Event Category: Speaker/Panel

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Nearly 10 years after Justice Scalia’s death, what is the continuing legacy of his most famous essay, A Matter of Interpretation? Is the textualism of today the same as Justice Scalia envisioned it? How have contemporary judges refined Justice Scalia’s approach? Join Judge Daniel Bress of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit […]

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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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Please join us for an important conversation about the causes and consequences of wrongful military discharges. Each of our panelists is a veteran who experienced a wrongful discharge, suffered the harmful effects of that discharge over many years, and then finally obtained a measure of justice by pursuing a discharge upgrade. The voices of these […]

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HLS Survivor Justice Coalition is collaborating with APALSA and SALSA on a panel with local legal advocates on uplifting AAPI survivors and on intersectional family law and domestic violence advocacy. This event will feature speakers from Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence, Saheli, and GBLS Asian Outreach Center and will be moderated by Marianna Yang […]

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Civil Counter Terrorism Litigation Event Poster

Attorneys at Osen have represented veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and families of Americans kidnapped, killed, and injured in terrorist attacks abroad. Come learn about how Osen LLC has initiated and managed landmark terror financing cases for over two decades, often working on precedent setting FSIA and ATA cases. This lunch talk will […]

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Weiss x HLSAA Lunch Talk Event Poster

The HLS Antitrust Association invites you to join a lunch talk with Scott Sher, Antitrust Global Co-Chair at Paul, Weiss and Litigation associate Isa Herrera Moya to discuss their extensive experience navigating clients through mergers and acquisitions before regulators across the globe. This talk will help illuminate the unique mix of transactional, regulatory, and litigation […]

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Location Change: This event will now be held in WCC B015 (previously WCC 3018). 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 […]

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Join us for an engaging panel with Harvard Law School S.J.D. candidates whose diverse research is shaping the future of human rights law. Hear about their academic journeys and explore current scholarship on topics such as reimagining war-time reparations, the evolution of Muslim family law in South Asia, legal approaches to African economic integration and […]

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Join us for a special virtual Q&A session with Brian Broderick (HLS ’25), a current law clerk for the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. This informal Zoom event is an opportunity for students and recent graduates to ask questions and gain firsthand insight into the clerkship experience. Brian will share his perspective on the application process, […]

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Recent challenges to the rule of law around the world have led many to ask, “Does international law matter?” This event will examine that question through the lens of disarmament law. Eighty years ago, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the firebombings of Dresden and Toyko killed hundreds of thousands of people and wiped out whole cities. […]

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Toward psychedelics access event poster

Join us for a lunchtime debate, in-person and online, hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. This discussion will explore the surge of interest in increasing access to psychedelics. What are the law and policy choices that would maximize benefits and minimize risk of harm?

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AI event poster

Artificial intelligence isn’t just a technology—it’s a battleground of competing values, incentives, and worldviews. Accelerationists see AI as a force for human progress, unlocking new frontiers of innovation and economic growth. Safetyists warn that its rapid development could unleash existential risks that outpace our capacity for control. Skeptics take issue with salvation and doomsday narratives, […]

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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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Join us for a Lunch Q&A with Nirav Mehta (Lunch will be provided)! This event is a partnership between HALS and our sponsor, Sullivan and Cromwell. Nirav N. Mehta joined Sullivan and Cromwell’s Tokyo office in 2018 and has been Partner since 2024. He focuses on capital markets and other corporate transactions, and he has […]

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Join us to explore the legal and regulatory challenges posed by driverless cars, including the moral decisions inherent in crash avoidance algorithms, how the Fourth Amendment addresses data collection and traffic stops, and how cities will need to update regulations and architecture to enable emerging Mobility as a Service models. Both Boston City Council and […]

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Human Rights Under Stress in the Age of AI event poster

The global human rights regime, built in and for a world of human actors and decisionmakers, is currently under tremendous stress, from the rise of authoritarianism, climate change, pandemics, and challenges to the multilateral, rules-based international order, including by the policies of the Trump administration. Into this situation, generative AI has now been introduced. How should […]

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Since 2006, persons with disabilities’ human rights have been protected by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The many overlaps between the disability community and the aging populations, as well as their common human rights challenges, will invariably inform how government delegates and civil society representatives approach the multilateral […]

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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 […]

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How to be the Superintelligence You’ve Been Waiting For event poster

We alternately dread, worship and dismiss the arrival of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Yet the real superintelligences already surround us: religions, corporations, markets and democracies. This talk will welcome us to imagine not how we can build ASI that defeats us in all things, but instead how we can, together with our environment and machines, become […]