David W.Kennedy,a leading expert of intational law at Harvard Law School (HLS),visited Renmin University of China from January 15 to 17,2020 to discuss the role of law in global govance.He is Manley O.Hudson Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School.As the founding and leading figure of a critical school in intational law in the United States,through his scholarship and his supervision of graduate students,Professor Kennedy calls for strengthening scholars from developing countries to criticize the Euro-centric intational legal order.He is also a leading U.S.theorist criticizing the human rights movement and the liberal economic order.