Tag: Diversity

This year’s theme, No One Left Behind, presents a unique opportunity to bring together the viewpoints of grassroots activists, legal scholars, business leaders, and public health experts to explore the tumultuous LGBTQ+ rights landscape. We will be discussing the achievements that have been made in LGBTQ+ rights movement over the past several decades, what glass […]

Professor Margaret Montoya (HLS ’78), a renowned Critical Race Theory (CRT) scholar and the first Latina graduate of HLS, will present about the history of CRT with a particular focus on theory, praxis, student and scholar activism, and futures of CRT. This event is intended to introduce students to CRT as well as provide a […]

Series of four drop-in workshops discussing Australian perspectives on disability and social inclusion. Session 1: Indigenous Australians with disabilities Session 2: Children and young people with disabilities who have intersecting vulnerabilities Session 3: Universal legal capacity and decision making support and protections for persons with disabilities Session 4: Working and studying in the academy with […]

Speaker: William P. Jones, Professor of History, University of Minnesota Free and open to the public Contact: john_trumpbour@harvard.edu This history lecture is part of the annual James Green Memorial Forum in honor of the labor historian who taught for over 25 years in the Harvard Trade Union Program

The 26th annual National Asian Pacific American Conference on Law & Public Policy, hosted by Harvard Law School’s APALSA, is titled 2020: Inflection and will celebrate HLS APALSA’s 26th Anniversary Conference. It will reflect on the ways in which Asian Pacific American (“APA”) and other underrepresented attorneys and activists have progressed in the legal, political, […]

Please join Steve Schulman, Pro Bono Partner, and Nimesh Patel, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, to learn about Pro Bono and Diversity & Inclusion at Large Law Firms. They will also discuss Akin Gump’s signature summer opportunities for 1L students. If you’ve thought about a future law firm career and have wondered how to combine […]

Lieutenant Colonel Shannon McLaughlin of the Massachusetts Army National Guard will deliver this year’s Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, November 21 at noon at Harvard Law School. McLaughlin, who deployed to Afghanistan and has more than 20 years of military service including time in both the Navy and Army, is now the […]

The Arts and Culture Caucus, and Crimson Poets Society at HKS invite you to an Open Mic Night on Monday, November 18th, 8pm focused on the theme of belonging, and emceed by Professor Tim McCarthy. The theme can be interpreted liberally and we welcome performances in any medium – poetry, storytelling, dance, music, a scene, […]

Ying Xin is the executive director of the Beijing LBGT Center, a non-profit, community-based organization that advances gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights in China. Founded in 2008, the group provides mental health services, such as an LGBTQ-friendly therapist network, and supports various advocacy programs. Mental health poses serious problems for the youth globally, especially […]

Come have dinner and mingle with fellow international students (JD/LLM/SJDs/Exchange students)! All international women and their allies are welcome. Adejoké Babington-Ashaye, current Senior Counsel at the World Bank and resident Wasserstein Fellow (Fall 2019), will be joining for dinner, and she is happy to talk about her career in public international law (at the World […]

The annual Law and Social Change Program of Study’s retreat will take place on Sunday, September 29th from 11am – 3pm at Wasserstein Hall. The retreat is a community-building event for students, faculty, staff and former deans to welcome 1Ls and LLMs interested in the power of law as a tool for social change, and […]

Community input has clearly signaled that students, staff, and faculty are eager to adopt practical tools to enable them to detect and respond to signs of harassment in their own learning and work environments. The Bystander Intervention & Beyond program, hosted by the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response and the Harvard University Central […]

A series of highly interactive roundtables held at LSC as faculty, graduates, current students, and current and former staff of the WilmerHale Legal Services Center come together to commemorate 40 years training more than 4,000 attorneys and law students and providing high quality, pro bono civil legal services to thousands of Greater Boston’s most vulnerable […]

We’ve all heard the phrase, “diversity and inclusion”, but what does it actually mean to make an educational environment, a workplace or organization or even our personal lives more diverse and inclusive? How can we get beyond grouping and labeling of other humans according to the color of their skin, the religion they practice, or […]

Within the legal profession, trial lawyers are willing to argue, scrape, and sometimes attack for our clients. We relish the thrill of the hunt. We’re accustomed to long hours in preparation and in the courtroom. Chaos and flying by the seat of our pants are our norms. And too, we can be highly visible. Most […]

Are you interested in pursuing a career in technology, but don’t have a background in STEM? Do you want to connect with other individuals farther along in their careers in tech? Join us; we will hold space for women, femmes and non-binary folks, and all interested in advancing their career goals in technology to connect […]

Please join HLS Lambda for our first spring “Out in the Workplace: Intersectional Identities” panel. Our panelists will discuss the unique challenges and opportunities that diverse LGBTQ+ attorneys encounter. Come with your burning questions. Lunch from Nirvana will be served!

Roberto Gonzalez Q&A moderated by Visiting Professor John Kroger. Mr. Gonzalez is a partner at Paul Weiss and former Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department, where he supervised more than a hundred lawyers in the areas of sanctions, cybersecurity, and financial regulation. Previously, he was Principal Deputy General Counsel of the Consumer Financial […]

The Harvard Immigration Project proud to host “Total and Complete Shutdown: A Panel Discussion on Trump v. Hawaii, and the Travel Ban”. This will be a panel discussion on the current administration’s so called “travel ban” . This panel will facilitate a critical dialogue that touches upon the political climate which gave rise to this […]