Monday, April 3, OPIA's Suite WCC 4039
Sign-up for one-on-one advising appointments with Dennis Parker '80, Director, Racial Justice Program (RJP), ACLU.
If spots are full, sign-up on the waitlist.

Top-notch law professors have launched a website to monitor the legality of President Trump's policies.

Come in for Walk-Ins with William Shultz, prior HHS General Counsel, to discuss Health Care Law and what the future of healthcare lawyering may look like in the current political climate.

This Fund is intended to provide support for HLS students from any HLS degree program engaged in term time or summer public interest research or work pertaining to Taiwan, the People's Republic of China or Hong Kong.

When: Thursday, April 20,  6-8pm
Where: American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
39 Drumm St
San Francisco, CA 94111
Please RSVP. We look forward to seeing you there!

Sign-up for one-on-one advising appointments with Matthew Colangelo, Civil Rights Advocate and Senior Government Official to discuss roles in non-profits and government, and what the future of non-profit and government lawyering may look like in the current political climate.

Read Professor William P. Quigley's letter and [link_to id=144760 title="Letter to a Law Student Interested in Social Justice"]attend the event[/link_to].

Sign-up for one-on-one information sessions with a representative from the Air Force JAG Corps. Learn about the work of JAG attorneys, as well as about summer and post-graduate JAG opportunities.

How we treat citizens who make mistakes (even serious mistakes), pay their debt to society, and deserve a second chance reflects who we are as a people and reveals a lot about our character and commitment to our founding principles. And how we police our communities and the kinds of problems we ask our criminal justice system to solve can have a profound impact on the extent of trust in law enforcement and significant implications for public safety.

The Criminal Justice Policy Program is hiring paid research assistants for the January and Spring terms.

At OPIA, we know that a change in administration in Washington can create uncertainty and questions in students and alumni considering interning or working in…

This article presents a critical reflection on the disconnect between conventional legal training and the skills needed by lawyers to support low-income communities of color, among others, in addressing US systems of oppression. It is intended to assist aspiring “movement lawyers” in developing their capacity to align their strategic and tactical decision-making with the power dynamics faced by the communities they serve.

Meet with Fredrik Bergman (HLS '14) the Chief Legal Counsel for Centrum för rättvisa (the Centre for Justice, Sweden’s leading public interest law firm) and hear about his experiences as an international HLS alumni, former Swedish judge and pro bono litigator in the field of fundamental rights. Appointments available on Monday, November 14, 1:30-3:30 pm . Be sure to schedule an appointment!

After working directly with President Barack Obama as staff secretary, Raj De (HLS '99) served three years as general counsel to the National Security Agency, where he helped steer the agency through perhaps its biggest crisis—the leak of countless classified documents by former contractor Edward Snowden.

John Carlin, the assistant U.S. attorney general for national security, will leave the Department of Justice on Oct. 15

Meet with Clarence Crafoord, the head of Centrum för rättvisa (the Centre for Justice, Sweden’s leading public interest law firm) and associate lawyer at the law firm Bratt & Feinsilber. Appointments are available on Monday, November 14, 1:30-3:30 pm. Be sure to schedule an appointment!

A classroom in Hauser Hall was filled to capacity Monday afternoon as Tom Hardin, a white collar felon and subsequent FBI informant, recounted his experiences with insider trading and federal investigations to about 100 Harvard Law Students.

An HLS study found death penalty cases in Harris County were affected by racial bias, overly aggressive prosecutions and inadequate representation for poor defendants. Three death-row inmates in Harris County have been exonerated.

Sign-up to for this webinar hosted by the U.S. Department of Justice that provides an overview of their internship programs. 1Ls are particularly encouraged to attend.

It’s too soon, in cultural terms, for the court to rule definitively on the subtle issue of transgender rights, which poses powerful equality claims against society’s deeply ingrained male-female gender binaries.