Event Category: Speaker/Panel

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Join the National Security & Law Association for a conversation with Patrick Toomey, Deputy Director of the ACLU’s National Security Project. The conversation will be centered around how best to protect civil liberties in an era of expanding surveillance and AI-driven national security tools. The conversation will be held in the Smith Campus Center, 10th […]

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What does it mean to be equal? Join us for a conversation with Dr. Rebecca McLaughlin, award-winning author of Confronting Christianity and Jesus Through the Eyes of Women, about the biblical vision of equality and how this vision alters our perceptions of ourselves, our culture, and our law. Lunch will be provided. Event open to the Harvard community – […]

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What does it take to govern a technology that might reshape the world within the decade? Answering that requires both big-picture thinking about where AI is heading and close engagement with the policy fights shaping it in the present. This event brings together two speakers who sit on opposite ends of that spectrum — one […]

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Please join the Journal of Law & Gender and Alliance for Reproductive Justice for a lunchtime discussion with Prof. Michele Goodwin on Monday, April 13, at 12:20 PM in WCC 3018! Prof. Goodwin will be building upon her proposal for a reproductive justice New Deal/Bill of Rights, first posed in her book Policing the Womb. Prof. […]

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In an era when headlines declare international law “dead” and conflicts rage across Palestine, Ukraine, and Sudan, a groundbreaking nine-country survey published in a report from Lex International reveals a surprising truth: the global public overwhelmingly rejects the idea that “might makes right.” From Indonesia to the United States, 80-95% of respondents oppose torture, starvation […]

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Most AI policy conversations start from the assumption that we’re in unprecedented territory. But are we? This conversation brings together three scholars, all of whom regularly engage in today’s policy battles, and zooms out to consider whether history has lessons for how our institutions should adapt to rapid technological change. Just how radically might AI […]

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Zoë Hitzig, known for her research and writing on the political economy of AI, including a widely discussed op-ed reflecting on her decision to leave OpenAI, will examine how AI systems may reshape where knowledge resides and how decisions are made. As these systems begin to capture and operationalize forms of tacit, experience-based knowledge long […]

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The Harvard European Law Association is pleased to host a lunch talk on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, from 12:15 to 13:20 at Harvard Law School, WCC B010 (Singer Classroom) on “Georgia’s Democratic Promise and Crisis: Institutions, Law, and Civic Resistance“. Since regaining independence in 1991, Georgia has been regarded as one of the most promising […]

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Please join the Harvard Business Law Review for its annual Corporate Roundtable. This year, the discussion will focus on the rapid growth of private credit and its evolving role in modern corporate finance. Over the past decade, private credit has emerged as a major source of capital, reshaping how companies and private equity sponsors finance […]

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Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has raised unprecedented challenges for the European Union, forcing it to face the reality of war more than at any time since its establishment. This event—which builds on Federico Fabbrini’s book, The EU Constitution in Time of War: Legal Responses to Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine (Oxford University Press, 2026)—explores the constitutional consequences of […]

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Learn how to share your legal expertise with a wide audience—from coming up with an idea and drafting a piece to submitting it and working with editors. Join the Harvard Law School Writing Center to hear behind-the-scenes stories, lessons learned the hard way, and writing advice from: Sharon Block, an HLS Professor of Law who […]

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The Harvard African Creative Economies Initiative (ACE) initiative is a key program of the Harvard Center for Study of African Societies and Economies (CSASE). ACE will host an on-campus event on April 16, from 3:30-6pm.  This panel will bring together academics, intellectual property lawyers, and music distribution executives to discuss the realities of pursuing a […]

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The Harvard European Law Association is pleased to host a lunch talk on Friday, April 17, from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. in Hauser Hall 104 on “Powering the Region: How Energy Projects Shape the Western Balkans“. The session will bring together leading practitioners shaping the region’s energy future for a conversation on investment, decarbonization, regional […]

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Discussions about courts in democratically backsliding and fully autocratic contexts usually focus on two aspects: their co-optation and instrumentalization by authoritarian actors, and their role in defending human rights and the rule of law. The role of courts in providing the intellectual scaffolding of legality to authoritarianism, or in offering rational justifications for authoritarian transitions, […]

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What happens when justice is dispersed across multiple jurisdictions and forums? What are the potentials and limitations of these cases in addressing crimes against the Yazidis? Through a conversation with Harvard Law Professors Alex Whiting and Ioannis Kalpouzos, we will examine universal jurisdiction cases, corporate accountability, the future of international criminal law, the role of […]

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In this webinar, negotiation experts Attia Qureshi and John Richardson will share insights from their new book, Never Settle: Persuasion and Negotiation Skills to Get What You Want. Drawing from decades of experience teaching at Harvard and MIT, as well as incorporating insights gathered from FBI hostage conflict resolution strategies and work with the U.S. […]