Audience: Grad Students

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An informational session, panel discussion, and Q&A about the Upper Level Ames Moot Court Competition. Any second-year student interested in competing should attend the meeting to learn about the structure of the competition, discuss basic rules, and hear from past competitors about their Ames experiences. If you have any questions, please reach out to AmesHLS@gmail.com.

Part of the Parenting In Challenging Times Series from Graduate Commons Family Programming, focused on providing some support for our grad and post-doc parents in the time of COVID-19. In this final session, we will have another peer-to-peer discussion, led by GCP Family Programming Community Advisors, addressing an outstanding topic from the previous two sessions. […]

Part of the Parenting In Challenging Times Series from Graduate Commons Family Programming, focused on providing some support for our grad and post-doc parents in the time of COVID-19. For this session, we will be joined by Harvard Professor Junlei Li, a leading expert not only in child development, but in “helping the helpers” – that […]

Judge Reeves of Mississippi will be joining HLS for lunch to share about his experiences as a federal judge in the Southern District of Mississippi. Please join ACS for lunch to listen and learn with Judge Reeves. Non-Pizza lunch. Co-Sponsored by ACS and the DOS Grant Fund.

Chief Judge Tunheim of the District of Minnesota will be joining HLS for lunch to share about his experiences as a federal judge in Minnesota. Please join ACS for lunch to listen and learn with Judge Tunheim. Non-Pizza lunch. Co-Sponsored by ACS and the DOS Grant Fund.

Please join Harvard’s APALSA in welcoming attorneys from Latham & Watkins discuss life as a junior associate! In this lunch talk, attorneys will discuss 1) what new associates can expect in their first few months on the job, 2) deciding on a specific practice group, 3) when new associates can expect more responsibility, and 3) […]

As Professor Louis Michael Seidman has recently noted: “Many modern liberals believe that the federal government is captured by a “billionaire party” determined to wield public power for private gain. But many of them also believe in giving the federal government greatly enhanced powers, like administering Medicare for all. There is a history to this […]

Joshua S. Friedman is Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Canyon Partners, LLC, a leading global alternative asset management firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Canyon specializes in value-oriented investments for endowments, foundations, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors. Its award-winning investment strategies focus on distressed loans, corporate bonds, convertible bonds, […]

David Friedman is Senior Vice President, Legal & Government Affairs for the Boston Red Sox and Special Counsel for the team’s parent company, Fenway Sports Group. He joined the organization in 2010, and handles a variety of legal matters, including regulatory compliance issues and oversight of litigation, and assists with the club’s interactions with Major […]

Would you like to learn about working as an attorney in the space industry? This panel will highlight the careers and experiences of women working in a variety of areas across the legal practice as it pertains to space, from public interest, to law firms, to in-house counsel. Panelists will discuss industry trends, opportunities, and […]

Join HLS Advocates for breakfast with Sophie Richardson of Human Rights Watch! Come chat with Sophie about her career over coffee and pastries from Flour Bakery. RSVP at: https://proxy.qualtrics.com/proxy/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2FFzwaXCVHQPNrXHBy5&token=mNk9q1VdCm1gb%2BF2QnW9zEfwWj31cJxrowfDXjmKrvM%3D

In December, a general election in the UK saw a landslide majority for the right-wing Conservative party. The scale of the victory was facilitated by significant gains in traditionally Labour-held seats. Three months later, Ireland also went to the polls. But the 2020 Irish general election told a wholly different story: in a country which […]

Lexis – Prepare to Practice

A talk on the defining challenge of our era. Four environmental law experts from Harvard, Mexico, Italy and Brazil will engage in a conservation about this pressing and timely issue. Mexican Buffet will be served!

Flemming Rose, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and past editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands‐​Posten (2004-2015) during the Muhammad cartoons controversy, will speak on current free speech issues. Sponsored by the Harvard Federalist Society. Lunch will be served.

HALA Movie Night

Join the HLS Alliance for Reproductive Justice as we listen to the audio recording of the oral arguments in June Medical Services (the abortion case heard by the Supreme Court on March 4, 2020).

HIALSA is thrilled to welcome Mr. David M. Bigge for a lunch talk on his experience representing the United States in international arbitration, including as U.S. Agent to the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal. David M. Bigge is an Attorney-Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. He currently works in the Office of United Nations Affairs, where […]

Please join HLS Advocates for Human Rights, East Asian Legal Studies at HLS, and the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World for a discussion with Sophie Richardson (Human Rights Watch) and Rayhan Asat (HLS LLM ’16), moderated by Professor William Alford. Sophie Richardson is the China director at Human Rights Watch. A […]