WLA Lunch with Madeline Garcia Bigelow, Movie/Discussion of the BP Oil Spill, Panel on Nontraditional Public Service and More!

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Check out all the upcoming events!

WLA Sponsored & Co-Sponsored Events:

1) WLA/OPIA Lunch with Madeline Garcia Bigelow: Tues., Oct. 26th, 12pm, P332 - Lunch!

2) WLA/ELS Screening and Panel on Social and Legal Impact of BP Oil Spill and other Environmental Disasters: Wed., Oct. 27th, 12-1, P101 - Non-pizza lunch!

3) WLA Panel: Reimagining Public Service: Women in Nontraditional Legal Careers: Thurs., Oct. 28th, 7:15, P102 - Buffet Dinner!

4) WLA Course Selection Mingler: Mon., Nov. 1st, 9-10am, Lewis 102 - Breakfast!

5) WLA/HALA:

  A Discussion with 

Judge Solomy Bossa of the ICTR,

 

Mon., Nov. 1st, 6pm, Griswold 110.

6) 

Women in Law & Business Panel: Wed., Nov. 3rd, 12-1, Austin West

7) Making International Connections: WLA JD/LLM Networking Banquet: 

 

Fri., Nov. 12th, 7-9 pm, John Chipman Gray, 

 

Dinner!

8) Calling all HLS Moms: Email to join a lunch with other HLS Moms!

9) Follow up handouts from the Rape in the Classroom Discussion

10) 

Submit your old outlines/exams to the WLA Outline/Exam Bank!

Additional Events of Interest:

1) 

Fed Soc Event Featuring 

Diana Furchtgott-Roth: Tues., Oct. 27th, 1-2pm, Austin East, Lunch provided.

2) Women's Caucus Networking Wine & Cheese Happy Hour:

  Wed. Oct 27, 6-9 pm, WAPP Cason Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Taubman,

 

Harvard Kennedy School

3) 

HLS Alliance for Israel Event: Israeli Domestic Violence Specialist: Wed., Oct. 27th, 6pm, Hauser 104 - Dinner.

WLA/OPIA Lunch with Domestic Violence Project Founder

 

Madeline Garcia Bigelow, Director, Domestic Violence Project, Urban Justice Center (click on this link to sign up for lunch)

WLA/OPIA lunch with Madeline Garcia Bigelow on Tuesday, October 26th, 12pm in Pound 332.  Bigelow has over 17 years of experience in the field of domestic violence and the public sector and founded the Domestic Violence Project at the Urban Justice Center.  Check with OPIA for one-on-one advising with Madeline as well!

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 /ELS Screening & Panel on Impact of BP Oil Spill & Other Environmental Disasters

The WLA and Environmental Law Society will be showing a short documentary film entitled "Crude Justice" on Wednesday, October 27, from 12-1pm in Pound 101. A panel of law students who have worked on social issues caused or exacerbated by environmental events will follow. Come to hear about fellow student experiences and get great ideas for summer/winter term work that impacts communities with pressing legal issues. Non-pizza lunch.

WLA Panel: Reimagining Public Service: Women in Nontraditional Legal Careers 

 

Reimagining Public Service: Women in Nontraditional Legal Careers Panel will take place Thursday, October 28, 7:15 p.m. in Pound 102.  A panel of women in nontraditional public interest legal jobs will discuss their work and career paths and answer questions about pursuing innovative public service opportunities. The panel will be moderated by visiting HLS Professor Katherine Porter. Buffet dinner provided! Panelists include: Meryl Kessler, Legal Director, Discovering Justice; Joan Meschino, Executive Director, Massachusetts Appleseed; Zoe Paolantonio, Co-Director/Principal Legal Advocate, Domestic Violence Institute at Boston Medical Center; Margaret Van Deusen, Deputy Director/General Counsel, Charles River Watershed Association.

WLA Course Selection Mingler

On November 1st, from 9-10 am in Lewis 102, come mingle with your fellow WLA members to get informal advice and opinions on course selection for the Spring Semester. 1Ls, come hear from 2Ls and 3Ls; 2Ls and 3Ls come give and get advice!  Breakfast will be served!

WLA/HALA: A Discussion with Judge Solomy Bossa of the ICTR

Successes and Challenges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: A Discussion with Sitting Judge Bossa. Please join Harvard African Law Association and the WLA for an exciting paper presentation and discussion with Judge Solomy Bossa of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UNICTR).  Judge Bossa is the former secretary of the International Association of Women Judges, and has served as a Judge of the East African Court of Justice and the High Court of Uganda. Dinner will be served! Mon., Nov. 1, 6PM, Griswold 110.

Women in Law & Business Panel

Are you a woman at HLS interested in a career in corporate law or business? Please join us for our 'Women in Law & Business Panel' on November 3, 2010 at 12:00 PM in Austin Hall West. The panel will feature Nancy Browne (Managing Director, Goldman Sachs), Niloo Howe (Managing Director, Paladin Capital), Ronit Berkovich (Partner, Weil Gotshal), Nicole Levin-Mesard (Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton) and Marisa Wesely (Partner, Simpson Thacher). They will discuss their experiences rising to the top of their respective fields and take questions from students regarding their own career ambitions and interests.  Co-sponsored by the Harvard Association for Law and Business.

Making International Connections: WLA JD/LLM Networking Banquet

Interested in working abroad? Thinking about interning in international human rights? Come to a WLA banquet to meet LLM and SJD students in order to find out about opportunities in their home countries and make new friends!

 

Dinner served! Friday November 12th, 7-9 pm, John Chipman Gray.

Calling All HLS Moms!

Are you an HLS mom, interested in getting together with other HLS moms? We're hoping to organize a lunch at the Hark so that we can get to know other women who are juggling school and little ones. If you're interested please email Harriet Loos at hl...@jd11.law.harvard.edu.

How Rape Is Taught in the Classroom: Improving the Student Experience

Thank you to those who came to the discussion last Thursday. For those who missed the meeting or didn't receive handouts, please see the attached documents.  Please also keep your eye out for another panel directed at teaching rape in the classroom.

Submit Your Outlines/Exams to the WLA Outline & Exam Bank!

Calling all 2Ls and 3Ls! Remember those outlines you spent hours crafting? Those exams you worked so hard on?  Put them to good use by contributing your old outlines and exams to the WLA Outline & Exam Bank and continue the tradition of women 

supporting women! To get a copy of your old exams, 

email Sandy Parker at sapa...@law.harvard.edu and requesting a copy and she will forward you the PDF. 

Send your materials to w...@law.harvard.edu (include professor name, course title, and 

   

semester). 

Federalist Society Event Featuring Diana Furchtgott-Roth

The Federalist Society presents Diana Furchtgott-Roth, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. Her remarks will be based on a recent article she wrote entitled, "How Obama Gender Politics Undermine America."  Remarks will be given Tuesday, October 27th at 1pm in Austin East. Lunch provided.

Women's Caucus Networking Wine & Cheese Happy Hour

The Women's Caucus at the Kennedy School is hosting a Harvard-wide wine and cheese party on Wednesday, October 27th from 6-9pm in WAPP Cason Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Taubman, at the Harvard Kennedy School. We'll be meeting, mingling, and discussing the following article: 

  

 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135/

  

 . Come meet fellow feminists across Harvard! RSPV to Varina Winder, Women's Caucus Chair, at 

  

 varina...@gmail.com.

  

  

Israeli Domestic Violence Legal Specialist

HLS Alliance for Israel is sponsoring the following discussion: Religion and Law in Israel: The Challenges of Advocacy in Israeli Rabbinic Courts on Wednesday, October 27th at 6pm in Hauser 104.  Join us for a discussion with Israeli advocate Esther Sha’anan about the challenges and frustrations of legal representation in Israeli rabbinic courts. Esther Sha’anan was born in Canada, and has lived in Israel since 1980.  Her first career in Israel was in the field of Jewish Education; in 1994 she began legal studies and in 1998 was admitted to the Israel Bar.  She lives in Jerusalem, where she practices family law. She specializes in issues of domestic violence and for five years served as legal counsel for two women’s shelters.  Since 1999 she has appeared before both rabbinic and family courts throughout Israel. RSVP to jhfri...@jd12.law.harvard.edu for free kosher vegetarian
dinner (Israeli-style)!

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