Event Category: Speaker/Panel

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What is Disaster Lawyering? As climate change exacerbates environmental disasters across the country, lawyers play an increasingly important role to help survivors recover from these devastating events. Join our many student organization co-sponsors to hear from legal aid attorneys working in Texas, Oklahoma, and North Carolina discuss their work, including direct client services, strategic litigation, […]

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Please join the Journal on Legislation for a lunch talk with Ray Tolentino. Ray is a partner in Cooley’s DC office, where he focuses on complex commercial litigation, appellate litigation and crisis management. He also maintains a robust public interest and pro bono practice focused on antidiscrimination law, immigrants’ rights, gun violence protection, criminal justice, voting rights, and […]

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AI data centers have huge energy demands and are raising electricity rates. Join the Harvard Law AI Association and Abundance for a lunch talk with Ari Peskoe, Director of the Electricity Law Initiative, about the legal issues at the intersection of AI, data centers, and utility costs. Please RSVP here.

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Join us for Justice, Life, and Hope: A Conversation with former South African Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs. Sachs is an anti-apartheid activist, assassination attempt survivor, constitution drafter, global social justice advocate, and lover of art and humanity Interviewed by Professor Randall Kennedy Lunch will be served Sponsored by International Legal Studies

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Ryan Martinez Mitchell, JD ’12 Associate Professor of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Author of Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law Since the adoption of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, this global development concept has been increasingly incorporated into the People’s Republic of China’s structures of state […]

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As AI systems become more conversational, the lines between tool, companion, and manipulator are blurring. What happens when machines start telling us what we want to hear—and when users start depending on them for emotional connection? In this conversation, journalist and author Kashmir Hill joins the Berkman Klein Center’s Meg Marco (Senior Director, Applied Social […]

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Join us this fall for a seven-part virtual speaker series featuring one-hour discussions at the intersection of democracy and climate change. This series will feature an interdisciplinary array of perspectives, exploring how climate-related natural disasters, extreme weather, and migration patterns can and do affect how we think about democratic representation, elections, and democratic governance in […]

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At the end of the 1980s, South Africa was on the brink of a full-scale civil war. There was no hope of a solution. The world and South Africans were watching the unfolding of an insurmountable conflict. Then the pivotal happened. Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years. Both Mandela and FW de […]

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Ryan Goldstein, JD ’98 Managing Partner, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP Tokyo Office Director, East Asia Super League Owner, Q Sushi and Gaku Ramen Managing Partner of Quinn Emanuel’s Tokyo office, Ryan Goldstein made his career in complex business litigation and arbitration, including Apple v. Samsung and the dispute over ownership rights in the iconic “Ultraman” […]

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Joe Ngai JD ‘99 Senior Partner and Chairman of Greater China Offices, McKinsey & Company Joe Ngai is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and chairman of its Greater China offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Taipei. In the past two decades, he has led large-scale transformations for Chinese and multinational organizations […]

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Join us for an in-depth conversation on one of the most complex corporate failures in recent history. This panel will bring together leading practitioners who played central roles in the FTX bankruptcy and litigation. Panelists include: Professor Allen Ferrell Andrew Dietderich (Lead Debtor Counsel) Sascha Rand (Special Counsel to the FTX Debtors) Dennis O’Donnell (Counsel […]

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Aaron Halegua JD ’09 Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs, Wang v. Gold Mantis Construction and Liu v. Wellmade Industries Aaron Halegua leads a boutique litigation firm in New York City focused on labor and employment litigation, with particular experience representing human trafficking and forced labor victims. In 2021, he won $6.9 million for seven Chinese construction workers trafficked to build […]