Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University,a private research university in Cambridge,Massachusetts. Founded in 1817,Harvard Law School is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United States.
Wei Jingsheng is a Chinese human rights activist and dissident. He is best known for his involvement in the Chinese democracy movement. He is most prominent for having authored the essay "The Fifth Modernization",which was posted on the Democracy Wall in Beijing in 1978. As punishment for writing his manifesto,Wei was arrested and convicted of "counter-revolutionary" activities,and he was detained as a political prisoner from 1979 to 1993. Briefly released in 1993,Wei continued to engage in his dissident activities by speaking to visiting journalists,and as punishment,he was imprisoned again from 1994 to 1997,making it a total of 18 years he has spent in various prisons. He was deported to the United States of America on 16 November 1997,on medical parole. Still a Chinese citizen,in 1998 Wei established the Wei Jingsheng Foundation in New York City whose stated aim is to work to improve human rights and advocate democratisation in China.
Harvard Kennedy School (HKS),officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government,is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge,Massachusetts. The school offers master's degrees in public policy,public administration,and international development,four doctoral degrees,and various executive education programs. It conducts research in subjects relating to politics,government,international affairs,and economics. As of 2021,HKS had an endowment of $1.7 billion. It is a member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA),a global consortium of schools that trains leaders in international affairs.
Bassam Tibi,is a Syrian-born German political scientist and professor of international relations specializing in Islamic studies and Middle Eastern studies. He was born in 1944 in Damascus,Syria to an aristocratic family,and moved to West Germany in 1962,where he later became a naturalized citizen in 1976.
Central European University is a private research university with campuses in Vienna,Budapest,and New York. The university offers intensive graduate and undergraduate programs in the social sciences and humanities,and is known for its low student-faculty ratio,and a highly diverse international student body. Admissions are classified as highly selective with an acceptance rate of 13%. All CEU programs and courses are accredited in Austria,Hungary and the United States.
Winston Lord is a retired American diplomat. As Special Assistant to the National Security Advisor and then as Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State,Lord was a close adviser to Henry A. Kissinger and was instrumental in bringing about the renormalization of U.S.-China relations in the 1970s.
Peter Berkowitz is an American political philosopher and legal scholar. In 2019–2021,he served as the Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State. He currently serves as the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and as director of studies for The Public Interest Fellowship. He is also a columnist for RealClearPolitics.
David W. Kennedy is an American academic and legal scholar known for his work on international law. As of 2017,he is the Manley Hudson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School,where he teaches the courses "Global Law and Governance","Law and Economic Development" and "Expertise and Rulership in Law and Science". He has been a professor at Harvard Law School since 1981,although for a few years he held an appointment at Brown University,as Vice President International Affairs and the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations.
Michael Grant Ignatieff is a Canadian author,academic and former politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian,Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the universities of Cambridge,Oxford,Harvard,and Toronto. Most recently,he was rector and President of Central European University;he held this position from 2016 until July 2021.
Elliot J. Schrage is an American lawyer and business executive. Until June 2018,he was vice president of global communications,marketing,and public policy at Facebook,where he directed the company's government affairs and public relations efforts. He then served as vice president of special projects at Facebook.
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy is a research center at Harvard Kennedy School founded in 1999. The center's scholars address issues related to human rights,including human security,global governance and civil society,economic justice,and equality and discrimination.
Kenneth Roth is an American attorney,human rights activist,and writer. He was the executive director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) from 1993 to 2022.
Ryan Goodman is an American legal scholar who is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and is the founding co-editor-in-chief of its website Just Security,which focuses on U.S. national security law and policy. Goodman joined the NYU faculty in 2009.
Monroe Edwin Price was director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London.
Yehuda Elkana was a historian and philosopher of science,and a former president and rector of the Central European University in Budapest,Hungary.
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school of international affairs of Tufts University,in Medford,Massachusetts. Fletcher is one of America's oldest graduate schools of international relations. As of 2017,the student body numbered around 230,of whom 36 percent were international students from 70 countries,and around a quarter were U.S. minorities.
The Edmond &Lily Safra Center for Ethics is a research center at Harvard University in Cambridge,Massachusetts. The center's mission is to "advance teaching and research on ethical issues in public life." It is named for Edmond J. Safra and Lily Safra and receives support from the Edmond J. Safra Foundation. The Center for Ethics was the first Interfaculty Initiative at Harvard University.
The Department of Public Policy,formerly School of Public Policy (SPP) at Central European University (CEU) is an English-language graduate institution with campuses in Budapest and Vienna. CEU was founded by philanthropist George Soros.
Sarah E. Mendelson is an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Mendelson was confirmed by the Senate on October 8,2015,and sworn into her post on October 15,2015. In 2017,Mendelson was named Distinguished Service Professor and head of Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College's program in Washington,D.C.
