Doing something cool this summer? Want to turn it into a documentary?

The Harvard Law Documentary Studio is now accepting project proposals for our 2012 Summer Projects. We’d like to support these Summer Projects by providing the student filmmaker with equipment (Panasonic DVX 100 camera, shotgun mic, tripod, boom pole and/or wireless lav mic), basic technical training prior to the summer, and potentially some financial support. After the summer, a film would continue to receive training and workshop support as one of our 2012-13 Annual Projects.

No experience is necessary, but filmmakers must be enrolled students on campus for the 2012-13 academic year. (*Keep in mind that if you’re working at a summer job, and your film proposal isn’t related to your work, you still might have some time before or after your job to take on a short film project.)

* Proposals are due by 5pm on Friday, March 30. Email us ( harvardlawdocs at gmail.com) with questions. Learn more about the Harvard Law Documentary Studio here: http://www.harvardlawdocs.org/
Application form and more information: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&pli=1&formkey=dEhTdWVGU2VQUkZjd000NzVSaVAyMEE6MQ#gid=0

Harvard Environmental Law Review and the Harvard Environmental Law Society present Elizabeth Kolbert, on Journalism, Advocacy and the Environment.  Come hear the author of the 2006 best-seller Field Notes from a Catastrophe and staff writer at the New Yorker speak about her experience as a climate change journalist, where she sees the politics and policy of environmentalism heading in the run-up to the 2012 elections, and the risks of unconventional fuel development in the U.S. and abroad.  Tuesday, February 28th, Austin West, 12-1, Felipe’s Burritos.

Join us for a conversation about the way different legal cultures structure criminal procedures and how these differences challenge formalist approaches to comparative law. Lunch will be served. Location: WCC 3008

 Join us for a conversation about the way different legal cultures structure criminal procedures and how these differences challenge formalist approaches to comparative law. Lunch will be served.

Prof. Hay seeks research assistance for a project on right-wing fundamentalism on the Supreme Court and its parallels with religious fundamentalism.  Interested students should email  hay at law.harvard.edu.

Building the Digital Public Library of America

We now have the technology to create the greatest library the world has ever known, and to bring it within clicking distance of virtually every person on earth — at least everyone on the Internet.

On Friday, March 2, Harvard Library Strategic Conversations will sponsor a program entitled “Building the Digital Public Library of America.”

Featured speakers, Prof. Robert Darnton and Prof. John G. Palfrey, will discuss the Digital Public Library of America project from its beginnings up to the current date.

The program will be held at 3:00 pm in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall, on the campus of Harvard Law School.

Send questions to Lisa at  Ljunghahn at law.harvard.edu

The Harvard-to-Harvard Arts Symposium on March 31, 2012 will bring together Harvard students from the Law School and the School of Education through a series of collaborative arts-based workshops. We’re looking for workshop leaders to conduct introductory 45-minute workshops on topics related to:

Wellness and Mindfulness
Innovation, Creativity and Inspiration
Team-Building and Problem Solving

If you have a skill you wish to showcase, and you think you can lead a fun, inclusive, collaborative, participatory activity that will inspire any and all types of students, we want you! Potential workshop topics include creative tools for innovation or mindful practices as a means of stress relief. The more creative, the better.  For more info, or to sign up,  email Joel Knopf (HLS 2013) at  jknopf at jd13.law.harvard.edu or Val Heron-Durante (HGSE 2012) at  vgh532 at mail.harvard.edu. Thanks!

1L Volunteers Sought for Class Role-Playing Exercise on Standing in Environmental Litigation
description: Lecturer on Law Shaun Goho is seeking volunteers to play a role in a class exercise on how to establish standing in environmental litigation in his Environmental Advocacy: Citizen Suits seminar.  Volunteers would need to be available from approximately 4:45 pm to 5:45 pm on Wednesday, March 7th.

Snacks provided.

If interested, please contact Mr. Goho: sgoho at law.harvard.edu or 617-496-5692.

Outside scholarship application links for 2012-2013 with deadlines from February to June can be found on the HLS Student Financial Services website at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/current/sfs/myaid/outside-scholarships/current.html

Join us for Pilates Fusion on the first Fitness Friday of the year and the first in the new Wasserstein/Caspersen/Clinical Building!!!

Class is from 12-1 in 2019 Milstein West A.

See you there!

Wasserstein 3007

Prof. Robert Bordone will launch a new brown bag lunchtime series of conversations about current events & negotiation practices facilitated by the faculty of the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP).

Upcoming brown bags in the series:
February 28: Chad Carr
March 23: Rory Van Loo
April 10: Jeremy McClane

In Common is a graduate and professional student support line which is 100% anonymous and confidential. We are seeking volunteers to help us staff the line! Volunteers need not have any counseling experience, just a willingness to listen to others. We provide training and ask that volunteers commit to two four-hour shifts per month and bi-weekly training sessions (90 minutes, over dinner).

Interested Volunteers can contact Jason or Yujing at  incommonhelpline at gmail.com

The Justice Elena Kagan Scholarship of $5,000 will be awarded to a law school student committed to equal opportunity and access in the judicial system. The application deadline is 2-16-12. Check out:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/current/sfs/myaid/outside-scholarships/current.html

Harv. Env. L. Rev. and the Harvard Environmental Law Society present Elizabeth Kolbert, on Journalism, Advocacy and the Environment.  February 28th, 12-1pm, Austin West. Non-pizza lunch.

Come hear the author of the 2006 best-seller Field Notes from a Catastrophe and staff writer at the New Yorker speak about her experience as a climate change journalist, where she sees the politics and policy of environmentalism heading in the run-up to the 2012 elections, and the risks of unconventional fuel development in the U.S. and abroad.

As part of a student-led independent project, we are holding focus groups for 1Ls to get feedback on the academic experience at HLS.  Student opinions and thoughts are invaluable to this project, which we hope will help improve the student experience at HLS and give 1Ls an additional opportunity to have their voice and opinions heard. The groups will be held on Feb. 27th and Feb. 28th from 6-7:30 pm; dinner will be served. To sign up to participate in a group on either day, email Nicole Summers at  nsummers at jd13.law.harvard.edu or Krista deBoer at  kdeboer at jd12.law.harvard.edu.

Professor Richard Lazarus is interested in hiring a current HLS law student for a full time research assistant position this summer.  Applicants should be able to work a minimum of eight weeks, beginning in late May or early June.  To apply, students should submit a resume and transcript to his assistant, Kimberly O’Hagan ( kohagan at law.harvard.edu) along with a short statement of interest. Please include, if applicable, any particular interest or background you have in environmental law and/or the U.S. Supreme Court.