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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.

Are you registered to vote in Massachusetts or interested in getting involved with campaigns here? This panel, hosted by Harvard Immigration Project and the Equal Democracy Project, will give you a chance to learn about upcoming local and state elections, and how you can get involved by voting, volunteering, and more! This event will discuss […]

The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School “The Daf Yomi Phenomenon: Image and Reality” Professor Sid Z. Leiman (Touro College, Yeshiva University, and Brooklyn College) Tuesday, 25 February 2020 at 12pm Griswold 110 Harvard Law School 1525 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA Lunch from Milk Street Café In 1923, Rabbi Meir […]

Tuesday, February 25, 2020 Milstein West A/B Recognizing Wrongs, John C.P. Goldberg & Benjamin Zipursky, Harvard University Press, Feb. 4, 2020. “Tort law is badly misunderstood. In the popular imagination, it is “Robin Hood” law. Law professors, meanwhile, mostly dismiss it as an archaic, inefficient way to compensate victims and incentivize safety precautions. In Recognizing […]

Join us for a discussion with Prof. Emily Broad Leib of the Food Law and Policy Clinic, Food for Free Executive Director Sasha Purpura, and Gwen Koch of Harvard University Dining Services about this critical collaboration to get food to those in need.

General Avivi will give a brief overview of the recent history of Israel-Palestinian peace negotiations, and share his views on the newest peace plan proposed by the Trump administration. Hosted by the HLS Alliance for Israel with the support of the MirYam Institute.

HIALSA Lunch talk with Prof. Christopher Gibson (Suffolk University) Professor Gibson will speak about arbitration as a tool for exercise of control in technology, Internet and IP-based international disputes. Christopher Gibson is a Professor of Law and Director of the Business Law and Financial Services Concentration at Suffolk University Law School, where he teaches and […]

Join the Harvard Federalist Society for a panel discussion with Professor John S. Baker and Professor Michael Klarman, moderated by Professor Jeannie Suk Gersen, on amending the Constitution. Lunch will be served.

In November 2019, The Gambia filed a case with the International Court of Justice alleging that Myanmar military had violated the Genocide Convention for years in its treatment of the Muslim minority group, the Rohingya. A United Nations fact-finding mission had found similar patterns of abuse, documenting widespread violations of human rights in Myanmar against […]

Philippe Sands, a specialist in international law from University College London, will be giving a talk on his experience working at the International Court of Justice and the importance of speaking French in international law today.

Professor Eric Beerbohm will deliver a talk on voter manipulation, the use of mass media to influence elections, and negotiation in democracy. Professor Beerbohm is the Co-Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Fellows in Residence Program and a Professor of Government at Harvard University. Thai food will be served.

Join the Harvard Crimmigration Clinic for a Lunch Talk event featuring Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez, a top scholar in the area of Crimmigration. Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez will be discussing his new book, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants. Migrating to Prison is an urgent call for the abolition of immigration prisons and […]

The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School “Anthropology, Settlers and Natives: A Lecture in Memory of Dr. David J. Landes” Professor Assaf Harel (Binghamton University) Wednesday, 12 February 2020 at 6pm Wasserstein 1010 Harvard Law School 1585 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA This anthropologically-oriented talk, in memory of Dr. David J. […]

Directed by Oscar®-winning documentary filmmaker Louie Psihoyos and Executive Produced by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan, Lewis Hamilton, Novak Djokovic, and Chris Paul, The Game Changers tells the story of James Wilks—elite Special Forces trainer and The Ultimate Fighter winner—as he travels the world on a quest to uncover the optimal diet for human […]

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 HLS Language Access Program/HIRC Interpreter Training on Tuesday, February 18 from 12-1p.m in WCC 3038 V&E. The HLS Langue Access Program/ Interpreter […]

Wednesday, February 12, 2020 Milstein West AB The World According to Star Wars, Cass R. Sunstein, Dey Street Books, Revised, Updated edition, Oct. 29, 2019. “There’s Santa Claus, Shakespeare, Mickey Mouse, the Bible, and then there’s Star Wars. Nothing quite compares to sitting down with a young child and hearing the sound of John Williams’s […]

In a period where the international human rights system faces growing strain, Jared Genser’s United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Commentary and Guide to Practice is the first comprehensive review of the contributions of this important institution to understanding arbitrary detention, rule of law, and protecting human dignity today. Genser’s lecture will provide important […]

Friday, February 14, 2020 Milstein West B Comparative Capital Punishment, Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker eds., Edward Elgar, Nov. 2019. “Comparative Capital Punishment offers a set of in-depth, critical and comparative contributions addressing death practices around the world. Despite the dramatic decline of the death penalty in the last half of the twentieth […]