{"id":1266,"date":"2017-08-01T16:58:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2017-08-15T17:00:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T21:00:13","slug":"hls-hosts-conference-on-law-and-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2017\/08\/01\/hls-hosts-conference-on-law-and-development\/","title":{"rendered":"HLS hosts conference on law and development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1268\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2017\/08\/GHRS-conference-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"ghrs-conference\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2017\/08\/GHRS-conference.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2017\/08\/GHRS-conference-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2017\/08\/GHRS-conference-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2017\/08\/GHRS-conference-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>Legal scholars from across the globe gathered at Harvard Law School in July for a two-day conference on law and development.\u00a0The conference is the latest in a\u00a0series of conferences held periodically by a loose consortium of schools\u2013including Harvard Law School, the University of Geneva, Renmin University of China, and the University of Sydney, Australia\u2013on themes of broad shared interest. Previous meetings focused, respectively, on property, corporate governance, and dispute resolution. This year\u2019s conference also included participants from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Seoul National University, the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/today.law.harvard.edu\/hls-hosts-conference-law-development\/\">This year\u2019s session<\/a> explored law and development from five vantage points: Business and Trade; Gender and Family; Disability; China as a Case Study; and Three Examples of Potential for Reform.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal scholars from across the globe gathered at Harvard Law School in July for a two-day conference on law and development.\u00a0The conference is the latest in a\u00a0series of conferences held periodically by a loose consortium of schools\u2013including Harvard Law School, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2017\/08\/01\/hls-hosts-conference-on-law-and-development\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,539],"tags":[941,359,4078,1113,363,1068],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-faculty","tag-australia","tag-china","tag-colombia","tag-mexico","tag-south-korea","tag-switzerland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}