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Mary Szto

Associate Professor
Email: mszto01@hamline.edu
Phone: 651-523-2850

 

B.A, Wellesley College (1981)
International Rotary Fellow, Chinese University, New Territories, Hong Kong (1981-1982)
M.A., Westminster Theological Seminary (1983)
J.D., Columbia University School of Law (1986)

 


View Professor Szto's research: SSRN Author Page -- Mary Szto


Professor Szto teaches Contracts, Property, Torts, Business Organizations, and seminars in Chinese law, and race and the law. Her recent scholarship focuses on gender and the Chinese legal profession, and the relationship between traditional Chinese ritual and law. She is co-authoring two books on Chinese law for Carolina Academic Press.


She has also served on the faculties of Pepperdine and Regent Law Schools and spent time as a visiting professor at Hofstra, Santa Clara, Suffolk, Touro, the University of Detroit Mercy, and Xiamen University (China) Law Schools. Prior to entering teaching, Szto practiced commercial law in New York City and co-founded a legal aid organization.

 

Publications


Dual Real Estate Agents and the Double Duty of Loyalty, Real Estate Law Journal, 41 Real Estate L.J. 22 (2012) (peer-reviewed).
 
Strengthening the Rule of Virtue and Finding Chinese Law in ‘Other’ Places: Gods, Kin, Guilds, and Gifts, 35 Suffolk Transnat’l L. Rev. 1 (2012)
 
Gender and the Chinese Legal Profession: From Heaven and Earth to Rule of Woman?, 18 TEX. J. WOMEN & L. 195 (2009).
 
Meiguo Cai Chan Fa [American Property Law], (2006) (with Chen Huiping, co-editor).
 
Limited Liability Company Morality: Fiduciary Duties in Historical Context, 23 QUINNIPIAC L. REV. 61 (2004).
 Lexis Westlaw

Strategic Alliances: Legal and Ethical Challenges, 16 REGENT U. L. REV. 351 (2004).
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"Family" Law: Multi-Generational Teaching, THE LAW TEACHER (Fall 2003) at 6.
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Lawyers as Hired Doves: Lessons from the Sermon on the Mount, 31 CUMB. L. REV. 27 (2000-2001).
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The Culture of Disbelief (Book Review), 11 J. L. & RELIGION 449 (1994-1995).
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The Advocate: A Biblical Approach to Legal Ethics, (Christian Legal Society, 1995).
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