East Asian Legal Studies Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School

The University of Wisconsin Law School's East Asian Legal Studies Center (EALSC) is pleased to invite you to "The Struggle for Religious Freedom in China," taking place at 12 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, in the Law School's Lubar Commons (Room 7200). The program will feature Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Johnson and socio-legal scholar Terence Halliday, and will be moderated by Law School Professor and EALSC Associate Director Franciska Coleman. 

One of the world's most acute observers of religion in today's China, Johnson has lived for extended periods with China's underground Christian church members, rural Daoists and Buddhist pilgrims. He distilled these and many other experiences into a popular account of religious revival in China today titled, "The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao."

Halliday specializes in the fields of globalization and law, serves as a research professor at the American Bar Foundation, and as an adjunct professor of sociology at Northwestern University. In the course of his research on the legal profession in China, Halliday has interviewed many human rights lawyers, including those whose work centers on the defense of the rights of Chinese Christians.