Sida Liu
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law
3460 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 262-2082
sidaliu@ssc.wisc.edu
Office Hours: TR 11-12 (Fall'09)
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications:
Books:
Liu, Sida. 2008. The Lost Polis: Transformation of the Legal Profession in Contemporary China. Beijing: Peking University Press. (In Chinese)
Articles:
Liu, Sida, and Terence C. Halliday. 2009. “Recursivity in Legal Change: Lawyers and Reforms of China’s Criminal Procedure Law.” Law & Social Inquiry 34(4), forthcoming in December 2009.
Liu, Sida. 2008. “Globalization as Boundary-Blurring: International and Local Law Firms in China’s Corporate Law Market.” Law & Society Review 42(4): 771-804.
Liu, Sida. 2006. “Client Influence and the Contingency of Professionalism: The Work of Elite Corporate Lawyers in China.” Law & Society Review 40(4): 751-782.
Liu, Sida. 2006. “Beyond Global Convergence: Conflicts of Legitimacy in a Chinese Lower Court.” Law & Social Inquiry 31(1): 75-106.
Education:
PhD, University of Chicago, 2009
Areas of Interest:
General Social Theory
Organizational and Occupational Analysis
Political Sociology
Sociology of Economic Change and Development
Sociology of Law and Society
Affiliations:
Center for East Asian Studies
Law School
Sociology
Research Interest Statement:
My current research interests focus on the historical change, social structure, and political mobilization of the legal profession. In the past several years, I have conducted extensive research on the Chinese legal profession as an empirical case for understanding how social structures such as professions, market, and the state are produced by two general social processes, boundary-work and exchange. Meanwhile, I have also started a collaborative project with Terence C. Halliday on the everyday work and political mobilization of Chinese lawyers in the criminal justice system. Methodologically, I am mostly interested in the shape of social structures and how they transform over time, and I use a combination of interviews, participant observation and archival research to investigate the various processes of social change in the legal system and beyond.