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SUMMARY:EALS 2026 Open House
DESCRIPTION:Please join us 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. We welcome you to our community. \nSavory and sweet pastries\, coffee\, Wong Lo Kat\, corn silk tea\, and hojicha will be provided. \nRSVP is greatly appreciated\, but not required. Please use this form to register. \nLocation: WCC 3019 (3rd floor of Wasserstein Hall)\, Harvard Law School \nThis event is open to HUID holders only.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/eals-2026-open-house/
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SUMMARY:Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) at 10:  Legal Innovation in Multilateral Development Banks -- Natalie Lichtenstein
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Talk: \nNatalie Lichtenstein\, JD ‘78\nAIIB Inaugural General Counsel (retired) \nDISCUSSANT: \nAlastair Iain Johnston\nThe Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Research Professor of China in World Affairs\, Harvard University \n  \nWhen the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was launched in 2016\, many wondered how this new multilateral development bank (MDB) would be different. China was its leading proponent and continues as its largest shareholder; developing countries in Asia and around the world have substantial stakes\, as does Europe. \nTen years later\, AIIB’s founding lawyer takes a look at AIIB in the context of MDB genealogy. Her new research spans the early 20th century roots of the World Bank Charter\, through the mid-century development of the principal regional MDBs. How does AIIB’s 21st century charter reflect its heritage\, and what new features were added? Concluding reflections will touch on how these features developed in AIIB’s first decade. \nThe talk is based on the newly published second edition of Ms. Lichtenstein’s book\, A Comparative Guide to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (Oxford University Press\, 2025). \n  \nNatalie Lichtenstein was Inaugural General Counsel at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the principal drafter for the AIIB Charter. A former Assistant General Counsel at the World Bank\, her 30-year legal career there spanned lending operations in Asia and senior positions in institutional governance. At US Treasury in the 1970s\, she worked on development banks and normalization of US-China relations. She taught Chinese Law and Society at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) for many years and remains a Fellow at the China Research Center. She received an AB summa cum laude in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and a JD from Harvard Law School. \n  \nAlastair Iain Johnston is the Gov. James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Research Professor (emeritus) of China in World Affairs in the Government Department at Harvard University. He has written on strategic culture\, socialization theory\, and identity and foreign policy\, mostly with application to the study of East Asian international relations and China’s international relations. From 2007-2024 he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control. \n  \nA light lunch will be provided. Please register here. \nA Harvard ID is required in order to enter Harvard Law School buildings. If you have questions\, please contact eals@law.harvard.edu in advance of the event. \n  \nFriday\, September 25\, 2026\, 12:20-1:20 pm\nWCC 3019 (Wasserstein Hall\, 3rd Floor)\, Harvard Law School
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/natalie-lichtenstein-2026/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Tariffs and Subsidies: Toward a New Framework for U.S. Industrial Policy -- A Law and Development Analysis -- Y.S. Lee
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Talk: \nProf. Y.S. Lee\nWest Virginia University College of Law\nDirector\, Law and Development Institute \n  \nThe United States has returned to tariffs and subsidies with renewed force\, seeking to rebuild domestic manufacturing\, promote strategic industries\, and counter geopolitical rivals such as China. This resurgence of industrial policy marks a sharp departure from the rule-based international trade order under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization since 1947. Yet despite costly tariffs and hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies\, the economic results remain uncertain\, while concerns over inflation\, trade conflict\, and market distortion continue to grow. Current debates in economics\, politics\, and trade law have focused largely on whether tariffs and subsidies are desirable. Far less attention has been paid to a more fundamental question: whether the United States possesses the legal and institutional capacity to implement industrial policy effectively. \nThis Article addresses that question through the General Theory of Law and Development\, a framework that examines how law\, broader legal frameworks\, and institutions shape economic and social transformation. It argues that contemporary U.S. industrial policy is structurally inadequate to achieve its stated objectives due to serious legal and institutional deficiencies undermining effective implementation\, coordination\, and policy coherence. These deficiencies also generate significant tensions with both domestic and international legal obligations\, as illustrated by the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Learning Resources\, Inc. v. Trump. The Article develops foundational elements of a new legal and institutional framework for industrial promotion grounded in international collaboration\, economic rationality\, and institutional coordination. \n  \nY.S. Lee is a lawyer\, economist\, and international relations scholar with internationally-recognized authority in law and development and international trade law. He is currently a full-time\, tenure-track faculty member and the Arthur S. Dayton Faculty Fellow at the West Virginia University College of Law and serves as Director and Professorial Fellow of the Law and Development Institute. He earned his undergraduate degree in economics with academic distinction from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and received his law degrees (B.A.\, M.A.\, Ph.D.) from the University of Cambridge. Author of Reclaiming Development in the World Trading System (Cambridge University Press\, 3d ed. forthcoming 2026)\, Safeguard Measures in World Trade: The Legal Analysis (Edward Elgar\, 4th ed. 2025)\, and Law and Development: Theory and Practice (Routledge\, 2d ed. 2022)\, Professor Lee has over one hundred thirty scholarly publications in the areas of international trade law and economic development\, comparative law\, and international commercial arbitration. His recent work has been focused on the impact that domestic and international legal systems\, including the legal framework for international trade\, has on economic development. He has also developed the concept of microtrade\, a new system of international trade designed to alleviate populations of the least-developed countries of extreme poverty. He is currently an associate editor of the Journal of World Trade and the founding editor-in-chief of the Law and Development Review. \n  \nA light lunch will be provided. Please register here. \nA Harvard ID is required in order to enter Harvard Law School buildings. If you have questions\, please contact eals@law.harvard.edu in advance of the event. \n  \nWednesday\, October 21\, 2026\, 12:20-1:20 pm\nWCC 3016 (Wasserstein Hall\, 3rd Floor)\, Harvard Law School
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