Audience: Alumni

In 2015, after five years of community pressure, the University of Chicago agreed to open an adult level one trauma center. For years, young Black people on the Southside had been shot blocks from U of C’s state of the art facilities, and then died on long ambulance rides to the Northside of the city. […]

Learn about the law of the fast for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and participate in commencing a fast which will benefit the homeless.

Nicholas Bagley will discuss "The ACA and Executive Power, Ten Years In."

Jack Goldsmith, In Hoffa’s Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Sept. 24, 2019). Jack Goldsmith is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. “As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O’Brien. But as he […]

U.S. Israel Relations in the Trump-Netanyahu Era Bilateral Israel–U.S. relations have been strong since the creation of Israel, with the U.S. providing consistent financial and military aid, as well as political support, regardless of the presiding party in Israel or in the U.S. This special relationship always existed with both Republican and Democratic members of […]

This year’s 2nd Annual conference on “Challenges to Antitrust in a Changing Economy”, co-organized by CPI and CCIA, aims to pick up where we left off last year with the debate on competition law and economics in the tech industry. Doubtless, the last decade has seen a growing thirst for innovation in many industries worldwide. […]

The HLS Green Team is throwing a spook-tacular Halloween freecycle. Come and browse the available free items and grab some candy between 11am-1:30pm. Drop off items anytime between 9:30am-12pm.

Join HELA lunch talk on the Fragility of EU Law-making with Judith Merkies and Alvaro Renedo Zalba. Judith Merkies is a former Member of the European Parliament (for the Netherlands). Experienced international lawyer specialized in European law. Has worked in the private sector and in the European Commission before being elected to Parliament. Special focus: […]

A panel discussion with: Guhan Subramanian, Chair, Program on Negotiation Kenneth R. Feinberg, Attorney, Feinberg Rozen Eric D. Green, Principle, Resolutions, LLC, Boston Francis E. McGovern, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law Mass disasters and catastrophes injuring large numbers of individuals present serious operational, management and fairness problems for traditional compensation systems, including […]

Martha Minow, When Should Law Forgive? (W. W. Norton & Co., Sept. 24, 2019). The book talk discussion will include: Author: Martha Minow is the Harvard 300th Anniversary University Professor. Commentators: Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English, the Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center […]

Prison abolitionist and Harvard Law alum Derecka Purnell leads a workshop in prison abolition. She helps us to imagine a world without cages and a near future where Harvard can stop profiting off of Black and brown people in cages.

Please join us for a showing of the documentary film Gaza on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 from 6:30-9:00 pm at Langdell South, Harvard Law School. The film screening will be followed by a brief Q & A with directors Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell. “In this cinematic journey through Gaza we unfold a portrait of […]

New England Patriots star Michael Bennett and famed French soccer player Lilian Thuram will discuss race, class and sports in the aftermath of the Colin Kaepernick protest.

Charlotte Blattner, Visiting Researcher at Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Program, will be speaking about her book “Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders,” published by Oxford University Press. In the book she discusses how we can protect animals in a globalized world, in a time when multinational corporations are growing in number and power, production […]

Come see various faculty members from around the school speak about divestment from the prison-industrial complex.

A discussion with: H.E. Dr. Jawad Anani, Former Chief of the Royal Courtand Coordinator of Peace Negotiations and moderated by: James Sebenius, Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business, Administration, Harvard Business School This month marks 25 years since the groundbreaking treaty was signed between Jordan and Israel, which set expectations for ending violence and developing economic […]

Mercy for Animals President, Leah Garcés, will be speaking about her new book, GRILLED, which details her experiences turning adversaries into allies to change the chicken industry.