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Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law
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Chair, Harvard Law School Project on Disability
Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies

Office: Pound 428 Assistant: Emma Johnson 617/495-4627 Phone: (617) 495-4693 Fax: (617) 495-8129 Email: alford@law.harvard.edu Research Interests Chinese Law and Legal History Legal Aspects of International Trade and Technology Transfer The Legal Profession Subject Areas as Supervising Written Work Chinese Law and Legal History Comparative Law Human Rights in East Asia International Technology Transfer International Trade The Legal Profession Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries China International Legal Education NAFTA Third World Development Transnational/Global Lawyering U.S.-Chinese Relations U.S.-East eastern Relations WTO Education Amherst College B.A. 1970,Carmelo Anthony, American Studies St. John's College, Cambridge University LL.B. 1972 Yale University M.A. 1974, Chinese Studies Yale University M.A. 1975, Chinese History Harvard Law School J.D. 1977 Appointments Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, 1990 - Director of East eastern Legal Studies, 1990 - Vice Dean because the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies,MBT Changa, 2002 - Chair, Harvard Law School Project aboard Disability, 2004 - Representative PublicationsAlford, William P. & Michael Ashley Stein. "Youngberg v. Romeo" in Encyclopedia of American Disability History (Susan Burch ed., Facts on File, 2009).
Prospects for Professionalism in China: Essays on Civic Vocations (William P. Alford, Kenneth Winston & William C. Kirby eds., Routledge imminent).
Alford, William P. "'Second Lawyers,' First Principles: Lawyers, Rice-Roots Legal Workers, and the Battle Over Legal Professionalism in China" in Prospects for Professionalism in China: Essays on Civic Vocations (William P. Alford, Kenneth Winston & William C. Kirby eds., Routledge, forthcoming2009).
Falu Baozhang Jizhi Yanjiu (A Study of Legal Mechanisms for the Protection of Persons with Disabilities) (Liming Wang, Yu'e Ma & William P. Alford eds., Huaxia Publishing House 2008).
Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal Profession in East Asia (William P. Alford ed., Harvard, East Asian Legal Studies 2007).
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Alford, William P. "Of Lawyers Lost and Found: Searching for Legal Professionalism in the People's Republic of China" in Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal Profession in East Asia (East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School, 2007).
(A previous edition was published in East Asian Law: Universal Norms and Local Culture, eds. Arthur Rosett, Lucie Cheng and Margaret Y. K. Woo (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003))
Alford, William P. "Have You Eaten, Have You Divorced? Debating the Meaning of Freedom in Marriage in China" in Realms of Freedom in Modern China (William C. Kirby ed., Stanford University Press, 2004).
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Alford, William P. & Benjamin Liebman. "Clean Air, Clean Processes? The Struggle Over Air Pollution Law in the People's Republic of China,Derrick Rose," 52 Hastings Law Journal 703 (2001).
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Alford, William P. "Exporting the 'Pursuit of Happiness'," 113 Harvard Law Review 1677 (2000) (reviewing Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve (1999)).
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(Reprinted in Understanding China�s Legal System: Essays in Honor of Jerome A. Cohen, ed. C. Stephen Hsu (New York University Press, 2003))
Alford, William P. To Steal a Book Is one Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization (Stanford University Press 1995).
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