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April 14 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Should you place your money in a Traditional 401k or a Roth 401k? What about an IRA? When can you “convert” or “roll over”? Should you buy or rent? What about health insurance? Wondering what all that even means? Professor Brennan will break it all down for us in an easy and digsetible manner. Hosted […]

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March 28 @ 12:45 pm - 1:30 pm

Please join us for this Animal Law Week lecture featuring David Wolfson, Executive Director of Milbank, speaking about his pioneering work in animal law and policy. This event will be held in person at Harvard Law School in Wasserstein Hall WCC 1019 for members of the Harvard community (HUID required). A free plant-based lunch will […]

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March 25 @ 12:45 pm - 1:30 pm

In this Animal Law Week event, Paresh Patel (Co-Founder, President, CEO, and Director of the Natural Order Acquisition Company) and Max Bazerman (Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School) will discuss opportunities in the emerging plant-based economy. This event will be held in person at Harvard Law School in Wasserstein Hall […]

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March 24 @ 12:45 pm - 1:30 pm

In the third event of 2022’s Animal Law Week, Steven Wise (President Nonhuman Rights Project), Hugo Echeverría (Ecuadorian animal lawyer), and Macarena Montes Franceschini (Rights Research Fellow, ALPP) discuss the Ecuador’s Estreillita case. The panel will be moderated by Professor Kristen Stilt. Harvard affiliates with ID are invited to attend in person. The event will […]

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April 14 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Poet and advocate Tracy Stanton will host a workshop on “advocacy through creativity,” highlighting wellbeing through creativity and how to engage in racial justice, LGBTQ rights, and other social issues through art. After the workshop, students will get an opportunity to paint, draw, and write their own creative pieces.

February 16, 2022
We at the Islamic Law Blog are looking for a staff editor to join our editorial team (remotely) at Harvard’s Program in Islamic Law / SHARIAsource. This staff editor will be working with Professor Intisar Rabb, editor-in-chief, and a small team of dedicated editors. We seek a candidate who has superb editorial, organizational, and scholarly skills and interest in scholarship on Islamic law and history. Expected time commitment varies, but is estimated to be 10-20 hours per month; the position comes with a stipend.

February 16, 2022
Harvard Law School’s Program in Islamic Law is seeking a Data Science Fellow to work on various apps in the SHARIAsource Lab, a Harvard initiative designed to deploy data science tools on historical Islamic sources. The Fellow will be based at Harvard Law School, with opportunities to collaborate with various departments and partners—including the Harvard Libraries and the Library of Congress, SEAS and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the Department of History and a community of scholars and students working on similar problems in DH.

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February 17 @ 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm

Please join HLSBFI and HELA for a discussion on Central Bank Digital Currencies, featuring Professor Howell Jackson as moderator, Jess Chang from the Federal Reserve, Dante Disparte, Cheif Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy at Circle, and Marino Ottavio Perassi, General Counsel of the Bank of Italy. Lunch will be provided for those that […]

February 7, 2022
For our research activities and projects within Harvard’s SHARIAsource, we are looking for a (freelance) Ruby on Rails developer with React experience. As part of the SHARIAsource team led by Professor Intisar Rabb, you will be working on the further development of SEARCHStrata, our in-house catalogue and virtual library tool. The initial project duration will be three months for 20 hours per week. Payment will be commensurate with experience.

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November 8, 2021 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

At this talk, Dr. Rebecca Sutton, a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh Law School, will discuss her new book, The Humanitarian Civilian. In international humanitarian law (IHL), the principle of distinction delineates the difference between the civilian and the combatant, and it safeguards the former from being intentionally targeted in […]

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October 25, 2021 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

More than 150 years ago, the first Geneva Convention obliged that wounded and sick combatants of all parties be collected and cared for and that belligerents protect and respect ambulances and military hospitals. Over time, the law extended protections to wounded and sick civilians and required parties to take numerous affirmative measures to protect health […]

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October 19, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

To address the variety of problems related to social media like disinformation, harassment, and hate speech, governments and civil society need better information and evidence bases. Recent challenges in platform research (including testimony by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen) have made this clearer and led to renewed attention to the difficulty of accessing data held by […]

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October 12, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm

On October 12 at 7 PM EST, please join HIALSA’s first hybrid lecture, “International Arbitration: Challenges & Evolution,” co-sponsored with Singapore International Arbitration Centre! Grab & Go dinners and snacks will be served. In this lecture, Chan Leng Sun, SC (joining via zoom) will identifies key problem areas that practitioners, arbitrators and arbitral institutions have […]

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September 24, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

This event is part of a three-part symposium on Security, Privacy, and Innovation: Reshaping Law for the AI Era.  The first, Responding to AI Enabled Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism is on September 17, 2021, the second, Constitutional Values and the Rule of Law in the AI Era: Confronting a Changing Threat Landscape is on September 24, 2021, and the third, Protecting […]

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September 21, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Please join the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society for our first Tuesday lunch of the academic year, featuring our Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain, and serving as a Virtual Open House. Prof. Zittrain will start by sharing an overview of the work and themes explored at the Center, followed by time for attendees to meet […]

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September 17, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

This event is part of a three-part symposium on Security, Privacy, and Innovation: Reshaping Law for the AI Era.  The first, Responding to AI Enabled Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism is on September 17, 2021, the second, Constitutional Values and the Rule of Law in the AI Era: Confronting a Changing Threat Landscape is on September 24, 2021, and the third, Protecting […]

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March 3, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Join us for a conversation between Lilian Thuram, French World Cup-winning defender and Founder of Fondation Lilian Thuram; and Allison Feaster, retired WNBA player and current Director of Player Development and Personal Growth for the Boston Celtics. The discussion will be facilitated by Theresa Moore, President and Founder of T-Time Productions. Cosponsored by the Charles […]

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March 5, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Punishment and society legal literature identifies the impact of American criminal justice ideas, particularly the sway of the punitive state, on jurisdictions abroad. This talk adds complication and nuance to these observations by relying on the public policy concept of “policy transfer” to examine the impact of American legislation, litigation, and politics on the Israeli […]

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March 4, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Is it possible to subject algorithmic forms of warfare to the rule of law? This is the question I will pursue in my talk, and I will argue that problems with existing laws cannot be overcome by new legislation. Since the advent of monotheism, central to the law itself has been its study by humans. […]

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March 6, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review Celebrates 55 years of Achievements. Please join us for our two day conference comprised of six panels on environmental justice, impact and affirmative litigation, housing, movement lawyering, public defense, and immigration and national security.