Incoming law students urged to embrace new ideas
Dean Cristina M. Rodríguez ’95, ’00JD, welcomed the newest class of Law School students at a convocation assembly at the start of the school year. In her remarks, Rodríguez encouraged students to welcome the unfamiliar during their time in law school. “Sit with uncomfortable ideas,” she said. “Embrace complexity and complication. Embrace those with whom you disagree. Be willing to change your mind.” Students also heard remarks from US District judge Sarah French Russell ’02JD on her years as a lawyer, law professor, and federal judge.
Evolving leadership at the Paul Tsai China Center
Professor Paul Gewirtz ’70JD stepped down as the director of the Paul Tsai China Center on July 1. He will remain involved in the center as professor emeritus and senior fellow. Odd Arne Westad, Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs, succeeds him as director. Professor of Law Taisu Zhang ’05, ’08JD, ’14PhD, a leading expert on comparative legal and economic history and contemporary Chinese law and politics, has been appointed the center’s academic director and will help shape the center’s research agenda and academic programming. The China Center, founded by Gewirtz in 1999, serves as a hub for the Law School’s and the wider university’s research, teaching, and cooperative projects related to China.
Professor elected fellow of the British Academy
James Q. Whitman ’80, ’88JD, Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, has been elected an International Fellow of the British Academy, in recognition of his contributions to the fields of legal history and comparative law. Whitman was one of 32 international fellows elected this year to the organization, the United Kingdom’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
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