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Past Events

Fall 2024

November 18 (Monday), 12:00-1:00 PM

"America's Future in East Asia"

Daniel Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, United States Department of State

Moderator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School

Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St., and online.

Event URL: https://us-japan.wcfia.harvard.edu/kritenbrink-11-18-2024

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

U.S. Tech Policy Toward China: Growing Parallels Between Washington and Beijing?

Angela Huyue Zhang
Professor of Law, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law

Thursday, November 14, 2024
12:20-1:20 pm
Harvard Law School, Austin Hall, Room 308 (Morgan Courtroom)

Angela Huyue Zhang is a Professor of Law at the USC Gould School of Law. Zhang has broad research interests in the areas of law and economics, particularly in transnational legal issues bearing on businesses. Widely recognized as a leading authority on Chinese tech regulation, she has written extensively on this topic. Her first book, Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation, was named one of the Best Political Economy Books of the Year by ProMarket in 2021. Her second book, High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy, released in March 2024, has been covered in The New York Times, Bloomberg, Wire China, MIT Tech Review and many other international news outlets. Zhang is currently conducting research on the regulation of artificial intelligence, with plans to teach and write on this topic in the coming years. Before joining USC Gould in 2024, Zhang taught at the University of Hong Kong, New York University School of Law, and King’s College London.

China’s Reception of the AI Revolution

Wednesday, October 9, 2:00 - 3:00 pm, Austin 308, HLS

Dongsheng Zang (LL.M. ’96, S.J.D. ’04)
Associate Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law

Professor Dongsheng Zang joined the faculty at University of Washington School of Law full-time in 2006, after serving as a visiting assistant professor in 2005-06. His teaching and research areas include international law and comparative study of Chinese law. In recent years, his research has focused on technology, democracy, and the constitution in the global context, with particular emphasis on the United States and China. He holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School, in addition to an LL.M. from Renmin University (Beijing) and LL.B. from Beijing College of Economics. His doctoral dissertation, One-Way Transparency: The Establishment of the Rule-Based International Trade Order and the Predicament of Its Jurisprudence, was awarded the 2004 Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize.

Coffee and light snacks will be provided.

EALS Open House Thursday, September 19, 12:20 pm - 1:20 pm in Austin Hall 308

The East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School supports research and teaching on the law and legal history of the nations and peoples of East Asia, their interaction with the United States, and their impact on global order. Please join us at our Open House to learn about upcoming EALS events and opportunities for students, and to meet faculty, staff, visiting scholars, and other students interested in law and East Asia!

Savory and sweet pastries, coffee, Wong Lo Kat, Sikhye, and hojicha will be provided.

Spring 2024

Tuesday, May 7, 8:30 am – 10:00 am via Zoom

Rightscaling Cities: The Political Economy of City Territory in China

Zhang Guanchi, Vermont Law and Graduate School

Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Urban China Lecture Series

https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-zhang-guanchi/

How has the rescaling of the city territories interacted with China’s political and economic transformation? During the country's rapid industrialization and urbanization, Chinese cities have exhibited a relatively low degree of territorial fragmentation. This study examines the institutional experiments that have reclassified, redivided, and recombined local government territory in the People’s Republic of China since 1949. I argue that the constant rescaling of cities is a distinctive and underestimated mechanism in the Chinese state’s steering of economic transformation.

Through extensive fieldwork and archival research, I find that the question of city scale has been integral to China’s economic modernization for the last seven decades. The constant tensions between the metropolitan center and periphery have driven various territorial reforms, both before and after the market-oriented reform. These reforms have profoundly shaped the state’s economic development projects. I argue that, over time, metropolitan governments emerge as the primary scale for inter-local competition and coordination. While this particular territorial choice has contributed to China’s economic rise, its entrenchment has ramifications for the country’s current challenges.

Guanchi Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Law at Vermont Law and Graduate School. His research interests lie at the intersection of law, urban studies, and political economy. His current research projects focus on two primary areas of inquiry: the rise and fall of efforts to rightscale cities in China and the United States, and the role of housing and zoning laws in the context of growing geographic disparities.

https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127

Thursday, April 11, 12:20-1:20 PM, in Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Enters its 14th Year:
Ghost Towns, Lawsuits, and a Million Tons of Water

Martin Fackler
Visiting Research Associate, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
Former Assistant Asia Editor and Tokyo Bureau Chief, New York Times

Martin Fackler is a research associate at Harvard University's Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies. He has been a writer and journalist in Asia for two decades, working most recently as Assistant Asia Editor at The New York Times managing the paper's coverage of China. He was a correspondent at The New York Times for ten years, serving as Tokyo bureau chief from 2009 to 2015. In 2012, he led a team that was named finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for investigative stories into the Fukushima nuclear disaster that the prize committee said offered a "powerful exploration of serious mistakes concealed by authorities in Japan." He has also worked in Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo for The Wall Street Journal, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The Associated Press and Bloomberg News. From 2015-17, he was a Senior Fellow and Journalist-in-Residence at the Asia Pacific Initiative, a Tokyo-based think tank. He also currently serves as an advisory board member at the Institute for Contemporary Asian Studies at Temple University in Tokyo. Fackler is author or co-author of 11 books in Japanese, including the bestseller Credibility Lost: The Crisis in Japanese Newspaper Journalism after Fukushima (2012). In English, he edited Reinventing Japan: New Directions in Global Leadership (2018). He grew up in Georgia, and holds degrees from Dartmouth College, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of California, Berkeley. 

Boxed lunch will be provided. Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies. Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.

Spring 2024

Thursday, April 4, 12:20-1:20 PM, in Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)

U.S. Trade Policy, Japan, and China

Glen S. Fukushima, J.D. '82
Vice Chair, Securities Investor Protection Corporation
Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China

Glen S. Fukushima was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden to serve as Vice Chair of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation in October 2021 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2022. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1982, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo; associate at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker; Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan; and senior executive in one European and four American multinational corporations. He served on Hillary Clinton's Asia Policy Working Group in 2015-2016.

Boxed lunch will be provided. Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations.

You may be interested in this talk sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies:

Wednesday, April 3, 12:00-1:15 PM, CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Angela Huyue Zhang, Director, Philip K.H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law, Hong Kong University; Professor of Law, University of Southern California

Professor Zhang's book "High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy" will be released by Oxford University Press in early 2024. Professor Zhang is currently doing research on the regulation of artificial intelligence.

https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-angela-zhang/

Friday, March 29, 12:20-1:20 PM, in Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)

Thomas Jefferson, Carsun Chang and A Lost Era of U.S.-China Constitutional Engagement

Jed Kroncke
Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong

Professor Kroncke's study recovers a lost era of Sino-American constitutional imagination surrounding the drafting of the 1946 Republic of China Constitution. It examines the transnational dynamics that led the Constitution's initial drafter, Carsun Chang, to travel to the U.S. in 1945 to ostensibly study the ideas of Thomas Jefferson then ascendant in New Deal constitutional rhetoric.

This study recontextualizes Chang's life as one of China's new generation of cosmopolitan intellectuals moving between its contentious post-dynastic politics and the institutions of the post-World War II international legal order. Chang's invitation by the Roosevelt Administration involved many little known but determinative turns, including the role of a subset of Truman Administration officials actively enamored with Jefferson's own study of Confucianism.

Transnationalizing our understanding of the 1946 Constitution helps reveal how the geopolitics of the Chinese Civil War intersected with the presumed projection of American constitutional values increasingly embedded in American internationalism. The fallout from the drafting process also illuminates the transition of America from a global symbol of constitutional revolution to a symbol of global racial empire. Recapturing this era has implications for originalist-styled constitutional arguments made in contemporary Taiwan, as well as evaluating the international dimensions of Jefferson's deeply problematic domestic legacy.

Dr. Jedidiah Kroncke is an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches trust law and the law of cooperative enterprises, and serves as Director of Early Career Research and Director of the Global Academic Fellows program. Previously, he was a professor at FGV Sao Paulo School of Law and Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School. Professor Kroncke's research centers on international legal history and the comparative study of alternative labor and property institutions. His first book, The Futility of Law and Development: China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law (Oxford University Press 2016), explores the role of U.S.-China relations in the formation of modern American legal internationalism and the decline of American legal comparativism. Other publications have addressed law and development, authoritarian law and legal ethics, the history of international law, and comparative law and political economy. He received a B.A. from the University of California Berkeley, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from UC Berkeley, and then served as the HLS Berger-Howe Legal History Fellow, NYU Golieb Fellow in Legal History, and Ruebhausen Fellow in Law at Yale Law.

Boxed lunch will be provided. Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies.

You may be interested in these two events:

Friday, March 22, 12:20-1:30 pm lunch talk in WCC 1015

Friday, March 22, 3:30-5:00 pm snack chat in WCC 5044

LGBTQ Rights and Legal Challenges: from Asia to America

This event promises to be an enlightening and significant event, bridging the gap on LGBTQ issues. Please join us to explore the diverse experiences and legal challenges faced by the LGBTQ community in Asian and Asian American contexts, fostering a deeper understanding and dialogue across cultures.

Tuesday, March 19, 12:20-1:20 PM, in Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)

Health Code Apps as Social Control in China: Empirical Findings from the Pandemic

Michelle Miao
Associate Professor of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fellow, Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

Michelle Miao is Associate Professor of Law at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her major areas of research include ethics of technological innovation, comparative law, criminal justice, law and society, and rule of law and authoritarianism. As a CUHK-Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow for 2023-2024, she is working on a project exploring the interaction between artificial intelligence and the shifting paradigm of authoritarian governance. Professor Miao is an awardee of the American Society of Comparative Law's Hessel Yntema Prize for the most outstanding scholarship by a scholar under 40 years of age.

Boxed lunch will be provided. Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies.

Friday, March 1

30th Annual National Asian Pacific American Conference on Law and Policy

https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/apalsa/conference/

The 30th Annual National Asian Pacific American Conference on Law & Public Policy, hosted by Harvard APALSA, will take place on Friday, March 1st to Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 in person at the Harvard Law School campus. Our theme this year is Celebration: 30 Years of AAPI Impact. Over the last three decades, the number of Asian American lawyers has more than doubled, and our community has witnessed many “firsts” in the law, politics, business, arts, and social impact spaces. In coming together for the 30th Annual Harvard APALSA Conference, we take this opportunity to both reflect on the growth, resilience, and contributions of the AAPI community, and look forward to overcoming the challenges that lie ahead to further amplify our collective impact.

This event is open to the public, and registration is now open. Check the conference website for updates, including a full list of speakers and schedule of events, and to register.

February 5-7
HLS China Law Association symposium, February 5-7, co-sponsored by EALS.

Please see the website for the most up-to-date locations and speakers: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/cla/china-law-symposium/.

Fall 2023

You may be interested in this event:

Gary Bass, "Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia"

Monday, November 27, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St., and Online (Zoom)

Gary Bass, Professor of Politics and International Relations, Princeton University
Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University 

This seminar is part of the Special Series on Japanese Economic Statecraft. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center; and East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School.

Gary J. Bass, Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia. Penguin Random House, Oct. 17, 2023.

Weatherhead Center for International Relations
https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/event/judgment-tokyo-world-war-ii-trial-and-making-modern-asia

Wed., November 1, 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Kenneth Juster – How China is Reshaping U.S.-India Relations and the Quad

Speaker: Kenneth I. Juster, U.S. Ambassador to India, 2017-2021

Kenneth I. Juster, AB ’76, MPP ’79, JD ’79, served as the U.S. Ambassador to India from 2017 to 2021.  He will discuss how China’s actions are reshaping India’s relationship with the United States and affecting the development of the Quad.  Join us for a discussion of how China’s democratic neighbors are cooperating strategically  to offer an alternative vision for the future of the Indo-Pacific.  The talk will underscore the challenges ahead as the United States, its allies, and its partner India work together to preserve a free, open, and prosperous region, in light of China’s strategic ambitions.

Co-sponsored by the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute & the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Also presented via Zoom.
https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-kenneth-juster-how-china-is-reshaping-u-s-india-relations-and-the-quad/

EALS lunchtime talk with Sabine Stricker-Kellerer:

Partner, Competitor, Systemic Rival – Germany/EU’s Business with China

October 27, 2023, 12:20 pm - 1:20 pm. Austin Hall 308 - Morgan Meeting Room

Dr. Sabine Stricker-Kellerer (LL.M. 1983) is a leading international legal expert on China business, with over 40 years’ experience on topics such as the establishment and restructuring of foreign investment projects in China, aspects of corporate structuring and regulatory issues, negotiations, technology licensing and dispute resolution. In 1985, she was the first European lawyer to open an office in China. She frequently acts as arbitrator with various Asia related arbitration institutions. Dr. Stricker-Kellerer received her legal education at the universities of Munich, Geneva and at Harvard Law School (LL.M.). In September 2023, she was appointed by the German Federal Foreign Office as the new German Co-Chair of the German-Chinese Dialogue Forum.

Boxed lunch will be provided.

Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies.

EALS BOOK TALK - Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 12:20-1:45 pm
Milstein East A, Wasserstein Hall WCC

Tamar Groswald Ozery, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

“Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth”

Please join us for a book launch event featuring a panel of international corporate governance and China law experts.

Panelists:

William P. Alford (moderator), Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Director of East Asian Legal Studies, Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School

Rui Guo, Visiting Scholar, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School

Nicholas C. Howson, Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, via Zoom

Mariana Pargendler, Professor, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School; Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (effective July 2024), via Zoom

Meg Rithmire, F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor, Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School

In her new book, Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Tamar Groswald Ozery takes a law & political economy approach to deconstruct the role of law in China’s market development since 1978.

Boxed lunch will be provided. Sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, and the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at Harvard Kennedy School.

EALS OPEN HOUSE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 4:00-5:30 pm
Wasserstein Hall WCC Room 3019

East Asian Legal Studies Open House: Please join us to learn more about what's happening at the EALS program and to meet EALS faculty, staff, librarians, Visiting Scholars, and students interested in East Asia. Snacks will be provided. RSVP not required, but much appreciated – please email EALS@law.harvard.edu

Friday, September 22, 2023
12:20-1:20 PM
Austin Hall, Room 308 (Morgan Courtroom), Harvard Law School

The Chinese Surveillance Technology Industry and its Reception in African Countries

Bulelani Jili

Bulelani Jili's research seeks to offer insights into how China’s domestic surveillance market and cyber capability ecosystem operate, especially given the limited number of systematic studies that have analyzed its industry objectives. For the Chinese government, investment in surveillance technologies advances both its ambitions of becoming a global technology leader as well as its means of domestic social control. These developments also foster further collaboration between state security actors and private tech firms. Accordingly, the tech firms that support state cyber capabilities range from small cyber research startups to leading global tech enterprises. The state promotes surveillance technology and practices abroad through diplomatic exchanges, law enforcement cooperation, and training programs. These efforts encourage the dissemination of surveillance devices, but also support the government’s goals concerning international norm-making in multilateral and regional institutions.

The proliferation of Chinese surveillance technology and cyber tools and the associated linkages between both state and private Chinese entities with those in other states, especially in the Global South, is a valuable component of Chinese state efforts to expand and strengthen their political and economic influence worldwide. Although individual governments purchasing Chinese digital tools have their local ambitions in mind, Beijing’s export and promotion of domestic surveillance technologies shape the adoption of these tools in the Global South. As such, investigating how Chinese actors leverage demand factors for their own aims, does not undercut the ability of other countries to detect and determine outcomes. Rather it demonstrates an interplay between Chinese state strategy and local political environments. In this presentation, Mr. Jili will focus on key features in China’s surveillance ecosystem, and touch upon the key ‘pull factors’ from African countries and their significance for US interests.

Boxed lunch will be provided.

Speaker Profile:

Bulelani Jili is a Meta Research Ph.D. Fellow at Harvard University. His research interests include Africa-China relations; Cybersecurity; ICT development; African Political Economy; Internet Policy; Chinese Business Law; Law and Development; and Privacy Law. He is also a Cybersecurity Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; a Fellow at the Atlantic Council; a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School; and is conducting research with the China, Law, Development project at Oxford University. Born in Durban, South Africa, he received an M.Phil. from Cambridge University, M.A. in Economics from Peking University, and B.A., in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Wesleyan University.

Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies.

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Xiconomics: What China’s Dual Circulation Strategy Means for Global Business
September 18 @ 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm
WCC 2009, Wasserstein Hall

Speakers:
Andrew Cainey, Founding Director of the UK National Committee on China; Senior Fellow, Royal United Services Institute
Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Join us for an illuminating dialogue between Andrew Cainey, founding director of the UK National Committee on China and senior fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, and Professor Mark Wu, the Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. This conversation, moderated by Professor Wu, will delve into the complexities of China’s Dual Circulation Strategy and its impact on global business.

Lunch will be provided.

Christina Davis, "Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations"

Date: Monday, September 11, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St., and Online (Zoom)

Christina L. Davis
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Moderator: Alastair Iain Johnston
Governer James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Harvard University.

Register for Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95493234680?pwd=UXRoQnJXV0E0NjMrTE5aY2xXbHpVdz09

Note: Registration is not required for in-person attendance.

See additional event details at: https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/event/discriminatory-clubs-geopolitics-international-organizations

Co-sponsored by the Department of Government; the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School; and the Harvard Undergraduate Japan Policy Network.

Spring 2023

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MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2023, WCC Room 2012, 12:15-1:15 PM
Discussing Disability Law in China
Panelists -- Zhiying Ma, Professor, The University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice; Rui Guo, Professor, Renmin University of China
Moderator -- William P. Alford, Professor, Harvard Law School; Chair, Harvard Law School Project on Disability

2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests

Date: April 3-12, 2023. Location: Hybrid/In Person at Wasserstein Hall (WCC), Harvard Law School

The Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its 2023 Symposium, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests,” over the first two weeks of April. This year, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States, ranging across the public and private sectors. The panels will feature issues on disability law, education in China, US-China climate change collaborations, antitrust law, and blockchain technology. This Symposium is cosponsored by the Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Department, the Harvard Law School Antitrust Association, the Harvard Law School Disabled Law Students Association, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Food/snacks will be provided at each speaker event. Details: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/cla/china-law-symposium/ RSVP: bit.ly/CLA2023Symposium

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April 3, 12:00-1:00 PM ET

NEW Location: Online [link] and in the Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.

“Industrial Policy in the Name of National Security: What Role for the WTO?”

Petros C. Mavroidis, Edwin B. Parker Professor of Foreign and Comparative Law, Columbia Law School

Discussant: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Faculty Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University.

Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

Sponsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Undergraduate Japan Policy Network; the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; the Harvard Kennedy School Japan Caucus; and East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School.

Wed., March 8, 2023, 4:15-6:00 pm

Journey of an Exile Tibetan Leader: From Harvard to Dharamsala

Lobsang Sangay

Former Sikyong (President), Central Tibetan Administration; Senior Visiting Fellow, East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School

With introductions by James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung Director, Asia Center; Harvard College Professor

17th Tsai Lecture

In-person public event at the Tsai Auditorium, S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

The talk will be followed by a reception in the concourse, CGIS South.

See more details here: https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/journey-of-an-exile-tibetan-leader-from-harvard-to-dharamsala-2281

Sponsored by the Tsai Lecture Fund at the Harvard University Asia Center; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University

EALS Lunchtime Talk: Friday, February 24, 12:20-1:20 pm, WCC Milstein East A

Regulating Fintech: The Asian Experience
Bo Li, J.D. ‘99, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Boxed lunch will be provided.

Mr. Bo LI assumed the role of Deputy Managing Director at the IMF on August 23, 2021. He is responsible for the IMF’s work on about 90 countries as well as on a wide range of policy issues.

Before joining the IMF, Mr. Li worked for many years at the People's Bank of China, most recently as Deputy Governor. He earlier headed the Monetary Policy, Monetary Policy II, and Legal and Regulation Departments, where he played an important role in the reform of state-owned banks, the drafting of China's anti-money-laundering law, the internationalization of the renminbi, and the establishment of China's macroprudential policy framework.

Outside of the PBoC, Mr. Li served as Vice Mayor of Chongqing—China's largest municipality, with a population of over 30 million—where he oversaw the city's financial-sector development, international trade, and foreign direct investment. Mr. Li was also Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese. He started his career at the New York law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he was a practicing attorney for five years.

Mr. Li holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and an M.A. from Boston University, both in economics, as well as a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He received his undergraduate education from Renmin University of China in Beijing.

You may be interested in this event:

Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 4:30-5:30 pm, WCC 1010 Classroom
Asia-Pacific Practices: A Conversation with Brian Burke of Shearman & Sterling
Co-hosted by the Harvard Trade Forum and the China Law Association

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Thursday, February 09, 2023, 12:30 pm, WCC 2019 Milstein West B
The Global Contest between Democracy and Autocracy: Less Dire Than It Seems, with former Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth

Organized by the Human Rights Program at HLS and co-sponsored by HLS Advocates for Human Rights, the International Human Rights Clinic, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, Harvard Human Rights Journal, the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, Program in Islamic Law, and East Asian Legal Studies.

Fall 2022

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Monday, November 21, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Trials Heard by a Foreign Ear: A Study of Chinese Jurors’ Comprehension of English Trials in Hong Kong

Speaker: Eva Nga Shan Ng | Assistant Professor, Translation Programme, School of Chinese, the University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23

Chair/discussant: Nicholas Harkness | Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University

Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk

In-person talk – Seating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members.
https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/trials-heard-by-a-foreign-ear/

EALS Talk

Friday, Nov. 11, 12:15-1:30

Professor Seung Wha Chang, Chairman of Korea Trade Commission & Professor of Seoul National University

An Arbitration Model for Resolving International Economic / Public Disputes: A (Korean) WTO Appeal Arbitrator's View

Morgan Courtroom, Austin 308

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LGBTQ Rights Advocacy in China: Status and Challenges.

Thursday, October 27, 2022, 12:30–1:20 PM, Wasserstein Hall 1019

If 5% of the population are members of the LGBTQ community, China’s LGBTQ population reaches at least 70 million. Over the past two decades, the LGBTQ community in China has become increasingly visible and diverse. Meanwhile, the community, civil society, and scholars also face unique challenges as they seek to provide social services, conduct queer studies, and disseminate queer theory in higher education institutions in China.

This panel features three activists/scholars sharing their insights into China's LGBTQ movement over the past 20 years, ongoing challenges, and future prospects of the movement.

Yanhui Peng and Zhijun Hu ("Ah Qiang") are currently Visiting Scholars at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. Wei Wei is a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute.

Lunch will be provided. RSVP at: tinyurl.com/HLSChinaLGBTQ.

Sponsored by the HLS China Law Association, the Harvard Asia Law Society, Harvard APALSA, and co-sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

*Please note, the talk with Dr. Sabine Stricker-Kellerer has been cancelled. It may be postponed to Spring*

Thursday, October 20, 2022
Looking Anew at European Investment in China
Dr. Sabine Stricker-Kellerer, LLM '83, Attorney at Law, SSK Asia, Munich; Mercator Institute for China Studies

EALS Book Talk

Monday, October 17, 2022, 12:15-1:30 pm Milstein East A, WCC, Harvard Law School

The Founding Generation: A Celebration of the Publication of Dr. Nongji Zhang's Book on the People's Republic of China's First Generation of Legal Scholars, 1949-1992

Dr. Nongji Zhang, Librarian for East Asian Law, Harvard Law School Library

Panelists:
Professor William Alford, Harvard Law School
Professor Guo Rui, Renmin University of China School of Law
Professor Margaret Woo, Northeastern University School of Law

Box lunches available.

EALS Open House
Monday, October 3, 2022
12:15 pm to 1:30 pm

Remarks at 12:45

Box lunches available

An opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Librarians, Staff, and the 2022-2023 Visiting Scholars, as well as other students interested in East Asia

Milstein East C, in the WCC building, Harvard Law School 

Fall 2021

You may be interested in this event on Zoom Tuesday, November 9 at 7pm:

Harvard Asia Law Society Presents: Traditional and Alternative Careers for US Lawyers in Asia

Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS) is hosting an event with Reid Monroe-Sheridan (HLS '09) at 7pm ET on Nov 9 (Tuesday). Reid is a lawyer, law professor, and consultant based in Tokyo. After graduating from HLS, Reid worked at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett's New York and Tokyo offices. He left Simpson Thacher in 2014, registered as foreign lawyer in Japan, and established independent legal and consulting practices in Tokyo. Reid now regularly advises a variety of Japanese and American companies on cross-border M&A, venture financings, securities transactions, complex technology licensing agreements and other commercial transactions. In addition, Reid is a tenured associate professor at Keio University Law School, one of Japan's top-ranked law schools, teaching courses on startup law and international business law topics. For more information, please see https://www.monroe-legal.com.

In this talk, Reid will discuss the opportunities and challenges for US-qualified lawyers seeking to build careers in Asia, including 
1) Key considerations regarding American biglaw, big local firms, boutiques and solo practices, in-house roles, and academia;
2) How the work in overseas offices of US biglaw firms differs from the work in New York/California, as well as insights on expat packages and on working together with local law firms; and
3) How to evaluate your competitive advantages and the impact of language skills on career opportunities.

After his talk, Reid will have a Q&A session with attendees.

Monday, October 25, 2021
12 to 1pm EDT via Zoom

Professor Celeste Arrington
Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Elliott School of International Affairs
George Washington University

Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government, Harvard University; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Event Page: https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/arrington-10-25-21

Co-sponsored by EALS

Thursday, October 7, 2021 at 8:30 pm EDT via Zoom

Dr. Weixia Gu, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, will be speaking on her book

Dispute Resolution in China: Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation and their Interactions (2021)

Dr. Gu’s research focuses on arbitration, dispute resolution, private international law and cross-border legal issues. For information about the book please see https://www.routledge.com/Dispute-Resolution-in-China-Litigation-Arbitration-Mediation-and-their/Gu/p/book/9781138823594.

Spring 2021

You may be interested in this HALS Zoom event :

Fireside Chat with Prof. Ko-Yung Tung
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: International Legal Careers and AAPI Representation in the Legal Profession

HALS, HIALSA, and CLA jointly invite Prof. Ko-Yung Tung to a fireside chat scheduled on April 23 (Friday), 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. EST. On Friday, Prof. Tung will discuss the following topics: AAPI representation in the legal profession, the opportunities and realities of pursuing international legal careers, and breaking the glass ceiling for AAPI minorities. 

Prof. Ko-Yung Tung is the former Secretary General of the Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the former Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank. He is currently a lecturer at HLS, teaching a course entitled “International Investment Arbitration: Policies, Issues, and Challenges.” Previously, Prof. Tung taught as an adjunct professor at Yale Law School and New York University School of Law. He also taught as a visiting professor at Tsinghua University and University of Arizona School of Law.   

In the public sector, Prof. Tung advises sovereign governments and agencies in the areas of foreign investment and international economic relations. In private practice, as Senior Partner of O’Melveny & Myers and Senior Counsellor at Morrison & Foerster, he counseled multinational corporations with respect to their internationalbusiness strategies, cross-border transactions, dealings with governmental authorities and international investment disputes. 

Prof. Tung was born in Beijing, China, and raised in Tokyo, Japan. He received his education from Harvard College (A.B. physics, 1970), Harvard Law School (J.D., 1973), and University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law (Research Fellow, 1971-72). Keenly aware of his Asian heritage and his life experiences, Prof. Tung is active in many NGOs focusing on AAPI and trans-Pacific issues, including the Asian American Legal Education and Defense Fund (AALDEF), National Asian Pacific Bar Association, U.S.-China Education Fund, and the Mansfield Foundation. He served as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the East West Center and as a member of the Presidential Commission on U.S.-Asia Trade and Investment. 

You may be interested in this HALS Zoom event :

International Law of the Sea, the South China Sea, and the US-China Relations

with Prof. James Kraska

Friday, April 16 at noon

Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS)

Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS) is hosting an event with HLS Visiting Professor James Kraska. Professor Kraska is a tenured professor and chair of the Stockton Center for International Law at the U.S. Naval War College and teaches International Law of the Sea at Harvard Law School. Professor Kraska has written numerous books, including Maritime Power and Law of the Sea, which won the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement, and co-authored The Free Sea: The American Fight for Freedom of Navigation (USNI). He is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served as a U.S. Navy officer and lawyer, including service with operational forces in the Indo-Pacific region.

On Monday, Professor Kraska will discuss focal points in the South China Sea, the shifting role of the international law of the sea in the Indo-Pacific region, and implications for the future of international law and U.S.-China relations. After his talk, Professor Kraska will have a Q&A session with students.

Fall 2020

You may be interested in this event:

October 15 at 5:00 pm

"China and the International Legal Order" Virtual Symposium

The ILJ Fall Symposium "China and the International Legal Order" will take place virtually on Thursday, October 15. This symposium is a unique collaboration between the Harvard International Law Journal, Yale Journal of International Law, and Oxford University’s China, Law and Development project and Commercial Law Centre.

Please see the website for more information: https://harvardilj.org/2020/09/harvard-international-law-journal-symposium-2020-china-and-the-international-legal-order/

EALS Open House

Please join us to meet EALS faculty, staff, and scholars.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 at 12 NOON

Summer Update about EALS Director Professor William Alford and Professor Mark Wu

"Professor William Alford recently stepped down as Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies after serving for 18 years with incredible wisdom, dedication, and compassion." 

https://today.law.harvard.edu/after-18-years-professor-alford-completes-his-tenure-as-vice-dean-for-the-graduate-program-and-ils/

"Professor Mark Wu has taken on the role of Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies and is excited to use his considerable talents on behalf of LL.M. and S.J.D. students."

https://today.law.harvard.edu/a-qa-with-mark-wu-on-his-appointment-as-vice-dean-for-the-graduate-program-and-international-legal-studies/

Spring 2020 (Academic Year 2019-2020) (reverse chronological order)

Due to the coronavirus situation, Harvard Law School events were only online after March 2020.

CANCELLED. Wednesday, April 22, at noon in Morgan Courtroom, HLS. EALS talk with Glen S. Fukushima, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress

CANCELLED. Monday, March 23 (date tentative), at noon in Morgan Courtroom, HLS - EALS talk with Professor David M. Lampton, Director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

CANCELLED. Saturday, March 21, 11:15 am to 1:00 pm at the Association for Asian Studies' Annual Meeting in Boston - Rethinking the China-Africa Relationship, a panel moderated by Professor William Alford . Hynes Convention Center, Room 207, Level 2. The John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston, MA https://www.asianstudies.org/conference/

CANCELLED. Thursday, March 12, 12 to 1 pm - Democratic Centralism and Administration in China - Professor Sarah Biddulph, Assistant Deputy Vice Chancellor- International (China), Director, Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School, Australia

Monday, March 9, 12 pm in WCC 2009

Surveilled, Detained, Disappeared: Repression in Xinjiang

Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch
Rayhan Asat, LLM ‘16
William Alford, EALS Director (moderator)

Co-sponsored by EALS, HLS Advocates for Human Rights, the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard Inner Asia and Altaic Studies

Friday, February 14, 2020, 12 to 1 pm in WCC Milstein West B, HLS

HLS Library Book Talk on Comparative Capital Punishment

Edited by Carol Steiker, Jordan Steiker

Commentators: William P. Alford (HLS), Margaret Burnham (Northeastern Law School), Gerald Neuman (HLS)

Co-sponsored by EALS

Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 12 to 1 pm in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall, Room 308, HLS

Book Talk on The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century of Chinese History

With author Lan Yan

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062899811/the-house-of-yan/

Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20th Century to present day.

The history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over the last century. One of the most influential business leaders of China today, Lan Yan grew up in the company of the country's powerful elite, including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping. Her grandfather, Yan Baohang, originally a nationalist and ally of Chiang Kai-shek, later joined the communists and worked as a spy during World War II, never falling out of favor with Soong May-ling, aka Mrs. Chiang Kai-shek. Lan's parents were diplomats, and her father, Yan Mingfu, was Mao's personal Russian translator. In spite of their elevated status, the Yan's family life was turned upside down by the Cultural Revolution. One night in 1967, in front of a terrified ten-year-old Lan, Red Guards burst into the family home and arrested her grandfather. Days later, her father was arrested, accused of spying for the Soviet Union. Her mother, Wu Keilang, was branded a counter-revolutionary and forced to go with her daughter to a re-education camp for five years, where Lan came of age as a high school student. In recounting her family history, Lan Yan brings to life a century of Chinese history from the last emperor to present day, including the Cultural Revolution which tore her childhood apart. The reader obtains a rare glimpse into the mysteries of a system which went off the rails and would decimate a large swathe of the intellectual, economic and political elite country. The little girl who was crushed by the Cultural Revolution has become one of the most active businesswomen in her country. In telling her and her family's story, Lan Yan serves up an intimate account of the history of contemporary China.

Lan Yan was not allowed to enter higher education because her Communist family had been designated as counter-revolutionaries. In 1969, she was sent to a re-education camp in Henan, where her mother had been for a year. In 1977, the year after the Cultural Revolution ended, she enrolled at university. Exceptionally motivated, she was awarded grants to study at the most prestigious universities in Europe and the United States. In 1991, she joined the Gide Loyrette Nouel law firm based in Paris and became the first foreign woman to make partner. In 1998, she returned to China to run the firm's Beijing office. In 2011, Lan Yan joined Lazard as managing director to lead its Chinese activities. Today, she is the vice chairman of investment banking of Lazard and the chairman and CEO of Lazard Greater China (Beijing, Hong Kong, Taiwan). She has rich experience on foreign companies' investment in China. Yan is the board director of Carrefour Group. She is the independent board member in Chateau de Versailles since Nov 2018. She is member of International advisory board of HEC Paris, member of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council (SIBAC). Yan is Honorary Consul of the Principality of Monaco in Beijing. She was granted Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (France) and Chevalier dans l'Ordre de Saint-Charles (Monaco). Yan has a Ph.D. in Law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, and an L.L.M. in International Law from the Law School of Beijing University. In 2017, Yan published her first book, Chez les Yan, in French. The English translation, The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century of Chinese History, has just been published.

Tuesday, January 14, 2020, 12 to 1 pm in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall, Room 308, HLS

The Evolving Role of Chinese Courts in International Commercial Dispute Resolution

Judge Shen Hongyu
Supreme People's Court of China
Visiting Scholar, Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School

Past Events Fall 2019 (Academic Year 2019-2020) (reverse chronological order)

Monday, December 2, 2019, 12 to 1:30 pm

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA

RELATIONAL JUSTICE: RECONCILIATING MURDER IN CHINA

Michelle Miao, Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar

Chair/discussant: William Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk, co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

https://harvard-yenching.org/events/relational-justice-reconciliating-murder-china

Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 12 to 1:15 pm

CGIS South Room S050 (Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge)

Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand's Sacred King Versus the Rule of Law

Eugenie Merieau, Postdoctoral Visiting Researcher, Institute of Global Law and Policy, HLS

Discussant: Malavika Reddy, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Harvard

Chair: Michael Herzfeld, Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Harvard

Thai Studies Seminar Series

Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and EALS

https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/constitutional-bricolage-thailand-s-sacred-king-versus-the-rule-of-law-724

Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 12 noon in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall, Room 308, HLS

Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute

The Legal Case of Fukushima, in Japan and Beyond

Stanton Nuclear Junior Faculty Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Thursday, November 21, 2019, Harvard Law School

American Society for Legal History Pre-Conference Workshop

Law and Empire in the Sino-Asian Context

Graduate Student panel, 11 am to 1 pm

Legal and Intellectual Constructs of Empires, 2 pm to 3:30 pm

Laying Down and Crossing Borders, 4 pm to 6 pm

If you wish to attend, please RSVP by November *14* by emailing Ms. Emma Johnson at johnson@law.harvard.edu.

Graduate Student Panel, 11 am to 1 pm

Chair: Tahirih Lee (FSU)

Yue Jiang (Stanford), Gender, Property, and Lineage in Mid-Qing: Property Disputes Between Women and Lineages
Commentator: Michael Szonyi (Harvard)

Rui Hua (Harvard), Imperial Wars in A Magistrate's Court: Translingual Legal Literacy and the Everyday Politics of Territorial Land Laws in Manchuria, 1900-1931
Commentator: Sakura Christmas (Bowdoin)

Xinyu Huang (Yale), The Censorial Impeachments under Qianlong and Jiaqing Reign (1736-1820)
Commentator: Thomas Buoye (Tulsa)

Jingjian Wu (Yale), W.A.P. Martin, Naturalism and The Translation of International Law in Late Qing China
Commentator: William Alford (Harvard)

Lunch Break, 1 to 2 pm

Legal and Intellectual Constructs of Empire, 2 to 3:30

Chair: Phillip Thai (Northeastern)

Commentator: Fei-Hsien Wang (Indiana)

Colin Jones (Columbia), Living Law, Legal Consciousness, and the Afterlives of Empire: The Origins and Legacy of the North China Rural Customs Survey (1941-1944)

Tristan Brown (MIT), Breaking the Land, Breaking the Law: Fengshui and the End of Imperial China

Peter Thilly (Univ. of Mississippi), Consular Jurisdiction and the Pioneers of Flexible Citizenship

Coffee Break, 3:30 to 4 pm

Laying Down and Crossing Borders, 4 to 6 pm

Chair: Par Cassel (Michigan)

Commentator: Taisu Zhang (Yale)

Geng Tian (Peking University), The Boundary Works in the Qing's Legal Analogies between 'Violent' Social Groups, 1750-1850

Yonglin Jiang (Bryn Mawr), The Contested Order: Central-Local Legal Dynamics on the Borderlands of the Ming Empire

Jenny Huangfu (Skidmore), The Last Refuge of the Scoundrel: Transnational Fugitives and the Spaces of Law in Late Qing China, 1860s-1900s

Larissa Pitts (Quinnipiac), The Abortive Forest Law of 1914: Russian Timber Merchants, Chinese 'Traitors,' and the Collapse of Modern Chinese Environmental Law

Co-sponsored by the American Society for Legal History, the International Society for Chinese Law and History, and Yale Law School

Friday, November 15, 2019 at 12 noon, WCC 1010, HLS

Legal Paths in the World of International Organizations

Developing a legal career in the world of international organizations

Gerard Sanders, LLM '92, General Counsel, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Xuan Gao, Chief Counsel, Institutional, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Non-pizza lunch will be served.

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Co-sponsored by EALS, Office of Public Interest Advising, HLS China Law Association, Harvard Asia Law Society, and HLS Rule of Law Society

Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 12 noon, Austin Hall, Room 101, HLS

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A 21st-Century Multilateral Development Bank

Gerard Sanders, LLM '92, General Counsel, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Xuan Gao, Chief Counsel, Institutional, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Non-pizza lunch will be served.

...

Co-sponsored by EALS, Office of Public Interest Advising, HLS China Law Association, Harvard Asia Law Society, and HLS Rule of Law Society

Monday, November 4, 2019 at 12 noon in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall, Room 308, HLS

The Judicial Activism of the Taiwan Constitutional Court

Tzong-Li Hsu, Chief Justice of the Taiwan Constitutional Court and President of the Judicial Yuan

Jau-yuan Hwang, SJD ’95, Justice of the Taiwan Constitutional Court

(Please note, talk title has changed from the below poster)

Tuesday, October 29 at 12 noon in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall room 308, HLS

Women with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific

Venus Ilagan
Former Secretary General of Rehabilitation International

Light refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by the Harvard Law School Project on Disability (https://hpod.law.harvard.edu). Co-sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies, Disability Law Students Association, Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, and Harvard Women’s Law Association.

VENUS ILAGAN, originally from the Philippines, is the immediate past Secretary General of Rehabilitation International (RI) from October 2008 to May 2019, and the first person with a disability from a developing country to serve in that capacity in the organization’s 97-year history. She was the first woman World Chairperson of Disabled People’s International. Prior to joining RI, Venus was the project manager of a national rehabilitation program which provided services to over 14,000 children with disabilities in the Philippines. She had the distinction of being a member of the Editorial Committee for the first-ever World Report on Disability, a joint initiative of the World Health Organization and the World Bank. It established that there were one billion persons with disabilities in the world in 2011 when the report was launched, which was instrumental in having over one hundred countries sign and ratify the disability convention within a very short period of time. Venus participated actively in the elaboration of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, now ratified by 177 countries. Venus is a passionate global advocate for gender equality specifically in the context of Women with Disabilities.

Monday, October 21, 2019 at 12:15 (note the time) in Pound Hall Room 102

Thirty Years of Dialogue with the Chinese Government: My Work on Human Rights in China

John Kamm
Chairman and Executive Director
The Dui Hua Foundation

John Kamm is an American businessman and human rights campaigner active in China since 1972. He is the founder and chairman of The Dui Hua Foundation. Kamm was awarded the Department of Commerce's Best Global Practices Award by President Bill Clinton in 1997 and the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights by President George W. Bush in 2001. In September 2004, Kamm received a MacArthur Fellowship for designing and implementing an original approach to freeing prisoners of conscience in China. Kamm is the first businessman to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

Dui Hua (meaning 'dialogue' in Chinese) is a nonprofit humanitarian organization that seeks clemency and better treatment for at-risk detainees through the promotion of universally recognized human rights in a well-informed, mutually respectful dialogue with China. Focusing on political and religious prisoners, juvenile justice, women in prison, and issues in criminal justice, our work rests on the premise that positive change is realized through constructive relationships and exchange.

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Law Society. A light lunch will be served.

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 12 noon in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall room 308, HLS

Big Data and the Chinese Legal System

Dr. Sabine Stricker-Kellerer, LLM '83
Attorney at Law, SSK Asia, Munich
Mercator Institute for China Studies

MERICS is a Berlin-based, independent think tank and leading European provider of policy-oriented research on contemporary China.

Sabine Stricker-Kellerer is an international lawyer with over 30 years experience advising European companies on legal aspects of doing business in China. In 1985 she set up the first office of a European law firm in China. Today she is also on the panel of arbitrators of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and other PRC arbitration commissions. She is chairwoman of the international business advisory board of the German Federal Minister of Economics and Technology. She is a founding member of the German-Chinese Dialogue Forum.

Co-sponsored by the HLS China Law Association

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 12 noon in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall room 308, HLS

North Korea: From 'Fire and Fury' to Love Letters - What's Next with Trump-Kim Diplomacy?

John Park
Director, Korea Project
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Harvard Kennedy School

Dr. John Park is Director of the Korea Project and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center. He is also a Faculty Affiliate with the Project on Managing the Atom. Dr. Park's core research projects focus on the political economy of the Korean Peninsula, nuclear proliferation, economic statecraft, Asian trade negotiations, and North Korean cyber activities.

Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute's SBS Foundation Research Fund

Wednesday, October 9 at 4:00 pm in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall room 308, HLS

Developments in China's Capital Markets and Implications of the US-China Trade War


James C. Lin, '98
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Lecturer on Law at HLS on Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital and Law in China

Mr. Lin is a partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell and is a Non-Executive Director of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. He is also a member of the Harvard Law School Leadership Council of Asia and the Advisory Board of Asia Society (Hong Kong), and an overseer of Morningside College at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 12 noon, WCC 2036 Milstein East AB

A Harvard Law School Library Book Talk

Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation (Springer 2019)

William P. Alford, Jerome A. Cohen and Lo Chang-fa, editors

The book talk discussion will include:

Jerome A. Cohen, Professor, NYU School of Law and Faculty Director, NYU U.S.-Asia Law Institute.

Dr. Chang-fa Lo, former Grand Justice of the Constitutional Court of the ROC (Taiwan) and former Dean, National Taiwan University Law School.

William P. Alford, Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies; Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law; Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program; and Chair, Harvard Law School Project on Disability

Commentators:
Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College and Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
Dr. Yu-Jie Chen, Academia Sinica (Taiwan).
Dan Zhou, LL.M. ’16 and SJD candidate, Harvard Law School.

Book talks are open to the Harvard community. A light lunch will be served.

This book talk is co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library and East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.

https://hls.harvard.edu/event/harvard-law-school-library-book-talk-taiwan-and-international-human-rights-a-story-of-transformation-jerome-a-cohen-william-p-alford-chang-fa-lo-eds-springer-2019/

Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 12 noon in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall room 308, HLS

Public Interest in Asia Series

Unbecoming Advocates: The Queer Career of Public Interest Lawyering in China

Dan Zhou
LL.M. ’16 and SJD candidate

Lunchtime talks begin promptly at 12:00. You are invited to bring your own lunch.

Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 3 pm in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall room 308, HLS

Please join EALS at our Fall Open House. Remarks at 3:30. Light refreshments.

Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 12 noon in Pound 100, HLS

Law, Technology, and China's A.I. Dream

Jeffrey Ding, Rhodes Scholar
D. Phil. Researcher, Center for the Governance of A.I. at the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford

Lunchtime talks begin promptly at 12:00. You are invited to bring your own lunch.

Monday, September 16, 2019 at 12 noon in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall room 308, HLS

The Time for Talk is Over: Climate Justice for Future Generations

Antonio Oposa, LL.M. '97
Environmental Activist in the Philippines
Founder, The Law of Nature Foundation

Lunchtime talks begin promptly at 12:00. You are invited to bring your own lunch.

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