Event Category: Speaker/Panel

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PON speaker Max Bevilacqua, Managing Director at Mindful Negotiating, will share his experiences teaching in a medium-security Men’s prison in Massachusetts through Tufts University’s Prison Initiative at Tisch College. What are the considerations of teaching negotiation and conflict resolution inside a prison? How do teachers manage their biases, the self-segregation of students in the classroom, […]

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“Disability Rights Advocacy and Legalism in South Korea and Japan” Celeste Arrington, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University Disability rights advocates in South Korea and Japan have accessed the courts to address an array of disability rights issues, from barriers to political participation and forced sterilization in Japan […]

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Join Wasserstein Fellow Lina Biscaia for a community discussion on her career in international organizations, with a focus on the United Nations and the International Criminal Court. Over her 20+ year career, Lina has gone from practicing law in a small village in Portugal to working in war crimes investigations and prosecutions in a variety of settings including the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the former Yugoslavia. Lina will describe her career path, covering both the opportunities and challenges that one encounters when building a career in large international organizations, particularly in the international criminal law world.

Lunch provided. Please RSVP below. Open to the HLS community.

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If you had told first-generation college student and Wasserstein Fellow Emily Barth that she would be an Assistant Attorney General back in law school, she would have eaten her shoe! Come hear about how Emily transitioned from a being committed public defender at the Public Defender Service to working for the D.C. Attorney General’s Office and learned to engage in community lawyering from both sides of the “v”. Emily will discuss the many ways to fight for your community, how to listen to your community, and the value of using the power of the government to advocate for the most marginalized.

Lunch provided. Please RSVP below. Open to the HLS community.

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Part of the 2025 Harvard China Law Symposium, this lunch talk features: Shaoyi Che, Managing Partner at YoungZeal Huawei Sun, Senior Counsel at Zhong Lun Law Firm Bob Tseng, Managing Partner at TWL Law Group Join us for a discussion moderated by Katniss Li, S.J.D. Candidate, and explore important legal questions related to China’s role […]

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Part of the 2025 Harvard China Law Symposium, this dinner talk features: William Lee, Partner at WilmerHale Ji Li, John S. and Marilyn Long Professor of U.S.-China Business and Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law Patrick Toomey, Deputy Director of the ACLU’s National Security Project Join us for a discussion moderated […]

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Part of the 2025 Harvard China Law Symposium, this lunch talk features: Ke Li, Associate Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York Xin He, Professor at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Join us for a discussion moderated by Selina Chu, J.D. Candidate ‘26, […]

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Advancing a federal anti-poverty policy agenda is not a walk in the park. Come learn from Wasserstein Fellow Michael Santos on how he collaborates with grassroots organizers and blends his experience providing direct legal services and advocating for policy changes at the federal level to help create the political will to protect, expand, and advance anti-poverty policies in Washington, DC. Michael will reflect on the skills he learned as a former eviction defense attorney and as an advocate working to increase access to justice for vulnerable communities living in poverty.

Lunch provided. Please RSVP below. Open to the HLS community.

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Part of the 2025 Harvard China Law Symposium, this dinner talk features: Gilad Abiri, Associate Professor of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law David Pan, Partner at Llinks Law Offices Dongsheng Zang, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Washington Join us for a discussion moderated by Kevin Wei, J.D. Candidate ‘26, […]

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Part of the 2025 Harvard China Law Symposium, this dinner talk features: Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management Bing Xiang, Founding Dean of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business  Join us for a discussion moderated by Michael Tian, J.D. Candidate ‘25, and explore the […]

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Join the Petrie-Flom Center to reflect on a turbulent, world-changing year with an esteemed panel of experts. COVID-19, political unrest, and a societal reckoning all contributed to “the year everything changed,” according to author Eric Klinenberg. “Societies have a way of revealing themselves during crises,” he writes in his book 2020. “Who we are. What […]

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Many people go to law school because they want to do meaningful work that benefits society, and it can be overwhelming trying to find the perfect job to do that. Join OPIA for a community discussion with Wasserstein fellow Kenda McIntosh as she discusses her unconventional pathway into a career in indigent defense and how bringing her values into her work – from commercial real estate, to immigration, to public defense – has created opportunities and opened doors she could have never planned for. Kenda will discuss the rewards and challenges of serving marginalized communities and offer practical advice on how to make the most out of the first few years of your legal career, no matter what you end up doing.

Lunch provided. Please RSVP below. Open to the HLS community.

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Description On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 12:30-1:30PM US EST via Zoom, Professor Mohsen Kadivar (Duke University) will present “The Genealogy of the Death Penalty for Apostasy and Blasphemy in Islam.” This talk examines a few ḥadith that are attributed to the Prophet that support a penalty for apostasy, especially execution, that have been the foundation […]

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On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at 12:30-1:30PM US EST via Zoom, Professor Sarah Savant (Aga Khan University) will present “A Cultural History of the Arabic Book: Digital Explorations of Writerly Practices and Text Reuse.” This talk explores how one could reconstruct how major authors in the Arabic language from the eighth to sixteenth centuries wrote […]