Sida Liu
3460 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 262-2082
sidaliu@ssc.wisc.edu
Office Hours: W 10-12 (Spr'13)
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications:
Books:
Liu, Sida. 2011. The Logic of Fragmentation: An Ecological Analysis of the Chinese Legal Services Market. Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Publishing Co. (In Chinese)
Liu, Sida. 2008. The Lost Polis: Transformation of the Legal Profession in Contemporary China. Beijing: Peking University Press. (In Chinese)
Articles:
Liu, Sida. 2013. "The Legal Profession as a Social Process: A Theory on Lawyers and Globalization." Law & Social Inquiry, forthcoming in Spring 2013.
Liu, Sida. 2012. "Palace Wars over Professional Regulation: In-House Counsel in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises." Wisconsin Law Review 2012: 549-571.
Liu, Sida, and Terence C. Halliday. 2011. "Political Liberalism and Political Embeddedness: Understanding Politics in the Work of Chinese Criminal Defense Lawyers." Law & Society Review 45(4): 831-865.
Liu, Sida. 2011. "Lawyers, State Officials, and Significant Others: Symbiotic Exchange in the Chinese Legal Services Market." China Quarterly 206: 276-293.
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): 911-950.
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:
Comparative-Historical Sociology
Deviance, Law, and Social Control
Economic Change and Development
Economic Sociology
General Social Theory
Law and Society
Organizational and Occupational Analysis
Political Sociology
Qualitative Methods
Social Movements and Collective Behavior
Affiliations:
Sociology
Center for East Asian Studies
Law School
Research Interest Statement:
My current research interests focus on the historical change, social structure, political mobilization, and globalization of the legal profession. 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 social processes such as boundary work, exchange, and migration. Meanwhile, I am working on a collaborative project with Terence C. Halliday on the political mobilization of Chinese lawyers in the criminal justice system. I also wrote on other socio-legal topics such as lower court justice and the corporate law market. Methodologically, I am mostly interested in the shape of social structures and how they transform over time. Besides my empirical work on Chinese lawyers, I have been developing a processual theory of the legal profession and a "powerless" approach to the sociology of law along the Simmelian tradition of social geometry.