Nicholas Calcina Howson, the Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, is a former partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP who worked out of the firm’s New York, Paris, London, and Beijing offices, and as a managing partner of the firm’s Asia Practice based in the Chinese capital.
Featured Scholarship
"Enforcement Without Foundation? Insider Trading and China's Administrative Law Crisis"
- International and Comparative Law
"Corporate Law in the Shanghai People's Courts, 1992-2008: Judicial Autonomy in a Contemporary Authoritarian State"
- International and Comparative Law
"Pathway to Minority Shareholder Protection: Derivative Actions in the People's Republic of China"
- International and Comparative Law
"China's 'Corporatization without Privatization' and the Late 19th Century Roots of a Stubborn Path Dependency"
- International and Comparative Law
Discussant with Matthew Erie, Liu Sida, Andrea Yang and Zhang Taisu, at book colloquium for Gu Weixia, Dispute Resolution in China: Litigation, Arbitration and Their Interactions (Routledge, 2021), Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut.
Presented “The Kangmei Scandal and China’s First Special Representative Securities Fraud Litigation” at the closed conference “Zhengquan Falu Zeren De Lunli Yu Shijian Xinyiti” (“New Issues Regarding The Theory and Practice of Securities Law Liability”), Anhui University School of Law, Hefei City, Anhui Province, China.
Discussant at “The Evolution and Future Prospects of US-China Relations: An Intimate Conversation with Jan Berris,” Lieberthal Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Discussant for Ronald Gilson and Curtis Milhaupt, “Shifting Influences on Corporate Governance: Capital Market Completeness or Policy Channeling,” American Society of Comparative Law Annual Comparative Law Works in Progress Workshop, Princeton, New Jersey.
Presented “Morrison Ten Years On, and Lessons for the Application of Its Anti-fraud Rules to Securities Transactions Outside of the Mainland” on the “Extraterritorial Jurisdiction of Chinese Securities Law” panel of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law conference “Securities Regulatory Cooperation Over Cross-border Listings and Transactions,” Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PRC.
Presented “The People’s Courts Forty Years On – Appraisal and Argument, at the Lieberthal Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Noon Lecture Series, Lieberthal Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Panelist Presentation for “Flashpoint: Hong Kong,” Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and the Lieberthal Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Panelist Presentation on “The Implications for the Protection of Civil and Political Rights in the Hong Kong SAR Arising from Security Legislation for the Hong Kong SAR Made by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee in Beijing” for the Webinar “China’s Proposed National Security Law and Hong Kong – What’s Happening Now?”, Lieberthal Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Presented “Hong Kong in Crisis – Fifty Years Without Change?” for the Michigan Law School Asia Law Society, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Presented the paper, “Twenty-five Years On—The Establishment and Application of Corporate Fiduciary Duties in PRC Law,” at the 19th International Conference of the Tsinghua University’s 21st Century Commercial Law Forum, “Developments in the Law of Fiduciary Duties,” Beijing, China.