Tag: International

Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred King Versus the Rule of Law Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 12 to 1:15 pm CGIS South Room S050 (Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge) Eugenie Merieau, Postdoctoral Visiting Researcher, Institute of Global Law and Policy, HLS Discussant: Malavika Reddy, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Harvard […]

The Arts and Culture Caucus, and Crimson Poets Society at HKS invite you to an Open Mic Night on Monday, November 18th, 8pm focused on the theme of belonging, and emceed by Professor Tim McCarthy. The theme can be interpreted liberally and we welcome performances in any medium – poetry, storytelling, dance, music, a scene, […]

Ying Xin is the executive director of the Beijing LBGT Center, a non-profit, community-based organization that advances gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights in China. Founded in 2008, the group provides mental health services, such as an LGBTQ-friendly therapist network, and supports various advocacy programs. Mental health poses serious problems for the youth globally, especially […]

The Law and International Development Society presents “Capitalism and the Climate Crisis: Why Growth Can’t Be Green.” Discussion will center on the links between the global financial system, sovereign debt, and the mounting challenges of climate change. Dr. Hickel will reveal the limits of liberal climate politics, debunk the myth of “green growth,” and share […]

Come have dinner and mingle with fellow international students (JD/LLM/SJDs/Exchange students)! All international women and their allies are welcome. Adejoké Babington-Ashaye, current Senior Counsel at the World Bank and resident Wasserstein Fellow (Fall 2019), will be joining for dinner, and she is happy to talk about her career in public international law (at the World […]

Are you interested in studying abroad? Come meet our international exchange students for a first-hand look at studying law in Brazil, England, France, China and Switzerland.

Join the screening of “Head-to-Tail”, an independently produced movie about Hong Kong’s social movements. The movie depicts the frictions between the police, protesters, and journalists with diverging political views. A panel discussion will follow. Panelists include Barbara Marcolini, Producer at The New York Times, Nathan Law, pro-democracy activist and Hong Kong’s youngest elected lawmaker, and […]

These summer fellowships — open to 1Ls, 2Ls and S.J.D.s in residence — provide HLS students with the opportunity to spend eight weeks abroad, working with governmental or non-governmental organizations concerned with issues of an international scope or relevant to countries in transition. Come talk with recent Chayes Fellows and International Legal Studies staff about […]

Please join the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic for a lunch talk with Visiting Professor Jane McAdam. Professor McAdam is a distinguished scholar in international refugee law and forced migration, with a particular focus on climate change, disasters, and displacement. Professor McAdam will discuss the role that planned relocations—both temporary evacuations and permanent relocations—may […]

These summer fellowships — open to 1Ls, 2Ls and S.J.D.s in residence — provide HLS students with the opportunity to spend eight weeks abroad, working with governmental or non-governmental organizations concerned with issues of an international scope or relevant to countries in transition. Come talk with recent Chayes Fellows and International Legal Studies staff about […]

During her distinguished public service career, Justice Abella spent many years on the Ontario Family Court and Court of Appeal, presided over the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, and served on the Ontario Human Rights Commission.  Since her appointment as the youngest and first pregnant person appointed to the judiciary in Canada, she has […]

Join HLS Advocates for Human Rights for a lunch talk by Judge Chang-ho Chung. Judge Chung is a Judge of the International Criminal Court serving in the Trial Division since March 2015. He will be presenting on the ICC judicial process, including the importance of Pre-Trial stage and evidence challenges at the trial stage. The […]

In addition to speakers from government, international/inter-governmental organizations and faculty from the Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the conference will feature two special keynote addresses. On Thursday, September 26, at 3:00pm in Milstein East, Yochai Benkler, Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, […]

Please join CLA for a conversation with Ms. Lily Yi Li, former general counsel at Renault (Beijing, China) Automotive Co., Ltd, as she discusses the strategic roles of in-house attorneys in a cross-border, business context. Prior to joining Renault, Ms. Li was the Head of Legal at Volvo Car (Shanghai, China) from 2010 to 2012, […]

Professor David Singh Grewal and students will lead a discussion about how to challenge and expand modes of legal thinking which embed the economy in social life — whether those challenges begin by pushing back against the normalization of “law and econ” frameworks in first year law school or countering corporate power in an increasingly globalized international market.

Economic stagnation, financial crisis, and increasing inequality have provoked worldwide debate about the “winners” and “losers” of globalization. This panel will offer a deeper view of law’s role in the creation and distribution of wealth in a financialized world. The linkages among law, money, and finance drive the macroeconomic dynamics that bring growth, employment, and long-term wealth accumulation.

A conversation between Dr. Ayelet Oz (LL.M. ’09, S.J.D ’15), Executive Director of the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, and Dr. Tally Amir, Israel Institute Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard University Department of Sociology. Roughly 60,000 refugees, mostly from Eritrea and Sudan, have entered Israel in the last decade and faced harsh government policies of mass […]

The long-term growth of global inequality presents unique challenges to the law. This panel will center on the legal dynamics that drive the genesis, elaboration, reinforcement, and maintenance of hierarchies of privilege and disadvantage across individuals, groups, nations, and regions. Panelists will identify key legal drivers of the growing wealth gap as well as propose changes in legal ordering that could shift bargaining power, (re)distribute resources in a more equitable manner, or otherwise ameliorate inequality’s negative effects. The discussion will span various areas of public and private law, from the relationship between human rights and economic fairness to the different ways that financial advantage is coded into law, thereby shaping the distribution of wealth.

Professors Amy Kapczynski of Yale Law School and Yochai Benkler of Harvard Law School will talk about their work on technology, health, and political economy. Themes will include the future of robots, labor automation, the fallacy of technological determinism, and the allyship between activism and academic movements.

This event is part of the 2019 Harvard Law and International Development Society Symposium on Global Inequality and Building Economic Justice. This workshop will examine the organization, exercise, and sustainability of human rights throughout the Global South. Topics will include the difficulties and opportunities of widening access to medicine, the role that oil and extraction industry revenues can play in the guarantee of human rights, and the urgency of ensuring that persons of all abilities be recognized in the “human” of human rights. This discussion will be an opportunity to tackle some of the most difficult problems in ensuring that basic needs are recognized and provided in the developing world and beyond. Come for a presentation and interactive discussion over the current state of affairs for rights in the developing world and various visions for how to improve it.