- by Dien S Yuen
The Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago, Illinois is hosting the "Symposium on the Law of Philanthropy in the 21st Century" on October 23, 2009. The one day event will feature topics on governance, tax and donor intent. The ACTEC Foundation has provided funding for the event and so the event is offered free of charge. You can register here (the password is: judicialrelativism).
I just registered and look forward to seeing Prof. Mark Sidel again at the event. He is one of the very few experts on philanthropy and nonprofit law in Asia. Prof. Sidel will be speaking on the "New Developments in Community Foundation Law in the United States."
Here is a highlight of his bio: His research focuses on law, philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, and on comparative law in Asia with a focus on Vietnam, China, and India and South Asia. Professor Sidel teaches philanthropy and nonprofit institutions, contracts, and comparative and international law. In the 2005-06 academic year Professor Sidel served as Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Sidel has also been named a University of Iowa Faculty Scholar beginning in fall 2006.
Professor Sidel has also taught Vietnamese and Chinese law at Harvard Law School (1998), served as W.G. Hart Lecturer in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London (2003), served as visiting professor of Asian law in "chaire Asie" at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) (2004), and taught comparative law in Asia at the University of Melbourne Law School (2005). Sidel studied at Princeton University (history), Yale University (history), and Columbia Law School.
Professor Sidel has published extensively on comparative law in Asia, and on philanthropy, the nonprofit sector, and civil society, including a volume on anti-terrorism policy in comparative perspective, and a co-edited volume on philanthropy and law in South Asia.
