Showing 12 events for the week starting 09/28/2023
September 28
Thursday • 12 events
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The Visiting Room Project Symposium on Life Without Parole
All day
On Thursday, September 28, Inquest and the Institute to End Mass Incarceration are excited to partner with The Visiting Room Project for a day of in-person activities at Harvard University about life-without-parole sentences and… -
Genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh: A Conversation with former ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo
10:30 am - 11:45 am
Genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh: A Conversation with former ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo Luis Moreno Ocampo, former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, will be discussing a recent report he issued concerning Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin Corridor in Nagorono-Karabakh (Artsakh), and how the blockade is considered a genocide that is… -
Structuring Your Time and Space
12:20 pm - 1:15 pm
Panel presented by the BSA and Harvard Academic Resource Center. Come learn how we balance school, extracurriculars, and our well-being. Lunch will be provided!… -
Discussion with Judge James Boasberg
12:30 pm - 1:20 pm
Join ACS for a discussion with the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, James Boasberg. -
HALB x First Class: First Gen in Big Law
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Join First Class and HALB for a student-led lunch panel for first generation 1L students interested in an introduction to big law! Panelists will be first generation 2L and 3L students who just finished EIP and/or working in big law this past summer. Topics discussed will include what big law… -
Textualism and its discontents with Professors Tara Leigh Grove and Todd Rakoff
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Professor Tara Leigh Grove of Texas Law will join Professor Todd Rakoff to discuss Textualism, what it is, its value as an interpretive method, and its weaknesses. -
TimelyCare Information Table
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Interested in learning more about TimelyCare? Representatives will be onsite from 3-5pm on Thursday, September 28th near the Hark Ramp to answer questions and share more about TimelyCare resources. Harvard students have FREE access to virtual care services with TimelyCare — the virtual health and well-being platform designed for university students.
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The Fall 2023 Byse Workshop — Activists, Rebels and Beyond: Different Ways of Lawyering for Social Justice
3:45 pm - 5:45 pm
Recurring
Presented by Angel Cabrera Silva, S.J.D. candidate How can lawyers be agents of change? How can they avoid hijacking social struggles? Join us for a collective reflection on the influence legal professionals wield in contemporary social movements, sometimes supporting and, at times, inadvertently affecting them. Each session of this workshop… -
Visiting Room Project
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
What is it like to be in prison for your entire life. Join Professor Andrew Manuel Crespo and filmmakers Marcus Kondkar, Calvin Duncan, Daryl Waters, Ron Hicks, and Everett Offray (all formerly incarcerated on life-without-parole sentences in Louisiana’s Angola Prison) for a conversation about The Visiting Room. -
First Class Community Dinner
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Come and meet the First Class community at Harvard Law School! We will also be announcing mentor and mentee pairs at this dinner. -
Law & Social Change Community Gathering
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
The annual Law and Social Change Program of Study community gathering will take place on Thursday, September 28 from 6 pm – 7:30 pm in The Pub. The retreat is a community-building event for students and faculty to discuss how law can be harnessed as a tool for social change.