Showing 14 events for the week starting 10/05/2023
October 5
Thursday • 14 events
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BJ’s Wholesale Club Information Session
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Members of the legal team of BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc., will be on campus to discuss their Corporate Counsel Development Program (CCDP) and summer internships. Stop by at any time during the 12-1pm timeframe to chat with representatives. NO RSVP required. -
The Retrievals – The Civil Cases against Yale New Haven Fertility Clinic
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm
The Harvard Law School Community is invited to join us on this Thursday to hear from Kelly Fitzpatrick and Josh Koskoff to talk about their civil law case against Yale New Haven Hospital on behalf of Yale Fertility Center patients who were harmed in the story told in The Retrievals, a five-part… -
Lessons from FDR’s Court with Cliff Sloan
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm
Come join ACS for a discussion with Cliff Sloan (HLS ’84) about his forthcoming book “The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made.” Sloan is a professor at Georgetown Law, former Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure at the U.S. State Department, and former publisher of Slate… -
Tom Regan Memorial Lecture – The Philosophy of Animal Rights: A Way of Life or Religion?
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Join us for The Philosophy of Animal Rights: A Way of Life or Religion?, this year’s Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, given by Cheryl Abbate. The respondent will be Dale Jamieson. The talk will be followed by a Q&A and is open to the general public as well as Harvard… -
Lunch Talk: Held v. Montana and Rights Based Climate Litigation with Sam Bookman, S.J.D.
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Please join the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, the Environmental & Energy Law Program, and the HLS Environmental Law Society as we welcome S.J.D. Candidate Sam Bookman. Sam will discuss the recent decision in Held v. Montana, including how it fits with broader international rights-based climate litigation, and how… -
Winter Term Opportunities Abroad
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
HLS offers 2Ls, 3Ls and LL.M. students the opportunity to spend Winter Term abroad, pursuing internationally focused independent clinicals or research and writing projects. Representatives from International Legal Studies, the Graduate Program, the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs, the Committee on the Use of Human Subjects, and the… -
A Tale of Two Cities: The Inequalities of Our Education System and Barriers Facing Low-Income Students
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Join OPIA for a community discussion with Wasserstein Fellow Jennifer Sang, partner at a boutique civil rights law firm that specializes in special education and employment. She will be discussing the unique challenges faced by low-income clients and their attorneys. Come learn about the organizations and law firms that take on this kind of work and how young lawyers can get into the field. Lunch provided. Please RSVP! -
Alumni in Residence with Melanca Clark J.D.’02 of the Hudson-Webber Foundation
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Melanca Clark is President and CEO of the Hudson-Webber Foundation in Detroit, MI. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2016, Melanca held several senior positions in the Obama Administration including Chief of Staff of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Senior Policy Advisor with the White House Domestic Policy Council, and Senior Counsel with DOJ’s Access to Justice Initiative. Click to register. -
Film Screening of Without Precedent: The Supreme Life of Rosalie Abella
3:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Film Screening followed by a panel discussion with Justice Rosalie Abella, Director Barry Avrich Producer Mark Selby The event will be followed by a reception. Watching the trailer | Register for the event… -
Upcoming deadline to submit student writing to Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Q&A
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
The deadline for student writing submissions for Vol. 59.2 is this Friday, October 16th at 11:59 pm. We are hosting a Q&A on Thursday from 3:30 pm to 3:45 pm for any last-minute questions in the student org room. Questions may also be directed to studentwriting.crcl.vol59@gmail.com. -
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… -
China’s New Era: Reversing the Dire Consequences of Forty Years of Reform
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Join us for a discussion on the Chinese economy with Professor YAO Yang, Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University, hosted by Professor Mark Wu and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Forty years of reform and opening up have resulted in rapid growth and rising living… -
HLS Law & Philosophy Society Meet & Greet Social
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
The HLS Law & Philosophy Society is delighted to invite you to our first Meet & Greet Social! We will celebrate the beginning of the academic year together over delicious food and refreshments, see old friends, and make new ones! Our Meet & Greet Social will take place on Thursday, October… -
HLS Beyond Presents: Jazz Night in Langdell – Fundamentals of the Music
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Hosted by HLS students Cosimo Fabrizio ’25 and Shaan Pandiri ’26 Come join your peers and professors for an evening of jazz and jazz education in Langdell’s Reading Room. Musicians Cosimo Fabrizio ’25 and Shaan Pandiri ’26 will perform and provide commentary throughout the hour to help you gain a…