Tag: Alumni Speaker

Andrew Brasher, the Solicitor General of Alabama, will discuss the EPA’s Clean Water Rule (“waters of the United States,” or WOTUS) and various states’ lawsuit challenging it. He will argue the rule exceeds federal authority.

Please join the Harvard Arbitration Discussion Series for a discussion with Daniel Slifkin (JD ’91) of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP on class arbitration. Mr. Slifkin is a partner in Cravath’s Litigation Department. Over his 25-year career, Mr. Slifkin has tried numerous cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States, as well as […]

Panelists will discuss developments in death penalty jurisprudence, including the Supreme Court’s most recent case on the Eighth Amendment and lethal injection, Glossip v. Gross. Panelists will also discuss their scholarship and practice related to the death penalty. Non-pizza lunch provided! (Flour sandwiches and desserts) Panelists include: – Professor Carol Steiker, Henry J. Friendly Professor […]

Join SALSA for a conversation on national security issues during Barack Obama’s presidency, ranging from the use of drone strikes abroad to domestic surveillance by the NSA! Our two panelists are: -Jameel Jaffer, Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU and director of its Center for Democracy. Jaffer has been involved in high profile litigation ranging […]

Please join the Harvard Arbitration Discussion Series for a discussion with Louis O’Neill (JD ’96), of White & Case, on pro bono and arbitration. Mr. O’Neill is Counsel at White & Case’s New York office and advises the firm’s international pro bono and commercial clients on a broad range of matters, focusing on arbitration and […]

Please join the Harvard Arbitration Discussion Series for a discussion with Louis O’Neill (JD ’96), of White & Case, on the future of pro bono in international law firms. The lunch talk, which has been generously sponsored by White & Case, will be followed by further discussion from 2:30-4:00. Mr. O’Neill is Counsel at White […]

Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 5:30 pm Harvard Law School campus Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010, 1st Floor RSVP required to attend in person. For four years running, the Director of National Intelligence’s Worldwide Threat Assessment to Congress has led with cyber threats to national and international security. Under statute, the several National Intelligence Officers constitute the […]

Mr. Szubin clerked for Judge Ronald Gilman on the 6th Circuit at graduation and then started his career in the US Department of Justice’s Civil Division, where he was a member of the inaugural class of the Harvard Law School Heyman Fellows.

Please join the Criminal Justice Program of Study for a faculty advising lunch. Professor Carol Steiker and Professor Alex Whiting will answer questions and provide guidance about course selection, clinics, and other activities of interest to students considering pursuing careers in criminal justice. Lunch will be provided.

Michael Frakes will present his paper "Does Medical Malpractice Law Improve Health Care Quality?"

Join HALB and OCS for a fireside chat with Romeen Sheth ’15: Head of Business Development at Ravel Law, a venture backed, Series A legal technology startup focused on data analytics and machine learning. Romeen will discuss: (1) the valuation environment for technology companies, (2) Ravel Law and its role in disrupting the legal ecosystem, […]

Allan Kanner, JD ’79, will be speaking about his career and experiences in complex tort and environmental litigation. Allan is an enormously successful lawyer from New Orleans who carved out his own very successful environmental law practice, focusing on toxic tort plaintiffs work. He has brought a series of high profile, successful lawsuits over the […]

Allan Kanner, HLS ’79, will speak about his career and experience in complex litigation, environmental law, and consumer fraud, particularly with respect to his role in litigation regarding the BP Deepwater Horizon spill.