Showing 14 events for the week starting 11/02/2023
November 2
Thursday • 14 events
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AFA JAG Panel
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Meet and ask questions to active-duty LL.M. JAGs (USN and USCG) and network with fellow HLS students interested in interning or joining the JAG Corps. Lunch will be provided on a first come, first served basis. Please RSVP at the link provided. -
Strengthening International Humanitarian Legal Protections for Marginalized Groups Accounting for Children, Women, LGBTQ+ Persons, and Persons with Disabilities
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
International humanitarian law (IHL) seeks to limit the effects of armed conflict by protecting persons who are not or are no longer participating in the hostilities. However, IHL has been slow to develop effective measures that address the outsize harms experienced by certain marginalized groups, including children, women, LGBTQ+ persons,… -
ACS x WLA: Campus Diversity post-SFFA with Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm
Join ACS and WLA for a discussion on campus racial diversity after the Supreme Court’s decision in SFFA v. Harvard banning affirmative action. Tomiko Brown-Nagin is the Dean of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, professor of constitutional law at HLS, and professor of history at Harvard University. WCC 1010. -
Exam Tips n Tricks
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm
To Brief or Not to Brief: A Panel Series for First Years Exam Tips and Tricks Presented by the BSA and Harvard’s Academic Resource Center Food will be served on a first come basis… -
HLS Beyond Presents: Money Matters w/ Professor Norm Champ
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm
Back by popular demand, Professor Norm Champ returns for a timely discussion of the effects of inflation on your financial outlook. With interest rates at an all time high, should you consider investing in a car or home or is it better to rent and wait it out? Will… -
KAHLS x Kirkland: Introduction to Kirkland Panel
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
The Korean Association will be hosting a panel featuring attorneys from Kirkland’s IP Litigation, Litigation, and Corporate departments. This will be great chance to network with Kirkland attorneys and learn more about the firm. Lunch will be provided!… -
My Transition from Big Law to Public Interest and Lessons Learned Along the Way
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Join Wasserstein Fellow O.H. Skinner for a community discussion about his career path, a path which saw a transition from a traditional Big Law job in a major city to spending over a decade in public service in Arizona. O.H. will share lessons he learned along the way, how Big Law may (or may not) be helpful to later successes, and how to think about the long arc of your career after HLS. Lunch provided. Please RSVP. -
Athletes’ Rights, Regulatory Drafting, and Dispute Resolution in International Sports After the Semenya ECHR Judgment
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Please join the Committee on Sports & Entertainment Law for a discussion with two of the world’s leading international sports lawyers, Dr. Despina Mavromati and Paul Greene. Human rights discourse has an ever-increasing impact on international sports – and this appears to bring about structural transformations in the regulatory drafting… -
HALB x Kirkland & Ellis Miami: Lunch Panel with Q&A
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Join attorneys from Kirkland’s Miami office for a chance to learn about the firm’s corporate practice areas, their “one-firm” approach to client work, the new Miami office, and more about 1L opportunities, including the 4-week virtual Corporate Academy (intro to corporate law) during the spring semester. The firm would love… -
Introduction to safety and self-defense
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Come and join IMPACT Boston for a session on safety and self-defense. Instructors demonstrate realistic scenarios and model strategies for responding. These strategies include assertiveness and boundary-setting, verbal self-defense strategies, or physical self-defense skills. Participants then have the opportunity to practice the skills in the scenario with an instructor. -
Alumni in Residence with Terri Chase J.D.’94 of Jones Day
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Terri Chase is a Partner at Jones Day. She has been representing employers for more than 25 years and advises clients on DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) programs and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) risks; compliance with the patchwork of federal, state, and local employment laws; conducting sensitive investigations and internal audits; and developing best employment policies and practices. Terri also defends corporate clients in complex labor and employment litigation, including employment discrimination, harassment and retaliation lawsuits, wage and hour actions, and trade secret and restrictive covenant matters proceeding in federal and state courts, arbitration, and government agencies. Click to register. -
The Fall 2023 Byse Workshop — Activists, Rebels and Beyond: Different Ways of Lawyering for Social Justice
3:45 pm - 5:45 pm
Recurring
Presented by Angel Cabrera Silva, S.J.D. candidate How can lawyers be agents of change? How can they avoid hijacking social struggles? Join us for a collective reflection on the influence legal professionals wield in contemporary social movements, sometimes supporting and, at times, inadvertently affecting them. Each session of this workshop… -
Organizing the South: The Union of Southern Service Workers
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Under our current system of labor laws, U.S. workers face tremendous challenges to organizing and engaging in collective bargaining with employers – but in no other region has it been more difficult to unionize workers than in the South. In 2022, union membership rates in every state in… -
Equal Democracy Project GenBod
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Join us for the Equal Democracy Project’s General Body meeting!…