Audience: All Students

May 25, 2018
Fellowships, which normally are for a one-year period, involve a recently enhanced stipend of $5,000. 2L and 3L JD students and SJD Harvard Law School students are eligible for the fellowships, as well as PhD students at Harvard University who have a strong and developed interest in economic analysis of law.

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July 9 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The Kate Stoneman Project (KSP) was founded by 20 women partners representing 10 leading law firms headquartered in Manhattan. KSP seeks to provide a forum to address issues of common concern relating to the advancement of women in the profession, as well as a platform to leverage the collective strength of the women partners in our firms […]

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November 16 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

The first of a two day conference with the goal of generating a discussion about the every-day impact of racism on the life of people of color and how we as a profession and as professionals will address it. We draw on both “the usual suspects” and cutting-edge thinkers/researchers to generate conversations through presentations, panels […]

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November 17 @ 9:30 am - 3:00 pm

The first of a two day conference with the goal of generating a discussion about the every-day impact of racism on the life of people of color and how we as a profession and as professionals will address it. We draw on both “the usual suspects” and cutting-edge thinkers/researchers to generate conversations through presentations, panels […]

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June 1 @ 8:00 am - 5:30 pm

The aim of the conference is to construct a twenty-first century conception of disablement that resolves the tension about whether being disabled is merely neutral or must be bad, examines and articulates the clinical, philosophical, and practical implications of that determination, and attempts to integrate these conclusions into medical and legal practices. This year’s Petrie-Flom […]

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September 18 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

“The minuscule motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Under the right conditions, small simple actions can produce large complex effects. In this timely and provocative book, Catharine A. MacKinnon argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly […]

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September 17 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

“Feminists walk the halls of power. Governance Feminism: An Introduction shows how some feminists and feminist ideas—but by no means all—have entered into state and state-like power in recent years. Being a feminist can qualify you for a job in the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Criminal Court, the local prosecutor’s office, or […]

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October 17 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Prosecutors and defense attorneys have it easy—all they have to do is to present the evidence and make arguments. It’s the judges who have the heavy lift: they are the ones who have to make the ultimate decisions, many of which have profound consequences on the lives of the people standing in front of them. […]

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September 12 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

“When data from all aspects of our lives can be relevant to our health – from our habits at the grocery store and our Google searches to our FitBit data and our medical records – can we really differentiate between big data and health big data? Will health big data be used for good, such […]

May 16, 2018
Research assistance needed from May through end of August: Judge Gertner is working on two major projects, a sentencing treatise (which would integrate legal materials, neuroscience, social policy) and a judicial memoir on 25 young men that she sentenced (raising some of the same issues as the former.) Please submit your resume to Alyssa Lary, alary@law.harvard.edu, and a brief description of your background.