Events: International, Comparative and Foreign Law
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Around the University
Book Launch — Transforming the War on Drugs: Warriors, Victims and Vulnerable Regions
A discussion with Annette Idler, director, Global Security Programme, Pembroke College, Oxford University, and the book’s co-editor; Melani Cammett, Weatherhead Center Director, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, and Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and Peter Andreas. John Hay Professor of International Studies, Brown University
Wednesday, December 8 at 4 p.m. | Online; register here
Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias
A discussion with Stephen Biddle, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and Tarek Masoud, Faculty Director, Middle East Initiative
Thursday, December 16 at 1 p.m. | Online; register here
Sponsored by the Belfer Center for International Affairs
Deadlines and Announcements
- January 7, 2022 is the deadline for 2Ls to apply for the Harvard Law School and University of Cambridge J.D./LL.M. Joint Degree Program, for matriculation at Cambridge in fall 2022.
- January 13, 2022 is the deadline to apply for the 2022-2023 International Legal Studies Post-Graduate Fellowships, open to graduating J.D. and LL.M. students or recent alumni who will be clerking or interning at an international or foreign regional/supranational court or tribunal. Fellowship details and application instructions are available on our International Legal Studies Post-Graduate Fellowships web page.
Recent Events
On November 17, authors Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp joined Professors William Alford ’77 and Ruth Okediji LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’96; Oren Cass ’12, executive director of American Compass; and Anne-Marie Slaughter ’85, a former HLS faculty member and director of International Legal Studies, and the CEO of New America, for a book talk celebrating the recent publication of Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters (Harvard University Press, 2021). The talk was sponsored by International Legal Studies, the Harvard Law School Library, and East Asian Legal Studies.
Read “A kaleidoscope of views on globalization” on Harvard Law Today and view the program on YouTube.