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HLS 5K to Finals!
Sunday, March 24th @ 9:30am 64 Sidney Street, Cambridge, MA
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More event details »OPIA’s Entry-Level Job Search Strategy Info Session for Rising 3Ls/Clerks
Get your entry-level job search questions about getting started, how to decide what jobs to pursue, what employers are looking for, and how to find job opportunities answered by the knowledgeable OPIA advisors.
More event details »Mormonism 101: Of Woundedness and Healing, A Framework for LDS Theology and Praxis
An 1830 Book of Mormon verse refers to the modern era as one in which people inhabit “a state of awful woundedness” as a consequence of “plain and precious” teachings that have been deleted or corrupted in the biblical record . What comes to be called Mormonism is thereby projected as a healing remedy of this condition, and is best understood as comprising specific doctrines that break decisively and deliberately with an inherited Christian orthodoxy. It is not the commonalities,…
More event details »ClinicTalks: Externships and the Independent Clinical Program
The Office of Clinical and Pro Programs’s Externship Clinic Director Liz Solar will talk about a few of the externship clinics, such as the Capital Punishment Clinic, Delivery of Legal Services Clinic, and the Sports Law Clinic. She will also give an overview of the Independent Clinical Program and the application process.
More event details »CAP Working Paper Lunch Series: Illegal Adoptions and the Right to Truth – Ireland’s Obligations Under International Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice
“Illegal Adoptions and the Right to Truth – Ireland’s Obligations Under International Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice,” a discussion with Tara Casey, Harvard Law School LL.M. Candidate.
This talk is part of the spring 2019 Child Advocacy Program (CAP) Working Paper Lunch Series featuring CAP Graduate Program Participants.
Lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend one or more of the Lunch Series talks, please RSVP here.
More event details »Speak No Evil: Blasphemy Laws & the Supreme Court in Pakistan
Join HLS Advocates to welcome a panel consisting of journalist and activist, Beena Sarwar, Visiting Fellow, Yasser Latif Hamdani and LL.M. ’19 student, Orubah Sattar as they discuss Pakistan’s history with and struggle against its blasphemy law and those that support it. The discussion will revolve around the Pakistan Supreme Court’s recently lauded decision to overturn the death sentence of a woman convicted under the law in 2010.
More event details »Launching a Unicorn: Inside the billion dollar SurveyMonkey IPO with Wilson Sonsini
In one of the most exciting Silicon Valley tech deals of 2018, SurveyMonkey the leading global provider of survey software products launched its initial public offering at a valuation of$1.5 billion. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati were the quarterbacks on the deal and saw it home from start to finish.
In today’s fascinating talk, Wilson Sonsini Partner Lianna Whittleton will give us a behind-the-scenes look at the specifics of the deal, the challenges of launching the IPO of a unicorn…
More event details »Challenges of an in-house antitrust counsel. How to get employees to comply with antitrust rules?
Please join HELA for a lunch talk on the challenges faced by an in-house antitrust counsel with Anneleen Streatemans. Ms. Streatemans is Global Legal Director Competition at AB InBev. She leads AB InBev’s global antitrust strategy and is overseeing AB InBev’s antitrust compliance worldwide.
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Ms. Streatemans will first talk about her career path and will expand on questions such as what made her switch from being an antitrust lawyer practicing at a law firm to working in-house, how being…
More event details »ACS Elected/Appointed Board Office Hours
Interested in learning more about serving on the ACS board? Current members of the ACS Board will host a coffee chat to answer questions about candidate statements, election procedures, and how to run for a position even if you are terrified of public speaking.
More event details »Kelman Seminar: Kessely Hong
The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution presents:
Strategies for Bipartisan Legislative Negotiation with Kessely Hong, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
More event details »HLSEA Hangout
Informal social space for HLSEA members and supporters. Students new to or curious about effective altruism are especially encouraged to attend!
More event details »Byse Workshop – Legal Debates over Secularism and Religious Freedom in Comparative Contexts
Today, it is clear that the secularization thesis, famous for its prediction of the decline of religion and of its elimination from the public sphere, has failed. Religion remains a force in the contemporary world keeping its hold not only on the private lives of individuals, but also tenaciously maintaining its presence in the politics of not only individual states but also of the international legal order. Yet, if the secularization thesis has failed, secularism — the constitutional structure built on (varying degrees of) the formal separation of religion and politics — has surely become an ineluctable condition of much of the modern world.
The result of this contradiction is that contestations over religion-state relations remains a protracted feature of our increasingly religiously and ideologically polarized world. This Byse workshop will explore the debates over religion-state relations in comparative contexts.
More event details »International JD Clinical Info Session
Come join the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs staff and Peter O’Meara of the Harvard International Office (HIO) to learn about the clinical and pro bono opportunities available to students on F-1 visas. We will outline which clinical and pro bono opportunities are eligible for Curricular Practical Training (CPT) authorization and what the steps are for obtaining CPT during the academic year. We will also be there to answer any other questions that international J.D. students may have…
More event details »Public Interest Interview Program Info Session
Join OPIA advisors to learn more about the Public Interest Interview Program.
More event details »Lunch Panel – Williams & Connolly, Hogan Lovells, and Covington & Burling
Associates from the DC offices of Williams & Connolly, Hogan Lovells, and Covington & Burling will be discussing their work in appellate litigation and what it is like to practice in the nation’s capital.
More event details »Young Lawyers, BigLaw: How To Make An Impact Early in your Litigation Career
Young Lawyers, BigLaw: How To Make An Impact Early in your Litigation Career — litigation-themed panel discussion moderated by Kathleen Sullivan featuring Quinn Emanuel lawyers from various practice areas.
More event details »Harvard Law Review Public Interest Info Session
Are you a public service-minded 1L? Join HLR for this information session to see if Law Review might be right for you.
Lunch will be provided.
More event details »Cybersecurity Lunch Talk with Dentons
Cybersecurity is one of the most debated topics in the ongoing US-China trade war. China’s implemented its Cybersecurity Law in 2017, setting a legal framework for its developing data protection regime. This has dramatic impacts on issues such as data transmission, personal data protection, and mandatory data storage, all of which significantly impact multinational companies doing business in China.
Please join HALS and JOLT in hosting Dentons partners Jet Deng and Ken Dai, who bring decades of data law expertise…
More event details »Semester Abroad Information Session
The Semester Abroad program is a wonderful opportunity to immerse yourself in a foreign legal culture and to receive a semester of ungraded credit towards the Harvard J.D. degree for study at a law school overseas. Come learn more about spending a semester at one of our exchange partner schools, or pursuing an independent semester abroad, from International Legal Studies staff and HLS students who have recently studied abroad. Lunch will be served.
More event details »Fighting Gender Identity Discrimination in Health Care
Noah Lewis, ’05 is the founder and executive director of Transcend Legal, a national, New York City-based organization focused on eliminating barriers to insurance coverage for transgender-related health care. During this lunch presentation, he will discuss the anti-discrimination theories that underlie his work fighting against transgender health care exclusions in provider and insurer policies. Non-pizza lunch served. This event is free and open to the public.
More event details »HALB and Kirkland & Ellis present: Crash Course in Private Equity
BBQ will be served; Starbucks gift cards will be distributed to attendees.
Join the Harvard Association for Law and Business for a lunch talk with Kirkland & Ellis partner Benjamin Clinger to learn about what private equity is, how it is different from general M&A, and how to succeed in the industry.
More event details »Using the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Method in Calculating Damages in International Arbitration
HIALSA invites experts from the National Economic Research Associates (NERA) to discuss how to value damages in arbitration using the discounted cash flow method. The DCF model is popular among tribunals as an objective method focused on the essential underlying elements that spur arbitrations—the interruption of stable, going-concern profitability.
More event details »Women of Color in the Law
La Alianza, BLSA, and Paul, Weiss have partnered up to bring a frank conversation about what it means to be a Woman of Color in the law. Hear from a panel of diverse women who hold various positions talk about their experiences and the ways in which they navigated their careers. This event is open to all students.
Free, non-pizza lunch will be served!
More event details »Westlaw Summer Associate/Prepare to Practice session
This session will be an introduction to the Westlaw pricing and billing structure in a commercial setting. We will also provide cost effective tips that will help whether you are working in a firm, court, agency or any other organization.
More event details »LGBTIQ Experiences Around the World
Join Lambda for a lively and informal discussion on the experiences of LGBTIQ people from around the world. HLS graduate students (LLMs & SJDs) will share their experiences of growing up LGBTIQ and of LGBTIQ activism in their home countries. There will be a particular focus on how law shapes LGBTIQ experiences. Non-pizza dinner and drinks will be served.
More event details »La Alianza General Body Meeting
Please join us for La Alianza’s General Body Meeting. Delicious Latin Food will be served.
More event details »LIDS General Body Meeting
Interested in law and international development? Consider applying for LIDS Board! Come to LIDS Spring General Body Meeting and learn about what the different Board positions are and how you can be involved next year! Non-pizza dinner will be served.
More event details »Ask the Registrar
Come visit the Ask the Registrar informational table by the ramp leading up to the Harkness dining hall. Stop by to grab some candy and ask members of the Registrar’s Office your most pressing questions!
More event details »The Business of Law Firms
How do law firms operate as businesses? How does one build their business skills as a lawyer? What do lawyers need to know about being “business generators”, and how do different compensation models affect a firm’s corporate culture? Join APALSA as we ask these questions and more with representatives from Sullivan & Cromwell. (Trust us, this information is going to come in handy during EIP interviews!)
Non-pizza lunch provided. Generously sponsored by Sullivan & Cromwell.
More event details »Demystifying the Patent Bar with PLI
If you are a student with an undergraduate degree (or at least two years of coursework) in engineering, computer sciences or the hard sciences, and are interested in becoming a Patent Agent or Attorney, come hear a presentation by Mark Dighton from the Practising Law Institutes as he answers questions about the Patent Office Exam.
More event details »The Science of Sleep, Stress, and Anxiety- Dr. Laima Zarins and Marla Allisan, JD, LICSW
Have you ever had a sleepless night or more than one? Come learn more about the medical and emotional aspects of insomnia-and how you might put this subject to bed.
Lunch provided.
More event details »HELA Lunch Talk: EU’s Foreign Direct Investment Screening Regulation
Dr. Christian A. Krebs, LL.M. – Partner at Jones Day’s Frankfurt Office – will present on the EU’s Foreign Direct Investment Screening Regulation.
More event details »An Insider’s Look at the DOJ Antitrust Division with Matthew Hammond, 2018-19 HLS Kramer Fellow
Get an insider’s perspective on working at the DOJ Antirust Division from Matthew Hammond, 2018-19 HLS Kramer Fellow and attorney at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
More event details »Amanda Litman, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Run for Something
Join WLA as we kick-off our Spring conference on the theme of “Why We Run.” Amanda Litman, the co-founder and executive director of Run for Something, will give the keynote address. T-shirts will be given out and lunch served!
More event details »Hell on Earth: Uncovering Atrocities in Syria’s Prisons
Please join us for a talk by Nicolette Waldman ’13, Senior Fellow in the International Human Rights Clinic. Nicolette will discuss the research she led for Amnesty International on crimes against humanity in Syrian government prisons. Lunch will be served. Sponsored by the Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection Initiative.
More event details »From Silicon Valley to Silicon Beach: An Overview of the California Legal Market
From Silicon Valley to Silicon Beach: An Overview of the California Legal Market with Skadden Partners and Associates. March 27 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch panel | Pound 102. Copious amounts of Flour Bakery Sandwiches and Salad
More event details »Law and Government Program of Study Advising Lunch
Join Professors Vicki Jackson and Daphna Renan as they moderate a faculty panel on academic and experiential opportunities in Law and Government. Sponsored by the Law and Government Program of Study.
More event details »Judge Richard Gergel Book Talk: Unexampled Courage
“Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring”
A book talk by Judge Richard Gergel, U.S. District Judge of the U. S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, followed by a conversation with HLS professors Randall Kennedy, Kenneth Mack, and Mark Tushnet.
Cosponsored by the HLS Program on Law & History and the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
Lunch provided. Book will…
More event details »Lawrence Lessig Book Talk: “America, Compromised”
“There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are.” So begins Lawrence Lessig’s sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it—from the selling of Congress to special interests to the corporate capture of the academy. Something is wrong. It’s getting worse. And it’s our fault. What Lessig shows, brilliantly and persuasively, is that we can’t blame the problems of contemporary…
More event details »Climate Change and Environmental Racism
Join the Environmental Law Society in welcoming Maria Belen Power, Associate Executive Director of local social and environmental justice nonprofit GreenRoots, for a discussion on environmental racism and addressing the justice challenges posed by climate change. Ms. Power will share her years of experience as a community organizer leading campaigns both in the Boston area and nationally, and strategies for creating community-centered solutions.
Maria Belen Power is the Assoc. Executive Director of GreenRoots where she oversees their environmental justice campaigns…
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