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Learn more about the 35th Annual Smith-Babcock-Williams Student Writing Competition.

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Learn more about the 2018 Judge John R. Brown Award of $10,000 for Excellence in Legal Writing.

The U.S. Foreign Policy Colloquium (FPC) provides 75 of the best and brightest Chinese graduate students a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the complex forces that shape American foreign policy and inform the U.S.-China relationship. Interested students can apply today.

NAWL has established the annual Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition to encourage and reward original law student writing on issues concerning women and the law.

SABA Greater Boston is proud to announce its 2018 annual Legal Intern Fellowship Program. The program is intended to provide funding in an amount up to $5,000 for either law students of South Asian descent working over the summer in otherwise unpaid legal positions at non-profit or government organizations or law students working in an unpaid legal internship focusing on the needs of the South Asian community. Learn more about the legal intern fellowship program.

Fatma and Bryn have long wanted to have children, and, after administrators at a Fort Worth-based USCCB affiliate invited Fatma to visit and learn about the affiliate’s work with unaccompanied refugee children, decided they wanted to become foster parents for a refugee child and asked to start the licensing process. However, when in their first interview they revealed that they were a married same-sex couple, the affiliate’s Director of International Foster Care informed them that they would not be permitted to apply to be foster parents because their family structure did not “mirror the Holy Family.”

The Center for the Study of Crime, Law and Society in the University of Haifa in Israel, is looking for a research assistant for a period of one month during the summer or Fall of 2018 (July, August or September).

"Brooklyn is where I get to perform my super-power of being an immigration attorney!"

Sign-up for one-on-one advising with Jonathan Taylor, Principal at Gupta Wessler PLLC.

Meet one-on-one with visiting advisor Robert Stockman, Senior Attorney for the Health Program Team at the Environmental Defense Fund.

Deadline: February 1, 2018
The Chayes summer fellowships, administered by International Legal Studies, provide Harvard Law School students with the opportunity to spend eight weeks engaged in public service with an international scope and/or relevant to countries in development or those making transitions to peace, stability, and democracy.

HRP’s Summer Fellowship is open to J.D. students going into their 2L or 3L years and some LL.M.s. Applications are due February 1, 2018; students must meet with Emily before applying.

New employers have registered for the MLSC Job Fair in January. While the bidding deadline has passed for most registered employers, you may bid on the newly registered employers until December 15th at noon. The new program can found through the MLSC Symplicity CSM titled: “Additional Employers Gov/PI Program – January 2018 at BU Law”.

What makes for a great interview? How do you get an employer to notice you in the first place? What matters most on your resume? What are the most common interview mistakes you should avoid? OCS and OPIA attorney advisors will provide you with guidance about how to ace your interviews and land your 1L summer job.

As a new professional, everything you do will impact your reputation. Put your best foot forward in your job search by following our professionalism tips.

Aaron Halegua ’09 will be available on Wednesday, October 25, 2017, from 1:30-3:00pm, to advise students interested in labor and employment law, legal aid, China-related work, domestic and international public interest law, and fellowships.  Read the full post.

Are you a 1L interested in career advising and services offered at Harvard? Watch this presentation by the the Office of Public Interest Advising (OPIA) and…

Sign-up for a one-on-one advising appointment with Eileen Decker, the Former US Attorney for Central District of CA, Friday October 6, 9 am-1 pm. (If spots are filled, sign up on the waitlist for each appointment you can attend.) Until earlier this year, Eileen M. Decker served as a United States Attorney, and as such was the chief federal law enforcement officer in the Central District of California, a sprawling district based in Los Angeles that encompasses seven counties. Ms. Decker oversaw the largest United States Attorney’s Office outside of the District of Columbia, an office that employs approximately 280 attorneys who serve almost 20 million residents. Read the full post.

A group of movement lawyering practitioners & educators, in collaboration with Law for Black Lives, CUNY-CLEAR, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG-NIP), and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), invites you to apply for the first-ever online Movement Lawyering Bootcamp with a series of six interactive online education and discussion sessions. Apply by 11:549 pm on Monday, May 15.

The National Security & the Law Association is very pleased to announce a lunch event with former Deputy Assistant to the President, Deputy Counsel to the President, National Security Council (NSC) Legal Adviser, and Harvard Law School graduate Christopher Fonzone.