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LL.M. Series: Networking
The majority of BigLaw jobs are obtained, and often even created, through networking. Attend this program to learn what networking is, and to learn about the basics of how to creatively, enthusiastically and professionally network your way to a job. Lunch will not be served so feel free to bring food.
If you or an event participant requires disability-related accommodations, please contact HLS Accessibility Services in the Dean of Students Office at accessibility@law.harvard.edu, or (617) 495-1880 in advance of…
More event details »HIRC Interpreters Training
Do you speak a language other than English? Are you interested in helping clients as an interpreter for the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC)? Join us for a training and discussion! We will provide basic information about the Clinic and our clients and we will run through the dos and don’ts of interpretation.
If you have not already signed up to interpret, you can do so through the Developing Justice Translator website: https://www.developingjustice.com/translate
Please RSVP to mhewey@law.harvard.edu.
More event details »Banned Books Week Read-Out
Bring your lunch and join us on the steps of the HLS Library as members of the Harvard community read excerpts from our favorite banned books. We’ll be reading from classic literature, children’s picture books, and everything in between!
If you’re Harvard faculty, student, or staff and would like to be a reader, please contact Meg Kribble in the Library (mkribble@law) by Friday, September 21, and we’ll add you to the roster–or just show up with a banned book!
More event details »Animal Legal Defense Fund Student Chapter General Body Meeting
Join the HLS Animal Legal Defense Fund Student Chapter for our first general meeting of the year! We’ll introduce your executive board, let you know about our upcoming events, and share opportunities to get involved this year. Lunch will be provided. Please note this event is open to the HLS community only.
More event details »Animal Legal Defense Fund Student Chapter Interest Meeting
Please join the Student Chapter of the Animal Legal Defense Fund (formerly SALDF) for an open informational meeting, for returning and new members alike! Lunch will be served.
More event details »The Law and History Program Fall Reception
Why You Should Study Law and History: Opening Reception for Harvard Law School Program on Law & History
Panelists include law professors Nikolas Bowie, Daniel Coquillette, Charles Donahue, Elizabeth Kamali, Adriaan Lanni, Anna Lvovsky, Bruce Mann, and Laura Weinrib. Law and History co-directors Kenneth Mack and Intisar Rabb will moderate the panel.
Lunch will be provided.
More event details »Michèle Penzer: Female Leadership in Law Firms
Michèle Penzer, the Managing Partner of Latham & Watkins’ New York office will share her experience as a woman leader in a major law firm. Sugar & Spice (Thai food) will be provided!
More event details »Winter Term Opportunities
HLS offers 2Ls, 3Ls and LL.M. students the opportunity to spend Winter Term pursuing independent clinicals or research and writing projects. Representatives from International Legal Studies, the Graduate Program, the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs, the Office of Academic Affairs, and the HLS Registrar’s Office will discuss finding a clinical placement, developing a research and writing proposal, and funding through the Winter Term International Travel Grant program, as well as registration and deadlines.
More event details »Law & Government Program of Study Kick-Off
Join the Fellows and Faculty Leaders to learn about the Law and Government Program of Study! Featuring Profs. Vicki Jackson, Daphna Renan, and Richard Lazarus.
The program creates events for students who are interested in working in local, state, or federal government at some point in their career. Come learn how HLS can help you pursue your government interests!
All are welcome–1Ls, 2Ls, 3Ls, LLMs.
More event details »“Click Here to Kill Everybody”
An Inside Look into the DOJ Civil Appellate Staff – Info Session with Mark Freeman, Director of the Appellate Staff, Civil Division
Join OPIA for an insider’s look in the DOJ, Civil Appellate Staff, with HLS alumnus Mark Freeman ’03, Director of the Civil Appellate Staff.
More event details »East Asian Legal Studies Open House
East Asian Legal Studies Open House An opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows, and the 2018-2019 Visiting Scholars Tuesday, September 25, 2018 2:30–4:00 p.m. Remarks at 3:00 p.m.
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 308 Harvard Law School
Light refreshments will be served.
More event details »HLS Alliance for Reproductive Justice Social Hour
Join the HLS Alliance for Reproductive Justice and other feminist organizations at HLS for a happy hour!
More event details »PON Talk: A Refugee in a Land of Refugees
Over the last two decades a number of refugees, mostly from Africa, have arrived in Israel seeking political asylum. Israel set up a regime to deal with them, which has lately become increasingly exclusionary, to the point of preventing the entry of any asylum seekers and promoting the deportation of those in the country. Earlier this year the issue erupted into a political crisis that has not yet fully settled. This talk will describe these processes in a comparative context,…
More event details »Yes on Three Phone Bank
This November, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to repeal a law protecting transgender people from discrimination in public accommodations. Help protect the rights of transgender people by participating in a phone bank to urge Massachusetts to vote Yes on Three! No experience with phone banking required. Dinner will be served. Please RSVP at bit.ly/YesOn3HLS. This week’s phone bank is co-sponsored by Lambda and CR-CL.
More event details »La Alianza First General Body Meeting
We are excited to invite you all to La Alianza’s First General Body Meeting. Please join us Tuesday, September 25th at 7pm in WCC 3018 to learn more about our organization! We will introduce our board, and discuss upcoming La Alianza events such as our annual fall retreat and the Familias Mentorship Program.
Delicious Latin American food will be served. Hope to see you there!
More event details »Media in the Age of Contagions: Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University
Led by HGHI, Outbreak Week is a University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe.
This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and registration is required. Register now on our website: http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events
More event details »Developing a Flex Proposal (University-Wide)
Bring your lunch to this in-depth look at how to develop a flexible work arrangement proposal based on Harvard’s University-wide flexible work guidelines.
More event details »Community Lawyering for Systemic Change
Hear from attorneys who are fighting inequality and injustice through the practice of community lawyering.
More event details »The Struggle of African Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Israel
Since 2003, hundreds of thousands of people from Darfur have been killed by the Sudanese government and its militia, Janjaweed. Over 2.5 million people were forced to leave their homes, among them thousands who have fled to Israel.
Join HIRC for a lunch and discussion with Mutasim Ali, the first and only person from Sudan to be recognized as a refugee in Israel. Mutasim will highlight the journey of African refugees and asylum seekers in Israel and allow time…
More event details »JSEL Subcite Training
JSEL Subcite Training
More event details »Law in an Era of Politics: A Conversation with Steven Engel and Jack Goldsmith
Steven Engel, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel and Professor Jack Goldsmith will have a conversation about the role of the Office of Legal Counsel and the challenges Engel faces as an Assistant Attorney General. Hosted by the Harvard Federalist Society. Bolocco burritos will be served.
More event details »Introduction to Effective Altruism feat. Prof. Joshua Greene
Join HLS Effective Alturism to learn about an exciting community dedicated to thinking empirically and strategically about how to do the most good. Harvard experimental psychologist, neuroscientist, and philosopher Joshua Greene will present. Lunch will be provided.
More event details »Career Planning: An Introduction to OPIA & OCS
Join the Office of Public Interest Advising (OPIA) and the Office of Career Services (OCS) for an introduction to our offices.
More event details »Celebrating the Career of Jack Greenberg
From working alongside Thurgood Marshall as a key architect of the legal strategy of Brown v. Board of Education through his leadership of LDF as its second President and Director-Counsel for more than two decades, his exceptional advocacy before the Supreme Court, and his pioneering work in poverty and employment law, Jack was a person who lived and breathed the highest ideals of equal justice under law. This gathering will be equal parts a public discussion and a reflection on…
More event details »Celebrating the Career of Jack Greenberg
From working alongside Thurgood Marshall as a key architect of the legal strategy of Brown v. Board of Education through his leadership of LDF as its second President and Director-Counsel for more than two decades, his exceptional advocacy before the Supreme Court, and his pioneering work in poverty and employment law, Jack was a person who lived and breathed the highest ideals of equal justice under law. This gathering will be equal parts a public discussion and a reflection on…
More event details »Citizenship Day Volunteer Training
HLS Staff and Students, please join the Harvard Immigration Project and OCP in hosting Veronica Serrato, the Executive Director of Project Citizenship, for a training session ahead of Boston Citizenship Day. Volunteers are needed to assist immigrants applying for citizenship at an annual Citizenship Day in Boston on September 30. Project Citizenship assists over 1,600 immigrants each year and hopes to serve 400 on September 30. 75% of Project Citizenship clients obtain a fee waiver. 95% of Project Citizenship’s clients…
More event details »West Coast Club General Body Meeting
Come eat free food and learn about the West Coast Club at our fall general body meeting! ***THAI FOOD WILL BE SERVED***
More event details »NSLA Coffee Chat
NSLA Coffee Chat with HLS students who interned for national security-related organizations, such as the Department of Defense, Department of Justice – National Security Division, and the JAG Corps.
More event details »Mindfulness and Anxiety
To feel occasional anxiety is a natural human experience, but for many anxiety can become a source of ongoing distress, capable of interfering with everyday life. Many of our efforts to avoid anxiety may involve distracting ourselves from it, or pushing it away, but this provides only temporary relief. Mindfulness, on the other hand, offers a pathway to meet the experience of anxiety, and in doing so, restore valued activity, rather than allowing ourselves to be dominated by fear and avoidance. This workshop will introduce the use of mindfulness as a way to understand and respond to the experience of anxiety.
More event details »QTPOC General Meeting
Queer Trans People of Color is holding its first general body meeting! Come meet other QTPOCs on campus, hear what QTPOC has planned for the year, and eat lunch.
*Please be mindful that this is an identity only space for queer and/or trans people of color. If you have any questions please email harvardqtpoc@gmail.com.
More event details »Careers in Investment Banking
Join HALB and OCS to learn more about what investment bankers do, the recruitment process and timeline, and special concerns and issues for J.D. students seeking to break into i-banking and finance. Representatives from Credit Suisse, Lazard, J.P. Morgan, Moelis, and Morgan Stanley will be present. Lunch from Flour Bakery will be served.
More event details »National Security Opportunities at HLS
Come hear from a panel of faculty and students about national security academic and career opportunities at HLS, sponsored by NSLA and NSJ. Lunch will be served.
More event details »Introduction to Historical & Special Collections for LLMs and SJDs
HLS Library, Root Room (south end of fourth floor reading room)
Join us for a quick introduction to the HLS Library’s Historical & Special Collections. Find out how you can use rare materials and primary sources in your research. We’ll have a special display of material from several jurisdictions, including early French customary law, medieval Japanese scrolls, and more!
More event details »Federal Motions Hearing
The United States District Court for the District Massachusetts will hold a motion session in the Ames Moot Court Room. These are real litigants and real cases. HLS alum, the Honorable William G. Young will preside. Judge Young and the advocates will remain after the session ends to answer questions.
More event details »Workshop :: Tools for Digital Islamic Law
Jeremy Guillette, Digital Scholarship Facilitator, Harvard University, will demonstrate and discuss established and emerging digital tools students of Islamic legal history and contemporary Islamic law may use in their research. Space is limited. For details and location, RSVP to shariasource@law.harvard.edu.
More event details »Vaccines for Outbreaks in the Modern World: Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University
Led by HGHI, Outbreak Week is a University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe.
This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and registration is required. Register now on our website: http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events
More event details »Guest Lecture with Craig Phillips
Guest lecture with Craig Phillips, Counselor to the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
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