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Spring 2023
Regulating Fintech: The Asian Experience
Bo Li, J.D. ‘99, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary FundBoxed lunch will be provided.
Mr. Bo 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.
Outside 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.
Mr. 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.
Fall 2022
Monday, October 25, 2021
12 to 1pm EDT via Zoom
Spring 2021
You may be interested in this HALS Zoom event :
Fireside Chat with Prof. Ko-Yung Tung
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: International Legal Careers and AAPI Representation in the Legal Profession
HALS, HIALSA, and CLA jointly invite Prof. Ko-Yung Tung to a fireside chat scheduled on April 23 (Friday), 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. EST. On Friday, Prof. Tung will discuss the following topics: AAPI representation in the legal profession, the opportunities and realities of pursuing international legal careers, and breaking the glass ceiling for AAPI minorities.
Prof. Ko-Yung Tung is the former Secretary General of the Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the former Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank. He is currently a lecturer at HLS, teaching a course entitled “International Investment Arbitration: Policies, Issues, and Challenges.” Previously, Prof. Tung taught as an adjunct professor at Yale Law School and New York University School of Law. He also taught as a visiting professor at Tsinghua University and University of Arizona School of Law.
In the public sector, Prof. Tung advises sovereign governments and agencies in the areas of foreign investment and international economic relations. In private practice, as Senior Partner of O’Melveny & Myers and Senior Counsellor at Morrison & Foerster, he counseled multinational corporations with respect to their internationalbusiness strategies, cross-border transactions, dealings with governmental authorities and international investment disputes.
Prof. Tung was born in Beijing, China, and raised in Tokyo, Japan. He received his education from Harvard College (A.B. physics, 1970), Harvard Law School (J.D., 1973), and University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law (Research Fellow, 1971-72). Keenly aware of his Asian heritage and his life experiences, Prof. Tung is active in many NGOs focusing on AAPI and trans-Pacific issues, including the Asian American Legal Education and Defense Fund (AALDEF), National Asian Pacific Bar Association, U.S.-China Education Fund, and the Mansfield Foundation. He served as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the East West Center and as a member of the Presidential Commission on U.S.-Asia Trade and Investment.
You may be interested in this HALS Zoom event :
International Law of the Sea, the South China Sea, and the US-China Relations
with Prof. James Kraska
Friday, April 16 at noon
Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS)
Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS) is hosting an event with HLS Visiting Professor James Kraska. Professor Kraska is a tenured professor and chair of the Stockton Center for International Law at the U.S. Naval War College and teaches International Law of the Sea at Harvard Law School. Professor Kraska has written numerous books, including Maritime Power and Law of the Sea, which won the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement, and co-authored The Free Sea: The American Fight for Freedom of Navigation (USNI). He is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served as a U.S. Navy officer and lawyer, including service with operational forces in the Indo-Pacific region.
On Monday, Professor Kraska will discuss focal points in the South China Sea, the shifting role of the international law of the sea in the Indo-Pacific region, and implications for the future of international law and U.S.-China relations. After his talk, Professor Kraska will have a Q&A session with students.
Fall 2020
You may be interested in this event:
October 15 at 5:00 pm
"China and the International Legal Order" Virtual Symposium
The ILJ Fall Symposium "China and the International Legal Order" will take place virtually on Thursday, October 15. This symposium is a unique collaboration between the Harvard International Law Journal, Yale Journal of International Law, and Oxford University’s China, Law and Development project and Commercial Law Centre.
Please see the website for more information: https://harvardilj.org/2020/09/harvard-international-law-journal-symposium-2020-china-and-the-international-legal-order/
EALS Open House
Please join us to meet EALS faculty, staff, and scholars.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 at 12 NOON
Summer Update about EALS Director Professor William Alford and Professor Mark Wu
"Professor William Alford recently stepped down as Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies after serving for 18 years with incredible wisdom, dedication, and compassion."
"Professor Mark Wu has taken on the role of Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies and is excited to use his considerable talents on behalf of LL.M. and S.J.D. students."
Spring 2020 (Academic Year 2019-2020) (reverse chronological order)
Due to the coronavirus situation, Harvard Law School events were only online after March 2020.
CANCELLED. Wednesday, April 22, at noon in Morgan Courtroom, HLS. EALS talk with Glen S. Fukushima, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress
CANCELLED. Monday, March 23 (date tentative), at noon in Morgan Courtroom, HLS - EALS talk with Professor David M. Lampton, Director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
CANCELLED. Saturday, March 21, 11:15 am to 1:00 pm at the Association for Asian Studies' Annual Meeting in Boston - Rethinking the China-Africa Relationship, a panel moderated by Professor William Alford . Hynes Convention Center, Room 207, Level 2. The John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston, MA https://www.asianstudies.org/conference/
CANCELLED. Thursday, March 12, 12 to 1 pm - Democratic Centralism and Administration in China - Professor Sarah Biddulph, Assistant Deputy Vice Chancellor- International (China), Director, Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School, Australia
Monday, March 9, 12 pm in WCC 2009
Surveilled, Detained, Disappeared: Repression in Xinjiang
Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch
Rayhan Asat, LLM ‘16
William Alford, EALS Director (moderator)
Co-sponsored by EALS, HLS Advocates for Human Rights, the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard Inner Asia and Altaic Studies
Friday, February 14, 2020, 12 to 1 pm in WCC Milstein West B, HLS
HLS Library Book Talk on Comparative Capital Punishment
Edited by Carol Steiker, Jordan Steiker
Commentators: William P. Alford (HLS), Margaret Burnham (Northeastern Law School), Gerald Neuman (HLS)
Co-sponsored by EALS
Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 12 to 1 pm in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall, Room 308, HLS
Book Talk on The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century of Chinese History
With author Lan Yan
https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062899811/the-house-of-yan/
Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20th Century to present day.
The 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.
Lan 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.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020, 12 to 1 pm in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall, Room 308, HLS
The Evolving Role of Chinese Courts in International Commercial Dispute Resolution
Judge Shen Hongyu
Supreme People's Court of China
Visiting Scholar, Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School
Past Events Fall 2019 (Academic Year 2019-2020) (reverse chronological order)
Monday, December 2, 2019, 12 to 1:30 pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA
RELATIONAL JUSTICE: RECONCILIATING MURDER IN CHINA
Michelle Miao, Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar
Chair/discussant: William Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk, co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
https://harvard-yenching.org/events/relational-justice-reconciliating-murder-china
Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 12 to 1:15 pm
CGIS South Room S050 (Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge)
Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand's Sacred King Versus the Rule of Law
Eugenie Merieau, Postdoctoral Visiting Researcher, Institute of Global Law and Policy, HLS
Discussant: Malavika Reddy, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Harvard
Chair: Michael Herzfeld, Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Harvard
Thai Studies Seminar Series
Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and EALS
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 12 noon in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall, Room 308, HLS
Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute
The Legal Case of Fukushima, in Japan and Beyond
Stanton Nuclear Junior Faculty Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Thursday, November 21, 2019, Harvard Law School
American Society for Legal History Pre-Conference Workshop
Law and Empire in the Sino-Asian Context
Graduate Student panel, 11 am to 1 pm
Legal and Intellectual Constructs of Empires, 2 pm to 3:30 pm
Laying Down and Crossing Borders, 4 pm to 6 pm
If you wish to attend, please RSVP by November *14* by emailing Ms. Emma Johnson at johnson@law.harvard.edu.
Graduate Student Panel, 11 am to 1 pm
Chair: Tahirih Lee (FSU)
Yue Jiang (Stanford), Gender, Property, and Lineage in Mid-Qing: Property Disputes Between Women and Lineages
Commentator: Michael Szonyi (Harvard)
Rui Hua (Harvard), Imperial Wars in A Magistrate's Court: Translingual Legal Literacy and the Everyday Politics of Territorial Land Laws in Manchuria, 1900-1931
Commentator: Sakura Christmas (Bowdoin)
Xinyu Huang (Yale),
The Censorial Impeachments under Qianlong and Jiaqing Reign (1736-1820)
Commentator: Thomas Buoye (Tulsa)
Jingjian Wu (Yale),
W.A.P. Martin, Naturalism and The Translation of International Law in Late Qing China
Commentator: William Alford (Harvard)
Lunch Break, 1 to 2 pm
Legal and Intellectual Constructs of Empire, 2 to 3:30
Chair: Phillip Thai (Northeastern)
Commentator: Fei-Hsien Wang (Indiana)
Colin Jones (Columbia), Living Law, Legal Consciousness, and the Afterlives of Empire: The Origins and Legacy of the North China Rural Customs Survey (1941-1944)
Tristan Brown (MIT), Breaking the Land, Breaking the Law: Fengshui and the End of Imperial China
Peter Thilly (Univ. of Mississippi), Consular Jurisdiction and the Pioneers of Flexible Citizenship
Coffee Break, 3:30 to 4 pm
Laying Down and Crossing Borders, 4 to 6 pm
Chair: Par Cassel (Michigan)
Commentator: Taisu Zhang (Yale)
Geng Tian (Peking University), The Boundary Works in the Qing's Legal Analogies between 'Violent' Social Groups, 1750-1850
Yonglin Jiang (Bryn Mawr), The Contested Order: Central-Local Legal Dynamics on the Borderlands of the Ming Empire
Jenny Huangfu (Skidmore), The Last Refuge of the Scoundrel: Transnational Fugitives and the Spaces of Law in Late Qing China, 1860s-1900s
Larissa Pitts (Quinnipiac), The Abortive Forest Law of 1914: Russian Timber Merchants, Chinese 'Traitors,' and the Collapse of Modern Chinese Environmental Law
Co-sponsored by the American Society for Legal History, the International Society for Chinese Law and History, and Yale Law School
Friday, November 15, 2019 at 12 noon, WCC 1010, HLS
Legal Paths in the World of International Organizations
Developing a legal career in the world of international organizations
Gerard Sanders, LLM '92, General Counsel, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Xuan Gao, Chief Counsel, Institutional, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Non-pizza lunch will be served.
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Co-sponsored by EALS, Office of Public Interest Advising, HLS China Law Association, Harvard Asia Law Society, and HLS Rule of Law Society
Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 12 noon, Austin Hall, Room 101, HLS
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A 21st-Century Multilateral Development Bank
Gerard Sanders, LLM '92,
General Counsel, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Xuan Gao, Chief Counsel, Institutional, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Non-pizza lunch will be served.
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Co-sponsored by EALS, Office of Public Interest Advising, HLS China Law Association, Harvard Asia Law Society, and HLS Rule of Law Society
Monday, November 4, 2019 at 12 noon in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall, Room 308, HLS
The Judicial Activism of the Taiwan Constitutional Court
Tzong-Li Hsu, Chief Justice of the Taiwan Constitutional Court and President of the Judicial Yuan
Jau-yuan Hwang, SJD ’95, Justice of the Taiwan Constitutional Court
(Please note, talk title has changed from the below poster)
Tuesday, October 29 at 12 noon in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall room 308, HLS
Women with Disabilities in Asia and the Pacific
Venus Ilagan
Former Secretary General of Rehabilitation International
Light refreshments will be served.
Sponsored by the Harvard Law School Project on Disability (https://hpod.law.harvard.edu). Co-sponsored by
East Asian Legal Studies,
Disability Law Students Association,
Asian Pacific American Law Students Association,
and Harvard Women’s Law Association.
VENUS ILAGAN, originally from the Philippines, is the immediate past Secretary General of Rehabilitation International (RI) from October 2008 to May 2019, and the first person with a disability from a developing country to serve in that capacity in the organization’s 97-year history. She was the first woman World Chairperson of Disabled People’s International. Prior to joining RI, Venus was the project manager of a national rehabilitation program which provided services to over 14,000 children with disabilities in the Philippines. She had the distinction of being a member of the Editorial Committee for the first-ever World Report on Disability, a joint initiative of the World Health Organization and the World Bank. It established that there were one billion persons with disabilities in the world in 2011 when the report was launched, which was instrumental in having over one hundred countries sign and ratify the disability convention within a very short period of time. Venus participated actively in the elaboration of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, now ratified by 177 countries. Venus is a passionate global advocate for gender equality specifically in the context of Women with Disabilities.
Monday, October 21, 2019 at 12:15 (note the time) in Pound Hall Room 102
Thirty Years of Dialogue with the Chinese Government: My Work on Human Rights in China
John Kamm
Chairman and Executive Director
The Dui Hua Foundation
John 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.
Dui 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.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Law Society. A light lunch will be served.
Friday, October 18, 2019 at 12 noon in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall room 308, HLS
Big Data and the Chinese Legal System
Dr. Sabine Stricker-Kellerer, LLM '83
Attorney at Law, SSK Asia, Munich
Mercator Institute for China Studies
MERICS is a Berlin-based, independent think tank and leading European provider of policy-oriented research on contemporary China.
Sabine 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.
Co-sponsored by the HLS China Law Association
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 12 noon in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall room 308, HLS
North Korea: From 'Fire and Fury' to Love Letters - What's Next with Trump-Kim Diplomacy?
John Park
Director, Korea Project
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Harvard Kennedy School
Dr. 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.
Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute's SBS Foundation Research Fund
Wednesday, October 9 at 4:00 pm in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall room 308, HLS
Developments in China's Capital Markets and Implications of the US-China Trade War
James C. Lin, '98
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Lecturer on Law at HLS on
Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital and Law in China
Mr. Lin is a partner of 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.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 12 noon, WCC 2036 Milstein East AB
A Harvard Law School Library Book Talk
Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation (Springer 2019)
William P. Alford, Jerome A. Cohen and Lo Chang-fa, editors
The book talk discussion will include:
Jerome A. Cohen, Professor, NYU School of Law and Faculty Director, NYU U.S.-Asia Law Institute.
Dr. Chang-fa Lo, former Grand Justice of the Constitutional Court of the ROC (Taiwan) and former Dean, National Taiwan University Law School.
William P. Alford, Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies; Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law; Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program; and Chair, Harvard Law School Project on Disability
Commentators:
Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College and Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
Dr. Yu-Jie Chen, Academia Sinica (Taiwan).
Dan Zhou, LL.M. ’16 and SJD candidate, Harvard Law School.
Book talks are open to the Harvard community. A light lunch will be served.
This book talk is co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library and East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.
Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 12 noon in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall room 308, HLS
Public Interest in Asia Series
Unbecoming Advocates: The Queer Career of Public Interest Lawyering in China
Dan Zhou
LL.M. ’16 and SJD candidate
Lunchtime talks begin promptly at 12:00. You are invited to bring your own lunch.
Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 3 pm in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall room 308, HLS
Please join EALS at our Fall Open House. Remarks at 3:30. Light refreshments.
Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 12 noon in Pound 100, HLS
Law, Technology, and China's A.I. Dream
Jeffrey Ding, Rhodes Scholar
D. Phil. Researcher, Center for the Governance of A.I. at the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford
Lunchtime talks begin promptly at 12:00. You are invited to bring your own lunch.
Monday, September 16, 2019 at 12 noon in Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall room 308, HLS
The Time for Talk is Over: Climate Justice for Future Generations
Antonio Oposa, LL.M. '97
Environmental Activist in the Philippines
Founder, The Law of Nature Foundation
Lunchtime talks begin promptly at 12:00. You are invited to bring your own lunch.
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