Showing 23 events for the week starting 02/28/2024
February 28
Wednesday • 23 events
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PON Live! Impression (Mis)Management
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Program on Negotiation presents a talk with Övül Sezer, Assistant Professor, Management & Organizations at Cornell University. Making a good impression is a vital skill in life. When the stakes are high, successful impression management can help us get the job, ink the deal, or embark on a new… -
Sidley Austin Lunch
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Join the West Coast Club for a chance to meet Sidley attorneys and learn about their experience working on the West Coast. -
Sidley West Coast Offices Lunch Event
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
You are invited to join attorneys from three of Sidley’s West Coast Offices, Los Angeles, Century City, and San Francisco, for lunch this Wednesday 2/28 in WCC 3009. Lunch will be provided. -
Commonwealth v. Mattis: A Win for Emerging Adults and Neuroscience
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Miller v. Alabama, decided by the US Supreme Court in 2012, banned mandatory life without parole sentencing for juveniles (17 and younger). A year later, in Diatchenko, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) decided that even discretionary life without parole sentencing for juveniles violated the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. Mattis,… -
Sunshine in the Third Branch: The Importance of Judicial Transparency
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Judge Joshua Wolson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania will discuss the importance of judicial transparency and how lawyers and judges alike can promote this important value. -
Litigating for Justice: Women’s Rights Lawyering in Iran
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Please join us for a discussion with Afrooz Maghzi Najafabadi—Iranian Human Rights Attorney and Visiting Fellow at the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World at Harvard Law School—on the role of Iranian women’s rights lawyers in the fight for gender justice and equality in Iran. We will… -
Finding Meaningful Mentorship in the Law
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Join WLA for a moderated discussion and Q&A with Professor Annette Gordon-Reed. We will discuss how she has found and learned from mentors through her own career starting as a law firm associate, serving as counsel to the NYC Board of Corrections, and for the past 14 years, as a… -
LPE Meeting
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Law and Political Economy board meeting. We’ll debrief RebLaw, plan elections, collect signups for retreat, and review events for the rest of the semester. -
HLEP Sports Betting Panel
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Please join us for a discussion on innovation in the world of sports betting. Our guests are Josh Jessen, CLO of BetMGM and Joe Solosky, MD of Sports Betting at NASCAR. We will discuss developments in the legal landscape and how they have reverberated through the business of professional sports. -
WLA Community Lunch
12:20 pm - 1:15 pm
Join WLA for a Peruvian-themed community lunch! Enjoy good food, better company, and a chance to win prizes! RSVP here. -
First Class x Big Law Lunch Panel
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Please join First Class for a lunch panel with Big Law attorneys from Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP on Wednesday, February 28 from 12:30 pm to 1:15 pm in WCC 1010. This panel is designed to give students an overview of working in… -
Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age (RSM Speaker Series)
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Black Networked Resistance explores the creative range of Black digital users and their responses to varying forms of oppression, utilizing cultural, communicative, political, and technological threads both on and offline. Raven Maragh-Lloyd demonstrates how Black users strategically rearticulate their responses to oppression in ways that highlight Black publics’ historically rich… -
Alumni in Residence with Enu Mainigi J.D. ’94 of Williams & Connolly LLP
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Enu Mainigi is a nationally recognized trial lawyer and partner at Williams & Connolly LLP. She is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and is actively sought out by large players in the healthcare and financial services industries to lead their high stakes, bet-the-company litigation and to handle their most important government investigations. Enu also serves as Chair of the firm’s False Claims Act and Qui Tam practice and Co-chair of its Health Care practice. Click to register. -
HLEP Hosts Erin Albert, General Counsel of Cost Plus Drug Co.
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Erin Albert, GC of Cost Plus Drug Co., is joining us to talk about innovation in the highly regulated world of prescription medicine. -
Legal Observer Training
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
The Harvard Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild will be hosting a training of new Legal Observers, facilitated by members of the NLG Mass Defense Committee. Trained LOs are empowered to attend protests and other activist events as objective, third-party representatives of the NLG. LOs can be instrumental in safeguarding… -
Board of Student Advisers (BSA) Open House
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Join us on Wednesday, February 28th from 6-8 PM in the BSA office (2nd floor of WCC, across from the student org room) and Student Org Room. BSAs will be there to answer any questions you may have and to chat about joining the BSA. We hope to see you there!… -
Wine, Charcuterie, and Cheese soirée
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Fans of cheese? Wine? French? Meeting people from all over the world. Join us to taste test an extensive number of cheeses from Formaggio, and find a little liquid courage to practice your French. This event is open to all international students AND/OR speakers of French (at any level). Please… -
First Class x Big Law Evening Reception
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Please join First Class for an evening reception with attorneys from a number of our Big Law sponsors on Wednesday, February 28, 6 pm to 8 pm, at The Hourly, 15 Dunster Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. This event is come-and-go, so feel free to drop in at any point to network… -
Hymns of the Civil Rights Era: A Celebration of Hope
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Please join us for a night of worship with special guest, Grammy-award winner, Naomi Raine of Maverick City Music. This night will be an opportunity to reflect and honor the legacy of faith leaders who shaped the Civil Rights movement. -
Christian Union Midweek Bible Study
6:45 pm - 9:00 pm
CU@HLS’ midweek bible study through the book of Genesis for Spring 2024. To understand fully the book of Genesis will give the reader a deeper understanding of the redemptive narrative throughout the Scriptures, and ultimately, the gospel of Jesus Christ. -
A crafty way to cope: An evening of punch needle with art therapist Cari Meillo
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Cari Meillo, an art therapist whose goal is to provide her clients with a creative, crafty way to cope with their hardest moments. Her business features multiple punch needle kits designed to bring joy and elicit calm. Each participant will receive one kit and personal instruction from Cari. Refreshments…