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Historically, law school, legal practice, and law teaching have not been well designed to include people with disabilities (visible or invisible) as either actors or as subjects. Although progress is slowly being made, most law school curriculums do not prepare students to anticipate or actively mediate disability inclusion in classrooms or court rooms. Come learn about how you, as a future lawyer interacting with persons with disabilities or as someone who has a disability yourself, might effectively anticipate and rectify the exclusions perpetuated in classrooms, offices, and the Academy.

Come spend your lunch hour with the former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security (2021-2023), John Tien. Learn about the development of policy, risk management, and the broad swath of security issues he oversaw across multiple agencies including CISA, FEMA, CBP and ICE), TSA, USCG, USCIS, and HSI. Bring your questions and expect candid answers from someone who has served in various capacities across 4 administrations.

In cybersecurity, red-teaming involves simulating attacks to assess system vulnerabilities. This session introduces the use of red-teaming as a policy tool which can help to identify weaknesses in the privacy-focused law and policy that stems from emerging technologies. We will explore cybersecurity frameworks for red-teaming and how these frameworks can be systematically applied for assessing privacy-related policies and legislation.

Join Lowry Yankwich (JD 22) for this two-session crash course on podcasting which will introduce you to the medium and provide the opportunity to learn–and practice–the main skills needed to bring a podcast to life. In Session One, attendees will practice skills that feed directly into good lawyering: conducting an interview, and writing a hook that captures the listener’s attention. In Session Two, you’ll learn about the technical side of podcasting, from the basics of audio editing, to distribution platforms for putting a podcast out into the world!

On the eve of the presidential election and faced with heightened threats of voter suppression, new laws governing election officials' powers, and the rampant spread of rhetoric around election integrity, Professors Lawrence Lessig and Larry Schwartztol discuss the various legal frameworks that the loser of an election in the U.S. could use to assume office despite election results and the possible courses of action a losing candidate/party could take in the aftermath of a contested election.

A celebration of the re-opening of Langdell's Reading Room at HLS hosted by HLS student musicians Cosimo Fabrizio (JD 25) and Shaan Pandiri (JD 26) w/ cameo sit-ins by musically inclined faculty. Gain a deeper understanding of jazz through selected works and commentary

Join this session demonstrating AI tools currently available to law students for research, those currently used in law practice (not yet accessible to law schools) compared to the latest commercial LLMs, and a discussion of the limits, likely changes, and implications of AI tools for the future of legal research.

In this session Professor Arevik Avedian and HLS student Felicia Caten-Raines (JD ’25) from the HLS Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program will walk through various steps of empirical analysis, including data quality check and cleaning, best practices of creating and sharing replication data and code, and data analysis and visualization – all grounded in the incredibly impactful report they co-authored with researchers from HLS, HMS, and Physicians for Human Rights entitled “Endless Nightmare”: Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention.

Emerging novel quantum resources, such as quantum computers and simulators, have an enormous potential to provide benefits beyond the capabilities of today’s technology in terms of social impact and commercial applications. In the legal arena “quantum-boosted” artificial intelligence could substantially improve the quality and efficiency of discovery acceleration, research, and innovation processes, while lowering transaction costs. At the same time, the emergence of quantum technologies will fundamentally affect societal and legal development, underlying power dynamics, and international relations. The duty to anticipate the social and legal ramifications of a widespread adoption of such technologies will fall to governmental authorities, policy makers, and lawyers. 

It's time to think about the specific investing strategies that suit your future financial profile - whether that's BigLaw, work at a small or mid-sized firm, solo practice, or a public interest position. Investment analysis and risk assessment are important frameworks to familiarize yourself with as you  begin setting up your retirement plan, consider purchasing life insurance, select an appropriate health insurance plan, shop around for liability insurance, and even begin estate planning.

On the rare occasion of February 29th, we hope you'll leap at the opportunity to spend some downtime time with friends  in the sonorous surrounding of the Landgell Reading Room enjoying the stylin' sounds of your peers Cosimo Fabrizio (JD'25) and Shaan Pandiri (JD'26), and their musical friends (including some faculty cameos!) for Jazz Night in Langdell Spring Edition.

Though (ideally) academia is a place where revising one’s ideas is a constant, in reality getting something ‘wrong’ (for students and professors) can be scary. In the current cultural climate it often feels that there is less and less room for the idea that one’s ideas can (and should!) evolve over time as new arguments, information and data emerge.  Faculty speakers will demonstrate this process in action as they share their stories of professional moments of reckoning when ideas they had previously thought settled in their worldview changed.

Join the HLS Library on Tuesday March 19 at 12:30pm for a HLS Library Book Talk in Wasserstein Hall – Milstein East A and…

A Panel Featuring HLS students and alums Catherine Grace Katz (JD 23), Adam Sandel (JD 21), Stobo Sniderman (SJD candidate), Lowry Yankwich (JD 22), moderated…