Profile

Biography:
A.B., Radcliffe College (Harvard University)
J.D., University of Hawaii
Ph.D., Harvard University

Professor Josephs is the Dean’s Distinguished Research Scholar of Asian Law. She has published articles on labor law, international law, foreign investment and comparative law. She is the author of Labor Law in China and the co-author of The Global Workplace – International and Comparative Employment Law: Cases and materials. 

Professor Josephs earned an A.B. from Radcliffe College and a J.D. from the University of Hawaii. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her doctorate studies focused on East Asian languages and civilizations with a specialization in Chinese history and literature. 

Prior to her teaching career, Professor Josephs clerked for the Supreme Court of Hawaii and spent several years in private practice in New York City as a corporate attorney. 

She has served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, American Society of Comparative Law; as Chair, Comparative Law Section, American Association of Law Schools; as External Examiner for the University of Hong Kong Law Department; and as External Reviewer, Hong Kong Research Grants Council. She was elected to membership in the International Academy of Comparative Law in 2000.
    

Courses:

LAW 774:Chinese Law

Courses for spring 2011 Chinese Law and International & Comparative Labor & Employment Law

Publications:

THE GLOBAL WORKPLACE: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE EMPLOYMENT LAW – UPDATES (with ROGER BLANPAIN et al.) (2008 - 2009), http://www.luc.edu/law/faculty/globalwork/updates.html.