Sustainability or Sustainable Disruption: Where are Fine Arts and Architecture Heading?
The Harvard Law School Association of Europe invites you to join its latest webinar which will feature prominent speakers.
Join us on Zoom:
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
4:30 pm CET (Berlin/Brussels/Rome time)
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Speakers:
Prof. René A. Pfromm LL.M.’08
President, HLSAE – Bonn, Germany
Prof. Jeannie Suk Gersen ’02
John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School - Cambridge, MA
Prof. Eike Schmidt
Director of the Uffizi Museum – Florence, Italy
Mr. Brian Court, Architect
Partner at The Miller Hull Partnership - Seattle, WA
Moderator:
Prof. Ettore M. Lombardi LL.M.’11
Events Officer, HLSAE – Florence, Italy
Biographies
Prof. René A. Pfromm LL.M.’08
President, HLSAE – Bonn, Germany
René A. Pfromm advises companies and individuals on challenging negotiation projects, optimizes the profitability skills of partners and associates (business planning, business development, pitching, pricing, fee negotiations), advises law firms on important pitching, pricing and fee negotiation projects, and resolves conflicts among law firm partners as a mediator. He is an honorary professor for legal negotiations at the University of Bonn and a member of the Executive Faculty at the Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession. Prior, he was a competition lawyer with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Germany and China. René is a graduate of the University of Bonn (Dr. iur.), Harvard Law School (LL.M.) and King’s College London (MA econ).
Prof. Ettore M. Lombardi LL.M.’11
Events Officer, HLSAE – Florence, Italy
Ettore Maria is of counsel at Hage-Chahine & Lombardi Law Firm (Beirut-Florence-Rome) and Professor of Private Law and International Business Law at the University of Florence School of Law. He is Director of the Executive Course on Alternative Investment (co-organized with Queen Mary University of London) and of the Executive Course on Art & Law (co-organized with Université de Genève and Gallerie degli Uffizi). Ettore Maria holds an LL.B. (University of Florence), a J.C.L. (Pontifical University of Lateran), an LL.M. (Harvard Law School), a Ph.D. (University of Florence), and an Adv. certificate in AI (Oxford Saïd Business School) and sustainable management (University of Cambridge). He is Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College (London, UK), Distinguished Scholar in Residence at St. John’s University School of Law (New York City, US), Research Fellow at BRICS Competition Law and Policy Center - National Research Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Global Law, Economics and Finance at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies - Queen Mary University of London. Prior to joining Hage-Chahine & Lombardi Law Firm, Ettore Maria was of counsel at DLA Piper (Rome-Milan, Italy). Ettore Maria has published three books and more than fifty articles in Italy and abroad.
Prof. Jeannie Suk Gersen ’02
John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School - Cambridge, MA
Jeannie Suk Gersen is the John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She teaches and writes on a wide range of subjects including Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and Procedure, Family Law, Sexual Assault and Harassment, and Title IX. She has been a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and Harvard Law School’s Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence. She is a contributing writer to the New Yorker.
Prof. Eike Schmidt
Director of the Uffizi Museum – Florence, Italy
Art historian, born in 1968 in Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany).
In 2009 he passed with distinction the PhD in art history at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, with a dissertation on “The Medici’s collection of ivory sculptures in the 16th and 17th centuries”. Internationally renowned expert in Florentine art, he has published several monographies and dozens of essays. He is an honorary professor at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin. He has received the Awards ‘Museum Acquisitions of the Year’ Awards by the Apollo magazine seven times, for artworks acquired for the J. Paul Getty Museum and Minneapolis Institute of Arts. In 2017 he was honored with the ‘Wooow’ prize by the students from Novara (Italy) and the ‘Excellency Award’ by the Foundation for Italian Art and Culture (New York). In 2018, Blouin Artinfo included Eike Schmidt in the list of the ten best museum directors in the world, for the excellent results achieved in managing the Uffizi Galleries.
Mr. Brian Court, Architect
Partner at The Miller Hull Partnership - Seattle, WA
Brian Court has brought sustainable design to the forefront of the public realm with his performance-driven design process that works in harmony with natural forces, shaping our environment and establishing a low-impact, regenerative future. Brian has led the design of numerous high profile and complex landmark projects using a deft combination of time-tested and innovative design strategies and emerging technologies. This has earned him the reputation as an advocate for groundbreaking sustainable design. Brian has a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Washington and continues to give back to the program as a Guest Reviewer and Thesis Critic. Additionally, Brian was honored with the distinguished and singular Young Architect Award by AIA Seattle in 2013.