Showing 11 events for the week starting 04/01/2024
April 1
Monday • 11 events
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A New Way Home: Medicaid & Reentry Symposium
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
State Medicaid programs have begun exploring new pathways to improve linkage and access to health care for people reentering the community from jails and prisons. The transition from incarceration back to the community is notoriously fraught with competing, complex social and behavioral health needs, as well as staggering rates of… -
Labor Union Surge on Campus: What’s Happening and Why?
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Harvard Law clinicians (instructors, fellows, staff attorneys and social workers) are unionizing! So are are residential tutors for undergrads and non-tenure track teachers and researchers in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Divinity School and Medical School. Come hear about the exciting labor surge on campus. We’re thrilled to welcome… -
In Pursuit of Justice: Exploring Nationwide Criminal Justice Reform
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Join JLSA and ACS next Monday for lunch and a discussion with Director Karen Friedman of the Department of Justice on nationwide criminal justice reform! Lunch will be provided. … -
Plaintiff-Side Appellate Litigation with Deepak Gupta
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm
Gupta Wessler LLP is a national appellate and complex litigation boutique. It briefs and argues high-stakes cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and state and federal courts across the country. It also runs the HLS Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. Through all of its efforts, it aims to help shape the… -
Abortion and Jewish Law
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
In the wake of the Dobbs decision, Jewish plaintiffs in multiple U.S. states have brought religious liberty-based legal challenges to restrictive state-wide bans on abortion. Plaintiffs argue that these bans violate their religious rights as Jews because they are grounded in the belief that life begins at conception, a belief informed… -
HALB D&I x WLA: Women In Big Law Leadership
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Please join HALB D&I and WLA for a discussion among women partners at big law firms. Tracy High from Sullivan & Cromwell (Partner – Litigation), Laura Turano from Paul Weiss (Partner – Corporate), and Angela M. Libby from Davis Polk (Partner – Restructuring) will share their experiences as female leaders in their… -
Oral Arguments 101 w/ the BSA
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
How does a Supreme Court advocate prepare to argue in front of the highest court in the land? And meanwhile, how should you as a 1L prepare for your first-year Ames oral argument? Join our panel discussion with Professor Richard Lazarus, Supreme Court advocate, and BSAs to find out what… -
Harvard Law Review Write-On Competition Overview Session
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Join editors from the Harvard Law Review for the first of two tips sessions. At this session, editors will give their advice for approaching the competition. The session will be recorded and posted to our YouTube page for interested students who cannot attend. -
Becoming a Law Professor
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Come learn about the journey to becoming a law professor from the wonderful Susannah Barton Tobin. Whether you are committed to a career as a law professor or merely considering it, this talk is for you. Lunch will be provided. Susannah Barton Tobin is the Managing Director of the Climenko… -
Regulating AI: Insights from Google DeepMind’s General Counsel
12:30 pm - 1:20 pm
Please join JOLT and the Legal Tech Society for a discussion with Tom Lue, General Counsel at Google DeepMind. Previously, Tom was Deputy General Counsel at Waymo, Deputy General Counsel at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and Attorney-Advisor at the Office of Legal Counsel at the… -
Are Stablecoins the Future of Money?
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Stablecoins are arguably the most important and successful crypto innovation, and Jeremy Allaire is arguably the most important person driving their acceptance into mainstream finance and everyday usage. With dollar-based stablecoins like USDC, each token represents one dollar, has far greater price stability than bitcoin, and can be transferred as…