Join Shitong Qiao, Professor of Law and Ken Young-Gak Yun and Jinah Park Yun Research Scholar, for a celebration of his new book The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China (Cambridge University Press, 2025: https://duke.is/y/8682). Based on extensive fieldwork across China, this book provides an ethnographic account of how Chinese homeowners practice democracy in and beyond their condominium complexes. Jedediah Purdy, Raphael Lemkin Distinguished Professor of Law, will moderate the discussion.

Join Professor James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Law, for a celebration of his forthcoming book, The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood (publisher description at https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049160/the-line/). The new title explores how technological developments in artificial intelligence challenge our concept of personhood, and of "the line" we believe separates our species from the rest of the world but that also separates "persons" with legal rights from objects.