experts at Thomson Reuters, to review the major legal events and …
Books for China: Thomson Reuters Donates Law Books to Chinese Legal Community
Western jurisprudence, particularly American law, has played a key role in China’s modernization and economic reform. American legal tradition and best practices have frequently been used as references in building China’s own legal system. Consequently, China is in need of opportunities to learn and understand American law. To that end, Thomson Reuters has donated many …
Thomson Reuters Hosted Magna Carta: History, Law, and Legacy, a Continuing Legal Education Program
On Sept. 18, Thomson Reuters hosted Magna Carta: History, Law, and Legacy, a Continuing Legal Education program at its Eagan, Minn., campus. The program featured a presentation by Dr. Ryan Greenwood, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Minnesota Law School. As a leading expert on legal history, Roman and canon …
Promoting the Rule of Law by Telling the Story of West Publishing and Thomson Reuters
The following post was written by Chang Wang, chief research and academic officer, Thomson Reuters. In 2000, Professor Hiroshi Narita, then a professor at Tohoku-Gakuin University in Japan, visited Thomson Reuters in Eagan, Minnesota. As a law professor and legal historian, he was very interested in the history of West Publishing. During the next 15 …