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April 24, 2025
Thursday
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Hate & Remediation: Where Does Harvard Go From Here?
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Sometime soon, the Presidential Task Forces on Combating Anti-Muslim, Anti-Arab, and Anti-Palestinian Bias and on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias will release their final reports. How should HLS respond in today’s climate? What can students, faculty, and administrators do to meaningfully reduce hate and discrimination? Join Professor Kennedy and Professor…
April 8, 2025
Tuesday
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Nonviolent Resistance: Lessons from Issa Amro
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Issa Amro is a Hebron-based Palestinian human rights defender, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee who has dedicated his life to the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience to fight Israel’s occupation in the West Bank. In 2007, Issa founded Youth Against Settlements which seeks to end the expansion…
April 8, 2025
Tuesday
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Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship with Yael Berda
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Yael Berda discusses her book “Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship,” which examines how the legacies of colonial bureaucracy continue to shape political life after empire. Focusing on the former British colonies of India, Cyprus, and Israel/Palestine, the book explores how post-colonial states use their inherited administrative legacies to classify and…
April 2, 2025
Wednesday
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Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments [Book Launch]
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
On April 2, at 12:15 pm EST, join us for the book launch of “Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments” in which Kenneth Roth presents his reflections on a lifetime spent in the struggle for human rights. In three decades under the leadership of Kenneth…
March 28, 2025
Friday
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Lent/Iftar/Shabbat for Liberation
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Join HLS Justice for Palestine, Tzedek, Middle Eastern Law Students’ Association, Muslim Law Students’ Association, Queer & Trans People of Color, and the Bell Collective for Lent + Iftar + Shabbat for Liberation! We expect an evening of collective prayer, delicious food, and revolutionary love.
March 28, 2025
Friday
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Lent/Iftar/Shabbat for Liberation
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Join HLS Justice for Palestine, Tzedek, Middle Eastern Law Students’ Association, Muslim Law Students’ Association, Queer & Trans People of Color, and the Bell Collective for Lent + Iftar + Shabbat for Liberation! We expect an evening of collective prayer, delicious food, and revolutionary love.
March 12, 2025
Wednesday
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The Imperial Boomerang Comes Home
12:20 pm - 1:15 pm
How the US government uses the techniques & technologies of imperial violence to control within its constructed borders. Featuring: Tala Alfoqaha ’25 (Palestinian organizer and lawyer) and Afsaneh Rigot (Advisor at Cyberlaw Clinic & Advocate against tech weaponization)…
March 12, 2025
Wednesday
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Israel/Palestine in International Law with Zinaida Miller and Salma Waheedi, moderated by Guy Priver
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Zinaida Miller, Professor of Law and International Affairs; Faculty Co-Director, Center for Global Law and Justice; Faculty Co-Director, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy at Northeaster University in conversation with Salma Waheedi, Lecturer on Law and Executive Director of the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim…
March 11, 2025
Tuesday
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Tzedek General Body Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
HLS Tzedek is a community of progressive, pro-Palestinian Jewish law students. Join us for kosher lunch to learn more about our history, mission, and plans for spring semester. You can also pick up a Shabbat Care Package!…
February 26, 2025
Wednesday
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Conversation with Yadin Kaufmann ’84: Improving Israeli-Palestinian Relations Via Cooperation in Tech
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Join AFI for a lunch talk with HLS Alum Yadin Kaufmann ’84, a partner in Israel’s first venture capital fund and a founder of the Palestinian Internship Program and other initiatives to help build a Palestinian start-up nation. Yadin will share insights on his career path and efforts to promote…
February 25, 2025
Tuesday
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Conversation with UN Special Rapporteur on Housing Dr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Please join UN Special Rapporteur Balakrishnan Rajagopal for a discussion about displacement and domicide in Palestine. Rabea Eghbariah will moderate the conversation.
February 25, 2025
Tuesday
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Conversation with UN Special Rapporteur on Housing Dr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Join HLS Justice for Palestine to hear from Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing , as he discusses domicide–systematic or widespread attacks on housing and civilian infrastructure that causes death and suffering–in Gaza. In November of 2023, Dr. Rajagopal issued a UN report warning…
February 6, 2025
Thursday
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Palestinian Perspectives on Fear and Hope in Gaza and the West Bank
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Join LSFP on Thursday, February 6 at 9:30am in WCC 3019 for a screening of “In Their Words: Palestinian Perspectives on Fear and Hope in the West Bank and Gaza,” a virtual discussion with Palestinian advocates and activists on the ground hosted by the Carr Center for Human Rights at…
November 20, 2024
Wednesday
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The Injustice of Cultural Heritage Loss: The Case of Nepal
12:20 pm - 1:15 pm
Join the Harvard Human Rights Journal and the Mittal Institute for a discussion about the theft, trafficking, and trade of precious artifacts from Nepal and countries around the world, and the ways in which students and advocates in the United States can advance the right to culture, identity, and property.
November 15, 2024
Friday
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Shabbat Against Genocide
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
HLS Tzedek is a community of pro-Palestine Jewish students. Join us for a Shabbat dinner filled with food, ritual, and community building.
November 12, 2024
Tuesday
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Illegal Occupation: Palestine, the ICJ, and the Counter-Hegemonic Potential of International Law
12:20 pm - 1:30 pm
In July, the International Court of Justice issued a historic advisory opinion concluding that Israel’s decades long occupation and annexation of Palestinian territory is illegal under international law and that all nations had the duty to recognize it as such and not assist its perpetuation. Professor Ardi Imseis served as…
October 31, 2024
Thursday
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A Conversation with Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Join Harvard Law Justice for Palestine for lunch with Mosab Abu Toha, renowned Palestinian poet, scholar, and librarian from Gaza. Abu Toha is the author of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza (2022, City Lights), which won a 2022 Palestine Book Award. Abu Toha is…
October 1, 2024
Tuesday
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Abraham Accords – The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
What drove the Arab states and Israel to enter the Abraham Accords? What do the agreements mean for the Middle East and how have they affected the question of Palestine? Join us for a book talk with Dr. Elham Fakhro (HLS LLM ’10) to discuss her groundbreaking book on the…
September 15, 2024
Sunday
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Through the Lens of Genocide: A discussion of antisemitism and zionism
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Focusing on the the connection between antisemitism and genocide, this event will feature a talk by Omer Bartov, a professor at Brown University and decorated historian of holocaust history. Dr. Bartov’s most recent book, Genocide, The Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis, considers links between the fate…
April 2, 2024
Tuesday
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Demystifying UNRWA: Legal and Policy Challenges Facing the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Join HLS Advocates for Human Rights for a discussion with Professor Omar Yousef Shehabi on the historical evolution, mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and the legal and policy challenges facing the Agency. A former legal officer at UNRWA and current Acting Assistant…
March 20, 2024
Wednesday
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The Palestine Exception: A Panel on Repression and Resistance (Bell Collective Conference)
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
This event is part of The Bell Collective for Critical Race Theory’s fifth annual conference, Censorship & Consciousness, taking place March 20th through 22nd. For more information and to register, visit orgs.law.harvard.edu/thebellcollective/censorship-consciousness-2024/ This event will explore the modern landscape of Palestinian advocacy across American and Canadian institutions,…
March 19, 2024
Tuesday
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Censorship at Harvard Law Review (Bell Collective Conference)
12:15 pm - 1:20 pm
This event is part of The Bell Collective for Critical Race Theory’s fifth annual conference, Censorship & Consciousness, taking place March 20th through 22nd. For more information and to register, visit orgs.law.harvard.edu/thebellcollective/censorship-consciousness-2024/ In November 2023, the Harvard Law Review (HLR) revoked the publication of Rabea Eghbariah’s solicited piece…
March 5, 2024
Tuesday
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Abolition Everywhere: NLG and the Findings of the International People’s Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Join the Harvard Law School Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild for a conversation with facilitators and jurists of the International People’s Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism. Pre-register at https://tinyurl.com/nlgpeoplestribunal for updates and lunch options. The People’s Tribunal released its findings in late 2023, condemning violent economic sanctions regimes, and…
February 15, 2024
Thursday
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The Palestine Exception: Free Speech on Campus and the Suppression of Pro-Palestinian Voices
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Join the National Lawyers Guild-HLS Chapter for this discussion of the “Palestine Exception” to campus free speech, featuring attorneys from the ACLU, CAIR, and the National Lawyers Guild.