The Columbia University Club of Belgium is pleased to invite you to a dinner with Professor Benjamin L. Liebman, Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Intellectual Life at Columbia Law School, on Thursday 11 June 2026, 19:30 hrs, in Brussels.

Benjamin L. Liebman leads Columbia Law School Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies, the first institution of its kind at a U.S. law school. The center prepares students to take on leadership roles in Chinese law and provides them with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in China’s rapidly changing legal environment.

We would be delighted to bring together a small group (maximum around 15 participants) for what we expect to be an engaging and informal evening.

Further details, including the venue and price, will follow shortly. In the meantime, it would be very helpful if you could already express your interest in attending this event by replying to this email, as it will help us shape the arrangements. We appreciate participation will depend on the final details (location, price), so any expression of interest at this stage would be entirely non‑binding.

Many thanks in advance, and we hope to see you at the dinner.

Professor Benjamin L. Liebman biography

Widely known as a preeminent scholar of contemporary Chinese law, Liebman studies Chinese court judgments, the roles of artificial intelligence and big data in the Chinese legal system, Chinese tort law, Chinese criminal procedure, and the evolution of China’s courts. His research has covered diverse topics in Chinese law over the years, ranging from leniency in criminal law to medical dispute resolution and securities markets.

In 2015, Liebman published Regulating the Visible Hand: The Institutional Implications of Chinese State Capitalism (Oxford University Press, with Curtis J. Milhaupt), which explores how extensive state intervention and participation drives China’s evolving economy—a critical contribution to the discourse surrounding China’s recent economic transformations.

Professor Liebman also serves as the director of the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law.

Prior to joining the Law School’s faculty in 2002, Liebman was an associate in the London and Beijing offices of Sullivan & Cromwell. He also previously served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter and Judge Sandra Lynch of the 1st Circuit.