PON Live! Katherine Coffman – Capitalizing on the Best Ideas and Talent
Even the best ideas and talent can only deliver value when they are put forward. A student who is unsure of an answer on a test can only answer correctly if she is willing to submit her best guess rather than skip the question. A corporate executive can only improve a board’s decision if she […]
Resilience and Recovery: Careers in Disaster Legal Services
What is Disaster Lawyering? As climate change exacerbates environmental disasters across the country, lawyers play an increasingly important role to help survivors recover from these devastating events. Join our many student organization co-sponsors to hear from legal aid attorneys working in Texas, Oklahoma, and North Carolina discuss their work, including direct client services, strategic litigation, […]
Journal on Legislation – Lunch with Cooley DC
Please join the Journal on Legislation for a lunch talk with Ray Tolentino. Ray is a partner in Cooley’s DC office, where he focuses on complex commercial litigation, appellate litigation and crisis management. He also maintains a robust public interest and pro bono practice focused on antidiscrimination law, immigrants’ rights, gun violence protection, criminal justice, voting rights, and […]
The AI Energy Crunch
AI data centers have huge energy demands and are raising electricity rates. Join the Harvard Law AI Association and Abundance for a lunch talk with Ari Peskoe, Director of the Electricity Law Initiative, about the legal issues at the intersection of AI, data centers, and utility costs. Please RSVP here.
A Conversation with former South African Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs
Join us for Justice, Life, and Hope: A Conversation with former South African Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs. Sachs is an anti-apartheid activist, assassination attempt survivor, constitution drafter, global social justice advocate, and lover of art and humanity Interviewed by Professor Randall Kennedy Lunch will be served Sponsored by International Legal Studies
The Rise of Authoritarian Sustainability? China’s Transformative Engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Ryan Martinez Mitchell, JD ’12 Associate Professor of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Author of Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law Since the adoption of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, this global development concept has been increasingly incorporated into the People’s Republic of China’s structures of state […]
Automating Content Policy
AI is no longer just moderating individual posts — it is learning how to interpret and enforce policy itself. Dave Willner — who has led trust and safety teams at Facebook, Airbnb, and OpenAI — joins journalist Meg Marco for a conversation about the shifting terrain of moderation in the age of generative AI. From […]
Friend, Flatterer, or Foe? The Psychology and Liability of Chatbots
As AI systems become more conversational, the lines between tool, companion, and manipulator are blurring. What happens when machines start telling us what we want to hear—and when users start depending on them for emotional connection? In this conversation, journalist and author Kashmir Hill joins the Berkman Klein Center’s Meg Marco (Senior Director, Applied Social […]
Collateral Consequences Series: Responding to and Preparing for Climate-Related Migration
Join us this fall for a seven-part virtual speaker series featuring one-hour discussions at the intersection of democracy and climate change. This series will feature an interdisciplinary array of perspectives, exploring how climate-related natural disasters, extreme weather, and migration patterns can and do affect how we think about democratic representation, elections, and democratic governance in […]
Kelman Seminar: Roelf Meyer – Sharing the South African Dialogue Experience: How it Prevented a Civil War and its Possible Application in Today’s World of Polarization and Conflict
At the end of the 1980s, South Africa was on the brink of a full-scale civil war. There was no hope of a solution. The world and South Africans were watching the unfolding of an insurmountable conflict. Then the pivotal happened. Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years. Both Mandela and FW de […]
From High-Stakes Litigation to Sports Leagues and Restaurants: Adventures in Law and East Asia
Ryan Goldstein, JD ’98 Managing Partner, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP Tokyo Office Director, East Asia Super League Owner, Q Sushi and Gaku Ramen Managing Partner of Quinn Emanuel’s Tokyo office, Ryan Goldstein made his career in complex business litigation and arbitration, including Apple v. Samsung and the dispute over ownership rights in the iconic “Ultraman” […]
Where is the “Next China”? It’s Still China— But It Will Require a Different Playbook
Joe Ngai JD ‘99 Senior Partner and Chairman of Greater China Offices, McKinsey & Company Joe Ngai is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and chairman of its Greater China offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Taipei. In the past two decades, he has led large-scale transformations for Chinese and multinational organizations […]
The Rise and Fall of FTX
Join us for an in-depth conversation on one of the most complex corporate failures in recent history. This panel will bring together leading practitioners who played central roles in the FTX bankruptcy and litigation. Panelists include: Professor Allen Ferrell Andrew Dietderich (Lead Debtor Counsel) Sascha Rand (Special Counsel to the FTX Debtors) Dennis O’Donnell (Counsel […]
Fighting Forced Labor on U.S. Soil: Litigation on Behalf of Chinese Workers
Aaron Halegua JD ’09 Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs, Wang v. Gold Mantis Construction and Liu v. Wellmade Industries Aaron Halegua leads a boutique litigation firm in New York City focused on labor and employment litigation, with particular experience representing human trafficking and forced labor victims. In 2021, he won $6.9 million for seven Chinese construction workers trafficked to build […]