Justice Stephen Gageler AC, LL.M. ’87 reflects on how legal systems deal with alternative facts

Stephen Gageler

On March 27 and 28, Stephen Gageler AC, LL.M. ’87, a justice of the High Court of Australia, returned to Harvard Law School to meet with faculty members, participate in classes, and speak on “Alternative Facts in the Courts.”

Gageler studied law and economics at the Australian National University before earning an LL.M. at Harvard Law School. After serving as a lawyer in Australia’s federal Attorney-General’s Department, he practiced at the private bar in Sydney, where he specialized in constitutional, administrative, and commercial law. In 2008, he became Solicitor-General of Australia, the nation’s second highest law officer. He was appointed as a justice in 2012, joining six other judges on the highest court in Australia’s judicial system.

Read about his talk on Harvard Law Today.

photo:  Tracy Tolf

Special event: Alternative Facts in the Courts

Justice Gageler studied law and economics at the Australian National University before earning an LL.M. at Harvard Law School. After serving as a lawyer in the federal Attorney-General’s Department, he practiced at the private bar in Sydney, where he specialized in constitutional, administrative and commercial law. In 2008, he became Solicitor-General of Australia, the nation’s second highest law officer. He was appointed to the judgeship in 2012, joining six other judges on the highest court in Australia’s judicial system.

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Meet our incoming fall exchange students!

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This fall, nine students from law schools abroad are studying or conducting research at HLS. At the same time, 11 HLS students will spend the fall semester abroad, in Brazil, China, France, Japan, Mexico and Switzerland, either at our exchange partner schools or through an independent semester abroad, and this year two HLS students will enroll in the Harvard Law School and University of Cambridge J.D./LL.M. Joint Degree Program in the United Kingdom.

We hope you’ll have a chance to meet these visiting students.

Pictured above, left to right: FANG Longfei, Renmin University Law School, China; Luna Barroso, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil; Thomas Romailler, University of Geneva Faculty of Law, Switzerland; Harum Mukhayer, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; BAO Xiaoli, Renmin Law School, China; Joël Schwizgebel, University of Geneva Faculty of Law, Switzerland; Joel Phillips, Sydney Law School, Sydney, Australia; and Alice Dartevelle, Sciences Po Law School, Paris, France. (Not pictured: Tim Bowley, Sydney Law School, Sydney, Australia.)

Where can study abroad take you?
Visit the Semester Abroad pages in the International Legal Studies section of the HLS website, and watch the HLS Calendar of Events and this blog for postings about information sessions scheduled in September and later in the year.

HLS hosts conference on law and development

ghrs-conferenceLegal scholars from across the globe gathered at Harvard Law School in July for a two-day conference on law and development. The conference is the latest in a series of conferences held periodically by a loose consortium of schools–including Harvard Law School, the University of Geneva, Renmin University of China, and the University of Sydney, Australia–on themes of broad shared interest. Previous meetings focused, respectively, on property, corporate governance, and dispute resolution. This year’s conference also included participants from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Seoul National University, the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. This year’s session explored law and development from five vantage points: Business and Trade; Gender and Family; Disability; China as a Case Study; and Three Examples of Potential for Reform.

 

Welcome spring 2015 exchange students!

Spring 2015 exchange students: Naomi Hart, Yanzhu Sun, Jen Eborall

Naomi Hart, Yanzhu Sun, Jen Eborall

Join us in welcoming the three students from HLS’ exchange partner schools who arrived last week.

Jennifer Eborall (Jen) is a student from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Naomi Hart is studying at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

Yanzhu Sun is a student at Renmin University Law School in Beijing, China.

They’ve joined two fall semester exchange students who are continuing their studies through the spring semester:

2015 exchange students: Jean, Naomi, Yanzhu, Barrie, Jen

Jean, Naomi, Yanzhu, Barrie, Jen

Jean Grosdidier is a student at Sciences Po in Paris, France.

Barrie Sander is a student at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

Want to learn more about study abroad opportunities? Visit the semester abroad and HLS-University of Cambridge joint degree program pages on our website. Applications to spend a semester abroad next fall are due by February 15.