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SUMMARY:EALS 2025 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\, Sikhye\, and hojicha will be provided. \nLocation: EALS offices and Morgan Courtroom\, 3rd floor of Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School \nThis event is open to HUID holders only.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/2025-open-house/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Open House
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SUMMARY:Professor Fu Hualing In Conversation with Professor Bill Alford
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies presents: \nProfessor Fu Hualing\nDean of the Faculty of Law\nWarren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities\nUniversity of Hong Kong \nIn Conversation With \nProfessor Bill Alford\nJerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law\nHarvard Law School \nFu Hualing is Professor of Law and holder of the Warren Chan Professorship in Human Rights and Responsibilities at the University of Hong Kong. He holds an LL.B. from Southwestern University in China\, an M.A. from University of Toronto and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from OsgoodeHall. \nProfessor Fu’s current research focuses on the rise of human rights lawyering in China and its implications for political and legal reform in China\, the politics of anti-corruption enforcement\, popular justice (including China’s evolving use of mediation processes)\, and a critical re-assessment of rule of law reform in China in the past four decades. His other research areas include the constitutional status of Hong Kong\, in particular central-local relationships in the Hong Kong context and national security legislation. \nProfessor Fu has published widely in various books and journals\, and as a believer in collaborative approaches to scholarship has co-edited a number of significant studies including Hong Kong’s Constitutional Debate: Conflict over Interpretation (HKU Press 2000); National Security and Fundamental Freedoms: Hong Kong’s Article 23 Under Scrutiny (HKU Press 2005); Liu Xiaobo\, Charter 08 and the Challenges of Political Reform in China (HKU Press 2012); Mediation in Contemporary China (Wildy\, Simmonds and Hill 2017); Transparency Challenges Facing China (Wildy\, Simmonds and Hill 2018); Socialist Law in Socialist East Asia (Cambridge University Press 2018); Authoritarian Legality in Asia: Formation\, Development and Transition (Cambridge University Press 2020); The National Security Law of Hong Kong: Restoration and Transformation (HKU Press 2022); and Regime Type and Beyond: The Transformation of Police in Asia (Cambridge University Press 2023).
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/fu-hualing-2025/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:Conversation/Fireside Chat,EALS Event
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SUMMARY:Atrocity Crimes and the Limits of International Criminal Justice
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Talk:\n \nRaul Pangalangan\, LL.M ’86\, S.J.D. ’90\nProfessor and Former Law Dean\, University of the Philippines\nFormer Judge at the International Criminal Court (2015-2021) \nI will look at the ICC\, first and foremost\, as a court\, not as a creature of politics\, and ask how courts can confront injustices of historical scale that are not too easily amenable to court-dispensed justice. \nThe limits contained in the Rome Statute (e.g.\, the high evidentiary and fair trial standards\, the resulting slowness and costliness of ICC procedure\, the problem of selectivity\, the unenforced arrest warrants vis-a-vis the ICC’s dependence on the support of states\, and the requirement of victim participation and reparations) have been pictured as design flaws inherent in the project of international criminal justice.  I propose that they instead call on us to reconceive the kind of justice that we seek\, and ask whether judicial power as defined in the domestic sphere is transformed when exercised at the international sphere. \nSpeaker: \nRaul C. Pangalangan (LL.M 1986\, S.J.D. 1990) is a Professor of Law and former Law Dean at the University of the Philippines. He was a Judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2015-21\, where he presided over the first ICC case on the war crime of attacking cultural and religious heritage\, and sat in landmark cases involving child soldiers\, forced marriages\, and sexual slavery. In 2022-23\, he chaired the ILO Commission of Inquiry on Myanmar. For this school year\, he is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. He is a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague) and Chair of the Philippine National Group at the PCA. He is an Associate Member of the Institut de Droit International\, and has served as a Visiting Professor at HLS. \nA light lunch will be provided. \nSponsored by EALS. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program; the Harvard International Law Journal; and HLS Advocates.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/raul-pangalangan-2025/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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SUMMARY:Disability Rights Advocacy and Legalism in South Korea and Japan
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies and Harvard Law School Project on Disability (HPOD) Talk \nCeleste Arrington\nKorea Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs\nDirector\, GW Institute for Korean Studies\nCo-Director\, East Asia National Resource Center \nDisability rights advocates in South Korea and Japan have accessed the courts to address an array of disability rights issues\, from barriers to political participation and forced sterilization in Japan to the inaccessibility of inter-city buses and forced labor on salt farms in South Korea. In her talk\, Professor Celeste Arrington will analyze the emergence of legalism in South Korea and Japan\, through comparisons of recent reforms related to disability discrimination and accessibility. \nThis talk’s focus will be the specific contributions to the trend towards legalism in Japan and Korea by disability “cause” lawyers. This growing cohort of legal advocates have drafted and deliberated new legislation\, lobbied for policy changes\, enhanced the capacity of disabled persons’ organizations\, investigated human rights conditions\, established mechanisms for remedying rights violations\, monitored compliance with the 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities\, and represented persons with disabilities in court. Not only have these efforts helped to advance the rights of persons with disabilities\, they have also made an impact on South Korea’s and Japan’s legal systems more broadly. \nAs chronicled in Professor Arrington’s forthcoming book\, From Manners to Rules: Advocating for Legalism in South Korea and Japan (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)\, in addition to important disability rights gains\, disability rights advocates have made notable contributions to the emergence of more formal rules and participatory policymaking and enforcement\, including through the courts. These markers of emerging legal formalism represent a change since governance in both countries was long known for relying on vague laws\, bureaucratic discretion\, and nonbinding exhortations. While existing studies of legalism and the broader judicialization of politics tend to offer top-down or structural explanations\, Professor Arrington’s forthcoming book traces how activists and lawyers are contributing to the legalistic turn in regulatory style from the bottom up by demanding more detailed and enforceable legal frameworks and using them in court. \nCeleste Arrington is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. She is the Director of the GW Institute for Korea Studies and Co-Director of the East Asia National Resource Center (2024-present). She specializes in comparative public policy\, law and social change\, lawyers\, and governance\, with a regional focus on the Koreas and Japan. She is also interested in Northeast Asian security\, North Korean human rights\, and transnational activism. Her first book was Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Governmental Accountability in Japan and South Korea (Cornell\, 2016). She has published numerous articles and she coedited Rights Claiming in South Korea with Patricia Goedde (Cambridge\, 2021). Her forthcoming book analyzes the legalistic turn in Korean and Japanese regulatory style through paired case studies related to tobacco control and disability rights. She received a PhD from UC Berkeley\, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge\, and an AB from Princeton University. She has been a fellow at the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard\, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. GW’s Office of the Vice President for Research awarded her the 2021 Early Career Research Scholar Award. Her article with Claudia Kim\, “Knowledge Production Through Legal Mobilization: Environmental Activism Against the U.S. Military Bases in East Asia\,” won the 2023 Asian Law and Society Association’s distinguished article award. \nLight lunch will be provided. \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies and the Harvard Law School Project on Disability (HPOD). Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute\, the Reischauer Institute\, and the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. \nLinks: \n\n Michael E. Waterstone\, Michael Ashley Stein & David B. Wilkins\, “Disability Cause Lawyers\,” 53 William & Mary Law Review 1287 (2012)\n Matthew “Hezzy” Smith & Michael Ashley Stein\, “Global cause lawyering\,” The Practice (May/June 2022)\n János Fiala-Butora\, Matthew S. Smith & Michael Ashley Stein\, “Disability cause lawyering at the European Court of Human Rights: Lessons from strategic litigation on the right to political participation\,” in Human Rights Strategies (2024)
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/celeste-arrington-2025/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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SUMMARY:U.S. Tech Policy Toward China: Growing Parallels Between Washington and Beijing?
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Talk \nAngela Huyue Zhang \nProfessor of Law\, University of Southern California Gould School of Law \n \nIn this talk\, I will pose the provocative question of whether America is now acting like China in its attempt to contain China’s technological rise. Amid the escalating Sino-U.S. tech war\, the United States has built an unprecedented legal machine aimed at curbing China’s technological advancements. From imposing stringent sanctions on Chinese tech giants to restricting China’s access to advanced semiconductor chips and equipment\, the U.S. government has intensified efforts to slow China’s progress in key sectors. In parallel\, it has heightened scrutiny over both inbound and outbound investments related to China\, passed a law that could lead to a nationwide ban on Tik Tok\, and imposed steep tariffs on Chinese high-tech goods such as electric vehicles\, batteries\, and solar panels. Meanwhile\, U.S. agencies have significantly ramped up enforcement against espionage activities\, disproportionately targeting ethnic Chinese scientists\, which has led to a talent exodus in recent years. \nDrawing from my newly released book\, High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy\, I will explore the striking parallels between the U.S. and China’s regulatory governance. Through a deep dive into the structure\, processes\, and outcomes of U.S. legal strategies\, I will unravel the dynamic complexities and unintended consequences of U.S. legal actions against China. Additionally\, I will offer proposals on how the United States can recalibrate its tech policy to enhance resilience and maintain its competitive edge in the fast-changing technological landscape. \nAngela 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. \nBoxed lunch will be provided. \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/angela-zhang-2024-11/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T150000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240904T222636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250125T072228Z
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SUMMARY:China's Reception of the AI Revolution
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Talk \nDongsheng Zang (LL.M. 1996\, S.J.D. 2004)\nAssociate Professor of Law\, University of Washington School of Law \n \nProfessor Dongsheng Zang joined the faculty at University of Washington School of Law full-time in 2006\, after serving as a visiting professor in 2005-06. His academic interests include international trade law\, and comparative study of Chinese law\, with a focus on the role of law and state in response to social crises in the social transformation in China. He holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School\, in addition to his 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 prize. He was a research fellow at the East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School during the 2004-05 academic year. \nCoffee and light snacks will be provided. \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/dongsheng-zang-2024/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250120T054328Z
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SUMMARY:EALS 2024 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! \nSavory and sweet pastries\, coffee\, Wong Lo Kat\, Sikhye\, and hojicha will be provided. \nLocation: EALS offices and Morgan Courtroom\, 3rd floor of Austin Hall\, HLS
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/2024-open-house/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Open House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T122000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240404T181818Z
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SUMMARY:The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Enters its 14th Year: Ghost Towns\, Lawsuits\, and a Million Tons of Water
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Talk \nMartin Fackler \nJournalist and Visiting Research Associate\, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies \nMartin Fackler is a research associate at Harvard University’s Reischauer Institute of 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. \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies. Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/martin-fackler-2024/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T132000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240312T210413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250127T162318Z
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SUMMARY:Thomas Jefferson\, Carsun Chang and A Lost Era of U.S.-China Constitutional Engagement
DESCRIPTION:  \nEast Asian Legal Studies Talk \n \nJedidiah Kroncke\nAssociate Professor of Law\, University of Hong Kong \nDr. 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. His 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. \nBoxed lunch will be provided. \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/jedidiah-kroncke-2024/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T122000
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CREATED:20240312T210234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250127T162358Z
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SUMMARY:Health Code Apps as Social Control in China: Empirical Findings from the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Talk \nMichelle Miao\nAssociate Professor of Law\, Chinese University of Hong Kong\nFellow\, Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences \nMichelle 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. Among Professor Miao’s research interests are the intersections between law and technology\, criminal justice\, socio-legal studies and comparative law. \nBoxed lunch will be provided. \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/michelle-miao-2024/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T132000
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CREATED:20250127T155541Z
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SUMMARY:Partner\, Competitor\, Systemic Rival: Germany/EU´s Business with China
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Talk \nSabine Stricker-Kellerer\nAttorney and German Co-Chair of the German-Chinese Dialogue Forum\, German Federal Foreign Office \nDr. 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. \nBoxed lunch will be provided.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/partner-competitor-systemic-rival-germany-eu-business-with-china/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T134500
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240419T234849Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
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SUMMARY:EALS 2023 Open House
DESCRIPTION: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
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/2023-open-house/
LOCATION:WCC 3019 Classroom (3rd floor of Wasserstein Hall)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Open House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T132000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240419T235302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250125T074846Z
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SUMMARY:The Chinese Surveillance Technology Industry and its Reception in African Countries
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Talk \nBulelani Jili\nMeta Ph.D. Research Fellow (African Studies and Anthropology) at Harvard University \n \nBulelani 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. \nThe 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. \nSpeaker Profile: \nBulelani Jili is a Meta Ph.D. Research Fellow at Harvard University\, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in African studies and anthropology. 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. \nBoxed lunch will be provided. \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies. Co-sponsored by the Department of African and African American Studies and the Department of Anthropology.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/bulelani-jili-2023/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T132000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240422T235438Z
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SUMMARY:Regulating Fintech: The Asian Experience
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series \nBo Li\nDeputy Managing Director\, International Monetary Fund \n\nBo 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. \nOutside 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. \nMr. 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. \nBoxed lunch will be provided. \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/bo-li-2023/
LOCATION:WCC Milstein East A (2nd floor of Wasserstein Hall)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221111T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221111T140000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240423T000657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250125T152130Z
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SUMMARY:An Arbitration Model for Resolving International Economic / Public Disputes: A (Korean) WTO Appeal Arbitrator’s View
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series \nSeung Wha Chang\, LL.M. 1992\, S.J.D. 1994\nProfessor\, Seoul National University\nChairman\, Korea Trade Commission \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/seung-wha-chang-2022/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221017T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221017T133000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240423T001507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T070614Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221003T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221003T133000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240423T001647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250125T152947Z
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SUMMARY:EALS 2022 Open House
DESCRIPTION:EALS Open House \nMonday\, October 3\, 2022\, 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm \nRemarks at 12:45 \nAn opportunity to meet EALS Faculty\, Librarians\, Staff\, and the 2022-2023 Visiting Scholars\, as well as other students interested in East Asia. \nMilstein East C\, in the WCC building\, Harvard Law School \nBox lunches available
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/2022-open-house/
LOCATION:WCC Milstein East C
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Open House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T213000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240423T002021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T070548Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200923T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200923T130000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240423T003148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250125T154037Z
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SUMMARY:EALS 2020 Open House
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to meet EALS faculty\, staff\, and scholars.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/2020-open-house/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Open House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T130000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240423T004620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T070948Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
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SUMMARY:Law and Empire in the Sino-Asian Context
DESCRIPTION:American Society for Legal History Pre-Conference Workshop \nIf you wish to attend\, please RSVP by November *14* by emailing Ms. Emma Johnson at johnson@law.harvard.edu. \nGraduate Student Panel\, 11 am to 1 pm\nChair: Tahirih Lee (FSU) \nYue Jiang (Stanford)\, Gender\, Property\, and Lineage in Mid-Qing: Property Disputes Between Women and Lineages\nCommentator: Michael Szonyi (Harvard) \nRui Hua (Harvard)\, Imperial Wars in A Magistrate’s Court: Translingual Legal Literacy and the Everyday Politics of Territorial Land Laws in Manchuria\, 1900-1931\nCommentator: Sakura Christmas (Bowdoin) \nXinyu Huang (Yale)\, The Censorial Impeachments under Qianlong and Jiaqing Reign (1736-1820)\nCommentator: Thomas Buoye (Tulsa) \nJingjian Wu (Yale)\, W.A.P. Martin\, Naturalism and The Translation of International Law in Late Qing China\nCommentator: William Alford (Harvard) \n  \nLunch Break\, 1 to 2 pm\n\n  \nLegal and Intellectual Constructs of Empire\, 2 to 3:30\nChair: Phillip Thai (Northeastern) \nCommentator: Fei-Hsien Wang (Indiana) \nColin Jones (Columbia)\, Living Law\, Legal Consciousness\, and the Afterlives of Empire: The Origins and Legacy of the North China Rural Customs Survey (1941-1944) \nTristan Brown (MIT)\, Breaking the Land\, Breaking the Law: Fengshui and the End of Imperial China \nPeter Thilly (Univ. of Mississippi)\, Consular Jurisdiction and the Pioneers of Flexible Citizenship\n \n  \nCoffee Break\, 3:30 to 4 pm\n\nLaying Down and Crossing Borders\, 4 to 6 pm\nChair: Par Cassel (Michigan) \nCommentator: Taisu Zhang (Yale) \nGeng Tian (Peking University)\, The Boundary Works in the Qing’s Legal Analogies between ‘Violent’ Social Groups\, 1750-1850 \nYonglin Jiang (Bryn Mawr)\, The Contested Order: Central-Local Legal Dynamics on the Borderlands of the Ming Empire \nJenny Huangfu (Skidmore)\, The Last Refuge of the Scoundrel: Transnational Fugitives and the Spaces of Law in Late Qing China\, 1860s-1900s \nLarissa Pitts (Quinnipiac)\, The Abortive Forest Law of 1914: Russian Timber Merchants\, Chinese ‘Traitors\,’ and the Collapse of Modern Chinese Environmental Law\n \n  \nEast Asian Legal Studies. Co-sponsored by the American Society for Legal History\, the International Society for Chinese Law and History\, and Yale Law School.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/law-and-empire-in-the-sino-asian-context-workshop/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:Conference/Symposium,EALS Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191120T130000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240423T003442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250126T120507Z
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SUMMARY:The Legal Case of Fukushima\, in Japan and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series \n \nDr. Julius Weitzdörfer\nStanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Fellow (2019-2020)\, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies. Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/the-legal-case-of-fukushima-in-japan-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191115T130000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20250127T160300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T090040Z
UID:10000196-1573819200-1573822800@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Legal Paths in the World of International Organizations
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series \n \nGerard Sanders\, LL.M. ’92\nGeneral Counsel\, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank \nXuan Gao\nChief Counsel\, Institutional Unit\, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank \nDeveloping a legal career in the world of international organizations. \nNon-pizza lunch will be served. \nSponsored by EALS. Co-sponsored by the Office of Public Interest Advising\, HLS China Law Association\, Harvard Asia Law Society\, and HLS Rule of Law Society.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/legal-paths-in-the-world-of-international-organizations/
LOCATION:WCC 1010
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T130000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20250124T174723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250126T120332Z
UID:10000192-1573732800-1573736400@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A 21st-Century Multilateral Development Bank
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series \nGerard Sanders\, LLM ’92\nGeneral Counsel\, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank \nXuan Gao\nChief Counsel\, Institutional\, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank \nNon-pizza lunch will be served. \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies. Co-sponsored by the HLS China Law Association\, Office of Public Interest Advising\,  Harvard Asia Law Society\, and HLS Rule of Law Society.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/aiib-21st-century-multilateral-development-bank/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 101
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191104T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191104T130000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240423T224652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250126T114430Z
UID:10000037-1572868800-1572872400@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Judicial Activism of the Taiwan Constitutional Court
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series \n\nTzong-Li Hsu\nChief Justice\, Taiwan Constitutional Court;\nPresident\, Judicial Yuan \nJau-yuan Hwang\, SJD’95\nJustice\, Taiwan Constitutional Court \n(Please note\, talk title has changed from the poster)
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/the-judicial-activism-of-the-taiwan-constitutional-court/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T131500
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240423T225857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250126T120602Z
UID:10000039-1571660100-1571663700@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Thirty Years of Dialogue with the Chinese Government: My Work on Human Rights in China
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series \nJohn Kamm\nChairman and Executive Director\, The Dui Hua Foundation \nDui 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. \nA light lunch will be served. \n\n\n\nJohn 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. \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Law Society.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/thirty-years-of-dialogue-with-the-chinese-government-my-work-on-human-rights-in-china/
LOCATION:Pound Hall 102
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T130000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240423T230142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250126T121456Z
UID:10000040-1571400000-1571403600@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Big Data and the Chinese Legal System
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series \nDr. Sabine Stricker-Kellerer\, LL.M. ’83\nAttorney at Law\, SSK Asia\, Munich\nMercator Institute for China Studies \nMERICS is a Berlin-based\, independent think tank and leading European provider of policy-oriented research on contemporary China. \n\n\n\nSabine 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. \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies. Co-sponsored by the China Law Association.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/big-data-and-the-chinese-legal-system/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191016T130000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240423T230430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250126T122158Z
UID:10000041-1571227200-1571230800@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:From ‘Fire and Fury’ to Love Letters - What’s Next with Trump-Kim Diplomacy?
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series \nJohn Park\nDirector\, Korea Project and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy\, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government \n \n\n\n\nDr. 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. \n  \nSponsored by East Asian Legal Studies. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute’s SBS Foundation Research Fund\, and the Harvard Asia Law Society.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/from-fire-and-fury-to-love-letters-whats-next-with-trump-kim-diplomacy/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191009T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T111614
CREATED:20240423T230700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250126T123220Z
UID:10000042-1570636800-1570640400@eals.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Developments in China’s Capital Markets and Implications of the US-China Trade War
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series \n\nJames C. Lin\, J.D. ’98\nPartner\, Davis Polk & Wardwell\nLecturer on Law\, Harvard Law School \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMr. James C. Lin is a partner at 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. \nMr. Lin is teaching “Entrepreneurship\, Venture Capital and Law in China” this semester.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/developments-in-chinas-capital-markets-and-implications-of-the-us-china-trade-war/
LOCATION:Austin Hall 308 (Morgan Courtroom)
CATEGORIES:EALS Event,Talk/Panel
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