Event Tag: 1L

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The world of public interest law presents boundless possibilities — so many that it may feel hard to know where to start or how to plan a career path. Join Wasserstein Fellow Tory Nugent for a discussion that combines conceptual frameworks, practical advice, and personal experience. Through the lens of her 30+ year career working for public interest organizations and litigating complex consumer, environmental, and public health cases, Tory will talk about the skills, knowledge, and experiences that she accumulated and carried from one project to the next. In this lunchtime chat, you will hear about the different types of practice – policy, legislating, and litigation — as well as the wide-range of subject matter that falls within the definition of public interest work. And perhaps most importantly, you will talk about ways to think about work and define meaning and satisfaction – personally and professionally — as you start to envision daily work, a job, and a career arc. Lunch provided. Please RSVP below! Open to the HLS community.

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Join Wasserstein Fellow Caroline Sacerdote ‘15, as she shares her experience bringing constitutional challenges to restrictions on reproductive rights in state and federal courts across the country over the past decade. Caroline will discuss what it’s like to litigate reproductive rights during this period of tremendous upheaval, and how her practice has shifted since she joined the Center for Reproductive Rights in 2016—shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down abortion restrictions in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt—to litigating in a wholly different post-Dobbs, post-Roe world.

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

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Headshot of HLS Professor Emeritus Mark Tushnet

In the early 21st century, constitutionalism confronts numerous pressures and critiques. Some prominent critics are concerned that constitutionalism’s modern form may be unduly rigid in the face of changing social, economic, and environmental conditions. In their new book, Professors Mark Tushnet (HLS) and Bojan Bugarič (University of Sheffield) propose a “thin” idea of constitutionalism and suggest that we should scale back our expectations for what constitutionalism can achieve. Please join for a panel discussion about the book with Professors Tushnet, Doerfler and Visiting Professor Vlad Perju.

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Hear first-hand how to chart a non-traditional path that leads you to make history. Join OPIA for a community discussion with Wasserstein Fellow Erin D. Drake AB ‘14, Senior Advisor and Legal Counsel at the Women’s National Basketball Players Association, the Union for WNBA Players. Erin will discuss her own career path, labor negotiations, and the skills she relied on most to make change for WNBA players and the labor movement more broadly. Whether you’re interested in women’s sports, the labor movement, building consensus among diverse groups of people, navigating the media, coalition building, or developing and executing strategic campaigns and actions, this talk should leave you ready to give your skillset to a movement. Lunch provided. Please RSVP. Open to the HLS community.

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Cover image of book titled Supremacy by Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan

Join in for a panel discussion of the new book Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People with HLS authors Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan and discussant Professor Guy-Uriel Charles. Court. In a sweeping narrative of over 200 years of American history, the authors demonstrate that ​“judicial supremacy” was not written into the Constitution and has always been challenged as fundamentally at odds with it.