Benjamin L. Liebman (born 1969) is the Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law and the director of the Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies at

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. He is widely regarded as one of the world's pre-eminent scholars of contemporary Chinese law. He is the son of

Lance Liebman Lance Liebman (born 1941) is an American law professor. He is the former Dean of Columbia Law School, and served as the Director of the American Law Institute from May 1999 to May 2014. Education Liebman received his B.A. from Yale University in ...

, who is a professor at Columbia Law School and the former director of the

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, and of Carol B. Liebman, also a professor at

. He is the brother of Jeffrey B. Liebman, who was the executive associate director of the

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within the administration of President

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. On February 9, 2012, Liebman met with

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Joe Biden at the

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to discuss

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. Liebman is affiliated with the

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Education

Liebman received a

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from

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in 1991. He then earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, politics and economics from

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in 1993 and a

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from

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in 1998.

Positions

*Robert L. Leiff Professor of Law and Director
Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies
Columbia Law School, 2011- *Professor of Law and Director
Center for Chinese Legal Studies
Columbia Law School, 2007-2011 *Associate Professor of Law and Director
Center for Chinese Legal Studies
Columbia Law School *Sullivan & Cromwell, London, 2000-2002 *Law Clerk, Justice David H. Souter,

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, 1999-2000 *Law Clerk, Judge Sandra Lynch,

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, First Circuit, Boston, 1997-1998 *Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York and

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, Summer 1997 *Institute of Law,

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, Beijing, Summer 1996 *Attorney,

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, Beijing, 1994-1995

References

Columbia Law School faculty Yale University alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Harvard Law School alumni 1969 births Living people Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States {{US-law-bio-stub Weatherhead East Asian Institute faculty Sullivan & Cromwell people

Education

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