Showing 15 events for the week starting 11/03/2026
November 3
Tuesday • 15 events
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APALSA-HLEP Firm Fair
10:30 am - 2:30 pm
Join APALSA and HLEP for their combined firm fair! Food will be provided. -
Need over Merit: Tracing the History of Israel’s Anti-Discrimination Legislation in the Early Welfare State with Anat Ovadia-Rosner
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
This talk uncovers a forgotten chapter in Israeli legal history, offering insights into contemporary anti-discrimination jurisprudence. Israel’s 1959 Employment Service Law introduced the nation’s first statutory prohibition on discrimination in job referral and hiring; affirmative action measures; and a prohibition of segregation in employment bureaus between Jews and Palestinian-Arab citizens. -
ACS Lunch Talk: Money in Politics with Professors Benjamin Sachs & Nicholas Stephanopoulos
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Please join ACS on Election Day! Professors Benjamin Sachs and Nicholas Stephanopoulos will discuss the impact of money in politics—and solutions to get money out of politics. Lunch to be provided. -
How to Tell an AI What to Do: Rules, Cases, and Interpretation
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm
What can the law teach us about where AI systems should exercise judgment when their instructions leave room for interpretation? AI developers now govern their most capable models through written “constitutions.” These documents set out a model’s values, priorities and character, and they’re used directly in training. Anthropic’s constitution for… -
Networked State Capital in China’s AI Ecosystem
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm
East Asian Legal Studies Talk: Curtis J. Milhaupt
William F. Baxter-Visa International Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
Senior Fellow, by courtesy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Professor Milhaupt will discuss “Networked State Capital in China’s AI Ecosystem,” his current joint project with Liwen Lin, Associate… -
Scripture in Community: Public Reading of Scripture
12:20 pm - 1:15 pm
Recurring
Whether you’re new to reading the Bible, have studied it for years, or are just curious about what it says, you are welcome to listen, learn, and reflect on the wisdom within its pages. Scripture in Community meets over lunch to read and listen to Bible passages together – from… -
How to Tell an AI What to Do: Rules, Cases, and Interpretation
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm
The OpenAI Model Spec and Claude’s Constitution lay out rich targets for AI alignment. But, like the law, these texts cannot settle every novel case in advance. When rules leave questions open, who should decide what they mean, and on what grounds? Nicholas Caputo and Jordi Weinstock will explore these… -
Judging in a Multilevel Polity: The Court of Justice of the EU, the US Supreme Court, and the Rule of Law
12:30 pm - 1:20 pm
A talk by the Hon. Damjan Kukovec, Judge, the General Court, Court of Justice of the European Union Presented by International Legal Studies Co-Sponsored by the Harvard European Law Association… -
ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project – Conversation with Founder, Prof. Lucas Guttentag
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Professor Lucas Guttentag (HLS ’78) will be giving a lunch talk about his experience founding and leading the ACLU’s Immigrants Rights Project for 25 years and will engage students in a conversation about the current state of immigration law. Please note that you are required to RSVP using the following… -
JOLT x McKool Smith – Litigating Against AI: Lessons from the Front Line
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Join JOLT for an AI lunch talk with boutique law firm McKool Smith. Lunch will be served!… -
Rejecting the Direct Service/Impact Litigation Binary
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Wasserstein Fellow CJ Sandley, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, will discuss the traditional direct service and impact litigation frameworks applied at many nonprofit legal organizations and why rejecting those frameworks can lead to more holistic, client- and movement-centered advocacy and more meaningful and sustainable systemic change. CJ will share case examples involving Alabama prisons, El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons’ supermax facility, and ICE detention centers. Lunch provided. RSVP below. Open to the HLS community.