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Personal Details Name : Benjamin van Rooij E-mail : [email protected]
Education • Master of Law (1991-1997) (Meester Rechtsgeleerdheid, LLB+LLM Equivalent) Leiden University • Doctoraal in Chinese Language and Cultures (1995-2000) (BA+MA equivalent) Leiden University • PhD in Law, Governance and Development (2000-2006) Leiden University. Title thesis: ‘Regulating Land and Pollution in China, Law-making, Compliance and Enforcement, Theory and Cases’, awarded cum laude.
Work experience 2013- John S. and Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Law and Business, University of California, Irvine, School of Law (with a joint appointment at the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, School of Social Ecology)
2013- Director, Long US-China Institute, University of California, Irvine
2016- Director, The Compliance Lab, University of California, Irvine
2009- Professor of Chinese Law and Regulation, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam (as of 2013 on an honorary basis)
2009- Founding Director, Netherlands China Law Center, University of Amsterdam (as of 2013 on an honorary basis)
2012-2013 Coordinator Faculty Research Program “Regulatory Dynamics”, Faculty of Law, Amsterdam University
2011-2013 Faculty Professor at the Amsterdam Centre for Law and Economics, Amsterdam University
2010-2013 Member Hauser Global Faculty, School of Law, New York University
2006-2009 Senior Lecturer (tenured) at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance, and Development. Faculty of Law, Leiden University (VVI)
2002-2006 Lecturer/Researcher (fixed-term) at the VVI
2000-2002 PhD Researcher /Junior Lecturer (fixed-term) at the VVI
1999-2000 Legal counsel at De Koning en Renes Advocaten LLP (fixed term), Amsterdam Involved in legal advice and litigation for a general practice of Dutch law.
1998 Solicitor Trainee at Clifford Chance LLP (fixed term), Amsterdam Involved in legal advice for international corporate practice, with a specialization on energy transactions.
Core Academic Activities and Service • Research, resulting in publications as outlined below in Appendix A. (Since 2000) • Editor of Regulation & Governance (Wiley Publishing) (ranked 6/147 (Law), 6/47 (Public Administration), 12/165 (Political Science)) from January 2016 onwards) and member of the editorial board (as of 2013) • Founding Co-Convenor ComplianceNet (Academic network of compliance scholars from across the globe) • Founding Editor in Chief China Law and Society Review (Brill Publishing) (as of 2015) • Member of the UC Irvine School of Law, LLM Committee in charge of developing new master programs, UC Irvine, School of Law (since 2013) • Member of the UC Irvine School of Law, Appointments Committee (2017) • Founder of the Compliance Network (an interschool collaboration about compliance management) (since 2017) • Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam (2013) • Advisor to the President of the University of Amsterdam on China (2009-2012) • Convenor of a monthly seminar on Compliance and Enforcement at the Faculty of Law, Amsterdam University, collaborating with the Free University, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology (2012-2013) • Convenor of a monthly seminar on Governance and Society in China at the Faculty of Law, Amsterdam University (2011-2013) • Member of the Van Vollenhoven Institute (VVI) Management Team, directly involved in the daily operation and policy of the institute. (2005-2009) • Teaching coordinator at the VVI (2002-2009) • China coordinator at the VVI (2001-2009) • PhD Thesis supervision as outlined below (since 2005) • Coordinator of the Design and Accreditation of a Masters Programme in Law, Governance and Development (2001-2009) • Coordinator of the Design and Application of a Minor Program in Law, Culture and Development (2006-2009)
Teaching • Legal Profession (mandatory 1st year course, UC Irvine, from 2015) • Law and Behavior: Compliance and Enforcement (UC Irvine from 2014 at the Law School and from 2017 at Department of Psychology and Human Behavior) • Introduction to Chinese Law, Business and Politics (UC Irvine in 2015) • Comparative Law and Comparative Legal Methods (Amsterdam in 2012) • Environmental Regulation in Emerging Markets (New York in 2010) • Access to justice in China (Leiden from 2009, New York from 2010, Amsterdam from 2011, UC Irvine in 2013 and 2016) • Law and Politics in China (Amsterdam 2011-2013) • Law and Development in China (Leiden, 2001-2009) • Environmental Law (China, 2001 and 2002) • Law, Governance, and Development (Suriname 2005, 2007) • Law and Anthropology (China in 2004) • Law and Culture (Leiden, 2005-2007) • Legal Systems Worldwide (Leiden, 2005-2007) • Law-making and Implementation of Law (Suriname, 2005 and 2007) • Empirical Legal Research (Leiden in 2007)
PhD Supervision Primary Promotor (University of Amsterdam) for: • Ms. Li Ling (Judicial Corruption in China and the Role of Informal Networks (Guanxi) (Graduated 2010) • Mr. William Guo (The Case Law Guidance System) (Graduated 2014) • Ms. Yan Huiqi (Why Chinese Farmers Obey the Law) (Graduated 2014) • Ms. Li Yedan (Chinese Court Mediation) (Graduated 2015) (Main supervisor from 2011- 2013) • Ms. Kathinka Furst (NGOs as Environmental Regulators in China) (Graduated 2016) • Ms. Li Na (Implementing Labor Law in South-West China) (Graduated 2016) • Ms. Wu Yunmei (Restaurants and the Law, A Socio-Legal Study about Compliance) (Graduated 2017) • Ms. Annemieke van den Dool (Food Crisis, Lawmaking and Enforcement in China) (Since 2012, expected to defend May 2018) • Ms. Qi Ding (The Powers of the Chinese Supreme Court) (since 2012, main supervisor until 2013, expected to defend May 2018). • Mr. Cheng Xiang (Street Level Bureaucrats and Environmental Law Enforcement in China) (Since 2007)
Supervising Committee Member (University of California, Irvine) for: • Mr. Shen Puma (Neoliberalism and White Collar Crime in China) (graduated 2017) (Department of Criminology, Law and Society, School of Social Ecology) • Mr. Adam Fine (Juveniles and Legal Socialization) (since 2014) (Department of Psychology, School of Social Ecology) • Ms. Fei Yang (Body Cameras and Police Violence) (Since 2015) (Department of Criminology, Law and Society, School of Social Ecology) • Ms. Chandra Middleton (Making Rules, Making Publics: Bureaucrats’ Imaginaries and US Environmental Governance) (Since 2016) (Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences)
Post-Doc Supervision • Dr. Zhang Wanhong (Legal Empowerment of Pollution Victims in China) (2010-2015) • Dr. Zahari Zen (Legal Empowerment of Pollution Victims in China) (2010-2015) • Dr. Chen Weixin (Labor Regulation in Quanzhou City) (2010-2013)
Other Academic Activities • Member of the editorial board of China Information (Sage Press) • Member of the editorial board of the Asian Journal of Law and Society (Cambridge University Press) • Member of the editorial board of the Chinese Law and Legal Theories series at Brill Publishers. • Reviewer for Cambridge University Press, International Review for Law and Economics, Erasmus Law Review, Hague Journal for Rule of Law, Regulation and Governance, Environment and Planning C, Law & Policy, China Quarterly, China Information, Environmental Politics, Tijdschrift voor Criminologie (Dutch Review of Criminology), and the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). • Initiator and Co-editor of a special edition for Regulation & Governance on “The Crowding of the Regulatory Landscape: China’s New Environmental Regulators” jointly with Rachel Stern (UC Berkeley) and Kathinka Furst (Amsterdam). • Initiator and Co-Editor of a special edition in Law & Policy on Environmental Regulation in Industrializing Countries, together with Robert A. Kagan (University of San Francisco, Berkeley) and Lesley McAllister (University of San Diego), containing papers about pollution regulation in Brazil, Indonesia, and China. • Convenor of a bi-monthly seminar on regulatory theory at Amsterdam Law School (2010- 2011) • General Editor of Leiden University Press book series on Law, Governance, and Development (2008-2010) • Convenor of a bi-monthly seminar on Chinese regulation and governance, organized in Leiden, attracting scholars from the Netherlands. (2008-2009) • Reviewer of Research Grant Applications for the Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW) (Since 2007) • Co-founder of a research network for PhD students working on modern China, Centre for Non-Western Studies, Leiden University, organizing lectures about publishing, research methodology, and the use of disciplinary theories. (2005) • Researcher and China Coordinator in the Dutch Research Council (NWO) sponsored Research Project on Formalization of Land Tenure Security (2005-2008) • Co-Author of the application for a KNAW research grant on East Kalimantan Coastal Management Research, granted in 2006 (2005-2006) • Organizer of weekly research meetings at the Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden (2001-2003, 2005) • Co-founder of a research network for PhD students at the Faculty of Law, Leiden University, working on empirical research, Faculty of Law, Leiden University, organizing training sessions in empirical research methodology and research seminars. (2001)
Memberships • Member of the American Bar Association (since 2017) • Honorary Professor, Wuhan University, School of Law (since 2011) • Research Fellow, Jiaotong University, Faculty of Law, Centre for Law and Society (Since 2011) • Guest Faculty Member, Yunnan University Faculty of Law (Since 2010) • Member of the Market Regulation Research Group of Amsterdam University Law School (since 2009) • Research Fellow of the International Institute for Asian Studies Centre for Regulation and Governance (since 2009) • Member of the China working group of the Leiden University Board (2005-2009) • Member of the Collaborative Research Network on Rule of Law, State Building and Transition within the Law and Society Association (Since 2006) • Member of the Law and Society Association (since 2006) • Founding member of the European Association for China Law Studies. (Since 2006) • Member of the organizing committee for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the international Commission of Legal Pluralism (2007) • Member of the Dutch and Flemish Association for the Social Scientific Study of Law (Since 2001) • Fellow of the Centre for Non-Western Studies, Leiden University (2007-2008) • Fellow of the Meijers Institute for Legal Research, Faculty of Law, Leiden University (2007- 2009) • Member of the Leiden Law Faculty Focus Group on Research Subsidies (2007-2009).
Consultancies and Advising • Advisor to the Environmental Protection Agency (USA) on new approaches to enforcement and compliance in the U.S. (2017) • Advisor to the National Security Council (USA) on Judicial Reform in China (2015) • Advisor to the office of the United Nations General Secretary on Philanthropy in China (2015) • Consultant for the evaluation of the Dutch rule of law programme in China for the Dutch Embassy in Beijing (2009). • Consultant and Trainer for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs Centre for Rule of Law and Development (KREO) (2005-2009) • Advisor to the Dutch Prime Minister on China’s Rule of Law Development (In 2008) • Project leader and facilitator for a Dutch-Chinese cooperation project on environmental law enforcement, sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment, work included applying for funding, design of program, communication with Dutch and Chinese counterparts, budgeting and reporting to the funder. (2000-2003) • Advisor to Dutch news media on matters related to China and Chinese law (since 2007) • Advisor to Brill Academic Publishers about Manuscripts related to Contemporary Chinese Law, both English and Chinese (Since 2007)
Fundraising, Scholarships and Honors 2017 • Awarded the Association of American Law School (AALS) award for best paper on East-Asian Law and Society, for “McMorrow, Judith, Sida Liu, and Benjamin Van Rooij. "Lawyer Discipline in an Authoritarian Regime: Empirical Insights from Zhejiang Province, China." Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics (2017)). • Short-listed (1 of 4) for the Vermeer Prize for best articles in China Information for “Yan, Huiqi, Benjamin van Rooij, and Jeroen van der Heijden. "The Enforcement–Compliance Paradox: Implementation of Pesticide Regulation in China." China Information 30, no. 209- 231 (2016): 1-23.”
2016 • Keynote Speaker at the 6th Bi-annual Conference of Standing Group on Regulatory Governance of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) • Nominated for Professor of the Year (upper level classes), UC Irvine, School of Law • Awarded the inaugural annual John and Vivian Sabel Award for the best article published in the Journal of Contemporary China (published from Denver University, and in 2015 the most impactful journal in Chinese studies). The award was for “The People v. Pollution, Understanding Citizen Action Against Pollution in China.”, which has been the most cited article in the journal. • Raised 2.75 Million USD endowed gift for the UC Irvine Long US-China Institute. 2011 • Honorary Professorship, awarded by Wuhan University, Faculty of Law 2009 • Dutch Organization for Science NWO-VENI Grant (250.000 Euro) for research on Reorienting Global Risk Regulation. • Dutch Organization for Science NWO-Co-Reach Grant (30.000 Euro) for research on Regulatory Enforcement in China and the EU, Collaboration with the London School of Economics and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences • Dutch Organization for Science NWO-WOTRO Grant (700.000 Euro) for a 5 year research project on the Legal Empowerment of Pollution Victims in China and Indonesia, collaboration with Leiden University, Amsterdam University, Wuhan University, the China University of Politics and Law, Semerang University and the University of North-Sumatra.
2008 • US Social Science Research Council Grant (10.000 USD) for Research on Environment, Health and Activism in Yunnan, acting as expert consultant to the main applicant, Yunnan Health and Development Research Association, in collaboration with Manchester University. • Dutch Organization for Science NWO-WOTRO (10.000 USD) grant for the organization of a workshop about community based environmental regulation in China and Indonesia, in preparation for a full research proposal on this topic under the WOTRO Integrated Programmes grant. 2006 • Faculty of Law, Leiden University, Cum Laude Distinction for PhD thesis, Regulating Land and Pollution in China, Law-making, Compliance, and Enforcement, Theory and Cases. • Faculty of Law, Leiden University, Grant for preparing a research proposal for the NWO, VENI fund. 2004 • Leiden University Fund, grant for 9 months fieldwork in China.
2003 • Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, grant for continuing teaching and research in the field of Chinese law. 2000 • Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, grant for PhD research on Chinese law (part of a bigger grant obtained by the Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University in 1996)
Expertise in Keywords • Law and behavior • Access to justice • Rule of law • Law Enforcement • Regulatory theory • Compliance management • Chinese law, politics and governance • Non-state regulation • Legal development cooperation • Lawmaking • Land rights • Criminology
Language Skills • Dutch (native) • English (fluent) • Chinese (advanced (speaking, reading and listening), basic (writing)) • German (basic (speaking, reading, listening, and writing)) • French (basic (speaking, reading, listening, and writing))
Appendix A: Publications
Under Review and Works in Progress
1. Benjamin Van Rooij, Liu, Nicole, and Carlos W. H. Lo. 2017 " Beyond deterrence: How regulatory enforcement agents cope with inspection challenges". (Revise and Resubmit at Public Administration).
2. Van Rooij, Benjamin. 2017 "Law's Catch 22, Understanding Legal Failure Spatially." In Law, Governance and Development Festschrift for Jan Michiel Otto, edited by Adriaan Bedner and Barbara Oomen. Leiden: Leiden University Press, (Under review with editors).
3. Li, Yedan, and Benjamin Van Rooij. 2017. "How to manage a judge: Lessons about Judicial Performance Control of Chinese Courts." (Draft paper in progress).
4. Van Rooij, Benjamin, Adam Fine, Shaul Shalvi, Yuval Feldman, Eline Scheper, Wu Yunmei, Zhang Yanyan, Qian Cheng, Wanhong Zhang. 2017 " How do we become rule followers? Educational and national effects on rule orientation” Draft paper in progress.
5. Gray, Garry, and Benjamin Van Rooij. 2017 "Regulatory Empowerment: A Bottom-up Approach to Civil Regulation." (Draft paper in progress).
6. Van Rooij, Benjamin, Yang Su, Peng Ding, and Wanhong Zhang. 2017 "Getting on the Road to Justice: Understanding the Stages of Grievance and Claim Development ". Draft paper in progress.
7. Na, Li, and Benjamin Van Rooij. 2017 "Compliance Interrupted at the Frontlines.” Draft Paper in progress.
8. Furst, Kathinka, and Benjamin Van Rooij. 2017 "Defining Regulation in an Age of Governance: Lessons Drawn from Civil Pollution Regulation in China. " Draft paper in progress.
9. Wu, Yunmei, and Benjamin Van Rooij. 2017 "Compliance Pluralism ". Draft paper in progress.
10. Van Rooij, Benjamin, and Adam Fine. 2017 "Managing Compliance from Within." In The Handbook of White Collar Crime, edited by Melissa Rorie. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2017 (commissioned draft in progress)
11. Van Rooij, Benjamin, and Adam Fine. 2017 "Detoxing Corporate Culture." Administrative Sciences (Manuscript in progress to be submitted for special issue edited by Judith van Erp).
12. Rooij, Benjamin van, and Daniel Sokol, eds. 2017 Cambridge Handbook of Compliance. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (commissioned proposal under review).
13. Van Rooij, Benjamin, and Adam Fine. 2017. The Invisible Code: Why the Law Fails to Improve our Behavior (Book manuscript in progress, signed with literary agency Kneerim & Williams)
Books and Edited Books
1. Van Rooij, Benjamin (together with J. Arnscheidt and J.M. Otto) eds. Lawmaking for Development, Explorations into the theory and practice of international legislative projects. Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2008.
2. Van Rooij, Benjamin. Regulating Land and Pollution in China, Lawmaking, Compliance, and Enforcement; Theory and Cases. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2006.
Editorial opinion pieces
1. Van Rooij, Benjamin, and Adam Fine. "How to Punish a Corporation, Insights from Social and Behavioral Science." Compliance & Enforcement Blog (2017). https://wp.nyu.edu/compliance_enforcement/2017/09/01/how-to-punish-a-corporation- insights-from-social-and-behavioral-science/
2. Van Rooij, Benjamin, and Jeffrey Wasserstrom. "Despite Trump’s Isolationism, China Isn’t Ready to Become the World’s Moral Leader." Huffington Post, February 7, 2017. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-china-world- leader_us_5899e0e2e4b0c1284f282149?section=us_world
3. Wasserstrom, Jeffrey, and Benjamin Van Rooij. "In China, Pollution Fears Are Both Literal and Metaphorical." NPR (National Public Radio), January 18, 2017, http://www.npr.org/2017/01/18/510127554/in-china-pollution-fears-are-both-literal-and- metaphorical
4. Van Rooij, Benjamin, and Alex Wang. "China's Polluted Politics." New York Times, 2014, May 21, page A29. Also published in the International New York Times, The Opinion Pages, on May 19, 2014 as: “China’s Pollution Challenge”, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/opinion/chinas-pollution- challenge.html?_r=0, and on May 21, 2014 in the Chinese version of the New York Times as 应对中国 环境危机需要制度性变革 (Institutional Reforms Necessary to Meet China’s Environmental Crisis), http://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20140521/c21rooij/.
Journal Articles (English)
1. McMorrow, Judith, Sida Liu, and Benjamin Van Rooij. 2017. "Lawyer Discipline in an Authoritarian Regime: A Case Study of Zhejiang Province, China, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics." Volume 30, no 2 (Awarded best paper in East Asian Law and Society by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) 2017)
2. Fine, Adam, and Benjamin Van Rooij. "For Whom Does Deterrence Affect Behavior? Identifying Key Individual Differences ". Law and Human Behavior41 (4) (2017).
3. Van Rooij, Benjamin, Qiaoqiao Zhu, Na Li, and Qiliang Wang. "Centralizing Trends and Pollution Law Enforcement in China." China Quarterly 231 (2017).
4. Li, Yedan, Joris Kocken, and Benjamin Van Rooij. 2017. "Understanding China’s Court Mediation Surge: Insights from a local court." Law and Social Inquiry (published early view online).
5. Yan, Huiqi, Jeroen Van der Heijden, and Benjamin Van Rooij. "Symmetric and Asymmetric Motivations for Compliance and Violation: A Crisp Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (CsQCA) of Chinese Farmers." Regulation & Governance 11 (2017): 64-80.
6. Van Rooij, Benjamin, Adam Fine, Zhang Yanyan, and Yunmei Wu. "Comparative Compliance: Digital Piracy, Deterrence, Social Norms and Duty in China and the United States." Law & Policy 39, no. 1 (2017): 73-93.
7. Van Rooij, Benjamin, and Annemieke van den Dool. "Lawmaking in China: Understanding Substantive and Procedural Changes." China Law and Society Review 1, no. 1 (2016): 5-60.
8. Van Rooij, Benjamin, and Mary E Gallagher. "China's Top-Down Sources of Law." China Law and Society Review 1, no. 1 (2016): 1-4.
9. Fine, Adam, Benjamin Van Rooij, Yuval Feldman, Shaul Shalvi, Margerita Leib, Eline Scheper, and Elizabeth Cauffman. "Rule Orientation and Behavior: Development and Validation of a Scale Measuring Individual Acceptance of Rule Violation." Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 22, no. 3 (2016): 314-29.
10. Yan, Huiqi, Benjamin van Rooij, and Jeroen van der Heijden. "The Enforcement–Compliance Paradox: Implementation of Pesticide Regulation in China." China Information 30, no. 209- 231 (2016): 1-23. (shortlisted for the Vermeer Prize for best articles in China Information)
11. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Weak Enforcement Strong Deterrence: Dialogues with Chinese Lawyers About Tax Evasion and Compliance." Law and Social Inquiry 41, no. 2 (2016): 288- 310.
12. Shi, Yifan, and Benjamin Van Rooij. 2016. "Prosecutorial Regulation in the Global South: Environmental Civil Litigation by Prosecutors in China compared to Brazil." Regulation & Governance no. 10 (1):44-57.
13. Van Rooij, Benjamin, Rachel Stern, and Kathinka Fürst. 2016 "The Authoritarian Logic of Regulatory Pluralism: Understanding China's New Environmental Actors." Regulation & Governance no. 10 (1):3-13.
14. Van Rooij, Benjamin, Rachel Stern, and Kathinka Fürst. (eds) 2016 "The Authoritarian Logic of Regulatory Pluralism, Understanding China's New Environmental Actors ". special edition in Regulation & Governance no. 10 (1).
15. Yan, Huiqi, Benjamin Van Rooij, and Jeroen Van der Heijden. 2015. "Contextual Compliance: Situational and Subjective Cost-Benefit Decisions about Pesticides by Chinese Farmers." Law & Policy no. 37 (3):240-263.
16. Van Rooij, Benjamin, and Pip Nicholson. "Inflationary Trends in Law and Development." Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 24 (2014): 297-348.
17. Van Rooij, Benjamin, G. E. Fryxell, C. W. H. Lo, and Wei Wang. "From Support to Pressure: The Dynamics of Social and Governmental Influences on Environmental Law Enforcement in Guangzhou City, China." Regulation & Governance 7, no. 3 (2013): 321-47.
18. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Bringing Justice to the Poor, Bottom-Up Approaches to Legal Development Cooperation." Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 4, no. 2 (2012): 286-318.
19. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "The People's Regulation, Citizens and Implementation of Law in China." Columbia Journal of Asian Law 25, no. 2 (2012): 116-179.
20. Lo, Carlos W. H., Gerald E. Fryxell, Benjamin van Rooij, Wei Wang, and Pansy Honying Li. "Explaining the enforcement gap in China: Local government support and internal agency obstacles as predictors of enforcement actions in Guangzhou." Journal of Environmental Management 111 (2012): 227-235. Reprinted in Kramer, Ludwig, ed. Enforcement of Environmental Law. New York: Edward Elgar, 2016.
21. Lora-Wainwright, Anna, Yiyun Zhang, Yunmei Wu, and Benjamin Van Rooij. "Learning to Live with Pollution: The Making of Environmental Subjects in a Chinese Industrialized Village." The China Journal 68 (July 2012): 106-124.
22. Van Rooij, Benjamin, Anna Lora-Wainwright, Yunmei Wu, and Yiyun (Amy) Zhang. "The Compensation Trap: The Limits of Community-Based Pollution Regulation in China." Pace Environmental Law Review 29, no. 3 (2012): 701-745.
23. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "The People Vs. Pollution: Understanding Citizen Action against Pollution in China." The Journal of Contemporary China 19, no. 63 (2010): 55-77.
24. Van Rooij, Benjamin, Lesley McAllister, and Robert A. Kagan (eds.). "Pollution Law Enforcement in Emerging Markets." Law & Policy (Special Edition) 32, no. 1 (2010). (Edited special edition of Law & Policy) 1-179.
25. McAllister, Lesley, Benjamin van Rooij, and Robert A. Kagan. "Introduction, Pollution Law Enforcement in Emerging Markets." Law & Policy 32, no. 1 (2010): 1-13. Reprinted in Kramer, Ludwig, ed. Enforcement of Environmental Law. New York: Edward Elgar, 2016.
26. Van Rooij, Benjamin, and Carlos H. W. Lo. "A Fragile Convergence, Understanding Variation in the Enforcement of China’s Industrial Pollution Law." Law & Policy 32, no. 1 (2010): 14-37. Reprinted in Kramer, Ludwig, ed. Enforcement of Environmental Law. New York: Edward Elgar, 2016.
27. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Greening Industry without Enforcement? An Assessment of the World Bank's Pollution Regulation Model for Developing Countries." Law & Policy 32, no. 1 (2010): 127-52.
28. Lo, Carlos H. W., Gerald E. Fryxell, and Benjamin Van Rooij. "Changes in Enforcement Styles among Environmental Enforcement Officials in China." Environment and Planning A 41 (2009): 2706-23.
29. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "The Return of the Landlord: Chinese Land Acquisition Conflicts as Illustrated by Peri-Urban Kunming." Journal of Legal Pluralism 2007, no. 55 (2007): 211-45.
30. Van Rooij, Benjamin. “Implementation of Chinese Environmental Law: Regular Enforcement and Political Campaigns.” Development and Change 37, no. 1 (2006): 57-74.
31. Van Rooij, Benjamin. “China's War on Graft: Politico-Legal Campaigns against Corruption in China and Their Similarities to the Legal Reactions to Crisis in the U.S.” Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal 14, no. 2 (2005): 289-336.
32. Van Rooij, Benjamin. “Environmental Law Enforcement in Sichuan: Organization and Procedure in Comparative Perspective.” China Information 17, no. 2 (2003): 36-65.
33. Van Rooij, Benjamin. “The enforceability of Chinese water pollution regulation: what room for improvement.” China Perspectives 43 (2002): 40-54.
34. Van Rooij, Benjamin. “Book Review: Robert Heuserand Jan de Graaf (eds.), Umweltschutzrecht der VR China, Gesetze und Analysen, Hamburg: Institut für Asienkunde 2001.” China Information 16, no. 1 (2002): 134-35. Book Chapters
1. Van Rooij, Benjamin, Qiaoqiao Zhu, Na Li, Qiliang Wang, and Xuehua Zhang. 2017. "Pollution Enforcement in China: Understanding National and Regional Variation " Routledge Handbook of Environmental Governance in China, edited by Eva Sternfield. 193-208 London/New York: Routledge, 2017.
2. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "The Campaign Enforcement Style: Chinese Practice in Context and Comparison." In Comparative Law and Regulation: Understanding the Global Regulatory Process, edited by Francesca Bignami and David Zaring, 217-37. London: Edward Elgar, 2016.
3. Van Rooij, B. "Regulation by Escalation: Unrest, Lawmaking, and Law Enforcement in China." In The Politics of Law and Stability in China, edited by Susan Trevaskes, Elisa Nesossi, Flora Sapio and Sarah Biddulph, 83-107. London: Edgar Elden, 2014.
4. Van Rooij, Benjamin, and L. K. McAllister. "Environmental Law Enforcement Alliances in Middle Income Countries." In Law and Development of Middle Income Countries, edited by Tom Ginsburg and R.P. Peerenboom, 288-306. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
5. Lo, Carlos W.H., Gerald E. Fryxell, and Benjamin van Rooij. "Enforcement Styles: Changes Over Time." In Institutions, Regulatory Styles, Society and Environmental Governance in China, edited by C.W.H. Lo and S.Y. Tang, 119-139. New York: Routledge, 2014.
6. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Compliance: Understanding Legal and Social Approaches." In Compliance, The New Development Trend of Global Companies, edited by He Jiang and Zhile Wang, 102-117. Beijing: China Economic Publishing House, 2012.
7. Ubink, J.M., and Benjamin Van Rooij. "Towards Customary Legal Empowerment: An Introduction." In Customary Justice: Perspectives on Legal Empowerment, edited by J.M. Ubink and T. McInerney, 7-27. Rome: International Development Law Organization, 2011.
8. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Regulating Land and Pollution at Lake Dianchi: Lawmaking, Compliance and Enforcement in a Chinese and Comparative Perspective." In Making Law Work, Chinese Laws in Context, edited by M. Burell and M. Svenson, 367-403. New York: Cornell University Press, 2011
9. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Regulatory Compliance: Why Do Enterprises Obey the Law." In Compliance, First Priority in Corporate Responsibilities, edited by Zhile Wang, 64-75. Beijing: China Economic Publishing House, 2010.
10. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Land Loss and Conflict in China, Illustrated by Cases from Yunnan Province." In Land Tenure Legalization, Country Studies and Cases, edited by Janine Ubink, A J Hoekema and Willem Assies. Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2009.
11. Van Rooij, Benjamin. (together with Ping Li, Roy Prosterman, Jianping Ye, and Jian Wu) "Land Reform and Tenure Security in China, History and Current Challenges." In Land Tenure Legalization, Country Studies and Cases, edited by J. Ubink, A.J. Hoekema and W. Assies. Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2009.
12. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Van Rechtsvaccuüm naar Rechtsstaat? Dertig Jaar Rechtshervorming in China " In De Chinese Hervormingen sinds 1978: De Balans en de Toekomst (China's Legal Reforms since 1978: Current Status and Future), edited by W.L. Van Woerkom-Chong and T.W. Ngo, 97-120. Almere: Parthenon, 2008.
13. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "From Party Rule to Rule of Law? Thirty Years of Legal Reform in China." In The Impact of Rule of Law Assistance on the Legal Reform Process in China, edited by Center for International Legal Cooperation. Leiden: CILC, 2008.
14. Van Rooij, Benjamin, Julia Arnscheidt, and Jan Michiel Otto. "Lawmaking for Development: An Introduction." In Lawmaking For Development, edited by Julia Arnscheidt Benjamin van Rooij, and Jan Michiel Otto. Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2008.
15. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Bargaining About the Land Bill, Making Effective Legislation to Protect Arable Land in China." In Lawmaking for Development, edited by J. Arnscheidt, B. Van Rooij and J.M. Otto. Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2008.
16. Van Rooij, Benjamin. “Implementation of Chinese Environmental Law: Regular Enforcement and Political Campaigns.” In China's Limits to Growth, Greening State and Society, edited by Peter Ho and Eduard B. Vermeer, 27-55. London: Blackwell Publishers, 2006.
17. Van Rooij, Benjamin. “Implementing Chinese environmental law through enforcement, the shiwuxiao and shuang ge dabiao campaigns.” In Implementation of law in the People's Republic of China. Edited by Chen, J., J.M. Otto and Y. Li, 149-178. Den Haag: Kluwer Law International, 2002.
18. Van Rooij, Benjamin. “China's system of public administration.” In Implementation of law in the People's Republic of China. Edited by Chen, J., J.M. Otto and Y. Li, 323-342. Den Haag: Kluwer Law International, 2002.
Non-English and Translated Work
1. Van Rooij, Benjamin. 2014. "Bijiao Yanjiu yu Chouyang (Comparative Research and Sampling)." In Falv de Jiangyan Yanjiu Fangfa yu Yingyong (Empirical Research in Law, Methods and Applications), edited by Qiliang Wang and Jianyuan Zhang, 25-35. Beijing: Peking University Press.
2. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Voorbij Pakkans En Strafmaat (Beyond Detection Probablity and Sanction Severity)." Tijdschrift voor criminologie (Dutch Journal For Criminology) 56, no. 3 (2014): 114-20.
3. Van Rooij, Benjamin, and L. K. McAllister. "Xinxing Gongyehua Zhongdengshouru Guojia De Huanjing Zhifa Chuangxin (Environmental Law Enforcement Innovations in Industrializing Middle Income Countries)." Journal of China University of Geosciences (Social Science Edition) 13, no. 5 (2013): 1-11. Re-printed in Renda Fuyin Baokan Ziliao (Shengtai Huanjing yu Baohu) 1 (2013): 81-91.
4. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Zhifa Queshi Kunjingzhong De Lüse Gongye, Dui Shijie Yinhang De Fazhanzhongguojia Wuran Jianguan Moshi Zhi Pingqian (Greening Industry without Enforcement, a Critical Look at the World Bank Model for Pollution Regulation in Developing Countries)." Dongfang Faxue 4 (2012): 134-149. Reprinted in Xinhua Wenzhai, edition 514, vol. 2012, no. 22, (2012): 138-147.
5. Liu, Ben (Van Rooij, Benjamin). "Hegui: Cong falü he shehuixue jiaodu de jiedu (Compliance: An interpretation from the legal and social studies perspective)." In Hegui, Quanqiu Gongsi Fazhan Xin Qushi (Compliance, The New Development Trend of Global Companies), edited by He Jiang and Zhile Wang, 90-101. Beijing: Zhongguo Jingji Chubanshe (China Economic Publishing House), 2012.
6. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Acercar La Justicia a Los Pobres Cooperación De Abajo Hacia Arriba En Las Estrategias Legales (Bringing Justice to the Poor, Bottom-up Legal Development Cooperation)." In La Garantía De Acceso a La Justicia: Aportes Empíricos Y Conceptuales edited by Haydée Birgin and Natalia Gherardi, 187-219. Mexico City: Editorial Fontamara, 2011.
7. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Renmin Duikang Wuran Zhizhan: Renshi Zhongguo Gongmin De Fanwuranxingdong (the People's War against Pollution), a Study of People's Action against Pollution)." In Huanjing Yu Wuran: Kuaxueke Shijiao (Environment and Health: Cross- Disciplinary Perspectives), edited by Jennifer Holdaway, Wang Wuyi, Ye Jingzhong and Zhang Shiqiu, 210-38. Beijing: Social Science Academic Press China, 2010.
8. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Shenmo Shi Falü Fuquan? Guoji Falü Hezuo De Quanli Yu Jiejin Zhengyi (What Is Legal Empowerment? International Legal Development Cooperation and Access to Justice)." Sifa Gaige Lunping (Judicial Reform Review) 12 (2011): 11-25.
9. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Zhiqiongren De Sifa, Zixia Er Shang De Falü Fazhan He Zuo (Justice for the Poor, Bottom-up Legal Development Cooperation)." Hongfan Pinglun 11 (2009): 1-24.
10. Van Rooij, Benjamin. “De Autoritaire Rechtsstaat, Chinees Recht Gevangen in Transitie?” Internationale Spektator, Jaargang 62, no. 3 (March 2008): 135-139.
11. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Van Yi naar Yi: Rechtsbescherming tegen de Overheid in China (From Yi to Yi, Legal Protection Against the Government in China)." Novum 30, no. 10 (2008): 4-6.
12. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Fazhan Yujingxia de Wuran Jianguan, Zhongguo de Lifa, Shoufa yu Zhifa Zhuangkuang ji he qita Guojia de Bijiao Yanjiu (Pollution Regulation in a Context of Development: China's Lawmaking, Compliance and Enforcement Compared to Other Countries)." Hongfan Pinglun (Journal of Legal and Economic Studies) 2007, no. 9 (2007).
13. Van Rooij, Benjamin. “Huanjing Peichangfa, Yi Helan Wei Li De Shehui Faxue Fenxi” (Environmental Compensation Law, Dutch and Socio-Legal Lessons). Keji Yu Faxue (Science, Technology and Law) (2005).
14. Van Rooij, Benjamin. “Falü De Weidu, Cong Kongjianshang Jiedu Falü Shibai” (Law's Dimension, Understanding Legal Failure Spatially) Sixiang Zhanxian (Thinking), no. 4 (2004): 109-17.
15. Van Rooij, Benjamin. “La loi peut-elle contrôler la pollution des eaux? De l'applicabilité et des améliorations possibles de la réglementation chinoise.” Perspectives Chinoises 72, no. 12 (2002): 43-57.
16. Van Rooij, Benjamin. “Van Guanxi naar Guansi, het beslechten van conflicten in China.” China Nu 27 (2002): 20-22.
Policy Notes
1. Ubink, Janine M., and Benjamin van Rooij. Towards Customary Legal Empowerment. Rome: International Development Law Organization, 2010.
2. Van Rooij, Benjamin. Pollution Regulation in Development, Law, Governance and Development: Research and Policy Notes. Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2008.
3. Van Rooij, Benjamin (together with I. van de Meene). Access to Justice and Legal Empowerment, Making the Poor Central in Legal Development Cooperation, Law, Governance and Development; Research and Policy Notes. Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2008.
Lectures, Conference Reports/Panels
2017
1. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Understanding Lesley McAllister's Many Contributions to Pollution Regulation in Developing Countries (Festschrift for Lesley McAllister, UC Hastings, January 5, 2017)." (2017).
2. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Regulatory Disempowerment." Paper presented at the Law and Society Review annual conference in Mexico City (June 23) (2017).
3. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Power and the Role Citizens Play in Regulation." Paper presented at the inaugural conference of the Institute for Governance, Shandong University, Qingdao, July 14 (2017).
4. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Invoking Rights and Preventing Injustice (Guest Lecture in the Course on International Human Rights, Taught by Janine Ubink, Uc Irvine, October 26, 2017)." (2017).
5. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "How to Punish a Corporation (Guest Lecture in the Course on Federal Criminal Law, Taught by Jonathan Glater, Uc Irvine, November 1, 2017)." (2017).
6. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Pollution Victims as Regulators (Guest Lecture in the Course on International Environmental Law, Taught by Joseph Dimento, Uc Irvine, November 16, 2017)." (2017).
7. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "The Invisible Code: How Law Shapes Our Behavior." Book project presented at Workshop on Compliance at Yunnan University, School of Law, July 17 (2017).
8. Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Clean Air without Enforcement? (Paper Presented at the Uc Irvine and Forhead Conference on Air Pollution in China, Science Behind the Headlines, Irvine December 15, 2017)." 2017.
2016
9. (Invited seminar lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "The Politics of Regulation in China. China Law Colloquium, New York University School of Law, November 7, 2016.”
10. (Invited Conference Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Liability and Compliance (Presentation at Workshop on Chinese Private Company Compliance and Social Responsility, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Law, July 17 2016)." (2016).
11. (Invited Conference Keynote Address) Van Rooij, Benjamin. 2016. "Regulatory Empowerment (Keynote Address at the 6th Biannual Meeting of the ECRP Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, Tilburg University), July 7 2016."
12. (Invited Presentation) Van Rooij, Benjamin. 2016. "Citizens and Pollution Regulation in China (at Denver University, Korbel Centre for International Studies at Award Ceremony for best paper in the Journal of Contemporary China, May 4, 2016)."
13. (Invited Presentation) Van Rooij, Benjamin. 2016. "The Risk Regime, Understanding Regulation in China's Guilded Age (at UCLA Extension, May 17 2016)."
14. (Invited Presentation) Van Rooij, Benjamin. 2016. "Why Chinese Obey the Law, Lessons from Compliance Research (Workshop Presentation, Groningen University, Faculty of Law, January 6, 2016)."
15. (Invited Presentation) Van Rooij, Benjamin, and Adam Fine. 2016. "The Psychology of Compliance: Understanding Rule Conditionality (at the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop, UC Irvine, School of Law, January 14)."
16. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. 2016. "How to study compliance behavior (Guest Lecture for Graduate Student Seminar on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, School of Social Ecology, UC Irvine, February 25, 2016)."
2015
17. (Invited Presentation) Van Rooij, Benjamin. 2015. "Trends in Environmental Law Enforcement." at UCLA School of Law, November 12, 2015.
18. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. 2015. "How to research sensitive topics." Peking University School of Law Summer Training Socio Legal Studies July 17.
19. (Invited Presentation) Van Rooij, Benjamin. 2015. "Qualitative and Quantitative Research Strategies." (Invited Lecture) Peking University School of Law Summer Training Socio Legal Studies July 20.
20. (Conference Paper) Van Rooij, Benjamin. 2015. "Centralizing Environmental Enforcement in China?" Paper presented at Brown University workshop on Central Local Relations and Environmental Governance May 15-16.
21. (Conference organizer and introductory speaker) Van Rooij, Benjamin. 2015. "Comparing China: Hopes and Fears of a Rising Power (April 27, 2015 at UC Irvine)."
22. (Conference paper) Benjamin Van Rooij. 2015. "Prosecutorial Regulation in the Global South: Environmental Civil Litigation by Prosecutors in China compared to Brazil." Presentation at Long Institute Workshop on China's New Environmental Actors (March 19 2015).
23. (Invited presentation) Van Rooij, Benjamin. 2015. "Implementing Environmental Law in China." Invited Presentation at the LA Plato Society, May 2, 2015.
24. (Workshop paper) Van Rooij, Benjamin. 2015. "Why Chinese Obey the Law, Insights from the UCI Compliance Research." Presentation at the Long Institute Workshop on "What you must know to protect your intellectual property in China", May 21 2015.
25. (Workshop organizer) Van Rooij, Benjamin. 2015. "What you must know to protect your intellectual property in China." Workshop organized By Long Institute, US Commercial Service and Southern California District Export Council.
2014
26. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "The Authority of Law: China in Comparison." Invited Guest Lecture: OSHER Institute Fullerton Cal State, October 14 (2014).
27. (Conference paper) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Weak Enforcement Strong Deterrence." Paper presented at the University of Michigan annual workshop on China, October 18) (2014).
28. (Conference panel) Pontell, Henry N, Benjamin Van Rooij, and Wim Huisman. "White Collar Crime at 75: White Collar Crime and Compliance in Comparison (Panel Organized at the 2014 American Society for Criminology Conference, November 19)." (2014).
29. (Conference report) Van Rooij, Benjamin, Adam Fine, Yuval Feldman, Shaul Shalvi, Zhang Yanyan, Margerita Leib, Eline Scheper, Wu Yunmei, Qian Cheng, Zhang Wanhong. "Rule Conditionality in Comparative Perspective." Paper presented at the American Society for Criminology annual Conference, San Fransisco, November 19 (2014).
30. (Conference report) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Legal Empowerment of Pollution Victims in Indonesia and China." Conference Paper at the Conference on Legal Empowerment, Power and Regulation, organized by Leiden University and Diponegoro University, Semarang, June 8 (2014).
31. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Why Is Xi Jinping Focusing China's Communist Party on the "Rule of Law"?". Keynote Speech on Workshop on Rule of Law in China, Council For Foreign Relations, New York City, September 16 (2014)
32. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Studying China's Compliance Challenge." Presentation at US-Asia Law Institute, New York University, School of Law, September 18 (2014).
33. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "The Authoritarian Logic of Regulatory Pluralism." Invited Presentation at Nicholas Institute, Duke University, September 19 (2014)
34. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Deterrence without Enforcement? Risk Perceptions of Chinese Lawyers About Tax Evasion." Invited Lecture at Regulatory Institutions Network, Australia National University, Canberra, June 17 (2014).
35. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "How to Study Compliance." Invited Graduate Student Master Class, Australia National University, Canberra, June 18 (2014).
36. (Conference report) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Rights, Regulation and Power." Opening Conference Speech at the Conference on Legal Empowerment, Power and Regulation, organized by Leiden University and Diponegoro University, Semarang, June 10 (2014).
37. (Conference report) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Empowerment and Pollution: Lessons About Power, Access to Justice and Regulation from China." Conference Paper at the Conference on Legal Empowerment, Power and Regulation, organized by Leiden University and Diponegoro University, Semarang, June 10 (2014).
38. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "China's Compliance Challenge." Investiture Lecture accepting the Long Chair in US-China Business and Law, Irvine, April 21 (2014).
39. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "General Duty to Obey the Law in Comparative Perspective." Invited Lecture at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, UC Berkeley, School of Law, March 31 (2014).
40. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Why Chinese Obey the Law, Lessons from China's Legal Service Sector." Invited Lecture at the Long Institute series on Law, Business and Society in China, UC Irvine, March 25 (2014).
41. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin "Towards a Compliance Action Laboratory: Ideas for Comparative Research About How Rules Shape Behavior in China and the Us ". Invited Lecture, UC Irvine Law and Psychology Brown Bag Lunch Series, February 12 (2014).
42. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin "Why Chinese Obey the Law." Invited Lecture at the UC Irvine Law and Psychology Beyond CSI Event, March 10 (2014).
2013
43. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Compliance Challenges and Innovations." Invited Lecture, Fudan University School of Law, Nov 4 (2013).
44. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Comparison and Sampling." Invited Lecture at Yunnan University School of Law, November 7 (2013).
45. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Studying Compliance in China: The Example of Tax Evasion Deterrence Perceptions of Lawyers." Invited Lecture at Hubei Institute for Economics, November 11 (2013).
46. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Corporate Compliance and the Role for Research." Invited lecture at the US-China Legal Exchange, Chapman University, December 9 (2013).
47. Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Deterrence without Enforcement, Dialogues with Chinese Lawyers About Tax Evasion and Compliance." Working Paper Presented at the East Asia Law and Society Meeting, Shanghai, March 23 (2013).
48. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin "Qualitative Legal Research." Invited Presentation at Fudan University, School of Law, March 21, 2013 (2013).
49. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin "Is China Moving Away from Law." Invited Presentation at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Amsterdam University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 10 (2013).
50. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin "Environmental Governance and Authoritarianism in China_." Invited Lecture at the Amsterdam University College, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 24 (2013).
51. (Conference Presentation) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Compliance Innovations and Their Relevance for Intellectual Property Rights." Presentation at the Long Institute Workshop on Compliance and Innovation, Fudan University, Shanghai, November 5 (2013).
52. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin "China's Compliance Challenge." Dinner Lecture at the Amsterdam Centre for Law and Economics Spring Workshop 2013, May 21, 2013 (2013).
2012
53. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Can Law Save China's Environment." Public Lecture at the Long Institute Distinguished Lecture Series, UC Irvine School of Law, September 28 (2012).
54. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "The People's Regulation, Understanding the Role of Citizens in Implementation of Law in China.” Invited Faculty Talk at UC Irvine School of Law, October 1 (2012).
55. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Chinese Environmental Law, an Introduction.” Presented at the NWO-WOTRO Conference on Legal Empowerment of Pollution Victims, Beijing August 23 (2012).
56. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Chinese Law in Historical and Comparative Perspective.” Guest Lecture for the Amsterdam University Faculty of Law, Master Level Course on Introduction to Comparative Law, September 14 (2012).
57. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "China's New Environmental Regulators.” Introductory and Concluding Talk at Amsterdam-Berkeley Conference on China's New Environmental Regulators, Beijing, August 25 (2012).
58. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "The Future of Chinese Studies: Thoughts and Methods." Invited Key Note Speech at the National Graduate Student Conference for Contemporary China, Leiden University, May 24 (2012).
59. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Hybrid Methods in Chinese Urban Studies." Urban Studies Workshop, University of Amsterdam, Department of Urban Studies, May 14 (2012).
60. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Decentered Regulation with Chinese Characteristics." Amsterdam Centre for Law and Economics Workshop Presentation, May 10 (2012).
61. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Secret Europe vs. Secret China, Chinese Lessons about the Concept of Secrecy for the EU." Faculty Seminar Presentation at University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law, April 25 (2012).
62. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Why Chinese Obey the Law? Methodological Insights from a Study in China's Legal Service Sector." Presentation at Columbia University School of Law, April 18(2012).
63. (Conference presentation) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Environmental Law Enforcement Alliances in Middle Income Countries." Paper presented at the Conference on Law and Development of Middle Income Countries, Chicago University, School of Law, April 21(2012).
64. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Empirical Research on Chinese Law in the Netherlands." Invited Presentation at New York University School of Law, April 16 (2012).
65. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Can Law Save China's Environment." Presentation at the Council for Foreign Relations, New York, April 16 (2012).
66. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "The People's Regulation and Lessons About Regulatory Empowerment." Max Weber Programme Workshop "Rights Regulation and Governance: The Path to Development?" European University Institute Florence, April 4, (2012).
67. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "De (on)Rechtsstaat: Eu/China." Invited Lecture at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Amsterdam, March 13 (2012).
68. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Why Chinese Obey the Law: Lawyers and Tax Compliance." Paper presented at the Leuven University Faculty of Law Seminar on Chinese Law, March 2 (2012).
69. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Courts and Lawyers in China." Guest Lecture at Leuven University, School of Law, March 22 (2012).
2011
70. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Enforcement Research in Kunming." Lecture at Yunnan University, School of Law, Kunming, 26 December 2011.
71. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Environmental Public Interest Standing in the Netherlands." Lecture at Renmin University, School of Law, Beijing, China, 3 December 2011.
72. (Workshop presentation) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Co-regulation and its relevance for Chinese Pollution Control." Lecture at the Chinese University of Politics and Law, NWO-WOTRO Stakeholder Workshop, Beijing, China, 2 December 2011.
73. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Compliance, Insights Into Theory and Methodology." Lecture at Tsinghua University, School of Law, Beijing, China, 30 November 2011.
74. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Food and Health in China as a Topic of Social Science." Lecture for the US Science Research Council Workshop on Environment and Health, Beijing, China, 3 November 2011.
75. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "How to study Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement." Lecture at Wuhan University, School of Law, Wuhan, China, 31 October 2011.
76. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Regulatory Governance: The Chinese Perspective." Presentation at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24 May 2011.
77. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Regulation by Escalation: China’s Halfhearted Approach to Involve Citizens in the Implementation of Law." Paper Presented at Erasmus University, Faculty of Law, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 12 May 2011.
78. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "When Harmony May Mean Chaos: A Look at China’s Future Options for Dispute Processing and Stability." Presentation at Leuven University, School of Law, Leuven, Belgium, 2 May 2011.
79. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Community Based Pollution Regulation in China." Presentation at Leuven University, School of Law, Leuven, Belgium, 2 May 2011.
80. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Regulatory Research in China, The Amsterdam Approach.” Lecture for the Center for East Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 23 March 2011.
81. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. “Where the State is still Needed, Pollution Regulation in Developing Countries.” Lecture at Wisconsin Law School, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 23 March 2011.
82. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. “When Beijing is Far Away, Implementing Environmental Law in China.” Lecture at the Wisconsin Law School, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 22 March 2011.
83. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. “Environmental Governance Research in Kunming.” Lecture for the Eigert Program for Environmental Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 21 March 2011.
84. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "The People's Regulation" Inaugural Lecture at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24 February 2011. Available at: Inaugural Lecture Series, Amsterdam University (2011), www.oratiereeks.nl.
85. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Regulatory Dispute Resolution, an Alternative Perspective to Formal-Rational, Harmonizing and Populist Dispute Evaluation Methods in China.” Lecture at the China Academic Dialogue, Clingendael, The Hague, 3 February 2011.
86. (Conference presentation) Van Rooij, B. "Power in Legal Empowerment and Access to Justice, an Analytical Framework.” Paper Presented at the International Seminar on Legal Empowerment and Access to Justice, Amsterdam, 7 February 2011.
87. (Conference Presentation) Van Rooij, B. "Academic and Pracitioner Perspectives on Legal Empowerment and Access to Justice.” Concluding Presentation at the International Conference on Legal Empowerment and Access to Justice, Amsterdam, 8 February 2011.
88. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "Regulatory Governance: The Chinese Perspective.” Presentation at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance, 24 May 2011.
2010
89. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "A Critical View of the World Bank Pollution Regulation Model (Lecture at the NYU Faculty Workshop, New York, December 1, 2010)." (2010).
90. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "China's Headache, Authoritarian Dispute Resolution in a State Capitalist Context (Conference Paper at the American Illness Conference at George Mason University, Alexandria, December 4 2010)." (2010).
91. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "Environmental Health Activism in China (Lecture at the Council for Foreign Relations, New York, November 17)." (2010).
92. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "Huanjing Jianguan De Gongminjuese, Xue Yunnan De Jiaoxun (the Role of Citizens in Environmental Regulation, Lessons from Yunnan), Lecture at Xiamen University, 1 July 2010." (2010).
93. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "Access to Justice in China, an Introduction (Presentation at the Gelatt Dialogue, New York University School of Law, New York, September 7) " (2010).
94. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "Shijieyinhang De Wuranjianguan De Yanjiu (World Bank Research on Pollution Regulation), Paper Presented at the Hongfan Law and Economics Research Institute, Beijing, July 3." (2010).
95. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "Zhifa Yu Yulun, Renshi Meiguo De Zhifa Zhuanxiangxingdong (Enforcement and Popular Opinion, Understanding Us Law Enforcement Campaigns), Lecture at Yunnan University Law School, Kunming, June 28, 2010." (2010).
96. (Conference Report) Van Rooij, B. "Lao Baixing and the Law, the Promise, Reality and Necessity of Citizen-Based Regulation in China (Paper Presented at the 5th European China Law Studies Association Meeting in Kopenhagen June 18)." (2010).
97. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Recht En Onrecht in De Volksrepubliek, Lezing Voor De Juridische Faculteit Der Amsterdamse Studenten, 19 Mei 2010." (2010).
98. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Implementing Regulation in Emerging Markets, Lecture for the Research Group Market Regulation, Amsterdam May 20." (2010).
99. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Activist Acquiescence, Understanding Power, Pollution and Community Based Regulation in China, Lecture at the European China Discussion Group, Leiden April 22." (2010).
100. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, Benjamin. "Recht En Bestuur in China, Een Introductie, Lezing Voor De China Comenius Leergang 2010, Leiden April 16." (2010).
2009
101. (Invited Lecture) van Rooij, B. "Recent Developments in Environmental Law Practice in China, Lecture at the Flemish Association for Environmental Law, Brusseles 16 May 2009." (2009).
102. (Invited Lecture) van Rooij, B. "Adversarialism with Chinese Characteristics: Pollution Enforcement Changes between 1998 and 2006." Seminar Lecture at the Rotterdam School of Management, March 17 2009, Rotterdam (2009).
103. (Conference Report) van Rooij, B. "Legal Empowerment of Pollution Victims in Indonesia, Lecture at the NWO-WOTRO Sponsored Workshop organized together with the Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, 19 and 20 January, 2009." (2009).
104. (Conference Report) van Rooij, B. "Legal Empowerment of Pollution Victims in China, Lecture at the NWO-WOTRO Sponsored Workshop organized together with the Chinese University of Politics and Law, Beijing, 16 and 17 January, 2009." (2009).
2008 105. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "From Party Rule to Rule of Law? Three decades of Legal Reform in China " Paper Presented at the Centre of International Legal Cooperation Seminar on Legal Reform and Development Cooperation in China, Leiden, January 25 (2008).
106. (Conference Report) Van Rooij, B. "A Tale of Two Factories: Citizen Action against Pollution in China", Paper Presented at the Social Science Research Council Workshop on Environment and Health in China, 18 April 2008, Hong Kong. (2008).
107. (Conference Report) Van Rooij, B. "The Future of China's Legal Reforms", Paper presented at the Clingendael Institute Seminar on the Future of China's Reforms, 22 August 2008, The Hague. (2008).
108. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "De Evolutie van het Wetgevingsproces in China, Milieuwetgeving sinds de jaren negentig (The Evolution of the Lawmaking Process in China, Environmental Legislation Since the Nineties) ", Lecture at the Lawmaking Academy, The Hague, 29 May 2008. (2008).
109. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "Interventies in het recht in ontwikkelingslanden, een inleiding (Interventions in Law in Developing Countries, An Introduction) ", Lecture for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 24 June 2008. (2008).
110. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "Access to Justice en juridische ontwikkelingssamenwerking (Access to Justice and Legal Development Cooperation) ", Lecture for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 26 June 2008. (2008).
111. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "Rule of Law and Development, An Introduction", Lecture at the Foreign Affairs Training Program for "Het Klasje", Leiden Campus The Hague, The Hague, 16 July 2008. (2008).
112. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "A Comparative Look at Chinese Pollution Regulation." Lecture at New York University, Law School, New York, 17 November 2008 (2008).
113. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "Understanding Pollution Law Enforcement in China." Lecture at New York University, Law School, New York, 19 November 2008 (2008).
114. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "Environmental Law Enforcement in China: A Dynamic View on Changes between 1998 and 2006." Presentation at Columbia University Law School, New York, 19 November 2008 (2008).
115. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "Enforcing China’s Environmental Law: Options, Experience, and Prospects." Lecture and Panel Discussion at the Asia Society and Council for Foreign Relations, New York, 21 November 2008 (2008).
116. (Conference Report) Van Rooij, B. "Regulatory Enforcement and Compliance in China, Understanding the Role of the State, Society and the Market." Presentation at the EU-China Co-Reach Conference on Social Scientific Research Collaboration, Beijing, 15 May 2008 (2008).
117. (Conference Report) Van Rooij, B. "Improving Justice for the Poor, Bottom-up Approaches to Legal Development Cooperation." Paper Presented at the Renmin University Conference Celebrating Thirty Years of Legal Reform in China, Beijing, 12 May 2008 (2008).
118. (Conference Report) Van Rooij, B. "The People vs. Pollution, The role of citizens in industrial pollution regulation in China." Paper presented at the Colloquium on Environmental Politics in China, Manchester University, Manchester, 4 December 2008 (2008).
119. (Conference Report) Van Rooij, B. "A Fragile Convergence, Understanding Variation in Pollution Law Enforcement in China 2000-2006." Paper Presented at the Research Seminar Series, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Faculty of Business, Hong Kong, 12 October 2008 (2008).
2007
120. (Conference report) Van Rooij, B. "Greening Industry? An Assessment of the World Bank's New Pollution Regulation Model for Developing Countries." Paper Presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Berlin, July 28 (2007).
121. (Conference Report and Working Paper) Van Rooij, B. "Bringing Justice to the Poor, Bottom- Up Approaches to Legal Development Cooperation." Paper Presented at the Law and Society Conference, Berlin, July 26 (2007), made public by the World Bank: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTJUSFORPOOR/Resources/VanRooijBringingJusticet othePoor.pdf.
122. (Conference Report) Van Rooij, B. "The Politics of Law in China Enforcement Campaigns in the Post-Mao PRC." Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the European China Law Studies Association, Hamburg, August 31 (2007).
123. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "Civil Law in Action: Socio-Legal Approaches to Land Rights and Pollution Compensation in China." Paper Presented at the Symposium on “The culture of civil law in China”, Organized by Center for International Legal Cooperation in Leiden, 19 June (2007).
124. (Conference Report) Van Rooij, B. "Land Loss and Conflict in China, Illustrated with cases from Yunnan." Paper Presented at the Conference of the NWO-SARO Research Project on Land Legalization, Leiden, September 26 (2007).
125. (Invited Lecture) Van Rooij, B. "De Regulatie van Grond en Vervuiling in China (Land and Pollution Regulation in China)." Paper Presented at a special session of the Dutch Environmental Law Association, Utrecht, September 20 (2007).
126. (Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. “Shizheng Faxue, Anzhao Yunnan de Tianye Diaocha kan Zhongguo Dangdai de Fa Shehuixue (Empirical Legal Studies, Experiences with Fieldwork in Yunnan Province and Insights about Contemporary Sociology of Law in China)” North-West University of Politics and Law, Faculty of Law, Jurisprudence Department, Xi’an, April 10.
127. (Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. “Fazhan Yujingxia de Wuran Jianguan, Zhongguo de Lifa, Shoufa yu Zhifa Zhuangkuang ji he qita Guojia de Bijiao Yanjiu (Pollution Regulation in a Context of Development: China's Lawmaking, Compliance and Enforcement Compared to Other Countries).” Hongfan, MILES Institute of Legal and Economics Studies, Beijing, April 14.
128. (Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. “Tongguo Lifa yu Zhifa Baohu Gengdi, Daqi yu Shui Ziyuan: Dui Difang Shoufa de Yingxiang, Zhongguo he Bijiaoxingde Guandian (Protecting Land, Air and Water through Lawmaking and Enforcement: The Local Impact on Compliance in a Chinese and Comparative Perspective)” Renmin University, Faculty of Law, Jurisprudence and Environmental Law Departments, Beijing China, April 16.
129. (Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. “Land and Pollution Regulation in South-West China.” Guest Lecture at the Department of Chinese Languages and Cultures, February 2, 2007 (2007).
130. (Invited Lectures): Van Rooij, B. and J. Ubink “Governance and the Legal Framework” Series of Guest Lectures at the F.H.R. Lim A Po Institute, Paramaribo, Suriname, 2-10 January (2007)
2006
131. (Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. “Lawmaking, Compliance and Enforcement: Learning from Lake Dianchi.” Guest Lecture at the Faculty of Law, Yunnan University, Kunming, China, 14 April, 2006.
132. (Invited lecture): Van Rooij, B. “How to use law against pollution and arable land loss: Lessons from Yunnan.” Guest Lecture at China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, 29 November 2006.
133. (Conference Report): Van Rooij, B. “The Return of the Landlord, Chinese Land Acquisition Conflicts and Tenure Security illustrated by Peri-Urban Kunming.” Paper Presented at the Conference of the Commission of Legal Pluralism and Folk Law, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Jakarta, 1 July, 2006.
134. (Conference Report): Van Rooij, B. “A Case Study of Chinese Land Acquisition Conflicts and Tenure Security.” Paper Presented at the Workshop for the project "The Mystery of Legal Failure? A Critical, Comparative Examination of the Potential of Legalization of Land Assets in Developing Countries for Achieving Legal Certainty", Leiden University, 10 May, 2006.
135. (Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. “Regulating Land and Pollution in Peri-Urban Kunming.” Guest Lecture at the Faculty of Public Administration, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 19 April, 2006.
136. (Conference Report): Van Rooij, B. “Proces en Kwaliteit van Milieuwetgeving in China.” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Dutch Association for Social Scientific Study of Law, Doorn, 7-8 December, 2006.
137. (Conference Report): Van Rooij, B. “Implementation of Law: Comparative Lessons About Regulatory Law drawn from Lake Dianchi.” Paper Presented at the Workshop on Making Law Work: Law Implementation in China, organized in Beijing, by the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2-3 December, 2006.
138. (Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. “Implementation of Pollution Prevention and Land Regulation in Peri-Urban Kunming.” Guest Lecture at the Faculty of Law, Leuven University, 15 May, 2006.
139. (Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. "Studying Compliance and Violation at Lake Dianchi." Guest Lecture at the Criminology Department, Leiden University, 15 June, 2006.
2005
140. (Conference Report): Van Rooij, B. “Why Implementation Has Failed. Lawmaking, Compliance and Enforcement of Pollution and Arable Protection Law in South-West China”, Paper Presented at the Focus Asia Lectures, Legal and Social Justice in Modern China, Lund Sweden, November 24.
141. (Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. “De Implementatie van Chinees Milieurecht”, Lecture at the Studiekring Ontwikkelingsvraagstukken, Koninklijke Landbouwkundige Vereniging, Wageningen, December 7
142. (Conference Report): Van Rooij, B. “Protecting Land, Air and Water, Implementation of Natural Resource Protection Law in Peri-Urban China, Posterpresentatie” Poster presented at the Conference of the Vereniging Sociaalwetenschappelijke bestudering van Recht (VSR), Hoeven, December 9.
143. (Conference Report): Van Rooij, B. "Implementation of Chinese Environment law - Regular Enforcement, Political Campaigns and Lessons for Law and Development" Paper presented at the European Association of Development Institutes, Working Group on Law and Development, 11th Conference on Insecurity and Development, Bonn, September 21-24.
144. (Invited Lectures): Van Rooij, B. and J. Ubink “Governance and the Legal Framework” Series of Guest Lectures at the F.H.R. Lim A Po Institute, Paramaribo, Suriname, 14-22 June (2005)
2004
145. (Conference Report): Van Rooij, B. “Towards Compliance: Recommendations for Chinese Environmental Law Enforcement.” Paper Presented at the Enrich Conference, Setting the Agenda for China's Environmental Reform: Past, Present and Future Trends, Tsinghua University, Beijing June 6-7 (2004).
146. (Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. “The Implementation of Pollution Prevention and Arable Land Protection Law in Peri-Urban Kunming”. Guest Lecture at the Academic Forum of the Environmental Resources and Energy Law Research Institute, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 14 December.
147. (Invited Lectures): Van Rooij, B. “Anthropology of Law”, Guest Lecture Series (sixty hours) for PhD Students at the Faculty of Law at Yunnan University, 1 March-15 June.
148. (Working Paper): Van Rooij, B. (2004) “Enhancing Environmental Protection Law, Political Enforcement Campaigns in China 2001-2002.” Van Vollenhoven Research Report 04, no. 5 (2004). 1-25
149. (Conference Report): Van Rooij, B. “Environmental Compensation Law: Dutch and Socio- Legal Lessons.” International Symposium on Legislation for Environmental Damage Compensation, China University of Politics and Law, Beijing August 15 (2004): 193-208.
150. (Working Paper): Van Rooij, B. (2004) “Towards Compliance: Recommendations for Chinese Environmental Law Enforcement.” Van Vollenhoven Research Report 04, no. 6 (2004): 1-39.
2003
151. (Conference Report): Van Rooij, B. “China's War on Graft, Politico-Legal Campaigns against Corruption in China and their Lessons for the Regulatory State.” Paper Presented at the EIAS Conference on Taiwan and China in the Global Communities, 21 October, Leiden (2003).
152. (Conference Report): Van Rooij, B. “Environmental Law Inspection Agents in China.” Paper Presented at the Aladin Workshop, Utrecht, April 26 (2003).
153. (Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. “Environmental Law Enforcement in China.” Guest Lecture at the Royal Dutch Embassy in Beijing, March 27(2003).
154. Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. “Helan Falü Tixi yu Huanjingfa Jieshao. (The Dutch Legal System and an Introduction to Environmental Law)” Guest Lecture at the Faculty of Law, Yunnan University, 8 March (2003).
155. (Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. “Is China Developing a Rule of Law? Lessons from Environmental Law Enforcement Campaigns.” Guest Lecture at the Department of Chinese Languages and Cultures, February 5 (2003).
2002
156. (Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. “Helan Huanjingfa Tixi yu Wushuichulichang de Juti Yaoqiu (The Dutch System of Environmental Law and the Specific Requirements for Water Treatment Plants).” Guest lecture for the Suining Environmental Protection Bureau and Water Treatment Plant Staff. Suining, Sichuan, China. 15 July 2002.
157. (Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. “Huanjing Lifa yu Jingjifazhan (Environmental Legislation and Economic Development).” Guest lecture for the Honors Class in Sustainable Development at the Electronic Science University Chengdu. Chengdu, Sichuan, China. 12 July
158. (Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. “Structurele Problemen van Milieurechtshandhaving in China. (Structural Problems in Environmental Law Enforcement in China)”, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Guest lecture for teachers of a VROM project about law enforcement in China. 22 October 2002.
159. (Invited Lecture): Van Rooij, B. “The Enforcement of Environmental Law in China.” Lecture at the Meijers Institute, Faculty of Law, Leiden University. 25 February 2002.
160. (Conference Report): Van Rooij, B., “Double pressure on enforcement”, Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the VSR, Vereniging Sociaal-Wetenschappelijke bestudering van het Recht, Bergen aan Zee. 12 December 2002.
161. (Conference Report): Van Rooij, B. “China's Legal Tradition, Changing Perceptions of Law and Legal Practice in Imperial China.” Paper presented at the Early Law, Symposium on the Origins of Legal Development, Leiden 2002.
2001
162. (Conference Report): Bedner, A.W., Van Rooij, B. “Deciding on Enforcement, a theoretical study of why enforcement agents in developing countries initiate enforcement actions upon complaints of violations of EP law.” Paper presented at the INSELA Conference on Environmental Disputes and Enforcement of Environmental Law in Indonesia, Leiden 2001.
163. (Conference Report): Van Rooij, B. “The Enforceability of Chinese Water Pollution Regulation, Feasible possibilities for improvement?” Paper presented at the International Seminar on Environmental and Resources Law, organized by Wuhan University and Fujian University, Fuzhou, China, October 26-30, 2001.
164. (Invited Lectures): Van Rooij, B. “Environmental Law and Indicators for the Quality of Legislation”, series of guest lectures at Sichuan University, September-November, 2001.