BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//East Asian Legal Studies - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:East Asian Legal Studies
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for East Asian Legal Studies
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20130310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20131103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20140309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20141102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20150308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20151101T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20160313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20161106T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20170312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20171105T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20180311T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20181104T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20190310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20191103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20200308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20201101T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20210314T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20211107T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20220313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20221106T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20230312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20231105T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250127T130000
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20250113T201723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T145126Z
UID:10000187-1737979200-1737982800@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Walking Out: America’s New Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar\n \nMichael Beeman\nVisiting Scholar\, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center\, Stanford University \nModerator:\nMark Wu\nHenry L. Stimson Professor\, Harvard Law School \nMichael Beeman will discuss his latest book and the future of trade in the Asia-Pacific as the United States shifts away from rules-based multilateral trading order. \nEvent details and Zoom registration link on Program on U.S.-Japan Relations website (will open in a new tab) \nSponsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Co-sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies; the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School; the Harvard University Asia Center; the Harvard Kennedy School Japan Caucus; and the Harvard Undergraduate Japan Policy Network.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/michael-beeman-2025/
LOCATION:Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262)\, CGIS Knafel Bldg.
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Co-Sponsored Event,Talk/Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/01.27_michael_beeman_poster.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T130000
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240419T234606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T070452Z
UID:10000008-1701086400-1701090000@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
DESCRIPTION:Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar \nGary Bass\nProfessor of Politics and International Relations\, Princeton University \nModerator: Christina L. Davis\nDirector\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\, Department of Government\, Harvard University \nThis seminar is part of the Special Series on Japanese Economic Statecraft. \nNote: Registration is not required for in-person attendance. \nAdditional Resources \n\nGary J. Bass\, Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia. Penguin Random House\, Oct. 17\, 2023.\n\nEvent details and Zoom registration link on Program on U.S.-Japan Relations website \nSponsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center; and East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard Law School.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/gary-bass-2023/
LOCATION:Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262)\, CGIS Knafel Bldg.
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Co-Sponsored Event,Talk/Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Judgment-at-Tokyo-book-cover_308_450_70.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T134500
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240419T234849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T070348Z
UID:10000009-1697026800-1697031900@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Book Launch & Panel Discussion \nAuthor: \n\nTamar Groswald Ozery\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Asian Studies\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem\n\nPanelists: \n\nWilliam 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\nRui Guo\, Visiting Scholar\, East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard Law School\nNicholas C. Howson\, Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law\, University of Michigan Law School\nMariana Pargendler\, Professor\, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School; Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School (effective July 2024)\nMeg Rithmire\, F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor\, Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit\, Harvard Business School\n\nIn 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. \nPlease join us for a book launch event featuring a panel of international corporate governance and China law experts. Professor Groswald Ozery\, Professor Rithmire\, and Dr. Guo will join Professor Alford in person. Professor Howson and Professor Pargendler will participate via Zoom. \nDiscussion will mainly focus on the role of formal law in governing markets during the “Legalized Politicization Era” (2010–present)\, the present era of market development in China. Covered extensively in the book\, the present era reveals a shift in China’s political–economic equilibrium. The authorities over governing markets are being reconfigured to handle the consequences of prior era state capitalism. Such reconfiguration of market governance is achieved through the mobilization of legal institutions in two main directions: intensifying the presence of the regulatory state in the market and shifting substantial market governance powers directly to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). \nBoxed lunch will be provided. \nLearn about the book on the Cambridge University Press website (public site).\nAccess the complete e-book on Cambridge Core through the Harvard Library (Harvard login required). \nAuthor Profile:\nTamar Groswald Ozery is an Assistant Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Israel. Previously\, she was a Grotius Fellow (Michigan Law)\, a Research & Teaching Fellow (Harvard Law)\, and the editor of the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. Her published scholarly works focus on Chinese corporate governance\, cross-border investments\, and party-state market relations. She is a frequent commentator on China’s legal system\, political economy\, and global economic integration; and has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Prior to academia\, she spearheaded the China department of a leading Israeli law firm. \nPanelist Profiles:\nWilliam P. Alford (J.D. 1977) is Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law at Harvard Law School\, where he is also Director of East Asian Legal Studies\, Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability\, and Senior Advisor for Graduate and International Legal Studies. His work on law and legal history in East Asia includes To Steal a Book is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization; Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal Profession in East Asia; 残疾人法律保障机制研究 (A Study of Legal Mechanisms to Protect Persons with Disabilities); Prospects for the Professions in China; Taiwan and International Human Rights; and An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China. \nRui Guo (S.J.D. 2013) is a Visiting Scholar at the East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School. His research centers on the rise of Chinese State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) and their intricate economic\, social\, and political implications. He earned his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School and holds both an L.L.B and L.L.M from the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. Alongside his interests in corporate law\, he also explores various legal education subjects in the United States and China\, including disability law and AI ethics. \nNicholas C. Howson is the Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He is a former partner of Paul\, Weiss\, Rifkind\, Wharton & Garrison LLP who worked out of the firm’s New York\, Paris\, London\, and Beijing offices\, and as a managing partner of the firm’s Asia Practice based in the Chinese capital. Professor Howson has spent many years living in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)\, both as a scholar and as a practicing lawyer based in Beijing. Professor Howson writes and lectures widely on Chinese law topics\, focusing on Chinese corporate law and securities regulation\, the Chinese capital markets\, Chinese legal history\, and the development of constitutionalism in Greater China. He acts as a Chinese law expert or party advocate in U.S. and international litigation and/or U.S. government enforcement actions. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, and a designated foreign arbitrator for both the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission in Beijing and the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. \nMariana Pargendler will join Harvard Law School as a Professor of Law\, effective July 1\, 2024. She is currently a professor at FGV Sao Paulo Law School\, where she coordinates the Nucleus of Law\, Economics\, and Governance (NuDEG)\, and is also Global Associate Professor of Law at New York University (NYU) School of Law. Professor Pargendler received a J.S.D. from Yale Law School\, where she was a fellow researcher at the Olin Center for Studies in Law\, Economics\, and Public Policy as well as a research fellow at the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management. Her academic research focuses on the areas of contract law\, corporate law\, and corporate governance\, from an economic and comparative perspective. Her papers have been published in renowned national and international journals\, and she is co-author of the third edition of the book The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach (Oxford University Press\, 2017)\, which has been translated into several languages. \nMeg Rithmire is the F. Warren MacFarlan associate professor in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Rithmire holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University\, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China and Asia. Her first book\, Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism (Cambridge University Press\, 2015)\, examines the role of land politics\, urban governments\, and local property rights regimes in the Chinese economic reforms. Her new book investigates the relationship between capital and the state and globalization in Asia\, comparing China\, Malaysia\, and Indonesia from the early 1980s to the present. The book\, Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia (Oxford University Press\, 2023)\, examines how governments attempt to discipline business and\, second\, how business adapts to different methods of state control. Her work also focuses on China’s role in the world\, including Chinese outward investment and lending practices and economic relations between China and other countries\, especially the United States. \nSponsored 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.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/tamar-groswald-ozery-2023/
LOCATION:WCC Milstein East A (2nd floor of Wasserstein Hall)
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,EALS Event,Talk/Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/law-and-political-economy-in-china_427_648_70.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230911T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230911T130000
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240420T000143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T070640Z
UID:10000013-1694433600-1694437200@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations
DESCRIPTION:Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar \nChristina L. Davis\nDirector\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\, Department of Government\, Harvard University. \nModerator: Alastair Iain Johnston\nGovernor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs\, Harvard University. \nNote: Registration is not required for in-person attendance. \nEvent details on Program on U.S.-Japan Relations website \nAdditional Resources \n\nChristina L. Davis\, Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations. Princeton University Press\, July 18\, 2023.\nChristina L. Davis\, “[Research Reports] To Exit or Remain? The High Stakes of Membership in International Organizations.” The Japan Institute of International Affairs\, July 19\, 2021. Japanese translation.\nJoseph Cotterill\, “Brics leaders invite 6 nations including Saudis and Iran to join bloc.” Financial Times\, August 24\, 2023.\n\nSponsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. 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.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/christina-davis-2023/
LOCATION:Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262)\, CGIS Knafel Bldg.
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Co-Sponsored Event,Talk/Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/9.11.23_davis__792_1224_70.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221017T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221017T133000
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240423T001507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T070614Z
UID:10000025-1666008900-1666013400@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Founding Generation: A Celebration of the Publication of Dr. Nongji Zhang's Book on the PRC's First Generation of Legal Scholars\, 1949-1992
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Book Talk \nDr. Nongji Zhang\, Librarian for East Asian Law\, Harvard Law School Library \n \nPanelists:\nProfessor William Alford\, Harvard Law School\nProfessor Guo Rui\, Renmin University of China School of Law\nProfessor Margaret Woo\, Northeastern University School of Law \nBox lunches available. \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/nongji-zhang-2022/
LOCATION:WCC Milstein East A (2nd floor of Wasserstein Hall)
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,EALS Event,Talk/Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Book-Talk.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T213000
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240423T002021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T070548Z
UID:10000028-1633638600-1633642200@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Dispute Resolution in China: Litigation\, Arbitration\, Mediation and their Interactions
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Book Talk \nDr. Weixia Gu is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong\, Faculty of Law. Dr. Gu’s research focuses on arbitration\, dispute resolution\, private international law and cross-border legal issues. \nDr. Gu will speak about her new book\, Dispute Resolution in China: Litigation\, Arbitration\, Mediation and their Interactions (Routledge 2021). \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/weixia-gu-2021/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,EALS Event,Talk/Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Visix-EALS-10-7-rev.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200214T133000
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240423T004337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T070842Z
UID:10000035-1581681600-1581687000@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:HLS Library Book Talk: Comparative Capital Punishment
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Law School Library Book Talk \nComparative Capital Punishment (Edward Elgar 2019) \nEditors: \nCarol Steiker\, Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Policy Program\, Harvard Law School \nJordan Steiker\, Judge Robert M. Parker Endowed Chair in Law and Director of the Capital Punishment Center\, University of Texas at Austin School of Law \nCommentators: \nWilliam P. Alford\, Vice Dean of the Law School for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies; Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law; Director\, East Asian Legal Studies Program; Chair\, Harvard Law School Project on Disability \nMargaret Burnham\, University Distinguished Professor of Law; Director\, Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project\, Northeastern University School of Law \nGerald Neuman\, Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International\, Foreign\, and Comparative Law; Co-Director\, Human Rights Program\, Harvard Law School \nSponsored by the Harvard Law School Library. Co-sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/carol-steiker-jordan-steiker-2020/
LOCATION:WCC Milstein West B
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Co-Sponsored Event,Talk/Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/book-talk-feb-14.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T130000
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240423T004620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T070948Z
UID:10000036-1580904000-1580907600@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century of Chinese History
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Book Talk \nLan Yan \nVice Chairman of Investment Banking\, Lazard;\nChairman and CEO\, Lazard Greater China \nThrough the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China\, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family’s history through early 20th Century to present day.\n\nThe 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. \n \nLan 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. \nBook details on the Harper Collins website (will open in a new tab). \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/lan-yan-2020/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,EALS Event,Talk/Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Poster-Lan-Yan-Feb-5.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191008T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191008T133000
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240423T230926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T071123Z
UID:10000043-1570536000-1570541400@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:HLS Library Book Talk: Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Law School Library Book Talk \n\n  \nEditors: \nJerome A. Cohen\nProfessor\, NYU School of Law\nDirector\, NYU U.S.-Asia Law Institute \nWilliam P. Alford\nVice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies\nJerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law\nDirector\, East Asian Legal Studies Program\nChair\, Harvard Law School Project on Disability \nDr. Chang-fa Lo\nFormer Grand Justice of the Constitutional Court of the ROC (Taiwan)\nFormer Dean\, National Taiwan University Law School \nCommentators: \nSteven Goldstein\nSophia Smith Professor of Government\, Emeritus\, Smith College\nFellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nDr. Yu-Jie Chen\nAcademia Sinica (Taiwan) \nDan Zhou\, LL.M. ’16\nS.J.D. Candidate\, Harvard Law School \nA light lunch will be served. \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library and EALS.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/taiwan-and-international-human-rights-a-story-of-transformation/
LOCATION:WCC 2036 Milstein East A/B
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Co-Sponsored Event,EALS Event,Talk/Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Oct-8-library-talk-noon-poster.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190220T133000
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240423T234007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T071139Z
UID:10000053-1550664000-1550669400@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:HLS Library Book Talk: Will China Save the Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Harvard Law School Library Book Talk \nAuthor: \nBarbara Finamore\, ’80\nSenior Attorney and Asia Senior Strategic Director\, Natural Resources Defense Council \nThe 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. \nEvent details on Harvard Law School Library website: https://etseq.law.harvard.edu/2019/01/book-talk-will-china-save-the-planet-wednesday-february-20th-at-noon/ \nCo-sponsored by EALS; Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment; HLS Environmental Law Society; and HLS Library.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/will-china-save-the-planet/
LOCATION:WCC Milstein West B
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Co-Sponsored Event,Talk/Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/finamore-new-small.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171003T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171003T130000
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240424T002645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T071212Z
UID:10000075-1507032000-1507035600@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:HLS Library Book Talk: The Futility of Law and Development: China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law
DESCRIPTION:A Harvard Law School Library Book Talk \nAuthor: \nJedidiah J. Kroncke\nProfessor\, FGV Sao Paulo School of Law\, Brazil \nPanelists: \nDavid Armitage\nLloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History\, Harvard University \nIntisar Rabb\nProfessor of Law and Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program\, Harvard Law School\nSusan S. and Kenneth L.Wallach Professor\, Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\nProfessor of History\, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences \nXiaoqian Hu\nSJD student\, Harvard Law School \nWilliam P. Alford\nVice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies\nHenry L. Stimson Professor of Law\nDirector\, East Asian Legal Studies Program\nChair\, Harvard Law School Project on Disability \nA light lunch will be served. \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library\, EALS\, and the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/the-futility-of-law-and-development-china-and-the-dangers-of-exporting-american-law/
LOCATION:WCC 2019 Milstein West B
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,EALS Event,Talk/Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/jed-oct-3-poster.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170419T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170419T181500
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240424T003727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T070144Z
UID:10000080-1492618500-1492625700@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism\, 1866-1945
DESCRIPTION:Asia Center Seminar Series \nCarter J. Eckert\nYoon Se Young Professor of Korean History\, Harvard University \nChair: Sun Joo Kim\nHarvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History\nDirector\, Korea Institute\, Harvard University \nDiscussants: \nAndrew Gordon\nLee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Harvard University\nActing Director\, Harvard University Asia Center\, 2016-2017 \nRebecca A. Nedostup\nAssociate Professor of History\, Brown University\nDirector of Graduate Studies \nAndre Schmid\nAssociate Professor\, Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Toronto \nSponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute\, East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard-Yenching Library\, and Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/park-chung-hee-and-modern-korea-the-roots-of-militarism/
LOCATION:Belfer Case Study Room S020\, CGIS South S20
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Co-Sponsored Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/carter-poster-vertical.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T133000
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240426T230745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T071234Z
UID:10000090-1487332800-1487338200@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:HLS Library Book Talk: The Foundations of the Modern Philippine State: Imperial Rule and the American Constitutional Tradition in the Philippine Islands\, 1898-1935
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Law School Library Book Talk \nThe Foundations of the Modern Philippine State: Imperial Rule and the American Constitutional Tradition in the Philippine Islands\, 1898-1935 (Cambridge University Press\, Fall 2016) \nCromwell Prize Winner\, American Society of Legal History \nAuthor: \nLeia Castaneda Anastacio\, LL.M. ’96\, S.J.D. ’09\nResearch Fellow\, East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard Law School \nCommentators: \nGerald L. Neuman\nJ. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International\, Foreign\, and Comparative Law\, Harvard Law School \nChristopher Capozzola\nAssociate Professor of History\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \nThe 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. \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library and EALS.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/the-foundations-of-the-modern-philippine-state-imperial-rule-and-the-american-constitutional-tradition-in-the-philippine-islands-1898-1935/
LOCATION:Lewis 214A
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,EALS Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Leia-talk-jpg.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161031T130000
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240426T232123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T071444Z
UID:10000096-1477915200-1477918800@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:HLS Library Book Talk: The Last Days of Stalin
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Law School Library Book Talk \nAuthor: \nJoshua Rubenstein\nAssociate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University\nScholar-in-Residence\, Facing History and Ourselves\nAssociate Director for Major Gifts\, Harvard Law School \nDiscussant: \nWilliam C. Taubman\nProfessor of Political Science\, Amherst College \nSponsored by the Harvard Law School Library. Co-sponsored by EALS.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/the-last-days-of-stalin/
LOCATION:Lewis 214A
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Co-Sponsored Event,Talk/Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/stalin-book.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150930T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150930T133000
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240429T192620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250129T122650Z
UID:10000115-1443614400-1443619800@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:HLS Library Book Talk: Second Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Law School Library Faculty Book Talk \nMark Ramseyer\nMitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies\, Harvard Law School \nThe 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. \nBook talk panelists include: \nTheodore Gilman\nExecutive Director\, Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs \nRichard J. Samuels\nFord International Professor of Political Science\, MIT\nDirector\, MIT Center for International Studies\nFounding Director\, MIT Japan Program \nAllen Ferrell\nHarvey Greenfield Professor of Securities Law\, Harvard Law School \nLunch will be served. \nSponsored by the Harvard Law School Library.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/second-best-justice-the-virtues-of-japanese-private-law/
LOCATION:WCC 2036 Milstein East A/B
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Event of Interest,Talk/Panel
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140422T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140422T133000
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240429T195602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250205T055424Z
UID:10000190-1398168000-1398173400@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman’s Journey from Prison to Power
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Talk \nLu Hsiu-Lien\nFormer Vice President of Taiwan \nEALS lunchtime talk followed by book signing \nSponsored by EALS. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Program on the Legal Profession.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/my-fight-for-a-new-taiwan-one-womans-journey-from-prison-to-power/
LOCATION:Austin West (Room 111)
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,EALS Event,Talk/Panel
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140404T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140404T153000
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240429T195654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250205T055829Z
UID:10000138-1396620000-1396625400@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Political Authority and Democracy: A Contemporary Confucian Perspective
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Talk \nJoseph Chan\nDepartment of Politics and Public Administration\, University of Hong Kong \nHis new book is Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/political-authority-and-democracy-a-contemporary-confucian-perspective/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,EALS Event,Talk/Panel
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140129T161000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140129T173000
DTSTAMP:20260422T182253
CREATED:20240430T181247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250205T064114Z
UID:10000145-1391011800-1391016600@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Civil Society in China: The Legal Framework from Ancient Times to the “New Reform Era”
DESCRIPTION:Karla Simon\nChair\, International Center for Civil Society Law\nAffiliated Scholar\, NYU US-Asia Law Institute \nCo-sponsored by EALS and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Kennedy School of Government.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/civil-society-in-china-the-legal-framework-from-ancient-times-to-the-new-reform-era/
LOCATION:Allison Dining Room\, 5th Floor Taubman Building\, Harvard Kennedy School
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,EALS Event,Talk/Panel
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR