In spring 2020, CAP is hosting two Writing Program presentations. During the talks, each participant will present their research findings, and attendees will have the opportunity to provide feedback and suggestions.
Lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend one or more of the talks, please RSVP here to ensure that we have enough food available.
Upcoming lunches are:
- Monday, February 24, 2020
- Monday, March 2, 2020
Contact CAP Visiting Researchers and Scholars Program Coordinator Mary Welstead, [email protected], with questions.
Rethinking The Global Governance of Migrant Domestic Workers: A Heterodoxy Case of Informal Filipina Workers in China
Discussion with Yiran Zhang, Harvard Law School S.J.D. Candidate
Monday, Feb. 24, 2020
12:00 – 1:00 PM
23 Everett Street
CAP Suite, G-24
Harvard Law School
Paper Topic:
This research involves in the debate about the global governance of foreign domestic workers through an ethnographic study of undocumented Filipina domestic workers in China. From the perspective of this underrepresented group, I reflect on the current agenda of formalization as well as the conceptualization of the worker as advanced by transnational activists. Counterintuitively, this group of Filipina workers are working against a ban on foreign domestic workers in China but earning the highest wages in Asia and arguably the least bad working conditions for migrant domestic workers, including long weekly rest hours and independent lodgings. In this presentation, I am going to explore the power dynamic among the Filipina care provider, her employer, and the child inside the household against the background of an informal market. I am also going to introduce the workers’ relations with her own child(ren) in their home country and with each other, and its implications to the informal economy.
Biography:
Yiran Zhang is an S.J.D. Candidate at Harvard Law School and a Graduate Student Associate at Harvard University Asia Center. Her research projects use ethnographic methods to study the distributional effect of law in the context of informal economy and labor migration, with a focus on Asia. Her research interest also includes the economics of family, the relationship between family and market, and the political economy of care work. Her past work has appeared in UCLA Women’s Law Journal. Yiran holds an LL.B. from Tsinghua University and has graduated from Harvard Law School’s LL.M. program.
A Proposal for Juveniles’ Interrogation Reform
A Discussion with Apirat Kraisiridej, HLS LL.M Candidate
Monday, March 2, 2020
12:00 – 1:00 PM
23 Everett Street
CAP Suite, G-24
Harvard Law School
Paper Topic:
From the research of false confessions conducted by Steven Drizin and Richard Leo in 2004, it was revealed that 62 percent of confessors in 125 proven false confessions cases were under the age of 25, while 35 percent of them were under the age of 18. These disproportionate rates alerted the public to problems with the Reid Technique which police used to interrogate both adults and juveniles. States spend a large amount of money in criminal justice processes including putting innocent youth in custody and later paying compensation to young people for the justice system’s mistakes. This paper explores problems with the use of the Reid Technique and suggests possible alternatives based on neuroscientific arguments, constitutional doctrines, and comparative legal analysis.
Biography:
Apirat Kraisiridej is an LL.M. Student from Thailand at Harvard Law school (LL.M. expected 2020). She received a scholarship from the government of Thailand to study and conduct extensive research in the area of juvenile justice. Upon completion of her LL.M. degree, she hopes to use her knowledge to advocate for juvenile justice reform in Thailand.