Earlier this week in New York I heard a panel of experts discuss President Xi Jinping's vicious attack on China's human rights lawyers. I was struck with the parallel to Harvey Weinstein's sexual abuse of women in Hollywood. In both cases, powerful executives abused vulnerable victims and were aided by a culture of enablers: people who facilitated the abuses and those who knew but kept silent.

Nonlawyers are rarely able to protect properly their own legal rights.

Professor Roderick Hills eloquently defends the conduct of U.S. universities in China.

A powerful critque of my article on western universities in China

The presence of Western universities in China is on the rise, but they are not following UN principles on corporate social responsibility.

NYU law professor Roderick Hills says "that freedom of speech at NYU-Shanghai might be greater than at NYU-Washington Square or other schools on American soil.''

Does the silence of U.S. universities in China in the face of human rights abuses legitimize a government that oppresses its citizens? 

Despite political pressures, foreign firms can give valuable moral support to public interest lawyers in China. 

President Obama presented the assasination by drone as a victory in the war on terrorism, but was it justice?

The controversy surrounding the American Bar Association’s decision not to publish the memoirs of famed  human rights activist Teng Biao allegedly because it feared angering the Chinese government and jeopardizing its programs in the country points to a universal problem facing foreign businesses and organizations working in China. When are moral compromises appropriate?