Please join us for a discussion on challenges to the rule of law and human rights protection in Israel-Palestine, and the impact of recent shifts in United States policy. Jamil Dakwar, Director of the ACLU’s Human Rights Program, will discuss recent state responses to national security challenges and their impact on civil society, media freedoms, […]
Join ACS for a discussion with Professor Eric Segall on his new book, Originalism as Faith: presented by Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher, LLP. The talk will cover the history of originalism; its modern use by academics, pundits, and judges as a pretext for reaching politically desirable results; and its evolution throughout the late Justice Scalia’s […]
HIALSA is thrilled to welcome Ms. Claudia Salomon and Ms. Hiroko Yamamoto to HLS for the fifth International Arbitration Workshop session of the 2018–19 academic year. Ms. Salomon, a partner at Latham & Watkins in New York, and Ms. Yamamoto, a law clerk at Latham and HIALSA’s president in 2017–18, will be presenting on strategies […]
Professor Jerome Karabel, a sociologist from the University of California, Berkeley and author of the award-winning book The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, will give a lecture, followed by a discussion, on the history of elite college admissions in the United States, the role of anti-Jewish prejudice […]
Join HLEP and the newly formed HLS Blockchain Initiative for a brief lecture introducing blockchain technology and some of the exciting impacts it will have on law and the broader economy. The first half of the lecture will explore the concept of “the blockchain” by working through the technology underlying Bitcoin. We will then open […]
Using Dialogue to Bridge Political Divides between Massachusetts and Kentucky A talk with Dr. Paula Green, Founder and Senior Advisor, Karuna Center for Peacebuilding and Sharon Dunn, Author
A look at the spatial, racial, and economic disinvestment found on the more than 900 streets across the United States named for Dr. King. Join us for a discussion that imagines ways to design and implement plans for revitalization. Melvin White, Founder and CEO of Beloved Streets of America (St. Louis, MO) will be joined […]
Under current U.S. law, one is either a ‘person’ or a ‘thing’. If you are a person, you have the capacity for rights. If you are a thing, you do not. And unfortunately, all nonhuman animals are currently considered things under U.S. law. In this talk, Professor Sebo presents the case for nonhuman personhood. He […]
Trebor Scholz will present activist research on the worker cooperative as a promising economic alternative for the digital economy. Showcasing work with platform co-ops in India, Germany, Australia, Brazil, and the United States, Scholz demonstrates that a democratically-owned People’s Internet is not only possible but that it’s a promising economic alternative for the digital economy. […]
Please join the Human Rights Program (HRP) for a discussion with the editors of the book, Mary Crock, Professor of Public Law at Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney, Lenni B. Benson, Professor of Law, New York Law School, and contributing authors, Gerald L. Neuman, HRP Co-Director and J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of Foreign, […]
This inaugural conference, co-organized by CPI and CCIA, aims to generate an open and cutting-edge 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. Innovation certainly makes economies more dynamic and competitive, but it can pose challenges for legislative […]