Writing, Publishing, and Building a Career in the American Legal Academy as an International Scholar
This talk reflects on the journey of a Chinese legal scholar entering, navigating, and eventually joining the American legal academy as a tenured law professor. It uses that journey as a window into the often-hidden structure of American legal academia: how scholarly ideas travel across legal systems, how American law reviews evaluate and shape legal scholarship, and how foreign-trained scholars can turn comparative and international perspectives into intellectual strengths.
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Abstract
The talk will focus on three questions. First, how can an international scholar develop ideas that are rooted in their own intellectual background while still speaking to American legal audiences? Second, how does the distinctive world of American law reviews work, including article selection, manuscript positioning, submission strategy, and revision for a U.S. readership? Third, what does it take to build an academic career in the United States, from visiting positions and VAPs to tenure-track hiring and the transition from early-career scholar to tenured professor?
Bio
Henry Zhuhao Wang is the Mason Ladd Professor of Law at Florida State University College of Law, where he teaches and writes in the areas of evidence, civil procedure, dispute resolution, and comparative legal procedures. He previously taught at China University of Political Science and Law from 2012 to 2022.
Professor Wang’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in leading U.S. flagship law journals, including the Texas Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, UC Irvine Law Review, Utah Law Review, Colorado Law Review, Denver Law Review, and Nevada Law Journal. His recent work examines the structure and function of evidence law, the role of inference rules in adjudication, the relationship between evidentiary rules and alternative dispute resolution, and the adaptation of procedural and evidentiary systems across different adjudicative contexts.
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