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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 […]

Vinod Lala is an accomplished finance executive with 25+ years’ experience in strategic investments, M&A, corporate finance, board advisory and public shareholder engagement coupled with domain expertise in cloud communications, digital infrastructure and mobile networks. For the last ten years, Vinod has been the Chief Strategy Officer at Vonage where he spearheaded strategy and M&A execution. Click to register.

Join a Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution virtual seminar with Matthew Waldman. Waldman will discuss essential changes to peacemaking based on his research that involved interviews with 86 leading mediators and discussions with various experts. Visit the PON website for details and speaker biography here: https://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/kelman-seminar-peacemaking-is-in-trouble/

Mark Wehrly joined Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C. in 1996, and is a Partner, Chief Operating Officer, and Special Counsel of the firm. Prior to joining Farallon, Mark worked as a corporate law associate in the San Francisco office of Shearman & Sterling’s corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions practice groups. Mark graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School with a J.D. and with Distinction from Stanford University with a B.A. in Economics and in English Literature. Click to register.

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 […]

Hear from a judge about their work and clerking and ask questions in a face-to-face, small group setting. Through your presence, you can express interest that could help you if you choose to apply for their clerkship in the future. Even if you are not interested in working for the particular judge, simply learn more […]

Alexandra McCormack is a partner in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and other securities and corporate law matters. She advises public and private companies, financial sponsors, family offices and hedge funds in U.S. and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, mergers of equals, joint ventures and other strategic transactions. Click to register.

Tony Feuerstein focuses his practice on representing both financial sponsors and healthcare, hospitality, chemicals, and manufacturing clients in a broad range of public and private merger and acquisition transactions. This includes negotiated and unsolicited transactions, tender and exchange offers, mergers, leveraged buyouts, stock and asset purchases, divestitures and cross-border transactions. Click to register.