Audience: Visiting Students

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 […]

This collaborative seminar will introduce legal priorities research, a new research field inspired by Effective Altruism that studies how legal researchers can do the most good. Rather than just doing what feels right, legal priorities research aims at using evidence and careful reasoning to identify the most important, neglected, and tractable problems within legal research. […]

This collaborative seminar will introduce legal priorities research, a new research field inspired by Effective Altruism that studies how legal researchers can do the most good. Rather than just doing what feels right, legal priorities research aims at using evidence and careful reasoning to identify the most important, neglected, and tractable problems within legal research. […]

Join us for a conversation between Lilian Thuram, French World Cup-winning defender and Founder of Fondation Lilian Thuram; and Allison Feaster, retired WNBA player and current Director of Player Development and Personal Growth for the Boston Celtics. The discussion will be facilitated by Theresa Moore, President and Founder of T-Time Productions. Cosponsored by the Charles […]

Join the WLA and representatives of BSA to discuss the application process and the BSA program in general. Non-pizza lunch will be served.

Punishment and society legal literature identifies the impact of American criminal justice ideas, particularly the sway of the punitive state, on jurisdictions abroad. This talk adds complication and nuance to these observations by relying on the public policy concept of “policy transfer” to examine the impact of American legislation, litigation, and politics on the Israeli […]

Is it possible to subject algorithmic forms of warfare to the rule of law? This is the question I will pursue in my talk, and I will argue that problems with existing laws cannot be overcome by new legislation. Since the advent of monotheism, central to the law itself has been its study by humans. […]

The Harvard Law Review will host an informational session for 1L members of the Jewish Law Students Association on Wednesday, March 11 at 12PM in WCC 3009. All 1Ls interested in learning about the write-on competition and the Law Review generally — including as they relate to Shabbat observance — are encouraged to attend. Kosher […]