{"id":1621,"date":"2018-12-20T14:15:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T19:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2018-12-20T14:15:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T19:15:20","slug":"learning-from-the-past-to-appreciate-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2018\/12\/20\/learning-from-the-past-to-appreciate-the-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning from the Past to Appreciate the Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1622\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2018\/12\/Bill-for-blog-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2018\/12\/Bill-for-blog-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2018\/12\/Bill-for-blog-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2018\/12\/Bill-for-blog-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2018\/12\/Bill-for-blog-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Photo:\u00a0 Martha Stewart<\/h3>\n<p>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, Professor\u00a0William Alford \u201977, the vice dean for the\u00a0Graduate Program\u00a0and\u00a0International Legal Studies, the director of the\u00a0East Asian Legal Studies Program, and chair of the\u00a0Harvard Law School Project on Disability,\u00a0delivered a chair lecture entitled \u201cLearn from the Past to Appreciate the Present, That is What Makes One a Teacher \u6e29\u6545\u800c\u77e5\u65b0\uff0c\u53ef\u4ee5\u70ba\u5e2b\u77e3: Confucius, Cohen(s) and Contemporary China\u201d to an overflow audience of close to 200.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.law.harvard.edu\/in-learning-from-the-past-to-appreciate-the-present-alford-draws-from-confucius-and-contemporary-china\/\">Read more and listen to the chair lecture<\/a> on Harvard Law Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo:\u00a0 Martha Stewart 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, Professor\u00a0William Alford \u201977, the vice dean for the\u00a0Graduate Program\u00a0and\u00a0International Legal Studies, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2018\/12\/20\/learning-from-the-past-to-appreciate-the-present\/\">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":[263,539,84913],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-faculty","category-graduate-program"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","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=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}