News & Events

Gender and Law Coffee Hour for LLM Students

 Attention LLM students interested in the study of gender and law! Please join the Women and the Law Program staff for a virtual coffee hour. Grab a hot beverage and come learn about the specialized courses being offered next term, and mingle with classmates who share your interest in using the law to promote and protect Women's and LGBTI rights. Please RSVP, we look forward to seeing you!

International Suite Talk Series featuring Csaba Rusznak, President, Sovereign Arbitration Advisors

Csaba is the president of Sovereign Arbitration Advisors, a Washington, DC-based boutique firm focusing on international arbitration and transnational litigation. He represents States and private parties in arbitrations around the world, and was previously an international arbitration lawyer at Arnold & Porter.

The Innovation Delusion: Has Our Obsession With the New Disrupted the Work that Matters Most

Businesses, governments, non-profits, and individuals are all hunting for the next big thing. Consultants, thought-leaders, and management gurus promise to help us reach the innovation promised-land. But is all of this chatter getting us what we want? It took a pandemic to realize how much our society depends on its maintainers. 

Based on the book, The Innovation Delusion, co-author and technology historian Lee Vinsel will explore how our way of thinking about and pursuing innovation has made us poorer, less safe, and—ironically—less innovative. As an alternative, Vinsel will outline the Maintenance Mindset, a more grounded and realistic picture of our lives with technology. He offers a clear plan for shifting our focus away from the pursuit of growth at all costs and back toward neglected activities like maintenance, care, and upkeep.

Business Law Course Selection Panel

Please join the Business Law Program and Business Law Society to hear advice from a range of professors on choosing courses in the area of business law. 

1L Information Session with Law in Technology Diversity Collaborative

 Join members of LiTD as they give information about their 10 week paid internship for women, underrepresented minorities, and other first-year law students with a demonstrated commitment to diversity.

For 2020, the Law in Technology Diversity Collaborative will provide approximately 30 successful candidates with a 10-week paid internship split between a Bay Area or LA tech company and a high-profile law firm.

Participating in the Law in Tech Diversity Collaborative is an investment in your long-term legal career. While each tech company in the Collaborative will make its own hiring decisions and offer its own in-house experience, in one summer, the Collaborative will provide its students with:

• Valuable legal work experience and training at a top-tier law firm and rare in-house work experience, that will give students a holistic perspective on the differences in how legal advice is crafted and digested;
• Two high-profile company resume credentials;
• Networking events with fellow interns and attorneys across all of the companies participating in the Collaborative; and
• A lasting professional cohort, composed of the cross-company class of interns -- this serves as social and support network during the summer, and will mature into a network of professional contacts as you advance in your careers.

Register on the events page of CareerLink. The Zoom link will be distributed the week of the event.