{"id":617,"date":"2013-06-28T10:15:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/?p=617"},"modified":"2013-07-12T10:29:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T14:29:23","slug":"snapshot-stephen-lam-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2013\/06\/28\/snapshot-stephen-lam-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshot:  Stephen Lam &#8217;13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen\u2019s winter term writing project focused on understanding the legal and regulatory impact that<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2013\/07\/Stephen-Lam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-618\" title=\"Stephen Lam\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2013\/07\/Stephen-Lam-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2013\/07\/Stephen-Lam-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2013\/07\/Stephen-Lam.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> efforts to transform the Chinese Renminbi into an international currency will have on the development of Chinese capital markets and on the future development of China as a financial actor. By traveling to Beijing and Hong Kong in January, he was able to interview experts \u2014 including law firm partners, financial economists, journalists and ratings officials \u2014 and refine his research thesis. There was a clear benefit in \u201cbeing able to sit down with practitioners in the field and talk about what is going on,\u201d Stephen noted; \u201cthere\u2019s only so much you can get from secondary sources, especially in a subject area like this, where there is so much change.\u201d His project grew out of a long-standing interest in East Asian and Chinese legal studies, reflected in the courses, independent research, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/news\/spotlight\/ils\/fellowships\/chayes-international-public-service-fellowship.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chayes International Public Service Fellowship<\/a> he has undertaken during the last three years. Stephen grew up speaking Cantonese, but the four semesters of advanced Mandarin that he took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/academics\/cross-registration\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">through cross-registration<\/a> allowed him to delve more deeply into the cultural and social aspects of his research, as well as the legal ones. \u201cThe resources available to internationally focused students are one of the things that attracted me to HLS,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>(Please visit \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/academics\/degrees\/special-programs\/winter-term\/winter-2013-snapshots.html\">Winter Term 2013: Snapshots from Students<\/a>\u201d to read about other recent projects.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen\u2019s winter term writing project focused on understanding the legal and regulatory impact that efforts to transform the Chinese Renminbi into an international currency will have on the development of Chinese capital markets and on the future development of China &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2013\/06\/28\/snapshot-stephen-lam-13\/\">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":[550],"tags":[5752,73784,359,365,73821],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fellowships","tag-asia","tag-chayes-fellowship","tag-china","tag-hong-kong","tag-winter-term-abroad"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}