Martha Minow,the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Harvard Law school,delivered a lecture titled as Law and Forgiveness at Renmin University of China Law School's Forum for Prestigious Jurists on 29 June 2013. In her sixty-minute lecture,Professor Minow examined the place of forgiveness in relation to law and forgiveness.Citing the great achievements of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission as well as the personal testimony of Samuel Koroma,a survivor of Sierra Leone's civil war,Minow powerfully argued for the value of forgiveness in social and political life.