Administrative Updates

The Project on the Foundations of Private Law is accepting applications for fellows for academic year 2021-2022. Applications will be accepted until Monday, September 27, 2021. Eligibility and requirements information can be found on the Foundations of Private Law website at (bottom of the page): http://blogs.harvard.edu/privatelaw/people/ If there are any questions, please contact Brad Conner at conner@law.harvard.edu

Research Assistant for Prof. Ko-Yung Tung in Sustainable Development and International Investment Arbitration

Professor Dan Halperin is seeking a Research Assistant to work on an article or book chapter dealing with the tax treatment of entertainment expenses and other items that have a mixed personal and business connection.

Ms. Plunkett is seeking Research Assistants for the next phase of her "sharenting" research: how parents, grandparents, teachers, & other trusted adults share kids' private information digitally. She is currently examining the interplay between sharenting and digital misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, & conspiracy theories (such as the anti-vaccination movement & QAnon) engaged in by parents & other trusted adults. She is looking for students who can work between 2-6 hours/week as part of a Research Assistant team.

Professor Intisar Rabb is accepting applications for Fall 2021 student research assistants for general research related to Islamic law, and projects at the Program in Islamic Law (PIL) at Harvard Law School.

Learn more about this year's Justice Initiative

EELP seeks research assistants to help with various projects involving federal environmental and climate regulations, environmental justice, and climate resilience efforts this Fall. We have multiple positions available for students to work with our attorneys to track and analyze the Biden administration’s regulatory and environmental justice efforts and research legal issues related to them. We also have a project that will inform potential climate resilience efforts in Boston, and a project on climate-related financial risk, among others.

Prof. Modirzadeh hiring Research Assistants Fall 2021

International Human Rights Clinic instructor Aminta Ossom is seeking research assistance for a book chapter that documents movement activism for the rights of waste pickers in Latin America. The chapter is part of an edited volume on transformative constitutionalism, currently in the editing and revision stage.

Professor Kenneth Mack is seeking Research Assistants to work on multiple projects involving Barack Obama’s political career and his presidential administration. Applicants should email resumes to his assistant, Kathy McGillicuddy, kmcgill@law.harvard.edu.

Professor Renan is hiring Teaching Fellows for two spring semester Legislation and Regulation courses. Applicants should submit materials no later than 5 p.m. on 9/20/21.

Are you interested in international law, commercial arbitration, or oral advocacy? Tryout for the 2021-2022 HLS Vis Moot Court Team!

Join the Harvard International Law Journal Submissions Team to select articles to be published in the oldest and most-cited international law journal edited by students. Available positions include Executive Submissions Editors, Submissions Editors, and Submissions Readers, who are responsible for reading and evaluating articles submitted to the journal. All members of the Submissions Team will have opportunities to participate when the Executive Board meets to deliberate and vote on articles. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH at 11:59PM ET.

Clinical Professor Daniel Nagin, Faculty Director of the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, seeks RAs to work on a project relating to the legal history of veterans benefits and servicemembers’ rights.

The Project on the Foundations of Private Law is accepting applications for fellows for academic year 2021-2022. Applications will be accepted until Monday, September 28, 2021. Eligibility and requirements information can be found on the Foundations of Private Law website at (bottom of the page): http://blogs.harvard.edu/privatelaw/people/ If there are any questions, please contact Brad Conner at conner@law.harvard.edu

Interested in public international law? Want to plead in front of the International Court of Justice? Join the Harvard Jessup Moot Court team! Jessup is the largest moot court competition in the world and offers the opportunity to compete against law schools from nearly every country We are recruiting for one Oralist and one Of Counsel position for the 2021-22 Jessup Moot Court team. Please fill out this form (https://forms.gle/dYqSiihqq4erpYTS6) by noon EDT on Friday, September 10th to apply. Questions? E-mail us at jessuphls@gmail.com.

Wednesday, September 15 is the deadline for 2Ls and 3Ls to apply to spend the spring 2022 semester studying at one of HLS' exchange partner schools or through an independent semester abroad.

Extra seats are available for HLS students in the University-wide course "Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions for Intractable Problems” (HLS 2543), an interdisciplinary course that examines how individuals can successfully design and implement solutions to intractable social and economic problems in the developing world. The course will provide a framework (and multiple lenses) through which to think about and act on such problems notwithstanding the legal and institutional voids inherent in developing world contexts.

Visiting Professor Ioannis Kalpouzos is accepting applications for Fall 2021 research assistance, for research related to the law of war and international criminal law, especially in relation to the law of targeting. Students with a background in philosophy (especially epistemology) are especially encouraged. Work will be from early October to early December, with a possibility for renewal for Spring. Please apply by September 17th by emailing Ms Jane Reader (jreader@law.harvard.edu) with a CV and a short paragraph with relevant education/expertise.

2021-2022 John M. Olin Fellowships in Empirical Law and Finance