The Program on Negotiation presents a book talk by Donna Hicks, Associate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Leading with Dignity; How to Create a Culture That Brings Out the Best in People.
Join HLS Effective Altruism, Food Society, and Animal Law Society for a discussion with Brian Berkey about ethics in career choice and other aspects of professional life. Plant-based lunch will be served. Sponsored by the DOS Grant Fund.
An 1830 Book of Mormon verse refers to the modern era as one in which people inhabit “a state of awful woundedness” as a consequence of “plain and precious” teachings that have been deleted or corrupted in the biblical record . What comes to be called Mormonism is thereby projected as a healing remedy of […]
Interested in building a career as a Diplomat? This is your chance to hear how Ambassador Manuel Caceres, an HLS alum, has done it. Come join the International Law Journal at this interesting Lunch Talk! Lunch will be served.
Join Martha Minow for a conversation on her upcoming article in the Harvard International Law Journal on the role of forgiveness in international criminal law.
Please join HALB and Paul, Weiss for a discussion with top global company’s female CEO and two female partners from Paul, Weiss. Claire Chino is President & CEO of ITOCHU International Inc. and Managing Executive Officer of ITOCHU Corporation. Headquartered in New York and operating in the US, Canada and Mexico, ITOCHU International provides trading […]
American prisons censor books for millions of prisoners. James Tager, Deputy Director of Free Expression Research and Policy at the literary and human rights organization PEN America, will discuss the status of the law and policy that currently underlie these bans and consider opportunities for reform.
CJPP presents journalist and author Lara Bazelon for a discussion about her book, The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction. Bazelon will be joined by CJPP Visiting Senior Fellow, Valena Beety. “In Rectify, a former Innocence Project director and journalist Lara Bazelon puts a face to the growing number of men and women exonerated […]
Boston University Law Professor David H. Webber will discuss his 2018 book The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon. The book highlights efforts by some in organized labor to wield unions’ multitrillion-dollar pension funds as tools for corporate accountability. Outmaneuvered at the bargaining table and under constant assault in Washington, state houses, […]
PLAP presents Brad Brockmann, civil rights attorney and Assistant Professor at Brown University School of Public Health, in conversation with Dr. Dan Bannish, a psychologist for the intensive mental health unit of the Maine State Prison. Mr. Brockmann and Dr. Bannish will present a new wellness paradigm for correctional facilities, highlighting misguided beliefs at the […]
“Now that Trump has turned the United States into a global climate outcast, will China take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe? Many signs point to yes. China, the world’s largest carbon emitter, is leading a global clean energy revolution, phasing out coal consumption and leading the development of a global system […]
In 2018 twenty six women were murdered by family members in Israel. Over-represented in this population were Palestinian women and African asylum seeking women. This session will situate this in context: on the one hand, the robust feminist movement in Israel/Palestine, which fought various legal struggles to promote gender equality and on the other hand, […]
Four short films offering unique insights into the lives of queer subjectivities in Indonesia and the Philippines. As a curated program, the films provide different perspectives and rich ground for further discussions on LGBT in Southeast Asia.
Lecture and discussion with Khaled Beydoun. Beydoun is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and Senior Affiliated Faculty at the University of California-Berkeley Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project. A Critical Race Theorist, Professor Beydoun’s research examines the legal construction of Arab and Muslim American identity, the foundational […]
Please join HALB for a discussion with Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Directors, Lori Lesser and Salvo Arena. Lori and Salvo will discuss their experience leading the Harvard Law School alumni community, as well as their respective career paths. Lori Lesser has been an integral member of Harvard alumni community. Along with her current position with […]
“What is Jewish Studies After Shahab Ahmed’s ‘What Is Islam?’,” The purpose of this one-day conference at Harvard Law School is to use Ahmed’s What is Islam? as a jumping off point to engage pressing substantive and methodological problems in medieval and early modern Jewish studies. The method adopted will be to take the subsections […]