William P. Alford

Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law

Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies

Director of East Asian Legal Studies (EALS)

Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability (HPOD)

Research Interests

• Chinese Law and Legal History
• China's Role in the World
• Law and Development
• International Trade
• The Legal Profession
• Disability Law

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Chinese Law and Legal History
• Comparative Law
• Disability Law
• Human Rights in East Asia
• International Technology Transfer
• International Trade
• Law and Development
• The Legal Profession

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• China
• Disability Law
• International Legal Education
• Law and Development
• NAFTA
• Transnational/Global Lawyering
• U.S. - East Asian Relations
• U.S.-Chinese Relations
• WTO

Education

• Amherst College B.A. 1970, American Studies
• St. John's College, Cambridge University LL.B. 1972
• Yale University M.A. 1974, Chinese Studies
• Yale University M.A. 1975, Chinese History
• Harvard Law School J.D. 1977

Appointments

• Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, 1990 -
• Director of East Asian Legal Studies (EALS), 1990 -
• Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies, 2002 -
• Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability (HPOD), 2004 -

Other Information

2011-2012 Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities

Representative Publications

• Alford, William P. & Michael Ashley Stein. "Youngberg v. Romeo" in Encyclopedia of American Disability History (Susan Burch ed., Facts on File, 2009).
  
• Prospects for Professionalism in China: Essays on Civic Vocations (William P. Alford, Kenneth Winston & William C. Kirby eds., Routledge forthcoming).
  
• Alford, William P. "'Second Lawyers,' First Principles: Lawyers, Rice-Roots Legal Workers, and the Battle Over Legal Professionalism in China" in Prospects for Professionalism in China: Essays on Civic Vocations (William P. Alford, Kenneth Winston & William C. Kirby eds., Routledge, forthcoming2009).
  
• Falu Baozhang Jizhi Yanjiu (A Study of Legal Mechanisms for the Protection of Persons with Disabilities) (Liming Wang, Yu'e Ma & William P. Alford eds., Huaxia Publishing House 2008).
  
• Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal Profession in East Asia (William P. Alford ed., Harvard, East Asian Legal Studies 2007).
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• Alford, William P. "Of Lawyers Lost and Found: Searching for Legal Professionalism in the People's Republic of China" in Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal Profession in East Asia (East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School, 2007).
  (A previous version was published in East Asian Law: Universal Norms and Local Culture, eds. Arthur Rosett, Lucie Cheng and Margaret Y. K. Woo (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003))
  
• Alford, William P. "Have You Eaten, Have You Divorced? Debating the Meaning of Freedom in Marriage in China" in Realms of Freedom in Modern China (William C. Kirby ed., Stanford University Press, 2004).
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• Alford, William P. & Benjamin Liebman. "Clean Air, Clean Processes? The Struggle Over Air Pollution Law in the People's Republic of China," 52 Hastings Law Journal 703 (2001).
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• Alford, William P. "Exporting the 'Pursuit of Happiness'," 113 Harvard Law Review 1677 (2000) (reviewing Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve (1999)).
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  (Reprinted in Understanding China’s Legal System: Essays in Honor of Jerome A. Cohen, ed. C. Stephen Hsu (New York University Press, 2003))
  
• Alford, William P. To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization (Stanford University Press 1995).
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  (3rd reprinting)
  

Bibliography

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