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During fall 2015 through spring 2016, Jiawei He was a Junior Research Fellow at the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict. At PILAC, Jiawei assisted with the “Tallinn 2.0” project concerning cyber security and international law. Separately, he was also concurrently a legal intern in the Office of Legal Counsel at the United Nations Headquarters.

Jiawei is a 2015 LL.M. graduate of Harvard Law School. His academic and professional interests span international cyber security regulation, international dispute resolution, and humanitarian relief in civil strife. From October 2014 through the spring of 2015, he was a research assistant at PILAC, principally contributing to the projects on “Extraterritorial Use of Lethal Force” and “Medical Care in Armed Conflict: IHL and State Responses to Terrorism.”

Before his LL.M. study at HLS, Jiawei completed his LL.B. at Tsinghua Law School with the award of 2014 Dean’s Honorable Graduate. He has previously worked at the Secretariat of United Nations Association of China, preparing reports on programs such as “Nuclear Crisis of Democratic Republic of Korea.” He has also assisted Prof. Urs Saxer from University of Zurich in writing the “Textbook on Law of International Organizations,” in which Jiawei co-authored “Chapter Two: Law and Practice of the United Nations.” 

[Biography last updated in June 2016]