Economics & Business Faculty
Walter Hutchens

Walter Hutchens
Associate Professor
300 W. Hawthorne Road
Spokane, WA 99251
Phone: (509) 777-4442 Fax: (509) 777-3723
Office Location: Weyerhaeuser Hall 310 E
E-mail: whutchens@whitworth.edu

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Education:
J.D. Washington University
M.A. Washington University
B.A. Samford University

Year Joined Whitworth Faculty:  2007

Areas of Specialization / Expertise:
Comparative commercial law, particularly the impact of corporate and securities law on the development of stock markets, venture capital and technological innovation in China

Selected Publications / Presentations / Honors:

Appeared on or provided background information for and quoted in:

"China: Why Western B-Schools Are Leaving: Red tape, difficult partners, and weak demand have Western universities closing executive MBA programs" in Business Week (commented on trends in development of foreign-sponsored MBA programs in China, 2008).

"An American College in China Struggles to Deliver" in Chronicle of Higher Education (commented on difficulties in cross-border provision of higher education services in China, 2008).

Stock Fever segment on television program "Dialogue" (discussed turbulence in China's stock markets as guest on national current-affairs talk show on CCTV-9, China's main English language network, 2007).

Publications include: "Reform and Revolution in China's Securities Markets" in Xin Caijing (2004); "Funding China's Growth: Will the New Securities Investment Funds Law Help?" in China Law and Practice (Dec.-Jan. 2003-04); a law-review article, "Private Securities Litigation in the People's Republic of China: Material Disclosure about China's Legal System?" in University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law (2003).

Cited in publications including Far Eastern Economic ReviewBusiness Week, Chronicle of Higher Education, Asian Wall Street Journal, Fortune, China Economic Review, The Straits Times, and the South China Morning Post.

Presentations include: panelist, "China’s Capital Markets," at 2009 Wharton China Business Forum; "A Comparative Look at Stock Markets" for the Financial Media Institute, Fudan University School of Journalism (2006); "Doing Business in China: New Developments," a workshop presented as part of Zurich MBA Forum (2006); "Establishing a Legal Framework for Derivatives in China," presented as part of a panel, "Legal and Regulatory Framework for Promoting Derivatives Markets" held at the China Financial Derivatives Forum, Shanghai (2005); "Three Exhibits in China’s Jurassic Park: China's Rules on IPOs, Private Securities, Litigation and Charitable Trusts" presented to the Workshop on Chinese Legal Reform, The China Law Center, Yale Law School (2004).

Served as program manager for the University of Minnesota School of Law Summer Program in China for U.S. J.D. students (May-June 2007).



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