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Past Events Fall 2012 - Spring 2019
Past Events Spring 2019 (Academic Year 2018-2019) (reverse chronological order)
Friday, May 3, 2019, 12:15 p.m.
SOVEREIGNTY IN CHINA: AND THE LONG LEGACIES OF HISTORY
Dr. Maria Adele Carrai, Fellow, Harvard Asia Center; Senior Researcher, KU Leuwen, Belgium
Chair: Professor William Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law; Director of EALS, HLS
Commentator: Professor Anne Orford, Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, HLS
Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) South, 1st Floor, S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and EALS
April 2 at 5pm, Harvard Law School, WCC Room 2004
Harvard Law School Project on Disability and the East Asian Legal Studies Program present
A Conversation with Olympic Medalist Michelle Kwan & Special Olympics Medalist Melissa Reilly
MODERATED BY PROFESSOR WILLIAM ALFORD
Light refreshments | contact hpod@law.harvard.edu for more information
THIS HAS BEEN CANCELLED:
Wednesday, March 13, 12 noon, Harvard Law School
Dr. Lokendra Malik
LL.M., Ph.D. LL.D.(N.L.S., Bangalore)
Advocate, Supreme Court of India
Monday, February 25, 4pm to 6pm, at CGIS Knafel K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform
Environment in Asia lectures at the Fairbank Center
Alex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, and a leading expert on environmental law and the law and politics of China. His research focuses on the social effects of law, and the interaction of law and institutions in China and the United States. His previous research has examined, among other things, the institutional design of environmental law and policy, environmental bureaucracy, public interest litigation, information disclosure, and environmental courts. His work has addressed air pollution, climate change, and other environmental issues.
At the heart of debates over Chinese rule of law is the question of state legitimacy. Critics argue that legitimacy requires liberal democratic rule of law. Chinese leaders have long relied on performance legitimacy -- economic development and maintenance of social stability -- as the core basis of their rule. Western scholarship on modern Chinese law and politics has, to a significant degree, critiqued the ability of China’s current institutions to perform as claimed.
But apart from any actual results that Chinese governance may generate, the entire project of governance reform can be structured in a way that influences public impressions of state legitimacy. The process of reform is not only about attaining performance goals, but is itself a kind of performance. This act of “performing performance” also signals competence, commitment to the people, tradition, nationalist strength, and a host of other positive values to citizens and other audiences.
This talk explores the symbolic aspects of Chinese environmental reform and potential implications, drawing on case studies in air pollution, climate change, and China’s Belt & Road Initiative.
https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/alex-wang-environment-in-asia-series/
Co-sponsored by EALS - Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Friday, February 22, 2019, 12 noon, Austin Hall, Room 100 (Austin North), Harvard Law School
China’s Transformation and The Rule of Law
Ambassador Gary Locke
Former US Ambassador to China,
Former US Secretary of Commerce,
Former Governor of Washington
Gary Locke is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 10th United States ambassador to China (2011-14). He was previously the 21st Governor of Washington (1997-2005) and served in the Obama administration as United States Secretary of Commerce (2009-11). Locke is the first governor in the continental United States of Asian descent, and is the only Chinese American ever to have served as a governor of any state. He was also the first Chinese American to serve as the U.S. ambassador to China.
This talk is part of the Harvard China Law Symposium:
Co-sponsored with the China Law Association, the Harvard Asia Law Society, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and EALS
Thursday, February 21, 2019, Austin Hall, Room 308
12:00 pm
Pursuing A Career in a Global Anti-Corruption Law
Michael Huneke, JD 2005, Partner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP (Washington, DC)
Rayhan Asat, LLM 2016, Visiting Specialist, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP (Washington, DC)
4:00 pm
Coffee hour conversation on internship possibilities, chaired by Prof. Matthew Stephenson
Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 12 noon, WCC Milstein West B, 1585 Mass Ave
Will China Save the Planet?
Barbara Finamore, '80
Senior Attorney and Asia Senior Strategic Director
Natural Resources Defense Council
A Harvard Law School Library Book Talk
The Harvard Law School Library staff invite you to attend a book talk and discussion in celebration of the recent publication of Barbara Finamore’s Will China Save the Planet? (Polity, Nov., 2018). Barbara Finamore is a Senior Attorney and Asia Senior Strategic Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). She has over three decades of experience in environmental law and energy policy, with a focus on China for twenty-five years. In 1996, she founded NRDC’s China Program, the first clean energy program to be launched by an international NGO. A light lunch will be served.
Co-sponsored with EALS, Harvard China Project, HLS Environmental Law Society, and HLS Library
Tuesday, February 19, 2019, 12 noon, Wasserstein Hall B010, HLS
The Chinese Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization
Professor Sida Liu
University of Toronto
Co-sponsored by EALS - Sponsored by the Center on the Legal Profession https://clp.law.harvard.edu/upcoming-events/
Past Events Fall 2018 (Academic Year 2018-2019) (reverse chronological order)
Monday, October 29, 2018, 12 noon, Austin 308, Harvard Law School
The Legal and Developmental Implications of Sino-African Relations
Dr. Enga Kameni LLM '10
Manager, Legal Services, African Export-Import Bank, Cairo
Thursday, October 25, 2018, 12 noon, Lewis 214 B, Harvard Law School
Representing Asian Companies in US Courts
Ryan Goldstein ’98, Head of Tokyo Office, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Thursday, October 25, 4:30-5:30 pm, Austin Hall, Room 308
A coffee hour with Mr. Goldstein on legal practice in Asia, chaired by Professor Mark Wu
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Law Society
Friday, October 12, 2018 at 12 noon in Lewis 214A, Harvard Law School
Foreign NGOs, Foundations and Think Tanks in China After Two Years of a New Policy and Legal Framework
Mark Sidel,
Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs,
University of Wisconsin-Madison; Consultant (Asia), International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL)
Professor Sidel is currently serving as consultant for Asia at the Washington-based International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), focusing on China, India and Vietnam. In 2016 and 2017 he served as the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Visiting Chair in Community Philanthropy at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. In addition to his academic work, Sidel has served as president of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), the international academic association working to strengthen research on civil society, philanthropy and the nonprofit sector; on the Community Foundations National Standards Board, the national accrediting and standard setting body for American community foundations and trusts based at the U.S. Council on Foundations; and on the boards of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) and the Society of American Law Teachers.
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS)
Tuesday, October 9, 2018, 4:00-6:00 pm
CGIS South S20, Belfer Case Study Room S020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
Recent developments in Xinjiang
Adrian Zenz
Adrian Zenz is faculty member in social research methods at the European School of Culture and Theology, Korntal, Germany. His research focus is on China's ethnic policy and public recruitment in Tibet and Xinjiang. He is author of "Tibetanness under Threat" and co-editor of the "Mapping Amdo" series of the Amdo Tibetan Research Network.
Moderator: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost, International Affairs, Harvard University
Co-sponsored by EALS, sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Co-Sponsored with: Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies; Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program.
Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 12 noon, Austin West, Harvard Law School
Law and Power in China and in Its Foreign Relations
Jerome A. Cohen
Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Of Counsel, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Founding Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program
Tuesday, October 2, 2018, 5:15 pm, Wasserstein Caspersen Clinical (WCC) Building, Second Floor, Milstein West
“Learn from the Past to Appreciate the Present, That is What Makes One a Teacher溫故而知新,可以為師矣”:
Confucius, Cohen (s) and Contemporary China
A talk by William P. Alford on the occasion of his appointment
as the Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies
All are welcome. There will be a reception immediately following the talk. Please RSVP to johnson@law.harvard.edu
The WCC is at 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138. It is on the corner of Mass and Everett Street. The garage on Everett Street (map) will have parking for the event. Click here for directions. HLS official map -- http://hls.harvard.edu/content/uploads/2014/06/2013ahlsmapdirections.pdf
Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 2:30-4:00 pm, with remarks at 3:00 pm
Austin Hall 308, Harvard Law School
East Asian Legal Studies Open House
An opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows, and the 2018-2019 Visiting Scholars. Light refreshments will be served.
Harvard Law School
Project on Disability Open House
in honor of Special Olympics at 50
with special guests Timothy Shriver, Chairman, Special Olympics International and Melissa Joy Reilly, Athlete, Board Member Special Olympics Massachusetts
Co-sponsored by EALS, sponsored by HPOD
Thursday, September 27, 2018, 12 noon, Austin Hall 308, Harvard Law School
Lawyers in Every Corner of Society?: Recent Trends for the Japanese Legal Profession
Daniel H. Foote '81
University of Tokyo Professor of Law
UW Law Dan Fenno Henderson Professor Emeritus
University of Washington School of Law Asian Law Center Senior Advisor
Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute
EALS special announcement
On September 28 and 29, East Asian Legal Studies will host a conference at HLS on Japanese law on September 28 and 29. If interested in attending any or all of the conference, please contact Melissa Smith at masmith@law.harvard.edu or Kim Peterson at kpeterso@law.harvard.edu for details.
Past Events Spring 2018 (Academic Year 2017-2018) (reverse chronological order)
Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 12:15-2:00 pm, Austin Hall
His Excellency Cui Tiankai, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the United States
Speaking on U.S.-China Relations
Moderated by Michael Szonyi, Director, Fairbank Center For Chinese Studies
Co-Sponsored by the Fairbank Center For Chinese Studies, the Harvard University Asia Center, and EALS
Tuesday, April 17, 5:00-6:30 pm, Milstein East B/C, Wasserstein Hall, HLS
2018 University-Wide Public Lecture
THE ART OF ENERGY REVOLUTION:
From Ultra High Voltage Power Grids to Global Energy Interconnection
LIU ZHENYA
Chairman of Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO); Former Chairman & President of State Grid Corporation of China
Mr. Liu formerly served as the Chairman and President of State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the world’s largest utility company. He is currently the Chairman of GEIDCO, a United Nations- and SGCC- affiliated organization that promotes grid interconnection worldwide to facilitate development of renewable energy. In this public lecture, Mr. Liu will focus on low-carbon energy transition through innovative strategies that help to integrate energy systems across regions and the world.
The event will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese and English. Simultaneous Mandarin Chinese and English interpretation will be available. Please plan to arrive at least fifteen minutes early and bring a government- or university-issued photo ID if you would like to check-out a headset to listen to the interpretation.
This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment; the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School; the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences; and the Harvard Global Institute.
Questions? Contact Tiffany Chan, Harvard-China Project Program Manager, at tiffanychan@seas.harvard.edu
This event is made possible by a grant from the Harvard Global Institute on the theme of “China 2030/2050: Energy and Environmental Challenges for the Future.”
https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/home
Co-sponsored by EALS
Tuesday, March 6, 12:30-2 pm, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
“Who Judges? Designing Jury Systems in Japan, East Asia, and Europe”
Speaker: Rieko Kage, Visiting Senior Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Tokyo
Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan
Co-sponsored by EALS, sponsored by the Program on US-Japan Relations
Monday, February 12, 12-1, Morgan Courtroom (Austin Hall 308)
The Impact of Tax Shelters on Government Structures
Professor Minoru Nakazato
Professor of Law, University of Tokyo
Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School
Friday, February 2, 4-5:30 pm, Porte Room S250, Second Floor, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
“Searching for a Social Order: The Sociology and Afterlife of Law in Japanese-Occupied China”
Speaker: Colin P.C. Jones, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Japanese History, Columbia 2017)
Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
This talk connects the legal history of the Japanese empire to the broader history of legal and social thought in the twentieth century. It examines the design, execution, and long afterlife of the North China Rural Customary Law Survey. Conducted from 1940 to 1944, the survey was unprecedented for the ethnographic approach it took to its subject. Through interviews with Chinese villagers, its researchers sought to uncover the intricate web of customary practices, associational norms, and religious beliefs that coordinated and regulated daily life independently of the state—or what survey’s designer, Suehiro Izutarō, called the “living law.” I trace this concept to its inception in Habsburg Central Europe and show how, through its implementation in northern China, it continues to shape our understanding of East Asian legal systems.
Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University,
CGIS South Bldg, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
RIJS website | Constitutional Revision Project | Japan Disasters Digital Archive
https://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming
Co-sponsored by EALS, sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
Wednesday, January 10, 12-1 in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308
EALS Lunchtime Talk Series
Towards a Lifelong Active Society: Coping with Japan's Demographic Change
Professor Atsushi Seike
Executive Advisor for Academic Affairs and Professor of Labor Economics, Keio University
A non-pizza lunch will be served.
Please note the revised date: Wed, Jan 10 is the correct date.
Past Events Fall 2017 (Academic Year 2017-2018) (reverse chronological order)
Jerry Cohen established EALS at Harvard Law School some five decades ago to promote the study of the law and legal history of the different jurisdictions of East Asia and their interaction between themselves and with the United States.
Evaluating Abe's Third Arrow: How Significant are Japan's Recent Corporate Governance Reforms?
Curtis Milhaupt
Parker Professor of Comparative Corporate Law and Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law
Director, Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law
Director of the Center for Japanese Legal Studies,
Columbia Law School
Co-sponsored by the Program on US-Japan Relations and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS)
Reischauer Institute conference on Friday, November 3, 2017 from 12:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Debating Japan's Constitution: On the Streets, In Parliament, and In the Region
Belfer Case Study Room S020, Concourse Level, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
This conference is the third and culminating event in a series of gatherings since the establishment of a joint research agreement between the Harvard University Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Keio University Faculty of Law in 2015. The focus of this conference is civil society activism and participation in the debate surrounding constitutional revision in Japan, as well as the current debate as an aspect of Japanese domestic politics and international relations.
12:30-1:50pm Panel 1: Regional Perspectives on Japan’s Constitutional Debates
Moderator: Franziska SERAPHIM, Associate Professor of History, Boston College
Presenter: Yoshihide SOEYA, Professor of International Relations, Keio University
Discussant: Sheila SMITH, Senior Fellow for Japanese Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
2:00-3:45pm Panel 2: Popular Sovereignty and Civic Activism
Moderator: Alexis DUDDEN, Professor of History, University of Connecticut
Presenters: Keigo KOMAMURA, Professor of Law, Vice President, Keio University; Kōichi NAKANO, Professor of Political Science, Sophia University; and Sungmoon KIM, Professor of Political Theory, City University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Ingu HWANG, Korea Foundation Visiting Assistant Professor of International Studies, Boston College
3:55-5:15pm Panel 3: Legality and Legitimacy in East Asian Constitutionalism
Moderator: Timothy GEORGE, Professor of History, University of Rhode Island
Presenters: Weitseng CHEN, Assistant Professor of Law, National University of Singapore
Christian WINKLER, Lecturer, Hokkaido University
Discussant: Mari MIURA, Professor of Political Science, Sophia University
5:15-6:00pm Wrap-up Session
Keigo KOMAMURA and Helen HARDACRE
For more information, see the conference website here. Constitutional Revision in Japan Research Project Conference co-sponsored by the Asia Center, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and Reischauer Institute
Harvard Law School Bicentennial
EALS open house lunch before the Bicentennial events
Thursday, October 26, 2017, 12-2:30, Morgan Courtroom, Austin 308
The Domestic Challenge of Globalization: What Policies are Necessary for Addressing Those Left Behind?
with panel host Professor Mark Wu and
panelists Sander Levin, Lawrence Summers, and Robert Zoellick
Friday, October 27
2-3:30 pm
The Sovereignty-Rights Interplay
with panel host Professor William Alford and
panelists Helena Alviar Garcia, Abdullah An-Na’im, Monika Bickert, Seung Wha Chang, C.V. Chen, Koenraad Lenaerts, Ray Mabus, Ruth Okediji, Angela R. Riley, and Michael Stein
Friday, October 27
2-3:30 pm
Studying and Teaching Foreign Law
with panel host Professor Mark Ramseyer and panelists Dan Foote, Mitu Gulati, Ben Liebman, and Frank Upham
Friday, October 27
4-5:30 pm
Please see the HLS in the World website for the Bicentennial events taking place October 27-28.
Video of panel:
http://hls.harvard.edu/reflections-on-east-asia-over-the-past-50-years-and-thoughts-about-what-lies-ahead-a-special-panel-to-mark-the-first-half-century-of-east-asian-legal-studies-at-harvard/
Friday, October 20, 2017, 12-1 in WCC B015
Authoritarian Legality in China
Mary E. Gallagher
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
Director, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Sponsored by the China Law Association and co-sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies
Tuesday, October 3, 2017, 12-1:30 Milstein West B
Book Talk: The Futility of Law and Development: China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law
Professor Jedidiah J. Kroncke,
FGV Sao Paulo School of Law Brazil
Panelists: David Armitage, Intisar Rabb, Xiaoqian Hu, William Alford
Co-sponsored by EALS, the Center on the Legal Profession, and the Harvard Law School Library
Friday, September 29, 2017, 12-1 Morgan Courtroom, Austin 308
Harvard Law School Project on Disability (HPOD) Fall Open House
Professor Han Dayuan,
Former Dean of Renmin University of China Law School 2009-2017
Monday, September 25, 2017
F.Y. Chang HLS Graduation Centennial Colloquium
9 am-3 pm, Milstein West AB, WCC
F.Y. Chang (Chang Fu-yun or Zhang Fuyun) graduated from HLS in 1917. He was the first Boxer Indemnity Scholar to do so. Click here to see the F.Y. Chang exhibit.
Videos of FY Chang Anniversary Panels from September 25 are now viewable (clicking the links will download them onto your device, each is about 1.7 GB):
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Monday, September 18, 2017 at noon, Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308
Identity Politics and Organized Crime
Professor Mark Ramseyer,
Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at HLS
Co-sponsored by the Program on US-Japan Relations and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 2:30-4:00 pm, remarks at 3:00 pm, Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308, Harvard Law School
East Asian Legal Studies Open House
An opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows, and the 2017-2018 Visiting Scholars.
Light refreshments will be served.
Events Spring 2017 (Academic Year 2016-2017) (reverse chronological order)
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 4:15 - 6:15 pm in the Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Book Talk: Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866 - 1945
Carter J. Eckert,
Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History at Harvard University and
Director of the Harvard University Korea Institute
Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History; Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University
Discussants:
Andrew D. Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History; Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center, 2016-2017, Harvard University
Rebecca A. Nedostup, Associate Professor of History, Brown University
Andre Schmid, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
Asia Center Seminar Series / Co-sponsored with the Harvard University Asia Center, the Korea Institute, Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and the Harvard-Yenching Library
Monday, April 10, 2017 12-1 pm, WCC 3019, HLS | Chinese food will be served.
Political Apathy in China, 1990-2012
Professor Ya-Wen Lei
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology at Harvard University
Author, The Contentious Public Sphere (forthcoming Princeton University Press, Fall 2017)
Co-sponsored by the HLS China Law Association and EALS
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 12:00 in Langdell 272, HLS
Developments in the Asian Financial Markets
Douglas W. Arner, Kerry Holdings Professor in Law at the University of Hong KongSponsored by the Program on International Financial Systems, Co-sponsored by EALS
Monday, March 27, 2017 12 - 1:30 pm in Austin Hall, Room 308 Morgan Courtroom, HLS
Idealism, Pragmatism, and Constraint in Chinese Legal Reform:
Evaluating the Revision of China's Administrative Litigation Law
Neysun Mahboubi, Research Scholar of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania,
Lecturer in Law at Penn Law School
Discussant, Professor He Haibo, Tsinghua University School of Law, EALS Visiting Scholar
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS)
Friday, March 24, 2017 12:15 pm at the Harvard University Asia Center, CGIS South, 1st Floor (S153), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Japanese Law and the Global Diffusion of Trust Law
Masayuki Tamaruya,
EALS Visiting Scholar and Harvard-Yenching Institute Scholar, Professor of Law at Rikkyo University in Japan
Chaired by Professor Andrew Gordon, Acting Director of the Harvard Asia Center and the Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor at Harvard University
Co-sponsored with the Harvard University Asia Center as part of the Asia Center Seminar Series
Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Cases and Reform
Barbara Finamore,
Senior Attorney and Asia Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
On January 1, 2015, amendments to China’s Environmental Protection Law went into effect that would allow an estimated 700 Chinese NGOs to bring lawsuits against polluters on behalf of the public interest. The Supreme People’s Court then issued an authoritative “interpretation” that provides clarification and needed details to this new public interest environmental law system. These new rules appear to be designed, in many ways, to make it easier for Chinese NGOs to sue polluters. Yet many challenges still remain. This presentation will provide an overview of the current status of environmental public interest litigation in China, including case studies, challenges and reform efforts.
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Environmental Law Program and the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment
Ms. Finamore will also lead a China Project Research Seminar “Building Energy Efficiency in China: Policies and Trends” at 3:30 in Pierce Hall, room 100F, 29 Oxford Street.
Energy used in buildings is responsible for 30% of China’s CO2 emissions, a percentage that is expected to grow as China continues to urbanize and transition to a service economy. China has developed a variety of policy tools designed to reduce building energy consumption and waste, including building energy codes, policies and programs to promote the green building sector, and targets and incentives to expand energy efficiency retrofits for existing buildings. This presentation will outline some of China’s key policies and initiatives to improve building energy efficiency, discusses several outstanding challenges and conclude with an overview of latest developments.
Thursday, March 9, 2017 12 - 1:30 pm in Austin Hall, Room 308 Morgan Courtroom, HLS
The Philippine Upheaval: Duterte, Democracy, Defense
William Overholt, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center
Co-sponsored with the Harvard University Asia Center and the Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS)
Monday, March 6, 2017 2 - 3:15 pm in Austin North, first floor, Austin Hall, HLS
From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office
Ma Ying-jeou,
President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2008 to 2016
Formerly ROC Justice Minister and Mayor of Taipei
Co-sponsored by EALS and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Two talks by Sida Liu
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 12 - 1 pm in Pound 102, HLS, Lawyer Activism in Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of China
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 12 - 1:30pm in Austin Hall, Room 308 Morgan Courtroom, HLS, The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts
Sida Liu Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Sida Liu is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2016-2017. Before moving to the University of Toronto, he taught sociology and law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his LL.B. degree from Peking University Law School and his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. Professor Liu has conducted extensive empirical research on China’s legal reform and legal profession, including the globalization of corporate law firms, the political mobilization of criminal defense lawyers, the feminization of judges, and the career mobility of law practitioners. In addition to Chinese law, he also writes on sociolegal theory and general social theory. Professor Liu is the author of three books in Chinese and English, most recently, Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work (with Terence C. Halliday, Cambridge University Press, 2016). He has also published many articles in leading law and social science journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, Sociological Theory, Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, etc.
Both talks are co-sponsored by the HLS Center on the Legal Profession and EALS
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 12 - 1:30 pm in the Lewis International Law Center 214 A, HLS | Bag lunches will be available
Book Talk with
Dr. Leia Castaneda Anastacio
LL.M. '96,
S.J.D. '09,
East Asian Legal Studies Research Fellow
Commentators
Gerald L. Neuman
J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law,
Harvard Law School
Christopher Capozzola,
Associate Professor of History,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library
Cambridge University Press, Fall 2016: The US occupation of the Philippine Islands in 1898 began a foundational period of the modern Philippine state. With the adoption of the 1935 Philippine Constitution, the legal conventions for ultimate independence were in place. In this time, American officials and their Filipino elite collaborators established a representative, progressive, yet limited colonial government that would modernize the Philippine Islands through colonial democracy and developmental capitalism. Examining constitutional discourse in American and Philippine government records, academic literature, newspaper and personal accounts, The Foundations of the Modern Philippine State concludes that the promise of America's liberal empire was negated by the imperative of insulating American authority from Filipino political demands. Premised on Filipino incapacity, the colonial constitution weakened the safeguards that shielded liberty from power and unleashed liberalism's latent tyrannical potential in the name of civilization. This forged a constitutional despotism that haunts the Islands to this day. Examining American colonial constitutionalism, this book yields insights for legal historians, comparativists, post-colonial scholars, and Southeast Asia specialists. Its focus on the use of American political models in Philippine colonial state-building and development will resonate with law and development scholars and political scientists specializing in American political development.
POSTPONED DUE TO SNOWSTORM - STAY TUNED FOR RESCHEDULING
How Far is China from Rule of Law?
Professor He Haibo, Tsinghua University School of Law, EALS Visiting Scholar.
Moderator: Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, Ash Center.
Join the Ash Center and co-sponsor East Asian Legal Studies as Professor He discusses China’s ongoing struggles to establish and respect the rule of law. What progress has Beijing made and what obstacles remain before we can confidently claim that China strongly adheres to the rule of law?Sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School, co-sponsored by EALS and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
Thursday, February 9, 4:15-5:30 pm at the Ash Center, Suite 200N, 124 Mt Auburn St., Cambridge
Thursday, January 26, 2017 at 12-1:30 at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity Avenue, Common Room, Cambridge
Dignity, Life, and Capital Punishment: An Analysis of Comparative Constitutional Jurisprudence
Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu,
Associate Research Professor, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica
Chair/Discussant:
Michael Rosen,
Professor of Government, Harvard University
Co-sponsored with the Harvard-Yenching Institute (www.harvard-yenching.org) and the Harvard University Asia Center
(asiacenter.harvard.edu/)
Events Fall 2016 (Academic Year 2016-2017) (reverse chronological order)
Thursday, November 3, 2016 4:30 PM, The Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050) of the CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
The Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs
Making “We the People” in Korea: Foreigners, Histories, Identities
Sung Ho Kim
Kim Koo Visiting Professor, Department of Government
Professor of Political Science, Yonsei University
Chair:
Carter Eckert
Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History
Co-sponsored by EALS, the Korea Institute and the Harvard Yenching Institute, and the Department of Government
Friday, November 11, 2016 12-1:30, Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308, Harvard Law School
The Securitization of Management of Foreign NGOs and Foundations in China: What We Know So Far
Mark Sidel
Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Consultant (Asia), International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL)
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Visiting Chair in Community Foundations
Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University (2016-2017)
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 12-1:30 PM, Harvard Yenching Institute, Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk
Diffusion and Transformation of Trusts: From England to East Asia
Prof. Tamaruya Masayuki, Rikkyo University, HYI Visiting Scholar, EALS Visiting Scholar
Chair/Discussant: Prof. Robert H. Sitkoff, HLS
co-sponsored with EALS
THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED:
Thursday, November 3, EALS lunchtime talk on China and the environment with Barbara Finamore, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Monday, October 31, 2016 12 noon, 214 A Lewis International Law Center, Harvard Law School
The Last Days of StalinJoshua Rubenstein
Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University
Scholar-in-Residence at Facing History and Ourselves
Sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library, co-sponsored by EALS
EALS Lunchtime Talk, Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 12-1:30, Austin North, HLS
Reporting on China
David Barboza, New York Times business correspondent and former Shanghai bureau chief
Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow
EALS Lunchtime Talk, Thursday, October 13, 2016, 12-1:30, Pound Hall Room 100
Law and Power in US-China Relations
Jerome A. Cohen,
Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Of Counsel, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Founding Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program
Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University and the Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS)
Wednesday, October 12, 2016, 12-1 pm, Langdell 233 (Computer Lab)
Legal Research on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Law
Nongji Zhang, Bibliographer for East Asian Law
Mariko Honshuku, Librarian for Japanese Law
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Law School Library
EALS Lunchtime Talk, Tuesday, October 4, 2016, 12-1:30, Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308, Harvard Law School
Foreign Investment in China: From Starting Up to Winding Up
Sabine Stricker-Kellerer, LL.M. '83, Senior China Counsel, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Munich office
Charles Booth, '84, Professor of Law, University of Hawai'i and Founding Director, Institute of Asian-Pacific Business Law
Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Center on the Legal Profession (CLP), and the Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS)
EALS Lunchtime Talk, Monday, September 26, 2016, 12-1:30, Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308, Harvard Law School
Who Will Represent China's Workers?: Lawyers, Legal Aid and the Representation Gap
Aaron Halegua, '09
Research Fellow at the US-Asia Law Institute and the Center for Labor and Employment Law at NYU Law School
Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
EALS Lunchtime Talk,
Thursday, September 22, 2016,
12-1:30, Pound Hall, Room 100
Developments in the South China Sea, Post-Arbitration Award
Lynn Kuok
Non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution; Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Law of the National University of Singapore; Member of the Global Future Council on International Security of the World Economic Forum; Visiting Scholar at East Asian Legal Studies
Peter Dutton
Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College
Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS)
Tuesday, September 20, 2016, 4:30-6:30 pm, with remarks at 4:45, Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308, Harvard Law School
East Asian Legal Studies Open House
An opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows and the 2016-2017 Visiting Scholars
Light refreshments will be served.
Events Spring 2016 (Academic Year 2015-2016) (reverse chronological order)
Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 12-1pm, Morgan Courtroom Austin Hall 308
Rights Protection for Persons with Mental Disabilities in China
Guo Zhiyuan, Professor at China University of Political Science and Law and a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at Stanford Law School this academic year
Co-sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies and the Harvard Law School Project on Disability
Thursday, March 3, 2016 12-1:30 pm, Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
The Mongol Way: Administration, Justice, and Law in Qing Mongolia
Prof. Erdenchuluu Khohchahar (Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University; HYI Visiting Scholar)
Chair/Discussant: Prof. Mark Elliott (EALC and Department of History, Harvard University)
Many Mongolian-language archival documents have revealed the existence of at least three realms of judicial practice in Qing Mongolia (1644-1912): the Qing colonial legal system, the native Mongolian way of justice, and the contradiction, or, more broadly, the relationship between the two. This talk takes insight from the Mongolian context, differing from mainstream scholarship that tends to assume the Qing colonial legal system had a widespread effectiveness in Mongolian society at that time. In other words, it explores the native Mongolian justice system during the Qing dynasty, and to some extent, its relation with the Qing colonial legal order. By looking at the justice system, which was closely interrelated to both administration and law, this talk analyzes how and why native Mongolians persistently preserved and innovatively developed their own traditional legal-administrative order under Qing colonial rule. The narrative of the "Mongol way" has implications for theories of imperialism and law.
Sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute; co-sponsored by EALS
http://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/mongol-way-administration-justice-and-law-qing-mongolia
Friday, February 12, 2016, 12:00 - 1:00 pm in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308
Interational Commercial Arbitration in Japan: The Past, Present and Future
Yoshimasa Furuta, LL.M. '95, Partner, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune; Professor of Law, University of Tokyo
Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute
Events Fall 2015 (Academic Year 2015-2016) (reverse chronological order)
Monday, December 7, 2015, 12:00 - 1:30 pm in Vanserg Hall common room, 25 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
The Changing Status of House Tenants in Modern Chinese Law
Dr. Sun Huei-min (Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar)
Chair/Discussant: Prof. William Alford (Harvard Law School)
Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk, co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and EALS
Friday, November 20, 2015, 12:00-1:30 pm in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308
China's Capital Markets: Governance-Reform-Intervention
Simon Gleave, Asia Pacific Regional Head, Financial Services and Partner, Financial Services for China at KPMG
Friday, November 13, 2015, 12:00 - 5:00
The Rise of China
China Law Association Symposium
http://tinyurl.com/CLASymposium
https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/cla
Co-sponsored by EALS
Thursday, November 12, 2015, 4:30-6:30 pm in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308
A Realistic Utopia for China, Democratic and Otherwise
Jiwei Ci,
Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong
Commentator: Stephen Angle, Professor of Philosophy and Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University
This lecture is part of a series entitled "Democracy and China: Philosophical-Political Reflections" sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, the Political Theory Colloquium, EALS, and the Philosophy Colloquium at Harvard University.
This talk has been cancelled:
Friday, November 6, 2015
"How the International Court of Justice Works in Coming to Its Decisions," Hisashi Owada,
Judge, International Court of Justice
Monday, October 26, 2015, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm in Austin 100
Professor Mark Wu on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Moderated by Professor William Alford
Twelve Pacific Rim countries reached the Trans-Pacific Partnership on October 5, an agreement the New York Times is calling the "largest regional trade accord in history." Join us as Professor Mark Wu discusses the background, provisions, and implications of the TPP. Thai food and boba tea will be served.
Sponsored by the Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS), co-sponsored by the Harvard International Law Journal and EALS
Friday, October 9, 2015, 12-1:30 pm in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308
East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk SeriesThe Constitutional Review on Taiwan: Review and Prospects
Dennis T.C. Tang, LL.M. '84; Justice, Constitutional Court, Taiwan; Founding Director, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica
Monday, October 5, 2015, 12-1:30 pm in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308
East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series
Dispute Settlement in the WTO: An Evolving Process
Seung Wha Chang, S.J.D. ’94; Professor of Law, Seoul National University; Member, Appellate Body of the WTO
Wednesday, September 30, 2015, 12 noon in WCC 2036 Milstein East C
Faculty Book Talk, sponsored by the Harvard Law School LibraryThe Harvard Law School Library staff invites you to attend a book talk and panel discussion in celebration of Professor J. Mark Ramseyer's recently published book,
Second Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law
Mark Ramseyer is the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard Law School
Lunch will be served.
Book talk panelists include: Theodore Gilman, Executive Director, Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Richard J. Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science, Director of the MIT Center for International Studies, Founding Director of the MIT Japan Program; Allen Ferrell, Harvey Greenfield Professor of Securities Law, Harvard Law School. http://hlsscholar.wpengine.com/?page_id=117Monday, September 28, 2015, 5:00-7:00 pm in WCC 2009
Screening and Panel: “This Kind of Love”
Please join us for a screening of This Kind of Love, a documentary that tracks the journey of Aung Myo Min, the first openly gay activist in Burma’s democracy movement, from his role in the 1988 student uprising to his time in the student army in the jungle camps to his emergence as a leading human rights defender. The story follows Myo as he returns home after 24 years in exile to be part of Burma’s political transition towards democracy.
Aung Myo Min will be in attendance, and participate in a discussion with Wai Wai Nu, Director, Women Peace Network Arakan, moderated by Professor Tyler Giannini.
http://hrp.law.harvard.edu/events/screening-and-panel-this-kind-of-love/
Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program, HLS Lambda, EALS, HLS Advocates for Human Rights
Friday, September 25, 2015, 12-1 pm in WCC 3011
China’s Long March to Domestic Violence Lawmaking: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Rangita De Silva de Alwis, S.J.D. ’97; Associate Dean for International Programs at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Rangita is a women’s human rights scholar and practitioner with expertise in China. She has more than 25 years of experience working globally in over 25 countries. She was the inaugural director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Women’s Leadership Initiative and the Women in Public Service Project launched by Secretary Hillary Clinton and the Seven Sisters Colleges. Rangita was also Teaching Fellow with the European Law Research Institute at HLS and a Research Fellow with the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program, the Women's Law Association, and EALS
Thursday, September 24, 2015
12 to 1:30 pm in Austin Hall 100
Post-Occupy Politics in Hong Kong and Mainland-HK Relations
Professor Ming Wai Lau
Please join CLA for a discussion about current events surrounding politics in Hong Kong. CLA has invited Visiting Professor Ming Wai Lau to deliver a lecture on "Post-Occupy Politics in Hong Kong and Mainland-HK Relations." Mr. Lau holds a Bachelor's Degree in Laws from King's College London, a Master's Degree in Laws from London School of Economics and Political Science from University of London and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Laws from King's College London. Mr. Lau is also the CEO of Chinese Estates Holdings.
Professor William Alford will introduce the speaker. Chinese food will be served.
Sponsored by the China Law Association
Tuesday, September 22, 2015, 12 to 1 pm in WCC 3008
Negotiating the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: An Insider's Perspective
A Talk by Ambassador Luis Gallegos
Please join us for a brown bag discussion with Ambassador Luis Gallegos, who chaired the first half of the negotiations on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and is a current board member for the Special Olympics. He has previously served as Ecuador's Ambassador to the United States, as Ecuador's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and as a Member of the UN Committee Against Torture.
Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, and EALS
Friday, September 18, 2015, 12-1:30 pm in Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East A; Remarks at 12:15
Harvard Law School Project on Disability (HPOD) Open House
with Ambassador Luis Gallegos, Former Ecuadorian Ambassador to the US and the UN, co-author of the UN Disability Convention, member of the UN Committee Against Torture
Non-Pizza Lunch Will Be Served.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015, 4-6 pm in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308, Remarks at 4:15
East Asian Legal Studies (EALS) Open House
An opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows, and the 2015-2016 Visiting Scholars
Light refreshments will be served.
Tuesday, September 15, 2015, 12-1 pm in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308
The Relationship between the People and the Authorities in Traditional China
Chang Wejen, S.J.D. ’88; Research Fellow (retired), Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Author of the forthcoming book In Search of the Way: Legal Philosophy of the Classic Chinese Thinkers
Events Spring 2015 (Academic Year 2014-2015) (reverse chronological order)
Events Fall 2014 (Academic Year 2014-2015) (reverse chronological order)
Events Spring 2014 (Academic Year 2013-2014) (reverse chronological order)
Events Spring 2013 (Academic Year 2012-2013) (reverse chronological order)
Events Fall 2012 (Academic Year 2012-2013) (reverse chronological order)
