Professor Woo teaches civil procedure, administrative law and comparative law. In 1997, she was named the law school's Distinguished Professor of Public Policy. She is also a faculty director for the law school's Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy. Professor Woo has published and spoken widely on China's legal reform. She is a former fellow of the Bunting Institute (Radcliffe College) and is presently an associate of the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard University. She has received many prestigious grants from a variety of organizations, including the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation, and is on the Senior Scholar Roster for the Fulbright Scholars Program. She is the co-editor of East Asian Law: Universal Norms and Local Culture (Routledge, 2003), and Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China (Cambridge University Press, 2011). She is also coauthor of Litigating in America: Civil Procedure in Context (Aspen Publishing, 2006). Professor Woo has served on the board of trustees for numerous organizations, including for the Brown Club of Boston, Harry Dow Legal Assistance Fund, and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Articles
Brief of amici curiae: the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, National AIDS Housing Coalition, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, National Health Care for the Homeless Council, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, Urban Justice Center and Wild for Human rights in support of respondents regarding medicaid expansion, in the Supreme Court of the United States, State of Florida, et al., v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al., on Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 11-400 (with Martha F. Davis and Risa E. Kaufman), School of Law Faculty Publications (2012)
This amicus brief was filed before the Supreme Court in the Medicaid Expansion portion of...
Civil justice in China: an empirical study of courts in three provinces, School of Law Faculty Publications (2005)
This article offers a comparative study of legal reforms among different provinces in China. China...
Law, development and the socio-economic rights of Chinese women, School of Law Faculty Publications (2005)
How has the complex interaction of markets, law and development added or subtracted to the...
Shaping citizenship: chinese family Law and women, School of Law Faculty Publications (2003)
Current law-and-development literature overwhelmingly urges the privatization of the economy and the establishment of a...