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 Tribe seeks TFs for “Thinking About the Constitution”
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.
Research Assistant
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.
Teaching Assistants Wanted
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
Part Time Research Assistant for Legal Issues and Women’s Health
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.
New Opportunities for work on Gender Violence
Diane Rosenfeld, Lecturer on Law, will be offering a new yearlong Gender Violence Legal Policy Workshop (one credit per semester.) It offers the student hands-on experience in analyzing, evaluating and creating legal policy on a range of issues related to gender violence, including preventing and addressing campus sexual assault using Title IX’s legal framework; improving the criminal justice and community responses to intimate partner violence; and sex trafficking and prostitution. Prerequisite: must be enrolled in either the Title IX seminar or the Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice seminar during the 2012-2013 academic year. For more information, contact rosenfeld@law.harvard.edu
Harvard Seminar on Religion and Politics, April 9th 2012 @ noon – 1:30pm, “Catholic Faith, Justice, and the Common Good: Thoughts on the Roles of Bishops and the Lay Faithful”, w/Professor Robert P. George of Princeton University
Harvard Seminar on Religion and Politics will meet again next Monday, April 9, 12-1:30pm.
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, will give a talk entitled: “Catholic Faith, Justice, and the Common Good: Thoughts on the Roles of Bishops and the Lay Faithful.”
Discussant: Arthur Applbaum, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Harvard Kennedy School.
Location: The Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, second floor.
If you plan to attend RSVP to Ofrit Liviatan oliviatan@gov.harvard.edu.
Ready, Set, Go: Prepare for Summer Success!
THURSDAY, April 19, 3:00-5:00PM
Wasserstein 1023
Find out how to hit the ground running as you begin your summer or permanent job. Whether you are entering the public or private sector, employers are operating with fewer resources than ever with a constant eye on results.
Snacks and drinks will be provided.
Kindle door prizes provided by Westlaw and Bloomberg Law; Camelbak door prizes provided by LexisNexis.
Select up to two sessions offering practical tips on efficient legal research strategies in a variety of areas as well as concrete strategies for success on the job, including how to tackle a new assignment, interact with supervisors, obtain constructive feedback, and gain the most from your job opportunity.
Register here: http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/students/summer-success.html
Co-sponsored by the HLS Library and the Program on the Legal Profession.
Please contact George Taoultsides, gtaoultsides@law.harvard.edu, with questions.
Research Assistance – Law/Journalism
Prof. Hay is looking for summer research assistance for work aimed at general audiences. An interest in journalism would be helpful. Contact Carol Igoe at cigoe at law.harvard.edu
Call for Applications: Petrie-Flom Student Fellows 2012-2013
The Center and Student Fellowship.
The Petrie-Flom Center is an interdisciplinary research program at Harvard Law School dedicated to the scholarly research of important issues at the intersection of law and health policy, including issues of health care financing and market regulation, biomedical research, and bioethics. The Student Fellowship Program is designed to support student research in those areas.
Eligibility.
The student fellowship program is open to Harvard Law School students and students in other Harvard graduate programs who are interested in pursuing careers related to the Center’s subject areas and who are committed to undertaking a significant research project during the year of their fellowship.
Writing Requirement.
Student fellows will conduct research projects designed to lead to publishable articles. Fellows are expected to produce at least on such paper by the end of the academic year. Papers written in connection with the fellowship can be used to satisfy the third-year written work requirement or other optional writing credit by prior arrangement with and final approval of a faculty advisor who has agreed to supervise a fellow’s work for this purpose.
Curricular Component.
Student fellows are required to enroll in the Health Law Policy Workshop. The workshop is intended to provide student fellows with opportunities to interact with leading scholars and academic fellows in the fields of health law and policy, with the expectation that these interactions will further enhance and inform their research and academic development. The Health Law Policy Workshop for 2012-13 is scheduled to take place on selected Mondays across the fall and spring semester from 5-7pm. Fellowship awardees will have priority enrollment.
Presentations and Events.
Student fellows will be expected to present their research to Center affiliates and faculty during two or three lunch sessions in the Spring semester. Student fellows may be asked to assist with panels and conferences presented by the Center during the academic year of their fellowship including organizing and reporting on events in the Center’s bi-annual newsletter.
Resources.
The Center will award each fellow with a $1,500 stipend. The stipend paid at the end of the academic year, once all fellowship requirements (including submission of an acceptable paper) are completed. Additionally, fellows may be eligible to request additional funding to cover reasonable costs associated with their research projects (e.g., copying, publications, conference fees, travel).
Application.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until June 10, 2012. Notifications of awards will be made by mid-summer.
To apply, email the following to kburroughs at law.harvard.edu:
1. Your curriculum vitae;
2. A proposal summarizing the research and writing you intend to accomplish (1500 word maximum); and
3. A digital copy of your most current transcript (which need not be official, but should include grades through the fall 2011 semester.)
For further questions, please contact:
Shannon Sayer
Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics
Harvard Law School
23 Everett Street, Room 303
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-2316
Student Meeting: Fall 2012 Trial Advocacy Workshop/ITA: Criminal Justice Courses
MEETING!
Fall 2012 Trial Advocacy Workshop and
Introduction to Trial Advocacy: Criminal Justice
There will be a mandatory meeting on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. in Ames Courtroom (Austin Hall) for all students who have registered in the Fall 2012 Trial Advocacy Workshop and the Fall/Winter ITA: Criminal Justice courses for the upcoming academic year.
Any students interested in learning about these courses or possibly enrolling are also welcome to attend.
At the meeting, Professor Charles Ogletree and Professor Ronald Sullivan will discuss what you need to do to be prepared for both TAW and ITA. If you have questions, please contact Amy E. Soto of the Criminal Justice Institute at asoto at law.harvard.edu or (617) 496-4915.
Fall 2012 TAW and Fall/Winter ITA Overview Meeting
MEETING!
Fall 2012 Trial Advocacy Workshop and
Introduction to Trial Advocacy: Criminal Justice
There will be a mandatory meeting on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. in Ames Courtroom (Austin Hall) for all students who have registered in the Fall 2012 Trial Advocacy Workshop and the Fall/Winter ITA: Criminal Justice courses for the upcoming academic year.
Any students interested in learning about these courses or possibly enrolling are also welcome to attend.
At the meeting, Professor Charles Ogletree and Professor Ronald Sullivan will discuss what you need to do to be prepared for both TAW and ITA. If you have questions, please contact Amy E. Soto of the Criminal Justice Institute at asoto at law.harvard.edu or (617) 496-4915.
Apply to be on the Board of the Harvard Immigration Project
Applications to the HIP Executive Board for 2012—2013 are due on Monday, April 9th at 5pm. The application and description of available positions is available at http://hlsorgs.com/hip/apply-to-hip/
Summer International Travel Pre-Departure Information Sessions
The session will be offered at two different times:
Tuesday, April 10
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Wasserstein Milstein East C
Friday, April 13
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Wasserstein 3019
HLS requires ALL students who are receiving credit or funding for summer international travel to:
attend one of the information sessions noted above. The sessions will provide information about health, safety, and other travel considerations, as well as facilitate interaction among students who are going to particular regions and those who have spent time there. For more information or to determine which sessions will focus on particular regions, e-mail Alexis Boyce at aboyce at law.harvard.edu.
register the trip in the Harvard Travel Registry. This enables the University to locate travelers quickly and provide assistance in the event of an emergency (i.e. natural disaster, civil unrest, etc). Students should create a profile in the Travel Registry and then record their specific travel information and make sure the information stays up-to-date.
review, sign, and return the appropriate Assumption of Risk and General Release
obtain an International SOS membership card and review the program’s services
For more information on each of these steps, and traveling abroad in general, please be sure to visit the international travel webpage.
Please note that attending the sessions and registering travel is strongly recommended for HLS students who will be traveling abroad this summer but not receiving Harvard funding or credit.
Drinks and dessert will be provided at the pre-departure sessions; feel free to bring your lunch.
Research Assistant for Criminal Law
Research Assistant for Climenko Fellow Avlana Eisenberg (criminal law).
Ms. Eisenberg is looking to hire a research assistant to help study developments in hate crime legislation and prosecution. Pay is $11.50/hr for work beginning now and with the possibility of continuing through June. Interested candidates please email your CV along with a statement of interest that includes your availability to aeisenberg at law.harvard.edu.
“April is Earth Month! Did you know the answer to this environmental trivia question?
Question: How many calories per person are in food wasted every day in the US?
A. 200
B. 800
C. 1400
D. 2000
Answer: C
Join the Green Living Program and Green Team for the Earth Day fair on Wednesday, April 18 from 11:30-1:30 on Holmes Field to really test your environmental knowledge with real trivia. Free food, live music, prizes, and more!”
Summer research assistant
Professor Hay is looking for research assistance this summer. Interested students should email Caroll Igoe at cigoe at law.harvard.edu.
One Spot Left….
Harvard Defenders is accepting applications for the final spot for the Litman Summer Fellowship Program. Fellows have the unique opportunity to handle all their own cases and advocate for their clients in the Boston area’s criminal courts. Fellows will also write an academic paper under the supervision of a faculty member. Fellows will be awarded $1000 in addition to SPIF funding. Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume to dstern@jd13 and jmachlin@jd13. Information about the fellowship can be found at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical/defenders/students/join.html
“April is Earth Month! Did you know the answer to this environmental trivia question?
In the fall 2009 waste audit, how much of the HLS dorms’ trash could have been recycled or reused?
A. 26%
B. 32%
C. 44%
D. 52%
Answer: A
Join the Green Living Program and Green Team for the Earth Day fair on Wednesday, April 18 from 11:30-1:30 on Holmes Field to really test your environmental knowledge with real trivia. Free food, live music, prizes, and more!”
Summer RA: Administrative Law and Constitutional Theory (Professor Jacob Gersen)
Professor Jacob Gersen is looking for a summer Research Assistant to work on Administrative Law and Constitutional Theory. If you are interested, please email your resume and transcript to Irina Goldina at igoldina at law.harvard.edu.