News & Events

Gender and Law and Family Law Cover Letter and Resume Review

 Join us on January 16^th from 5:00 to 6:30pm in Y112 for resume and cover letter review, and career tips from our esteemed alumni practitioners in the fields of women’s rights, reproductive rights, LGBTI rights, and family law! This is a unique opportunity for students to be paired with an alum to review their resume and cover letter one on one. Submit your resume and cover letter and be assigned a time slot here: https://form.jotform.com/pijip/resume-review. 

Consumer Protection Pro Bono Project Training with Tzedeck DC

 Tzedek DC is an independent public interest center  with a mission is to safeguard the rights of low-income D.C. residents dealing with often unjust, abusive, and illegal debt collection practices, as well as other consumer protection problems like credit reporting issues, identity theft, scams and predatory lending. Because these justice violations are disproportionately concentrated in communities of color, debt-related abuses are a major civil rights issue as well. Tzedek DC seeks to increase financial stability and increase access to the civil justice system. Tzedek DC does so through our three interlocking strategies of: (i) direct legal services; (ii) community outreach and education; and (iii) legislative advocacy. Students who volunteer with Tzedek may be asked to conduct intake, work with clients to write personal declaration, conduct and analyze legal research, write letters to clients, synthesize studies, work on client or organization testimony for legislative hearings, and help create community legal education materials. RSVP for the training on MYWCL.(Law students must attend the training before participating in the pro bono project).

SJD Candidate Hashem Alsharif's Dissertation Defense

The Program on Law and Government is pleased to announce that the first SJD defense of the semester will take place on Thursday, January 17th at 1pm in N101. Hashem Alsharif, will be defending his dissertation entitled, "Alternative Punishments to Incarceration in the Sharia Criminal Law: The Applicability of Those Alternatives in the Saudi Arabian Criminal Law."

The 20th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Commemoration Program

Welcoming Remarks: Dean Camille Nelson

Keynote Speaker: Janene Jackson, Esq. '99, Partner at Holland & Knight

Community Reading from Dr. King's Nobel Peace Prize Speech

Office of Academic Excellence: Walk-by Wednesdays

Stop by the Office of Academic Excellence table in the Commons any Wednesday to ask questions you may have about the bar, academic skills or your schedule/classes.