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Events Related to International, Foreign and Comparative Legal Studies,
Spring 2007

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Webcasts and Related Interviews Fall 2005 - Spring 2006
Fall 2006 - Spring 2007

Monday, January 29
4:45-6:45pm

WorkShop in Asian Law

China's Courts: Restricted Reform

BENJAMIN LIEBMAN '98
Associate Professor of Law
Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies Columbia Law School

Griswold 110

This is one of a series of talks associated with Professor Mark Ramseyer's Workshop in Asian Law, course 99935A
Please contact Kim Peterson if you have any questions

Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies

Wednesday, January 31
12:15-2:00pm

NEW OPPORTUNTIES IN HUMAN RIGHTS!

Hauser 104

Pizza and drinks will be served

Join the Human Rights Program for an information session to learn about post-graduate human rights fellowships (J.D.s and LL.M.s) and a new program in human rights during summer 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina (J.D.s).
For more information, please contact hrp@law.harvard.edu.

Sponsored by Human Rights Program

Monday, February 5
5:00pm

Chayes International Public Service Fellowship applications are due by 5:00 pm on Monday, February 5.

In addition to submitting an application, interested students must contact the Chayes Fellowship Program between January 22 and February 2 at (617) 495-9030 or ils@law.harvard.edu to schedule an interview that will occur February 7-9.

For more information about the Chayes Fellowship and application procedures, see:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/ils/resources/fellowships/chayes_international_public_service_fellowship/

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Monday, February 5
4:45–6:45pm

Workshop in Asian Law

Lost in Transition: Japanese Youth and the Transformation of the Labor Market

MARY C. BRINTON
Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Location: Griswold 110

This is one of a series of talks associated with Professor Mark Ramseyer’s Workshop in Asian Law, course 99935A. Please contact Kim Peterson with any questions.

Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies

Thursday, February 8
12:30-2:00PM

A luncheon

with

JUSTICE ALBIE SACHS
South African Constitutional Court

John Chipman Gray Room

The lunch will feature the screening of a DVD on the Constitutional Court of South Africa, followed by a question and answer session with Justice Sachs.

All are welcome

RSVP by Tuesday, February 6th to mhubbell@law.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by Human Rights Program and International Legal Studies

Monday, February 12
4:45-6:45pm

Workshop in Asian Law

Reform in Japanese Legal Education

An academic delegation from Waseda Law School

Location: Griswold 110

This is one of a series of talks associated with Professor Mark Ramseyer's Workshop in Asian Law, course 99935A. Please contact Kim Peterson with any questions.

Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies

Thursday, February 15
3:00pm

Public International Law in Practice:
Insights From Work in the Field

with

SUSAN PAGE ‘89

John Chipman Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School

Susan Page has worked for the US Department of State, the US Agency for International Development, and the United Nations Development Program and has been based in the US, Kenya, Botswana, Rwanda, and Sudan. She was a member of the mediation team that resulted in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement for the Sudan, and now works for the UN Mission in the Sudan.

Refreshments will be provided.

Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program, International Legal Studies, the Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising, and the Program on Negotiation

Friday, February 16
4:00pm-6:00pm

National Human Rights Commissions Conference on Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities

Opening Keynote

Eric Rosenthal
Mental Disability Rights International

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: The First Human Rights Treaty of the Twenty-First Century

with

Commentary by:
Professor Gerard Quinn
Disability Law & Policy Research Unit, Faculty of Law, NUI, Galway

Professor William Alford
Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies

Professor Ryan Goodman
Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Dr. Maurice Manning
President of the European Group of National Human Rights Institutions

&
Chaired by
Professor Michael Stein

Harvard Law School, Hauser 104

Open to the Public

Sponsored by the Human Rights Program, East Asian Legal Studies and International Legal Studies

Friday, February 16
12:30-1:30pm

Negotiating Peace in Northern Ireland - Personal Perspectives

MAURICE MANNING
President of the Human Rights Commission of Ireland
Former member of both Houses of the Oireachtas and leader of the Seanad

Brown Bag lunch; dessert and drinks provided

Location Pound 419

Sponsored by the Program on Negotiation and co-sponsored by International Legal Studies, East Asian Legal Studies, and the Human Rights Program

Monday, February 19
4:45–6:45pm

Workshop in Asian Law

Courageous Explorers? Education Litigation and Judicial Innovation in China

THOMAS E. KELLOGG , ’03
Lecturer in Law and Senior Fellow, The China Law Center, Yale Law School

Location: Griswold 110

This is one of a series of talks associated with Professor Mark Ramseyer’s Workshop in Asian Law, course 99935A. Please contact Kim Peterson with any questions.

Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies

Tuesday, February 20
12:15pm

RONALD C. MCCALLUM AO
Dean, Faculty of Law and Blake Dawson Waldron Professor of Industrial Law of the University of Sydney, Australia

National Labor Relations Board v Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation in Twenty-First Century Australia: the Use of the Corporations Power to Deregulate Australian Labor Law

Pound Hall 335

Lunch will be served

Sponsored by International Legal Studies and the Labor and Worklife Program

Tuesday, February 20
2:00pm

Informational Session for HLS students about Semester Abroad at the University of Sydney Law School

with

RONALD C MCCALLUM AO
Dean, Faculty of Law and Blake Dawson Waldron Professor of Industrial Law of the University of Sydney, Australia

Harvard Law School, Pound Hall 332

Refreshments will be provided

Sponsored by International Legal Studies

East Asian Legal Studies Workshop Series on Sovereignty

When Sovereignty Does Not Matter: The China/Taiwan Context, Experiences Elsewhere, and a Jurisprudential Explanation

led by
CHI CHUNG
S.J.D. Candidate

Session 1: Tuesday, February 20, 12:30 - 2:00pm
When Sovereignty Does Not Matter in the China/Taiwan Context

Session 2: Tuesday, February 27, 12:30 - 2:00pm
Where Is Sovereignty in the China/Taiwan Context?

Session 3: Tuesday, March 6, 12:30 - 2:00
What Are the Causes?

All sessions take place in Pound Hall 419, Harvard Law School, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue.

Ideally, all participants would read the relevant workshop materials before each session. These can be picked up outside Pound Hall 426. Please contact Chi Chung with any questions.

Wednesday, February 21
12:15

Seeking Asylum Alone: Unaccompanied and Separated Children and Refugee Protection in Australia, the U.K., and the U.S.

With co-authors

MARY CROCK
Associate Professor, University of Sydney Law School

JAQUELINE BHABHA
Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, Executive Director of Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies

Moderated by

DEBORAH ANKER
Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall; Harvard Law School

Light refreshments will be provided

For more information on this event, please contact Susan Frick with the University Committee for Human Rights Studies at Susan_Frick@ksg.harvard.edu.

Co-sponsored by: University Committee on Human Rights Studies, Human Rights Program, the Immigration and Refugee Clinic at Harvard Law School and International Legal Studies

Wednesday, February 21
5:00-6:00pm

Using Human Rights Law to Defend Civil Liberties at Home

ANN BEESON
ACLU Associate Legal Director and the Director of Programs on National Security and Human Rights

Harkness South
Reception to Follow

Ms. Beeson is currently leading efforts to stop the erosion of civil liberties in the name of national security. In August, Ms. Beeson won a historic lawsuit on behalf of prominent journalists, scholars, and attorneys challenging the National Security Agency's illegal surveillance of Americans without a warrant. Ms. Beeson has argued twice before the United States Supreme Court, and has been named one of "America's Top 50 Women Litigators" by the National Law Journal.

Co-sponsored by the ACLU of Harvard Law School, the Human Rights Program, and the ACLU of Massachusetts

Monday, February 26
4:45 – 6:45pm

Workshop in Asian Law

Administrative Law and Political Transition in China Location

with
NEYSUN MAHBOUBI
Fellow and Tutor in Law, The China Law Center, Yale Law School.

Griswold 110

This is one of a series of talks associated with Professor Mark Ramseyer’s Workshop in Asian Law, course 99935A. Please contact Kim Peterson (kpeterso@law.harvard.edu) with any questions.

Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies

Tuesday, February 27
5:30-9:30pm

Answered by Fire
An Award-winning Drama of the East Timor Crisis

Featuring a small group discussion

with
BARBARA SAMUELS
Producer and Scriptwriter

Austin East, Harvard Law School

5:30PM - 8:30PM - Thai Dinner and Film Screening
8:30PM - 9:30PM - Small group discussion with Producer and Scriptwriter Barbara Samuels

Set against the tumultuous lead-up to the 1999 referendum in East Timor and its horrifying aftermath, Answered by Fire is the story of two Western Civilian Police Officers (Australian Mark Waldman and Canadian Julie Fortin), and Ismenio Soares, the young Timorese translator they befriend. Unarmed and emotionally unprepared, Mark and Julie are forever changed when they're thrown into the murderous reality of Timor. After the emergency UN evacuation, the two ultimately return to the ravaged land, driven to seek justice for the people they tried - and failed - to protect, and to find the young man they left behind.

Sponsored by Harvard Law Student Advocates for Human Rights, the Human Rights Program, South Asian Law Students Association, and the Harvard Asian Law Society. For more information, please contact Jennifer Wang

Thursday, March 1
7:00pm

Saving the Game: Pro Sports and Their Future

A discussion with

MARK MOORE '00 (Harvard College)
Former NHL Player with the Pittsburgh Penguins
and author of "Saving the Game: Pro Hockey's Quest to Raise its Game from Crisis to New Heights"

Pound Hall 102

Sponsored by the Labor & Worklife Program and International Legal Studies

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Friday, March 2
12:30 – 2:00pm

East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk

The Political Economy of Chinese Rural Healthcare Reform

with
WILLIAM HSIAO
K.T. Li Professor of Economics,
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health.

Location: Pound Hall, Room 419

Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies

Friday, March 2
1:00-5:30pm

International Law Journal Symposium:

Striking First: Legal Perspectives on Preemptive Action

Preemptive Action with Respect to Iran and North Korea
1:00-3:00 p.m. Austin North
• Todd F. Buchwald, U.S. State Department
• Ashton Carter, Kennedy School of Government
• Mitchell Reese, William and Mary School of Law
• Ray Takeyh, Council of Foreign Relations

Preemptive Action and Counter-terrorism
3:30-5:30 p.m. Austin North
• Antonia Chayes, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
• Gabriella Blum, Harvard Law School
• Michael J. Glennon, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
• Thomas Keaney, Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
• Mark Weisburd, University of North Carolina School of Law

Cocktails and hors D’oeuvres
5:45 p.m. Austin Hall West Rotunda

Sponsored by International Law Journal

Monday, March 5
12:00-2:00pm

A Harvard European Law Association workshop on:

EUROPEAN INTEGRATION THROUGH LEGAL HARMONIZATION?
A Case Study of the New EC Securities Regulation

The panelist will analyze different perspectives of legal harmonization and its connection to development and European Integration.

Hauser 105

Pizza and refreshments will be served!

For More Information please contact: efrasheri@law.harvard.edu or tv! andyck@law.harvard.edu

Monday, March 5
4:45 – 6:45pm

Workshop in Asian Law

Occupation Constitutions: The Japanese Case in Comparative Perspective Location

with
TOM GINSBURG
Professor of Law and Political Science,
Director of the Program in Asian Law, Politics and Society, University of Illinois

Griswold 110

This is one of a series of talks associated with Professor Mark Ramseyer’s Workshop in Asian Law, course 99935A. Please contact Kim Peterson (kpeterso@law.harvard.edu) with any questions.

Sponsored by: East Asian Legal Studies

Wednesday, March 7
12:15pm

INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES INFORMATION SESSION

with emphasis on JD/LLM program with Cambridge University and the Semester Abroad Program. Formal exchanges with schools in Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Japan, Switzerland, South Africa will also be discussed.

brown bag lunch; drinks and dessert will be provided

Lewis 202

Sponsored by International Legal Studies

Thursday, March 8
5:30-7:30pm

International Women's Day

Rosita
An Award-winning film from Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater

There will be a film screening and question and answer session with the filmmakers.

Reception to Follow

Pound Hall 200

A description of the film can be found at the official site www.attiegoldwater.com.

This film presentation is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies at the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Law Student Advocates for Human Rights, and HLS for Choice. For more information, please contact: hrp@law.harvard.edu

Friday March 9
5:00- 7:00pm

Human Rights Lawyering in Palestine

with
JAMIL DAKWAR
formerly of Adalah and now with the ACLU

LISA HAJJAR
Professor of Law and Society at U.C. Santa Barbara

Moderated by
FAISAL BHABHA
LLM student at HLS.

Pound Hall 204

Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program, HLS

Saturday, March 10
8:30am-4:30pm

Human Rights Journal Conference: 20 Years in Human Rights

Keynote speaker:

PHILIP ALSTON
John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, NYU School of Law

Panel topics include:

Transforming Students and Scholarship: 20 Years in Human Rights Education at Law Schools

The Mechanics of Justice: 20 Years in Human Rights Criminal Tribunals Revolution

Institutionalization?: 20 Years in Human Rights INGO Practice

Distinguished panelists include:

Moderators include:

Langdell North, Harvard Law School

Register at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/hrj/conf/

Sponsored by Harvard Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School Dean's Office, Harvard College Student Advocates for Human Rights, Harvard Business School Leadership and Ethics Forum, and International Legal Studies

Monday, March 12
3:00pm

A Conversation

with
LAURA OLSON
Legal Advisor to the International Committee of the Red Cross

Lewis 202

Light refreshments will be served

Ms. Olson will discuss the work of the ICRC and its specific activities in the Washington Delegation and the recent development in regards to the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the treaty to Protect Persons from Enforced Disappearances.

Ms. Olson is currently the legal advisor to the ICRC Delegation for the United States and Canada. She is the first American to hold that position. Previously she held the positions of legal advisor at the ICRC headquarters in Geneva and was the delegate responsible for the program to academic circles and universities at the ICRC Moscow. She spent three years at the Moscow Office. She received her JD from the University of Iowa and an LL.M from NYU School of Law.

Sponsored by International Legal Studies

Monday, March 12
4:45 – 6:45pm

Workshop in Asian Law

Reputational Sanctions in China's Securities Market Location

with
CURTIS J. MILHAUPT
Fuyo Professor of Law, Director, Center for Japanese Legal Studies,
Chair, Transactional Studies Program, Columbia Law School

Griswold 110

This is one of a series of talks associated with Professor Mark Ramseyer’s Workshop in Asian Law, course 99935A. Please contact Kim Peterson (kpeterso@law.harvard.edu) with any questions.

Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies

Thursday, March 15
12:15-1:30pm

A luncheon conversation

with
JODY KOLLAPEN
Chair, South Africa Human Rights Commission

"Human Rights Enforcement in Post-Apartheid South Africa"

Morgan Courtroom
3rd Floor - Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

Kollapen joined the Commission in December 1996, after five years with Lawyers for Human Rights, where he coordinated the Political Prisoners' Release Program. As a practicing attorney, Commissioner Kollapen worked on political cases such as the Sharpeville Six, the Delmas Treason Trial, and the failure of the Medical and Dental Council to inquire into the behavior of the doctors who treated Steve Biko. He was also a member of the selection panel that chose the Commissioners for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Lunch will be served, but space is limited so please RSVP to hrp@law.harvard.edu, or calling 617-495-9362.

Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, and the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Friday, March 16
12:15pm

Trust ---The Rise of a Global Legal Concept

with
LUC THÉVENOZ
Professor and Director of Center of Banking and Financial Law University of Geneva Faculty of Law, Commissioner of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission

Lewis 202

Lunch will be served

Trusts have been studied for decades by comparative scholars as the unique creation of equity and a truly distinctive feature of the common law tradition. However, in a world where ideas, people, capital and legal institutions circulate with minimal restrictions, trusts have evolved into a different and much more diverse phenomenon. They have permeated into legal systems in close contact with the common law world. They have been statutorily adopted in jurisdictions where the law of property seemed fundamentally irreconcilable with the split of legal title and equitable interests usually associated with trusts. Jurisdictions which have not embraced the trust idea have come to recognize most effects of trusts regularly created under some other law. This process has transformed the trust idea. The dilution of its historical roots and distinctive legal structure seems to be the price paid for its accession to the rank of a global legal concept.

Sponsored by International Legal Studies

Friday, March 16
2:00pm

Informational session about the new HLS study abroad exchange with the University of Geneva

with
LUC THÉVENOZ
Professor and Director of Center of Banking and Financial Law University of Geneva Faculty of Law, Commissioner of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission

Professor Thévenoz will make a brief presentation about the University of Geneva followed by a Q&A session.

Lewis 302

Sponsored by International Legal Studies

Friday, March 16
5:00pm

Notes on Analogy: Israel and Apartheid

The panelists:

Moderated by
Roni Mann, SJD Candidate, HLS

Langdell South, Harvard Law School

A panel discussion on the comparison between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Apartheid South Africa.

Sponsored by Justice for Palestine at Harvard Law School

Monday, March 19
12:00pm

Lunch time Seminar

on

Chinese Labor Law

LIU CHENG
Professor of Law and Politics, Shanghai Normal University

Location TBD

Professor Liu will discuss the evolution of the new draft contract labor law in China, a piece of legislation that he had a major hand in drafting. The Chinese government has recently sought to promote social stability and a “harmonious society,” and this draft law could be a major step forward in protecting the legal rights and interests of the poorly represented migrant worker population. Stiff resistance from foreign investors, notably the Shanghai American Chamber of Commerce have arisen. Professor Liu will discuss these developments as well as the future of labor law and labor relations in China.

Sponsored by The Labor and Worklife Program and Co-sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies

Monday, March 19
4:45-6:45pm

Workshop in Asian Law

The Turnaround of 1997: Changes in Japanese Corporate Law and Governance Location

with
ZENICHI SHISHIDO
Professor of Law, Seikei University

Griswold 110

This is one of a series of talks associated with Professor Mark Ramseyer’s Workshop in Asian Law, course 99935A. Please contact Kim Peterson (kpeterso@law.harvard.edu) with any questions.

Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies

Tuesday, March 27
5:00pm

European Law Research Center Speakers’ Series on Law & Development

Democratization, Development and Legality in Latin America

JULIO FAÚNDEZ, LL.M, S.J.D. HLS
Professor of Law, Warwick University

Lewis 201

Readings:

Readings are availlable at Neal O'connors office, Hauser 414

Monday, April 2
4:45-6:45pm

Law and Development Theory and the Northeast Asian Experience

JOHN OHNESORGE, S.J.D. ’02
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School.

Griswold 110

This is one of a series of talks associated with Professor Mark Ramseyer’s Workshop in Asian Law, course 99935A. Please contact Kim Peterson with any questions.

Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies

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Monday, April 2
6:00pm

International Arbitration: Latest Trends

ANÍBAL SABATER,
Attorney with Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P, Current member of the roster of arbitrators for the Central America-Chile Free Trade Agreement

Mr. Sabater will discuss the latest trends in international arbitration. There will be an emphasis on the rise of Spanish language international dispute resolution.

Location TBA
Please look to Latin American Law Society posters for the location.

Non-pizza dinner will be served

Sponsored by Latin American Law Society

Tuesday, April 3
2:30-4:00pm

Parental Authority in the Modernizing Asian Family: Adolescent Reproductive Rights in the Philippines

ELIZABETH AGUILING-PANGALANGAN LL.M.’89
Associate Professor, College of Law, University of the Philippines, and EALS Research Fellow;

Pound Hall 419

Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies, Child Advocacy Program

Wednesday, April 4
12:15-1:30pm

A Prescription for Global Access: Patent Law and the Availability of Life-saving Medications

Panelists include:

ARACHU CASTRO, Ph.D., MPH,
Assistant Professor in Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Academic Director for the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change

BROOK BAKER, J.D.,
Professor of Law at Northeastern University and Policy Advisory for Health Global Access Project

Q&A will follow the panelists

This panel presentation will focus on trade and intellectual property issues and their impact on the availability of life-saving medicines around the globe.

Hauser 105 - Harvard Law School
Snacks and refreshments will be provided

Sponsored by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School

Monday, April 9
4:45 – 6:45pm

Law’s Evolution: The Arrested Development of Western Europe and Japan

JOHN O. HALEY
Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law, and Director of the Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies, Washington University School of Law

Griswold 110

This is one of a series of talks associated with Professor Mark Ramseyer’s Workshop in Asian Law, course 99935A. Please contact Kim Peterson with any questions.

Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies

Tuesday, April 10
12:30 - 2:00pm

Crossing the Red Line: The Struggle for Human Rights in Iran

A conversation and book reading

with
MEHRANGIZ KAR
Scholar at Risk and currently a Visiting Fellow with the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School

AFSANEH NAJMABADI
Professor of History and of Women's Studies at Harvard University, and former chair of the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Hauser 101, Harvard Law School

Lunch will be provided

Please RSVP to hrp@law.harvard.edu

This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, the University Committee on Human Rights Studies (UCHRS), the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and the Middle East Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government.
For more information, please contact hrp@law.harvard.edu or call 617-495-9362.

Thursday, April 12
4:30 - 6:00pm

HARVARD AFRICAN LAW ASSOCIATION
presents

TONY LEON, MP
Leader of the Opposition party of South Africa

South Afirca must atand up for Human Rights

2nd Floor, Harkness Commons ("HARK SOUTH")

Refreshments will be provided

Questions: jpollak@law.harvard.edu

Friday, April 13
9:00am - 12:30pm

A symposium on

THE CANADIAN CHARTER RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS AT 25

Click for printable schedule

Pound Hall 100

Lunch to Follow: Location TBA

Space is limited for the lunch so please RSVP to Jason Cunningham

Sponsored by the Canada Program at the Weatherhead Center of International Affairs and International Legal Studies

Monday, April 16
4:00 – 6:00pm

Socializing States: Promoting Human Rights Through International Law

A talk by Professor Ryan Goodman on the occasion of his appointment as the Rita Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Caspersen Room, Langdell 4th floor

Sponsored by the Dean's Office

Monday, April 16
4:45 – 6:45pm

Post a Message, Go to Jail: The Japanese Response to Internet Libel

SALIL K. MEHRA
Associate Professor of Law, Beasley School of Law, Temple University

Griswold 110

This is one of a series of talks associated with Professor Mark Ramseyer’s Workshop in Asian Law, course 99935A. Please contact Kim Peterson with any questions.

Sponsored East Asian Legal Studies

Tuesday, April 17
12:15 - 1:30pm

Private Military Contractors: Rights, Risks and Regulation

KATERI CARMOLA
Assistant professor of Political Science and C.A. Johnson Fellow in Political Philosophy at Middlebury College

Hauser 105, Harvard Law School

Lunch will be provided: Please RSVP to hrp@law.harvard.edu

Professor Carmola is currently writing a book on private military contractors, "Global Warriors: Private Security Contractors and the Ambiguities of National Strategy." She has also written numerous articles on the use of proxy forces in Afghanistan and the changing idea of "proportionality" in warfare.

This luncheon presentation is sponsored by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, the National Security and the Law Society, and Harvard Law Student Advocates for Human Rights.

Thursday, April 19
5:30-7:00pm

The UN and Women's Human Rights: Reconstructing the Gender Architecture

DUTIMA BHAGWANDIN
Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

JESSICA NEUWIRTH
President of Equality Now

CYNTHIA ROTHSCHILD
Senior Policy Advisor at the Center for Women's Global Leadership

moderated by
RASHIDA MANJOO
Human Rights Program Visiting Fellow and a member of the Gender Commission of South Africa

Harkness South
Reception to follow

co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School and the Women and Public Policy Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government

For more information, please contact: hrp@law.harvard.edu.

Monday, April 23
12:15 - 1:30pm

During the week of April 23, 2007, Harvard Law School will hold three training sessions for students traveling abroad this summer.  Attendance at one safety training is MANDATORY for any student who is getting HLS funding or credit for international work and recommended for others who will be abroad.   The three sessions will cover the same material with the exception of the Monday, April 23rd session, which will include a supplementary section specifically on human rights research. 

Drinks and dessert will be served.  

The sessions will occur on:

Tuesday, April 24
3:00 -4:30pm

A Harvard Law School Roundtable Discussion

The Politics of Truth: Transitional Justice and Truth Commissions in South Africa & Northern Ireland

GRAEME SIMPSON
Country Programs Unit Director, Int'l Center for Transitional Justice

CHRISTOPHER CONNOLLOY
Cornell Law School, JD/LLM 2006 Tuesday,

Morgan Courtroom, Third Floor, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

Refreshments will be served.

Contact: dpopowski@law.harvard.edu or sbent@law.harvard.edu

Sponsored by Harvard Law Student Advocates for Human Rights, Harvard Human Rights Program and International Legal Studies

Wednesday, April 25
5:30-7:00pm

The Islamic Legal Studies Program
presents

The Challenge of the Middle East to Constitutional Theory

A lecture by
CHIBLI MALLAT
Candidate to the Presidency of Lebanon EU Jean Monnet Chair in European Law, St. Joseph's University Beirut 2006-2007 Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

There will be a reception starting at 5:00 pm in the Langdell North Lobby. For more information, call ILSP at 617-496-3941

Thursday, April 26
3:00 - 4:30pm

The Harvard Immigration Project Presents:

The Iraqi Refugee Crisis

with
BILL FRELICK
Refugee Policy Director, Human Rights Watch

Austin West

Refreshments served

Since its inception, the Iraq War has provoked worldwide debate on issues of sovereignty, responsibility and the legitimacy of international law. These topics continue to be relevant when discussing the alarming number of civilians who have been displaced by the conflict. To date, 3.8 million people have been uprooted from their homes, many of them fleeing to neighboring countries, as well as to the United States, for refuge.
Learn what can be done to alleviate the situation and to develop real solutions to this unparalleled crisis.

Co-sponsored by HLS Peace, the Human Rights Program, the International Law Journal, and International Legal Studies.

Thursday, April 26
6:00 - 8:00pm

European Law Research Center
International Law Reading Group

Marxism and International Law

SUSAN MARKS
Professor of Public International Law, King's College London

Lewis 202

Readings

Readings are available at Neal O'Connor's office, Hauser 414

Tuesday, May 1
5:00pm

Interested in global governance or transnational law? Consider spending a semester studying abroad!

In Fall 2007 HLS will launch a number of exciting exchange programs that will enable students to earn credit toward their JD through study abroad. Programs are already in place in Geneva, Switzerland and Sydney, Australia, and we are finalizing details for opportunities in Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Japan, and South Africa. Students may also develop an independent study abroad program at other top institutions around the world.

Those interested in studying abroad during the Spring semester of 2008 must submit a one-page statement of interest to Sara Zucker by May 1, 2007. These statements should outline the school(s) and classes that you are considering, and how the course of study would fit in with your academic and career goals. Students can study abroad in either semester of their second year or in the first semester of their third year.

For more information on semester abroad go to the Semester Abroad webpage.

Monday, May 7
12:30 - 2:00pm

Is Civil Society Enough? Political Malaise and Prospects for Change in China

IAN JOHNSON
Nieman Fellow, Wall Street Journal Berlin Bureau Chief, author of Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.

Pound Hall, room 419

Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies

Thursday, May 17
7:30-9:00pm

Chinese Conceptions of “Rights”: From Mencius to Mao – and Now

ELIZABETH J. PERRY
Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University.

Pound Hall, room 419

Sponsored by U.S. China Law Society & East Asian Legal Studies. Please contact GangQiao Wang with any questions.

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