Directors

Sheila Jasanoff

Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Previously, she was Professor of Science Policy and Law at Cornell University and founding chair of Cornell’s Department of Science and Technology Studies. At Harvard, she founded and directs the Kennedy School’s Program on Science, Technology and Society (STS). In 2002, she founded the Science and Democracy Network, an international community of STS scholars dedicated to improving scholarly understanding of the relationships among science, technology, law, and political power. Jasanoff has been a pioneer in building the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and shaping its research trajectories. Her writings on law and science, risk management, the comparative politics of regulation, and science in environmental decisionmaking count as basic texts in these fields.

David Kennedy

David Kennedy is Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School, where he teaches international law, international economic policy, legal theory, law and development and European law. He is the author of numerous articles and books on international law and global governance. A member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, Kennedy is past Chair and Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Advisory Council on Global Governance. At Harvard, he served as Chair of the Graduate Committee and Faculty Director of International Legal Studies. He founded Harvard’s European Law Research Center in 1991 and served continuously as its Faculty Director. In 2008-2009, he served as University Professor of Law and David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown University.

Funding

The STS Summer School is jointly hosted by the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School and the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard Kennedy School, with the generous support of the Hewlett Foundation.

Contact

STS Summer School @ Harvard

Program on Science, Technology and Society

79 John F. Kennedy Street

Cambridge MA, 02138

sts.harvardsummer@gmail.com
1-617-496-0807

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