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Take a PAWS during Reading Week for a free consultation (and snack) with HLSL’s visiting comfort animals. On the docket for today is Sasha, Harvard’s…

Take a PAWS during Reading Week for a free consultation (and snack) with HLSL’s visiting comfort animals. On the docket today is Legal Advocate Hermie,…

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.