Harvard Law School Events

WCC Chocolate Tour

10 Feb 2012 19:00:00 GMT

Friday, February 10, 2012, 2 – 4pm

Sponsor: Dean of Students Office

Symposium: In Honor of Frank Michelman

10 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

WCC 2036 Milstein East Rooms ABC
Friday, February 10, 2012, 5 – 7pm

Sponsor: Dean's Office
Contact E-mail: ahilton@law.harvard.edu
Calendar Option: The event is open to the general public as well as to the HLS community (Public Calendar)

OPIA's Spring Potluck

10 Feb 2012 23:00:00 GMT

Alexa Shabecoff's Home in Newton, MA (email OPIA for address)
Friday, February 10, 2012, 6 – 10pm

Join us for the annual OPIA Spring Potluck! Take a break and have some fun with excellent food and even better company. Come meet other public interest minded students, talk about your prior work experience or what your plans are for the future -- or just come to chat! The potluck will be held at Alexa Shabecoff’s home in Newton. Please RSVP online through OPIA’s online calendar. When you RSVP, please indicate what dish, drinks, or other item you would like to bring to the potluck. Please also indicate whether you need transportation or if you can provide it. We hope to see you there!

Sponsor: OPIA
Contact E-mail: opia@law.harvard.edu

Symposium: In Honor of Frank Michelman

11 Feb 2012 13:30:00 GMT

WCC 2036 Milstein East ABC
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 8:30 – 11:30am

Sponsor: Dean's Office
Contact E-mail: ahilton@law.harvard.edu
Calendar Option: The event is open to the general public as well as to the HLS community (Public Calendar)

JOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY SUBCITE

11 Feb 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Langdell North
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 10am – 2pm

Have an interest in copyright, the Internet, entertainment, technology, or the cutting edge of law? Want to beef up your resume with the highest ranked specialty law journal in the country? Read xkcd? Then come join JOLT!

JOLT has one of the most efficient and streamlined subcites on campus (we supply ALL your sources), and it's not just for people with a science/tech background. Most important, we're a fun community that puts on great events!

Come join our final subcite of the year by filling out the form at the link below, or by emailing jolt.tech.editor@gmail.com with the subject "SPRING SUBCITE." Hope to see you there!

Sponsor: Journal of Law & Technology (JOLT)
Contact E-mail: jolt.tech.editor@gmail.com
More info: docs.google.com…

Negotiating the UN Arms Trade Treaty: The Government Lawyer’s Perspective

11 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

WCC 4059
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 5 – 7pm

In July, states will gather at the United Nations in an effort to negotiate a treaty to address the irresponsible and illicit global trade in conventional weapons. Government legal advisers will play a central role in that process. Catherine Holmes (Assistant Legal Adviser, UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office) and Netta Goussac (Senior Legal Officer, Office of International Law, Australian Attorney-General's Department) have been advising their national delegations to the Arms Trade Treaty Preparatory Committee and will take part in the upcoming negotiations. Come and hear their thoughts on the objectives of the Arms Trade Treaty, the negotiating process, the likely content of the treaty, and the key challenges that lie ahead. Ms. Holmes and Ms. Goussac will also offer their perspectives, and take questions, on their role and functions as international lawyers in government. All welcome.

Sponsor: Visiting Professor Jesse Clarke
Contact E-mail: jclarke@law.harvard.edu

Richard Epstein: The Future of Unions in America, with Profs. Epstein and Freeman

13 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Wasserstein - 2019 Milstein West A
Monday, February 13, 2012, 12 – 1pm

Professor Richard Epstein, Professor of Law at New York University, and Professor Richard Freeman, Faculty Co-Director of the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program, will discuss and debate the legal and policy rationales for unions in America, including how workers should be able to unionize, the effect of unions on the economy, and whether unions have a place in 21st century America. The discussion will conclude with a question-and-answer time. Pizza served!

Sponsor: Harvard Law School Tea Party
Contact E-mail: hlsteaparty@mail.law.harvard.edu
More info: hlsteaparty.org

Work With Wilkins: A Talk about One Day's Work

13 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Wasserstein 3019
Monday, February 13, 2012, 12 – 1pm

Come learn more about the discourse surrounding how to integrate public service into a legal career, the ethical responsibility of lawyers as professionals, and why these issues matter to YOU!

Bagels and cream cheese will be available for lunch.

Sponsor: One Day's Work
Contact E-mail: rrosenberg@jd13.law.harvard.edu
More info: www.onedayswork.org

Semester Abroad at University of Geneva Faculty of Law and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

13 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Wasserstein 5053
Monday, February 13, 2012, 12pm

Through the HLS partnership with the University of Geneva Faculty of Law and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, JD students can spend a semester taking courses in French or English in one of the world’s most international cities. Graduate Institute Professor Jorge Viñuales (LLM ’06) and HLS students who have spent a semester in Geneva will talk about the opportunities this program offers and answer questions. Lunch will be served.

Sponsor: International Legal Studies
Contact E-mail: aboyce@law.harvard.edu
More info: www.law.harvard.edu…

Traphagen Distinuished Alumni Speakers Series

13 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Wasserstein 2036 Milstein East A
Monday, February 13, 2012, 12 – 1pm

David Voon ’91, former head of Goldman Sachs’s Private Wealth Management in Asia, will participate in the Traphagen Series on Monday, February 13 at 12 noon. Retired from Goldman Sachs in 2011, Mr. Voon was a partner and member of the Asia Management Committee, the IMD Operating Committee and the Asia Ex-Japan Suitability Committee, and served as a vice chairman of the Asia Ex-Japan Business Practices Committee. He previously served as co-head of the Equity Products Group in Asia Ex-Japan, managed the FICC and Equities Structured Products business in Asia Ex-Japan and was head of the Pan Asia Synthetics Products Group. Prior to that, he worked in Derivatives Structuring, headed Equity Derivatives in Hong Kong, worked in the Legal Department and then the Equities Division, after having started as an associate in the Management Controls Department in Hong Kong. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Voon was an associate attorney at the New York office of Shearman & Sterling.

To sign up for this lunch rsvp to jforde@law.harvard.edu.

Sponsor: HLS Alumni Center
Contact E-mail: jforde@law.harvard.edu

Work Authorization for Continuing Students (F-1, CPT, OPT, J-1, AT)

13 Feb 2012 17:15:00 GMT

Wasserstein 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012, 12:15 – 1pm

This session will cover the ins and outs of applying for work authorization for summer employment. It will include specific procedures, time limits, deadlines and strategies for maximizing post-graduation work authorization. This session will be helpful for both F-1 and J-1 students. Co-sponsored with HIO

Sponsor: OCS & HIO

How Finance Went Wrong and How to Fix It: Some Canadian Initiatives

13 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT

Wasserstein Hall, Room 2036
Monday, February 13, 2012, 4 – 6pm

Speaker: Professor Randall Morck, University of Alberta

Following up on his recent collection of essays in honor of HLS professor Paul Weiler, Randall Morck provides analysis of some Canadian ideas on reforming the global financial system.

Sponsor: Labor & Worklife Program, HLS
Contact E-mail: jtrumpbo@law.harvard.edu

Health Law and Policy Workshop

13 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

Hauser 105
Monday, February 13, 2012, 5 – 7pm

Richard Epstein
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
its.law.nyu.edu…

"The Constitutional Protection of Trade Secrets and Patents under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009"

Sponsor: The Petrie-Flom Center
Contact E-mail: kburroughs@law.harvard.edu
More info: www.law.harvard.edu…

Unsex Mothering: Toward a New Culture of Parenting

13 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

Austin North
Monday, February 13, 2012, 5 – 7pm

In the category of “mothering,” legal sex neutrality crashes with social default regimes to construct women as “mothers,” who serve as primary parents, and men as “fathers.” Institutions burden women with parenting responsibilities reflexively and without compensation, while men are presumed incapable or uninterested in performing these caretaking duties.

In his article, published in the Winter 2012 volume of the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, Darren Rosenblum advances a theory of unsexing to characterize the peeling away of rights and statuses from biological sex. Professor Rosenblum's article describes how international law both affirms this sexed vision of parenting and suggests the path toward an unsexed future, with particular focus on parenting leave policies in Sweden.

In conjunction with an online colloquium on http://harvardjlg.com, this conference will feature Darren Rosenblum discussing his piece, with responses from Professor Duncan Kennedy (HLS), Professor Mary Anne Case (U. Chicago), and Professor Elizabeth Emens (Columbia).

Join Harvard Journal of Law & Gender for this exciting and innovative approach to legal scholarship, combining traditional print with online discussion by scholars across the country and this dynamic in-person discussion. Reception to follow.

Co-sponsored by Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, ACS, LAMBDA, Womens Law Association, Harvard Law Students for Reproductive Justice, and the Harvard Journal of Civil Rights-Civil Liberties, with generous funding from the Milbank Fund and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy.

Sponsor: Harvard Journal of Law & Gender
Calendar Option: The event is open to the general public as well as to the HLS community (Public Calendar)

Yearbook Picture Day

14 Feb 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Hark (Caspersen) fireside lounge
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 10am – 4pm

Photos for the yearbook will be held Tuesday through Thursday, February 14-16 and March 27-29 in the Hark (Caspersen) fireside lounge from 10am-4pm.

To sign up for your 5 minute time-slot, please visit www.legacyharvardlaw.info. Under “Select Session” in the drop-down menu on the bottom left side of the screen, select “Yearbook Sitting.” Please sign up if you are a new user.

Please note: February appointments are “live” and available for booking, but March will be up in the coming weeks. There is an option for a free text message reminder, and you can also view, print confirmations for, and cancel appointments online, as well as export to Outlook. 24-hour notice minimum for cancellations is required so that other students may sign up for open spots. Group pictures of student organizations and journals are tentatively scheduled for early April.

If you already have a yearbook photo you’d like to submit, the Yearbook Staff invites HLS students, family or friends to submit photos for the 2012 HLS Yearbook. If you have great photos of school and community events or you and your friends just having fun, we'd like to see them. Our photographers can't be everywhere so we want you to help us get as many photos as possible to in order to create the best yearbook possible. For more information on submitting photos to the yearbook, please visit www.law.harvard.edu…

Sponsor: Dean of Students Office

Film Screening: Diamonds of War

14 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Wasserstein 3018
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 12 – 1pm

Join HALA this Valentine's Day for a short National Geographic documentary screening of "Diamonds of War: Africa's Blood Diamonds." The film tracks the bloody trail of diamonds mined in West Africa and sold around the world. Donuts will be provided!

Sponsor: Harvard African Law Association
Contact E-mail: hala@mail.law.harvard.edu
More info: hlsorgs.com…

PLP Speaker Series - So Near, But How Far Away: Opportunities and Challenges in Canadian Law Firms

14 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Hauser Hall, Rm. 104
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 12 – 1pm

Peter Martin
Partner, Robinson Sheppard Shapiro LLP;
Counsel, McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Mr. Martin is an experienced business law practitioner. He maintains an active transactional practice, having led and executed a wide variety of acquisitions, financings and divestitures for both domestic and international clients across many industries and sectors. Mr. Martin also has wide experience in coordinating and directing client service teams, including assuming overall client relationship responsibilities. He also advises clients in the health, life sciences, defense, aeronautics and technology industries, particularly in the areas of regulatory compliance, outsourcing, privacy and procurement. He appears as a leading lawyer in biotechnology law in the last edition of Best Lawyers in Canada as well as in the 2011 edition of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.

Fluently bilingual, Mr. Martin has authored numerous papers in his areas of professional interest, and is a frequent speaker at professional conferences and seminars. He has lectured at McGill University and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Mr. Martin received his BA in 1969, and his BCL in 1973, from McGill University. He was called to the Québec Bar in 1975, and became a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1982.

Lunch will be provided!

Sponsor: Program on the Legal Profession
Contact E-mail: plpevents@law.harvard.edu
More info: www.law.harvard.edu…

International policy at the UN: understanding and affecting the reproductive rights agenda

14 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Wasserstein, B010
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 12 – 1pm

Sponsor: Society for Law, Life, and Religion
Contact E-mail: jwillems@jd12.law.harvard.edu

Wasserstein Lunch Talk: Anne Tierney Goldstein ’82 – Human Rights Education Director, International Association of Women Judges, Washington, DC

14 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Wasserstein Hall, Room 3007
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 12 – 1pm

The Wasserstein Lunch Talk is a unique opportunity for students to learn from, and network with, Wasserstein Fellows who have been involved in public service work in a variety of practice settings. Lunch will be provided.

Anne Tierney Goldstein, Esq. has been the Human Rights Education Director of the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) since 1993. She designed the IAWJ's Jurisprudence of Equality Program (JEP) and has provided leadership for JEP trainings in Central and Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. In all, more than 2500 judges, female and male, have taken part in JEP trainings in 21 countries. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Ms. Goldstein spent three years as an attorney with the United States Department of Justice and two years at the Washington, D.C. office of Hogan and Hartson before entering the non-profit world. An expert on international law and women's rights, she has taught undergraduate and law school courses on women and the law, transnational family law, and comparative and international law of women's rights at Georgetown University and George Washington University in Washington, DC, and at the joint Oxford-George Washington summer program in human rights in Oxford, UK.

Sponsor: OPIA
Contact E-mail: opia@law.harvard.edu

Mate Choice in an Online Dating Site

14 Feb 2012 17:30:00 GMT

Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 12:30 – 1:45pm

The 21st century has witnessed a transformation of the American dating scene: Online dating—previously a marginalized social practice—has skyrocketed in popularity to become one of the primary ways that singles meet and mate today. While clearly an empirical topic worthy of study in its own right, data from online dating sites also offer an unprecedented opportunity to address questions of longstanding interest to social scientists.

In his talk, Kevin Lewis, Berkman Center Fellow, will introduce a new social network dataset based on behavioral data from a popular online dating site; discuss the utility of these data for understanding the shape of contemporary stratification systems; and provide a first look at the dynamics of inequality, exclusion, and gender asymmetry that characterize the early stages of mate choice.

More details: cyber.law.harvard.edu…

Sponsor: Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Contact E-mail: ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu
More info: cyber.law.harvard.edu…

Yearbook Picture Day

15 Feb 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Hark (Caspersen) fireside lounge
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 10am – 4pm

Photos for the yearbook will be held Tuesday through Thursday, February 14-16 and March 27-29 in the Hark (Caspersen) fireside lounge from 10am-4pm.

To sign up for your 5 minute time-slot, please visit www.legacyharvardlaw.info. Under “Select Session” in the drop-down menu on the bottom left side of the screen, select “Yearbook Sitting.” Please sign up if you are a new user.

Please note: February appointments are “live” and available for booking, but March will be up in the coming weeks. There is an option for a free text message reminder, and you can also view, print confirmations for, and cancel appointments online, as well as export to Outlook. 24-hour notice minimum for cancellations is required so that other students may sign up for open spots. Group pictures of student organizations and journals are tentatively scheduled for early April.

If you already have a yearbook photo you’d like to submit, the Yearbook Staff invites HLS students, family or friends to submit photos for the 2012 HLS Yearbook. If you have great photos of school and community events or you and your friends just having fun, we'd like to see them. Our photographers can't be everywhere so we want you to help us get as many photos as possible to in order to create the best yearbook possible. For more information on submitting photos to the yearbook, please visit www.law.harvard.edu…

Sponsor: Dean of Students Office

CRCL 1L Subciter Training

15 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Langdell North
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 12 – 1pm

Join us for subcite training! All 1Ls planning to subcite with CRCL on February 18 or 19 must attend one training session on either on February 15 or 16.

Sponsor: Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Contact E-mail: crcl.me.vol.47@gmail.com

Discussing Rape Law in the Classroom

15 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Wasserstein 1023
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 12 – 1pm

Every semester the WLA hosts a lunchtime events designed to prepare 1L students for the Rape Law unit in Criminal Law. Often these class discussions become very heated, as they deal with a subject that can be deeply personal. Rape is one crime where, statistically speaking, there is a high likelihood of survivors in the classroom. Due to this dynamic, we host this event and provide resources to those who would find them helpful. All students, male and female, are welcome. Pizza lunch will be served.

Sponsor: Women's Law Association
Contact E-mail: mbragg@jd13.law.harvard.edu

Law Practice Areas: Corporate Practice II (Emerging Companies, Banking, and Funds)

15 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Wasserstein 1010
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 12 – 1pm

At most firms, corporate practice is a huge umbrella that contains a number of different types of work. The first installment of this series, LPA: Corporate Practice I (offered in the fall and available via webcast the OCS media library), addressed M&A, Project Finance and Capital Markets. In this second installment, you’ll learn about banking, fund practice and emerging companies, all types of transactional practice subsumed under the corporate umbrella. Join us and find out what these types corporate practitioners do on a day-to-day basis and gain critical information to determine whether these subtypes of corporate practice might be right for you.

Sponsor: OCS

Exceptional Courts and the Making of Republican Egypt

15 Feb 2012 20:00:00 GMT

Wasserstein 2036 Milstein East C
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 3 – 4:30pm

ILSP lecture by Yoram Meital (Associate Professor, Ben-Gurion Univ, Middle East Studies; Chairman, Ben-Gurion University Chaim Herzog Center for ME Studies & Diplomacy), ILSP Visiting Fellow. Reception to follow.

Sponsor: Islamic Legal Studies Program
Contact E-mail: ilsp@law.harvard.edu
More info: www.law.harvard.edu…

Film screening: "Bully" and Forum Discussion

15 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

Harvard Graduate School of Education, Longfellow Hall
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 5 – 7pm

5:00 - 6:30PM - Film screening of Bully documentary
6:30 - 7:15PM - Panel discussion regarding the film and The Bully Project

Directed by Sundance and Emmy-award winning filmmaker, Lee Hirsch, Bully follows five kids and families over the course of a school year. As teachers, administrators, kids and parents struggle to find answers, Bully examines the dire consequences of bullying through the testimony of strong and courageous youth. Through the power of their stories, the film aims to be a catalyst for change in the way we deal with bullying as parents, teachers, children and society as a whole.

More information can be found at the HGSE website: cyber.law.harvard.edu…

Sponsor: Hosted and organized by the Harvard Graduate School of Education in conjunction with the Berkman Center and Facing History and Ourselves.
Contact E-mail: ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu
More info: cyber.law.harvard.edu…

Property and Social Change (Law & Social Change 1L Professor Speaker Series)

15 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

Caspersen South
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 5 – 6:30pm

Interested in hearing more about how the 1L curriculum relates to social justice issues and how it could be applied to social justice work? Please join us as Professor Joseph Singer delivers an exciting presentation on Property and Social Change, the fourth in our new speaker series designed to give 1L students (and interested 2Ls and 3Ls as well!) the opportunity to hear their professors discuss how the subjects they teach are relevant in creating positive social change. There will also be the opportunity for students to continue these discussions with their professors and classmates over dinner provided by L&SC!

The speaker series will consist of six lecture + discussion events over the course of the year, one for each core 1L subject.

Sponsor: Law and Social Change Program of Study
Contact E-mail: jlevin@jd13.law.harvard.edu

Yearbook Picture Day

16 Feb 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Hark (Caspersen) fireside lounge
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 10am – 4pm

Photos for the yearbook will be held Tuesday through Thursday, February 14-16 and March 27-29 in the Hark (Caspersen) fireside lounge from 10am-4pm.

To sign up for your 5 minute time-slot, please visit www.legacyharvardlaw.info. Under “Select Session” in the drop-down menu on the bottom left side of the screen, select “Yearbook Sitting.” Please sign up if you are a new user.

Please note: February appointments are “live” and available for booking, but March will be up in the coming weeks. There is an option for a free text message reminder, and you can also view, print confirmations for, and cancel appointments online, as well as export to Outlook. 24-hour notice minimum for cancellations is required so that other students may sign up for open spots. Group pictures of student organizations and journals are tentatively scheduled for early April.

If you already have a yearbook photo you’d like to submit, the Yearbook Staff invites HLS students, family or friends to submit photos for the 2012 HLS Yearbook. If you have great photos of school and community events or you and your friends just having fun, we'd like to see them. Our photographers can't be everywhere so we want you to help us get as many photos as possible to in order to create the best yearbook possible. For more information on submitting photos to the yearbook, please visit www.law.harvard.edu…

Sponsor: Dean of Students Office

Bradley Manning and the War on Wikileaks: A Discussion with David House and the Massachusetts ACLU

16 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Austin North
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 12 – 1pm

Join the ACLU and JOLT for a discussion of the ongoing Bradley Manning court-martial and the US government's national security campaign against Wikileaks. Featuring David House, founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network, and Laura Rotolo of the Massachusetts ACLU.

Sponsor: Harvard ACLU and JOLT
Contact E-mail: mgiffin@jd13.law.harvard.edu

Journal on Legislation Symposium on Government Outsourcing and Privatization

16 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Wasserstein Hall 2009
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 12 – 5pm

12:00 -- Opening Remarks by Symposium Co-Chairs and Dean Minow
12:20 -- Panel: What Is Inherently Governmental? Defining the Limits, if any, on Government Outsourcing
2:00 -- Break
2:30 -- Panel: Keeping Social Security Secure: Equity, Efficiency, and Privatization
4:00 -- Closing Remarks
4:10 -- Reception

Sponsor: Harvard Journal on Legislation
Contact E-mail: igore@jd13.law.harvard.edu
More info: www.harvardjol.com…