OPIA’s Fellowship Series: Skadden Fellowship Information Session
Learn about this exciting 2-year post-graduate/post-clerkship fellowship to a non-profit organization from the Executive Director of the Skadden Foundation, Kathleen Rubenstein. Kathleen will discuss eligible projects and the application process. Previous HLS Skadden Fellowship recipients will also discuss their experiences with the process. Attendance at the info session is required if you plan to apply for the Skadden Fellowship. If students cannot attend the mandatory session because of time conflicts, they must make an appointment with Judy Murciano to discuss the application.
HLS Beyond & SFS Present: Real Estate Ownership & Investing
Owning and investing in real estate plays a significant role in increasing your net worth over a lifetime. During this session, AccessLex Institute’s Director of Financial Education, Derek Brainard, will discuss the benefits of real estate ownership, trends, how to prepare yourself financially for the homebuying process, and considerations for those looking to use real estate as an investment in the future.
Justice Jam
A fun and casual event for the HLS public interest community and hopefully the start of a new annual tradition. Grab some appetizers while listening to passionate public interest attorneys and soon-to-be attorneys tell a story about why they fight for justice. Each storyteller will share—in just five minutes! —what inspires them to do public interest work. It will be part poetry slam about justice, part public interest pep talk, and, if YOU come, a whole lot of fun. Join us!
Food and beverage provided. RSVP below!
OPIA’s Fellowship Series: Equal Justice Works Info Session
Explore the possibilities of gaining two years of support at the job of your dreams with an innovative project at a U.S.-based organization by meeting with Jessica Ryckman, Director of Fellowships at the Equal Justice Works Foundation. Jessica will give an insider’s view on the fellowship selection process. Attendance at the info session is required if you plan to apply for the fellowship. If students cannot attend the mandatory session because of time conflicts, they must make an appointment with Judy Murciano to discuss the EJW application.
Lunch provided.
Practicing Collaborative Public Defense: A Partners for Justice Training for Future Public Defenders
Heading to a public defender’s office this summer or post-grad? Don’t miss this practical training offered by Tori Anderson ‘16, Senior Program Manager at Partners For Justice, who will give incoming public defenders a framework for understanding, implementing, and receiving support for their personal collaborative defense practice.
Tori will walk through what it means to practice public defense collaboratively. She will talk about the Collaborative Defense framework — which is a framework for client-led representation that confronts the underlying causes and prevents many of the most dire consequences of criminal legal involvement. She will teach future public defenders what collaborative defense means in practice, talk about PFJ’s work and how it impacts offices we currently partner with, discuss how a public defender can implement collaborative defense practices in offices we do not currently partner with, and offer PFJ resources to help support them going forward. The resources offered at the end will include access to PFJ’s resource guides (jurisdiction specific list of local service providers), support in building their own resource guides, and a public defense and cohort networking of collaborative public defenders.
Lunch provided. Please RSVP.
HLS Beyond Presents: Regulate or Innovate? A Comparative Look at AI Governance in the EU and US
This panel discussion focuses on the divergent regulatory approaches to artificial intelligence in the European Union and the United States. Given the ever-changing political and regulatory landscape, HLS student panelists will examine the critical question of democracy’s role in governing emerging technologies given and the broader implications for global AI leadership.
HLS Beyond Presents: Trans Lives in Today’s Legal Climate
Recent legislation and public rhetoric have focused critical attention on how new policies affect the lives of transgender individuals. Join HLS Cyberlaw Clinic’s Alejandra Caraballo and the HLS LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic’s Deborah Lolai for a conversation and discussion about current legal challenges and civic engagement strategies regarding transgender rights.
HLS Beyond Presents: Why I Changed My Mind
The panel Why I Changed My Mind features HLS faculty members’ stories of professional moments of reckoning when ideas they had previously thought settled in their worldview changed.