Showing 6 events for the week starting 09/20/2023
September 20
Wednesday • 6 events
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National Security & Law Association Welcome Lunch
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm
We’ll bring the food (including vegan and gluten-free options), so bring yourself and a friend or two to our Welcome Lunch this Friday at 12:15 p.m. on Holmes Field!… -
Ensuring Disability Inclusion in the Global Climate Action Agenda – Call to Action ahead of the 28th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Governments around the world are failing to adopt disability-inclusive climate adaptation and mitigation strategies, even though climate change disproportionately affects persons with disabilities. For example, in climate emergencies persons with disabilities are too often excluded from disaster, health and humanitarian services. -
HLS Library Book Talk: The Problem of Twelve
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Join the HLS Library on Wednesday September 20 at 12:30pm for a HLS Library Book Talk in Milstein West, Wasserstein Hall. This event features a discussion on The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything with author John Coates and panelists Guy-Uriel Charles and Shawn Cole. -
Lunch Talk with Justice Liu: Law Clerk Selection & Diversity
12:30 pm - 1:20 pm
Please join the American Constitution Society (ACS) for a lunch talk with Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, Goodwin Liu. Justice Liu is conducting a major ongoing study into diversity rates within federal circuit clerkships. Justice Liu will share findings from his research as well as open the floor to… -
Bring Zack Home: Advocating for the Arbitrarily Detained through Law and Policy
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
In 2022, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention determined that the arrest and subsequent detention of Zack Shahin in the UAE was arbitrary and in contravention of international human rights law. Zack’s family has been advocating for his release since 2008. Join us as Zack’s daughter, Meera Shahin, and his lawyer, Rhys… -
Reckoning with the History of State Institutions for People with Disabilities: How Lessons from the Past Should Inform Today’s Policies
5:15 pm - 6:30 pm
In July 2022, the Massachusetts state legislature established the Special Commission on State Institutions to undertake historical human rights work, including identifying the names of thousands of people buried anonymously in institutional graves. Massachusetts was the birthplace of institutionalization for persons with disabilities in the United States. First envisioned as…