East Asian Legal Studies Program

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…

Ryan Goldstein, JD ’98
Managing Partner, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP Tokyo Office
Director, East Asia Super League
Owner, Q Sushi…

Mark Tushnet
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Emeritus, Harvard Law School
Co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Law and Authoritarianism (with Cora Chan,…

The East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School supports research and teaching on the law and legal history of the nations and peoples…

East Asian Legal Studies presents:    Professor Fu Hualing
Dean of the Faculty of Law
Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities
University…

Raul Pangalangan, LL.M ’86, S.J.D. ’90
Professor and Former Law Dean, University of the Philippines
Former Judge at the International Criminal Court (2015-2021)…

“Disability Rights Advocacy and Legalism in South Korea and Japan”
Celeste Arrington,
Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George…

Angela Huyue Zhang Professor of Law, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law In this talk, I will pose the provocative question of…

Wednesday, October 9 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm   Dongsheng Zang (LL.M. ’96, S.J.D. ’04) Associate Professor of Law, University of Washington School of…

The East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School supports research and teaching on the law and legal history of the nations and peoples…

On the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's visit, China experts William Alford and Mark Wu discuss whether the president may be getting too much credit for his history-making journey.

At a Harvard Law School book talk and discussion on “Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses and Why It Matters,” panelists discussed the authors' major narratives for and against the economic phenomenon.

“Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation,” co-edited by Harvard Law School Professor William P. Alford ’77 was awarded the 2021 Certificate of Merit in a Specialized Area of International Law by the American Society of International Law In March.

As William Alford completes his tenure, Mark Wu assumes vice deanship of the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies at HLS.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Special Olympics, HLS presented an inspiring conversation with Olympic medalist Michelle Kwan and Special Olympics medalist Melissa Joy Reilly.

William P. Alford ’77, the Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, has received the Li Buyun Law Prize from the Shanghai Institute of Finance and Law, a leading Chinese academic society.

Professor William Alford ’77 delivered a chair lecture on the occasion of his appointment as the inaugural Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.

Mark Wu, a leading expert on international trade and international economic law, was promoted to full professor, effective July 1. He was named the Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law.