Taiwan & International Human Rights with Chang-fa Lo & William Alford
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Furman Hall, Room 318
245 Sullivan Street
New York, New York, 10012
12:15-1:50 pm
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About the Speakers
Chang-fa LO
Professor Chang-fa Lo, was until recently a justice on the Constitutional Court of Taiwan, ROC.
He was Dean of NTU College of Law; NTU Chair Professor; Distinguished Professor; founding Director of Asian Center for WTO and Int’l Health Law and Policy of NTU Law (ACWH); founding Director of Center for Ethics, Law and Society in Biomedicine and Technology of NTU; Commissioner of the Fair Trade Commission; and Commissioner of International Trade Commission. He authored 13 books (including the most recent one of “Treaty Interpretation under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: A New Round of Codification”, Springer 2017); edited 7 books (including “Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation” co-edited with Jerome Cohen and William Alford, expected to be published in October 2018 by Springer); and published more than one hundred journal papers and book chapters.
William Alford
William P. Alford, Professor, Vice Dean for Graduate and International Studies and Director, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School is a scholar of Chinese law and legal history.
His books include To Steal a Book is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization (Stanford University Press 1995), Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal Profession in East Asia (Harvard East Asian Legal Studies 2007), 残疾人法律保障机制研究 (A Study of Legal Mechanisms to Protect Persons with Disabilities) (Huaxia Press 2008, with Wang Liming and Ma Yu’er), Prospects for the Professions in China (Routledge 2011, with William Kirby and Kenneth Winston) and Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation (Springer 2018, with Jerome Cohen and Lo Chang-fa).
Professor Alford is the founding Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability which provides pro bono services on issues of disability in China, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Vietnam and several other nations. He is Lead Director and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Special Olympics International (which serves individuals with intellectual disabilities in more than 170 jurisdictions around the world). In 2008, Special Olympics honored him for his work for persons with intellectual disabilities in China.