Audience: LLM

Announcement

April 30, 2021
The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) will offer a limited number of international site testing opportunities to take the MPRE in August 2021 for candidates who are unable to travel to the United States. For more information, visit the MPRE Registration page of the NCBE website. For the best chance of approval, candidates should submit their requests by May 17, 2021.

April 20, 2021
The Petrie-Flom Center Student Fellowship Program is designed to mentor students seeking to become thought leaders in health law policy and bioethics. The fellowship supports closely-mentored student research in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics and trains students to take advantage of online publishing to promote their scholarship. Students Fellows will receive mentoring for their projects from Harvard Law affiliated faculty, invitations to workshops their research with like-minded, passionate peers, and training in how to promote their online brand.

April 19, 2021
Submit your student writing to the Harvard International Law Journal's Student Note Competition by Sunday, June 6! Pieces should be between 8,000 and 16,000 words, including footnote citations. Only current HLS students or graduates one year out (JDs, LLMs, and SJDs all welcome) are eligible for the Competition. To submit, send a Word version of your Note and a resume to submissions.hilj@gmail.com with the subject line “Student Note Submission 63(1)” by June 6.

April 9, 2021
Applications for the 2021-2022 International Legal Studies Post-Graduate Fellowships are due to International Legal Studies by 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 19, 2021. These fellowships are designed to improve participants’ understanding of international and/or transnational law by supporting graduating HLS students or recent J.D. or LL.M. graduates who will be clerking or interning at an international or foreign regional/supranational court or tribunal in 2021-2022.

Event
March 22 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Join OPIA for a talk with Susanne Sachsman Grooms '02, Former Deputy Staff Director and Chief Counsel for the Democratic Staff of the Committee on Oversight and Reform. Ms. Sachsman Grooms will talk about the exciting and dynamic work she has been involved in recently, and the path that led her to her career there. Register for this event!

Event
March 24 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Join OPIA and the Human Rights Program for a discussion with Judge Theodor Meron, a leading scholar of international humanitarian law, human rights, and international criminal law. Register for this event!

Event
March 23 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Get a closer look at the work of Lieff, Cabraiser, Heimann & Bernstein, one of the top private public interest and plaintiffs’ firms in the country. At this information session, you will have the opportunity to learn about their wide range of public interest centered practice areas, and opportunities available for students and graduates. Register for this event!