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Tulane, Yale Host Law Conference in China

April 23, 2018 6:14 AM

 Tulane Law is this week co-hosting the 9th annual International Conference on the New Haven School of Jurisprudence in Hangzhou, China, an event that studies how legal principles can advance human dignity.

 The conference is co-hosted annually by Tulane Law, Yale Law School, and Zhejiang University’s Guanghua Law School.  It was founded by and organized by Tulane Prof. Guiguo Wang, the Eason-Weinmann Chair of International and Comparative Law, to introduce Asian scholars to the New Haven School of thought, which recognizes that lawmakers, lawyers representing clients, judges or arbitrators all might have a different perspective on what a law says, does, intends or should do.

This year’s keynote address was given by Michael Reisman, the Myles S. McDougal Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, considered the foremost authority on the New Haven School’s approach to achieving the goal of public order focused on human dignity. His keynote was titled “Meddling in National Elections: Establishing the Boundaries of Non-Intervention in Internal Affairs,” and explored the realistic prospects for international norms limiting election interference like Russia’s conduct in the 2016 elections.

At each conference, scholars from various disciplines and across the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia gather to analyze how the New Haven School’s approach can be applied to modern social needs and political realities.