Audience: General Public

Inspired in the life of the late Nigel Rodley—one of the principal architects of the modern human rights framework— the documentary The Long Haul addresses the current backlash on human rights and how best to respond. Sir Nigel’s remarkable life story is an inspiration to stand up against wrongdoing and to continue fighting for equality […]

The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School presents: “The Legal Strategy of Israeli Settlements: A Lecture by Israeli Ambassador Dani Dayan” Wednesday November 13, 2019 @ 12-1pm Austin Hall 100 Classroom – North Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA Ambassador Dani Dayan is the Consul General of Israel in New York. […]

The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School presents “Abortion and Jewish Law: A Lecture by HaRav Asher Weiss” Friday, November 15, 2019 @ 12-1pm Austin Hall 100 Classroom – North Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA HaRav Asher Weiss is a Chassidic Rabbi, Rosh Yeshivah, Av Beis Din, and an internationally […]

The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School presents “The Lawyer and the Messiah: Jacob Sasportas, Sabbetai Zevi, and Sephardic Halakha in the Seventeenth Century” A Lecture by Professor Yaacob Dweck Monday, October 28, 2019, at 12-1pm Location: Hauser Hall 101 Lunch from Milk Street Café Professor Yaacob Dweck is a […]

The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School presents a Memorial Lecture for Professor Isadore Twersky, delivered by Professor Bernard Septimus: “Maimonides on Repentance: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives” Monday, November 18 @ 12-1pm Hauser Hall 102 Malkin Classroom Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA Lunch from Milk Street Café Professor Bernard Septimus […]

The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School presents “Attempted Sin: Thought Crimes in Jewish Law” A Lecture by Rabbi David Bashevkin Monday, September 16, 2019 at 12-1pm Location: Hauser Hall 101 Lunch from Milk Street Café Rabbi David Bashevkin is the director of education for NCSY, the youth movement of […]

Ruth Calderon, Former Knesset Member and Visiting Gruss Professor at Harvard Law School delivers a public lecture on the anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

Do you have language skills? Are you interested in serving vulnerable populations? Do you have a commitment to social justice? Then look no further. Come and volunteer with HIRC! Join us for the HIRC Interpreter Training on Tuesday, September 24 from 12-1p.m in WCC 3038 V&E. The HIRC Interpreter Training is designed to train volunteers […]

Judicial Independence: Comparative Reflections with Daphne Barak-Erez, Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel

Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (Dey Street Books, Sept. 10, 2019). Ambassador Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and William D. Zabel ’61 Professor of Practice in Human Rights at Harvard Law School. Ambassador Power will be […]

Sanford Levinson & Jack Balkin, Democracy and Dysfunction (Univ. Chicago Press, Apr. 2019). The book talk discussion will include: Authors: Sanford Levinson is Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law, University of Texas Law School. Jack Balkin is the […]

Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States: Law and Ethics (Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar & Barbara J. Evans, eds., (Cambridge Univ. Press, Apr. 30, 2019). Panelists: I. Glenn Cohen is the James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law, […]

Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution by Lawrence Lessig (Oxford Univ. Press May 1, 2019). “The fundamental fact about our Constitution is that it is old — the oldest written constitution in the world. The fundamental challenge for interpreters of the Constitution is how to read that old document […]

Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation (Jerome A. Cohen, William P. Alford & Chang-Fa Lo eds., Springer June 8, 2019). The book talk discussion will include: Editors: Jerome A. Cohen is Professor, NYU School of Law and Faculty Director, NYU U.S.-Asia Law Institute. William P. Alford is the Vice Dean for the […]

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 […]

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 […]

Equity and Law: Fusion and Fission (John C.P. Goldberg, Henry E. Smith & P.G. Turner eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, Nov. 2019). John C.P. Goldberg is Deputy Dean and Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Harvard Law School. Henry Smith is the Fessenden Professor of Law and Director, Project on the Foundations of Private Law, Harvard Law […]

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England (Cambridge Univ. Press, Oct. 31, 2019). The book talk discussion will include: Author: Elizabeth Papp Kamali is Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Commentators: Charles Donahue, Jr., is Paul A. Freund Professor Law, Harvard Law School. Intisar A. Rabb is a Professor of […]

The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law, Evan J. Criddle, Paul B. Miller & Robert H. Sitkoff eds. (Oxford Univ. Press, Apr. 26, 2019). The book talk discussion will include: Editor: Robert H. Sitkoff is the John L. Gray Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Authors: J. Mark Ramseyer is the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese […]

Beginning in 2014, ISIS intentionally destroyed cultural heritage across Iraq’s Nineveh Plain. When Mosul was liberated in 2017, international cultural organizations offered salvage and stabilization assistance. Faced with scenes of war crimes under the 1954 Hague Convention on cultural property protection, professionals also had to document the destruction properly or risk causing future court cases […]