Audience: Staff

Come to chat with our board members and meet new friends! Plus, we will have boba tea and cream puffs.

Join us for an overview of HALS and how you can get involved! Dinner (Asian food) will be provided. We are “Law in Asia” and welcome anyone who has an interest in Asia. Come to learn about who we are and what we are planning to do for the school year.

Join the Prison Legal Assistance Project for a welcome back picnic/ meet & greet! Come for the taco bar, stay for the community and advocacy opportunities. 1Ls are welcome!

On October 7 from 6:30 to 8:30pm at Milstein West B in the WCC there will be a gathering to discuss the career of Thurgood Marshall, “Mr. Civil Rights” — activist lawyer, court of appeals judge, Solicitor General, and Supreme Court Justice. Professor Randall Kennedy will make remarks focused on neglected features of Marshall’s career […]

The U.S. Constitution has become integral to America’s identity. It’s treated with an almost sacred reverence, its makers glorified. But the Framers—George Washington and James Madison among them—were not faultless beings, and despite good intentions, were inevitably influenced by their own interests, biases, and moral blind spots. Under such influences, they wrote a constitution that […]

Sugata Bose is the Gardiner Chair of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University, a former Indian Member of Parliament, and a prominent scholar of the life of Mahatma Gandhi. He will speak on the relevance of Gandhi’s philosophy to the current political moment.

Come learn about how to join Harvard’s Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. We are the nation’s leading progressive law review. In addition to publishing traditional legal academic articles, we also have a blog and a podcast. At this session, we will provide information on the many different ways to get involved with CR-CL. Lunch will […]

A conversation with Yveka Pierre, litigation counsel for If/When/How, on how law enforcement officials are using anti-choice laws to prosecute pregnant people and those seeking abortions. Hosted by the Alliance for Reproductive Justice.

Steven L. Fingerhood is a technology investment fund manager who, over the past thirty years, has worked as an executive, entrepreneur, board member and investor in the technology industry. During this time, he has been fascinated by — and increasingly concerned about — the transformative and disruptive effects of technology on virtually every sector of […]

Program on Negotiation Open House Come meet PON faculty from Harvard, MIT, Tufts and other schools in the Greater Boston area. Find out how you can be involved, get information, learn about the PON Student Interest Group, and become a great negotiator, conflict resolver, or mediator. Complimentary food, beer, and wine provided. All Students welcome! […]

Peter O’Meara, your HIO advisor, and Sabi Ardalan, attorney and Assistant Director of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (HIRC) will be offering an orientation and employment authorization information session at HLS for international J.D.s. This session will cover the details of maintenance of lawful immigration status, employment authorization options, application for Social Security Numbers […]

Join us for the first general body meeting for the Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law! Information will be provided on the the journal, the journal’s board members, the upcoming year, and much more. Pizza and wings will be served!

Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (Dey Street Books, Sept. 10, 2019). Ambassador Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and William D. Zabel ’61 Professor of Practice in Human Rights at Harvard Law School. Ambassador Power will be […]

Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution by Lawrence Lessig (Oxford Univ. Press May 1, 2019). “The fundamental fact about our Constitution is that it is old — the oldest written constitution in the world. The fundamental challenge for interpreters of the Constitution is how to read that old document […]

Please join HIALSA, WLA, and Arbitral Women for an interview and Q&A with our panelists, who will describe their respective career paths in international arbitration, challenges they faced as women in the field and how they navigated them, and discuss some of today’s hot topics in international arbitration, including arbitration in the life sciences sector […]

Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States: Law and Ethics (Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar & Barbara J. Evans, eds., (Cambridge Univ. Press, Apr. 30, 2019). Panelists: I. Glenn Cohen is the James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law, […]

The Harvard Law School Immigration Project and Office of Clinical Programs are proud to collaborate with Project Citizenship in their 6th Annual Citizenship Day. HLS students are needed to assist immigrants to apply for citizenship. Project Citizenship hosts an annual Citizenship Day in Boston, together with the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement, to commemorate Constitution […]

First Global South Dialogue meeting of the semester. Lunch will be provided. We will be introducing the organization, discussing officer positions, and planning the events.

Join APALSA for a discussion with Professor Ming Wai Lau, who is active in public affairs both in Hong Kong and mainland China. In Hong Kong, he is the Chairman of Commission on Youth, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Ocean Park Corporation and Council Member of City University of Hong Kong. In China, […]

HLS Staff: Please join us for Topics @ 10:30 with Professor Randy Kennedy on Tuesday, September 17. Professor Kennedy will share a book project he has been working on which focuses on the many ways that protests against racial injustice in the mid-twentieth century changed American law. We hope you will join us.