OPIA Blog » Wasserstein http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/opia Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:47:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow’s advocacy in action http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/opia/2009/05/10/wasserstein-public-interest-fellows-advocacy-in-action/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/opia/2009/05/10/wasserstein-public-interest-fellows-advocacy-in-action/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 22:11:55 +0000 opia http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/opia/?p=98 A recent New York Times article documents the story of Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, an environmental and human rights activist who was executed in the ’90s on what many consider drummed up murder charges. One of lawyers involved in helping to bring more facts behind the execution of Saro-Wiwa is Jennie Green, a staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights  www.ccrjustice.org). Ms. Green specializes in international human rights and for three years was the administrative director of Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/opia/2009/05/10/wasserstein-public-interest-fellows-advocacy-in-action/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Wasserstein Fellow El Cid Butuyan Featured in Filipino Paper http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/opia/2007/08/02/waserstein-fellow-el-cid-butuyan/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/opia/2007/08/02/waserstein-fellow-el-cid-butuyan/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:40:03 +0000 opia http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/opia/2007/08/02/waserstein-fellow-el-cid-butuyan/ The Manila Mail highlights El Cid Butuyan, who will serve as a Wasserstein Fellow in OPIA this fall. See the full article here.

This year the Wasserstein Fellows Program for Public Service will bring 15 outstanding public interest attorneys to the Harvard Law School campus for one or two days to advise law students about public service careers. Wasserstein Fellows are selected based on the depth and diversity of their public interest experiences, the areas of expertise which interest students, and the personal qualities that will make them excellent advisers.

During their campus visits, the fellows advise individual students on career options, speak in classes and on panels, meet with student groups, and speak informally with students at brown bag lunches. The program was created in 1990 in honor of Morris Wasserstein through a generous gift from his family.

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