A professor at the Harvard School of Public Health seeks to hire law student as a part-time, paid research assistant (RA) to work on a pilot study of the cosmetic surgery/procedures industry in the United States. The student should have completed two years of law school by summer 2012. The health law RA will attend monthly research team meetings and work closely with Dr. Bryn Austin and health law consultant Jennifer Pomeranz, JD, MPH. The RA will compile a report of her/his findings. The report will document all federal bills, regulations or legislation that have been filed or enacted or the lack thereof. If research reveals state activity on this issue, the report will describe the same for five states selected for focus. If legal activity is found to be lacking, the report will recommend legal actions possible at the federal and state levels, drawing on successful approaches used to address other public health issues. The report will provide the basis for future legal research and the publication of the information in a scientific peer-reviewed journal and perhaps also a law review journal, if appropriate. The research assistant will write a final report on her/his research results and will contribute to drafting a manuscript for peer-review publication. The position is 12 hours per month for nine months, starting either summer 2012 or September 2012, depending on student availability. Please send resume and statement of interest to Dr. Bryn Austin at bryn.austin@childrens.harvard.edu.

Professor Laurence Tribe is looking to hire several Teaching Fellows for his Spring 2013 undergraduate course, “Thinking About the Constitution.”  The course will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 to 11:30 am.  Applicants should have a strong background in constitutional law.

If you are interested, please email Vivek Suri (vsuri at jd13.law.harvard.edu) with a transcript, CV, and brief statement of interest.  Applications are due by Monday, April 16th at noon.

Course Description: What difference does the U.S. Constitution make? Does it matter whether we think about it as a text, as living practice, or as a set of mostly unwritten principles? This course will explore such questions through the lens of several concrete constitutional controversies about desegregation, abortion and death; about the federal legislation penalizing failure to purchase health insurance; about same-sex intimacy and marriage; about free speech and church-state relations; about informational privacy; and about the limits of executive power in times of emergency. Readings will be drawn from judicial and other writings about the Constitution, its history, and its interpretation.

Professor Hal Scott is looking for a Harvard Law School student to work as a research assistant, beginning as soon as possible. Knowledge of or experience with retail payment systems preferred.  Please send your resume to mshanley@law.harvard.edu.

Looking for Teaching Assistants to support Professor Roger Porter’s course in the Presidency at Harvard College.  Candidates who have had experience working in the White House are particularly desirable.  Please contact roger_porter@harvard.edu

Professor Bryn Austin at the Harvard School of Public Health seeks to hire law student as a part-time research assistant (RA) to work on a pilot study of the cosmetic surgery/procedures industry in the United States. The student should have completed two years of law school by summer 2012. The health law RA will attend monthly research team meetings and work closely with Dr. Bryn Austin and health law consultant Jennifer Pomeranz, JD, MPH. The RA will compile a report of her/his findings. The report will document all federal bills, regulations or legislation that have been filed or enacted or the lack thereof. If research reveals state activity on this issue, the report will describe the same for five states selected for focus. If legal activity is found to be lacking, the report will recommend legal actions possible at the federal and state levels, drawing on successful approaches used to address other public health issues. The report will provide the basis for

future legal research and the publication of the information in a scientific peer-reviewed journal and perhaps also a law review journal, if appropriate. The research assistant will write a final report on her/his research results and will contribute to drafting a manuscript for peer-review publication. The position is 12 hours per month for nine months, starting either summer 2012 or September 2012, depending on student availability. Please send resume and statement of interest to Dr. Bryn Austin at bryn.austin@childrens.harvard.edu.