Category Archives: Faculty

Humanitarian and NBA All Star Dikembe Mutombo talks at HLS

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Dikembe Mutomb. Photo by Heratch Photography.

Photo by Heratch Photography.

Mutombo visited Harvard Law School on Oct. 23 for a talk sponsored by International Legal Studies, the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, the Harvard African Law Association, and the Law and International Development Society. Introducing Mutombo to the standing-room only audience, Harvard Law School Professor William Alford ‘77, who serves with Mutombo on the board of the Special Olympics International, noted “When I say I look up to Dikembe Mutombo, I’m not talking about his height, I’m talking about his humaneness. [He] is one of the world’s greatest humanitarians.”

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University of Geneva Launches Internet Law Summer School

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The University of Geneva is offering a new summer program, Internet L@w Summer School, June 16-24. Located in the city where the World Wide Web was born, the program includes discussions of privacy and surveillance, intellectual property, freedom of expression, and Internet governance. Discussion leaders include HLS Cyberlaw Clinic Managing Director Chris Bavitz and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society’s Faculty Director Terry Fisher, who will join experts from such institutions as the World Intellectual Property Organization, the World Trade Organization, and the World Economic Forum.

Download the full program here.

A virtual classroom brings law students in China and at Harvard together

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It’s Wednesday night in Cambridge and Thursday morning in Beijing, and their seminar rooms are some 6,700 miles apart, but for 30 students from Harvard Law School and the Renmin University of China School of Law, common interests and videoconferencing equipment easily bridge these distances.

During this spring semester, students in a reading group taught by HLS Professor William P. Alford and an advanced negotiation skills class taught by Renmin Assistant Professor Alonzo Emery ’10 have come together electronically to consider the roles of China and the U.S. in a world order in flux.

Please visit the Harvard Law School website to read more.

 

The Rule of Law in China

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On November 28, Former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Hunstman and law professors from Yale, Harvard, and New York University participated in “Prospects and Challenges for Rule of Law,” a session of the Brookings Institution event “Rule of Law in China: Prospects and Challenges.”  HLS was represented by WIlliam P. Alford, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Director of East Asian Legal Studies, and Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies.  The C-SPAN video of their discussion is available here.

A Celebration of the Writing and Teaching of Sally Falk Moore

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Photo of Sally Falk Moore

Friday, September 21
3 p.m.
Milstein West A, Wasserstein Hall

Social Facts and Fabrications in Contemporary Legal Anthropology: A Celebration of the Writing and Teaching of Sally Falk Moore

A symposium featuring:
“The Return of Khulekani Kumalo, Zombie Captive:  Identity, Law and Paradoxes of Personhood in the Postcolony”
with
Professor Jean Comaroff and Professor John L. Comaroff
African and African-American Studies and Anthropology, Harvard University

and
“When Law and Social Science Diverge:  Causation in the International Law of Incitement to Commit Genocide”
with
Professor Richard A. Wilson
Gladstein Chair of Human Rights and Director of the Human Rights Institute, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut

Sponsored by the HLS Graduate Program and International Legal Studies.