William Alford

William P. Alford, Introduction: The North American Free Trade Agreement and the Need for Candor, 34 Harv. Int’l L. J. 293 (1993).

William P. Alford, Law? Law? What Law? Why Western Scholars of Chinese History and Society Have Not Had More to Say about Its Law, 23…

William P. Alford, Tasselled Loafers for Barefoot Lawyers: Transformation and Tension in the World of Chinese Legal Workers, 1995 China Q. 22.

William P. Alford, Double-Edged Swords Cut Both Ways: Law and Legitimacy in the People’s Republic of China, 122 Daedalus, Spring 1993, at 45.

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The re-emergence of Asia is posing conceptual and practical challenges to understandings of and frameworks for global order that…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This one unit course will examine the role that China has been playing in a world order in flux.

William P. Alford, Foreword, in Ideological Conflict and the Rule of Law in Contemporary China (Samuli Seppänen, Cambridge Univ. Press 2016).

William P. Alford & Benjamin L. Liebman, Clean Air, Clear Processes? The Struggle over Air Pollution Law in the People’s Republic of China, 52 Hastings…

William P. Alford, Tribute to Professor Abram Chayes, A Man Without Boundaries, 42 Harv. Int’l L. J. 3 (2001).

William P. Alford, Exporting “The Pursuit of Happiness”, 113 Harv. L. Rev. 1677 (2000) (reviewing Thomas Carothers, Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve (1999)).

Students enrolling in Fall-Spring groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office by October 14, 2022.…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-home This course uses the example of China as a springboard for asking fundamental questions about the nature of…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This one unit course will examine the role that China has been playing in a world order in flux.

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Students will do 4 short response papers critiquing work-in-progress to be presented by leading comparative law scholars.
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Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This one unit course will examine the role that China has been playing in a world order in flux.

Prerequisite: The reading group is by permission. Students should send a note expressing interest along with a CV to Professor William Alford at alford@law.harvard.edu no…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-home This course uses the example of China as a springboard for asking fundamental questions about the nature of…

William P. Alford, The Discordant Singer: How Peter Singer’s Treatment of Global Poverty and Disability Is Inconsistent and Why It Matters, 1 Am. J. L.

An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China Vol. 3: Finding and Keeping a Job (William P. Alford, Mei Liao & Fengming Cui eds.,…

An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China Vol. 2: The Movement (William P. Alford, Mei Liao & Fengming Cui eds., 2020).

An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China Vol. 1: Overview (William P. Alford, Mei Liao & Fengming Cui eds., 2020).

William P. Alford, Introduction to Part VI — Quantifying Disability, in Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics 223 (I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, Anita Silvers &…

Jerome A. Cohen, William P. Alford & Chang-fa Lo, Introduction — An Overview, in Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation 3 (Jerome…

William P. Alford, Qiongyue Hu & Charles Wharton, People Over Pandas: Taiwan’s Engagement of International Human Rights Norms with Respect to Disability, in Taiwan and…

Taiwan and International Human Rights (Jerome A. Cohen, William P. Alford & Chang-fa Lo eds., 2019).

William P. Alford, Book Review: Yves Dezalay & Bryant G. Garth, Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire (2010), 63 U. Toronto L.J.

William P. Alford, Making a Goddess of Democracy from Loose Sand: Thoughts on Human Rights in the People’s Republic of China, in Human Rights in…

William P. Alford & Yuanyuan Shen, “Law is My Idol”: John C.H. Wu and the Role of Legality and Spirituality in the Effort to Modernize…

William P. Alford, Area and International Studies: Law, in 2 International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences 711 (Neil J. Smelser & Paul B.

William P. Alford, The More Law, The More…? Measuring Legal Reform in the People’s Republic of China, in How Far Across the River? Chinese Policy…

William P. Alford & Yuanyuan Shen, Have You Eaten, Have You Divorced? Debating the Meaning of Freedom in Marriage in China, in Realms of Freedom…

William P. Alford, The Legal Profession, in Encyclopedia Britannica (2004).

William P. Alford, Of Lawyers Lost and Found: Searching for Legal Professionalism in the People’s Republic of China, in Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal…

William P. Alford, The Prospective Withdrawal of the United States from the International Labor Organization: Rationales and Implications, 17 Harv. Int’l L. J. 623 (1976).

William P. Alford, Robert Van Gulik and the Judge Dee Mysteries, 12 Orientations, Nov. 1981, at 50.

William P. Alford, Zhu Qiwu and the Development of Criminal Law in the People’s Republic of China, 2 UCLA Pac. Basin L. J. 60 (1983).

William P. Alford, Of Arsenic and Old Laws: Looking Anew at Criminal Justice in Late Imperial China, 72 Cal. L. Rev. 1180 (1984).

William P. Alford, Foreword, 4 UCLA Pac. Basin L. J. vii (1985).

William P. Alford, The Inscrutable Occidental? Implications of Roberto Unger’s Uses and Abuses of the Chinese Past, 64 Tex. L. Rev. 915 (1986).

William P. Alford, On the Limits of “Grand Theory” in Comparative Law, 61 Wash. L. Rev. 945 (1986).

William P. Alford, When is China Paraguay? An Examination of the Application of the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws of the United States to China…

Chinese Living Law: An Interview with Professor William Alford, 7 Ariz. J. Int’l & Comp. L. 135 (1989).

William P. Alford “Seek Truth from Facts”—Especially When They Are Unpleasant: America’s Understanding of China’s Efforts at Law Reform, 8 UCLA Pac. Basin L. J.

William P. Alford, Intellectual Property, Trade and Taiwan: A GATT-Fly’s View, 1992 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 97.

William P. Alford, International Commercial Arbitration: An Idiosyncratic Overview, 1992 Korean Forum on Int’l Trade & Bus. L. 43.

Alford, William P., Don’t Stop Thinking about . . . Yesterday: Why There was No Indigenous Counterpart to Intellectual Property Law in Imperial China, 7…