Administrative Updates

Apply for ILSP: LSC Student Travel Grants for 2019 (including Winter Term) for proposed research trips related to work on or the study of Islamic law.

Walk-in advising sessions for students interested in these summer fellowships abroad.

Research Assistant for multi district litigation

Visiting Professor Stuart Brotman and Lecturer in Law Ken Basin require an RA to undertake a range of research in Entertainment and Media Law, including materials for their Winter Term course in this area.

The Child Advocacy Program (CAP) seeks a Course Assistant for our spring lecture-series course, Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice.

The Criminal Justice Policy Program is a research and advocacy center based at HLS. CJPP is hiring current HLS students as research assistants to work on large research project related to criminal justice debt. The work will involve statutory research, secondary source review, and legal writing and editing. This is a great opportunity for students interested in policy work, the criminalization of poverty, and the process of achieving criminal justice reform. Work will be completed primarily in January with the option of continuing into the spring semester.

Visiting Professor Raymond Atuguba, the 2018-2019 Henry Steiner Professor of Human Rights, is seeking a TA for his Spring 2019 Seminar on International Law "Re-Make the World".

Research Assistant

FASPE Law is a fully funded fellowship program in contemporary professional ethics and ethical leadership. The program addresses current ethical issues facing lawyers by first examining the role of German lawyers and judges in enabling Nazi policies, including the Holocaust. 

University College Dublin Law Review  deadline for submissions for Volume 19.

Law students, practicing attorneys, law school faculty and staff, mediators, and other legal professionals will benefit from our wide-ranging conversation about how wellbeing affects the quality of our professional lives and personal satisfaction.

November Announcements from Harvard University Health Services (HUHS).

Becket is a non-profit law firm dedicated to protecting the free expression of all religious faiths. Becket seeks interns for the winter term to work in its Washington, D.C. office on a variety of Supreme Court, appellate and trial-level matters. Interested students are requested to send a resume and cover email to Megan Schilling at mschilling@becketlaw.org. Applications are due to Becket by Friday, November 9. Once the placement is finalized with Becket, students will need to submit an independent clinical application with OCP by November 14.

Professor Coates seeks Teaching Fellow for assistance with J-Term 2019 Class

Please see our website https://hls.harvard.edu/dept/clinical/hurricane-maria-legal-assistance-to-puerto-rico/ for more details on eight different opportunities to work in Puerto Rico working directly with clients impacted by the hurricane as well as with government agencies and nonprofits on systemic economic, civil rights, and environmental recovery efforts.

The deadlines to apply for an independent clinical project during Winter Term, register for a Winter Term research/writing project, and apply for a Winter Term International Travel Grant are coming soon.

Research Assistant for Index Funds project

Several slots are available in the spring term session of Professor Stephenson’s Global Anticorruption Lab course. Interested students should submit their application materials by Oct. 26.

In this talk, CPL Hauser Leader-in-Residence John Kroger will examine presidential character and why it matters by looking at examples of character and political leadership in the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush.

Applications to Spring '19 Reading Group "Becoming a Law Professor"