{"id":990,"date":"2014-11-03T11:06:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/?p=990"},"modified":"2014-11-03T11:07:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:07:46","slug":"humanitarian-and-nba-all-star-dikembe-mutombo-talks-at-hls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2014\/11\/03\/humanitarian-and-nba-all-star-dikembe-mutombo-talks-at-hls\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanitarian and NBA All Star Dikembe Mutombo talks at HLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_991\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/today.law.harvard.edu\/humanitarian-nba-star-dikembe-mutombo-tells-hls-students-need-become-leader-generation\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-991\" class=\"wp-image-991 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2014\/11\/10_23_14_Mutombo_Heratch-Ekmekjian_0041-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Dikembe Mutomb. Photo by Heratch Photography.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2014\/11\/10_23_14_Mutombo_Heratch-Ekmekjian_0041-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2014\/11\/10_23_14_Mutombo_Heratch-Ekmekjian_0041-1024x682-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2014\/11\/10_23_14_Mutombo_Heratch-Ekmekjian_0041-1024x682-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Heratch Photography.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mutombo visited Harvard Law School on Oct. 23 for a talk sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/news\/spotlight\/ils\/about\/index.html\">International Legal Studies<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpod.org\/\">Harvard Law School Project on Disability<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.law.harvard.edu\/orgs\/hala\/\">Harvard African Law Association<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.law.harvard.edu\/orgs\/lids\/\">Law and International Development Society<\/a>. Introducing Mutombo to the standing-room only audience, Harvard Law School Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/hls.harvard.edu\/faculty\/directory\/10010\/Alford\">William Alford<\/a> \u201877, who serves with Mutombo on the board of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialolympics.org\/\">Special Olympics International<\/a>, noted \u201cWhen I say I look up to Dikembe Mutombo, I\u2019m not talking about his height, I\u2019m talking about his humaneness. [He] is one of the world\u2019s greatest humanitarians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.law.harvard.edu\/humanitarian-nba-star-dikembe-mutombo-tells-hls-students-need-become-leader-generation\/\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mutombo visited Harvard Law School on Oct. 23 for a talk sponsored by International Legal Studies, the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, the Harvard African Law Association, and the Law and International Development Society. Introducing Mutombo to the standing-room &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2014\/11\/03\/humanitarian-and-nba-all-star-dikembe-mutombo-talks-at-hls\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,539,73799],"tags":[84937,84938,84939],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-faculty","category-student-organizations-and-journals","tag-dikembe-mutombo","tag-dnc-congo","tag-special-olympics-international"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","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\/6270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}