Join us for a talk by Carol Rose, the executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts. Carol has spent her career advocating for human rights and civil liberties both in the United States and abroad, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Japan, Sri Lanka, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Northern Ireland, and Vietnam. Lunch will be […]

Join the Harvard Association for Law and Business for a conversation with Sara Moss, Vice Chairman of the Estée Lauder Companies, which is a part of the HALB Women’s Leadership Speaker Series. In her role, Ms. Moss serves as a senior advisor to the Board of Directors, Executive Management and the Lauder family. Non-pizza lunch […]

The Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession and Strathmore Universe Law School will host a series of thought-provoking events on the afternoon/evening of Monday, 9 December and all-day Tuesday, 10 December on the Campus of Strathmore University Law School in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference, entitled The African Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization, will bring together leaders from the legal profession, the private sector, […]

The Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession is proud to host a showing of the documentary “Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook,” a film executive produced by Steven “Mac” Heller, former co-head of global investment banking at Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Rigged is narrated by actor Jeffrey Wright and was shot during the 2016 […]

The Roundtable is an opportunity to convene a small group of experts to discuss issues at the interface of access to justice and development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Ordor will present her research discussing the question of access to regional courts in Africa and implications for economic development, focusing especially on theoretical frameworks for analyzing […]

Judy Perry Martinez of Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn in New Orleans is president of the American Bar Association, the largest voluntary association of attorneys and legal professionals in the world. Over the past 35 years, Martinez has held various leadership positions with the ABA, including chair of the Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, […]

Justice Sisi Khampepe has been a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa since 2009. She began her legal career as one of the first black lawyers practicing labor law where she was exposed to the unfair employment conditions of Black workers. In 1985, she established her own law firm which became renowned for […]

This Speaker Series event will explore the role lawyers have played and continue to play in elected office in the United States serving in municipal,  state and national offices. Congressman David Cicilline is a member of the House Democratic leadership as Chair of the Policy and Communications Committee.  He is also a leader in the […]

With all this talk about technology and the death of lawyers it is easy to be somewhat pessimistic about the fate of human lawyers.  As a confirmed humanist and pragmatic optimist, Anthony sees a rich and rewarding future for human lawyers but only if we make some important changes.  This Speaker Series talk will be […]

Please join the Harvard Law School Alumni Association for a book talk and reception with Michele De Stefano, HLS ‘02  and author of “Legal Upheaval; A Guide to Creativity, Collaboration and Innovation in the Law.” Michele is also an affiliated faculty member of the Center on the Legal Profession and an affiliated faculty member of […]