Week of November 29, 2021
In This Issue
News from Knowles
Deadline Lowdown
Office Hours 411
Events: This Week
Events: Next Week
Save the Date
Apply Yourself
Distinguish Yourself
News from Knowles 
Reminders, Announcements and Administrative Updates 
  • Students confronting unexpected situations that result in missing a significant amount of class, like a COVID diagnosis, should email Matt Podgurski at m.podgurski@northeastern.edu.

  • Announcement: NUSL Students for Immigration Justice invite you to submit a comment in support of DACA! The government is seeking input on whether the DACA program should be continued. United We Dream has already written up your comment. Just add 1-2 sentences voicing why you think DACA is important and should provide a pathway to citizenship! https://comment.homeishere.us/ Due 11/29.

  • The Christian Law Caucus is collecting donations for the Women's Lunch Place, a daytime shelter in Boston that provides free meals, personalized advocacy, and medical care to women suffering homelessness. Please consider making a donation during the activities period on December 8th, 12:45-2:00 p.m. See the list of requested items here https://womenslunchplace.org/in-kind-donations  


  • Class of 2022 post-graduate job opportunities: Large and mid-sized law firms are hiring Class of 2022 graduates! Check out the list of firms maintained by the Center for Co-op and Career Development, which is updated every Wednesday, on the career development website here.

  • Former IP-CO LAB Clinic students are welcome to apply for “advanced fieldwork” for 1, 2 or 3 credits (subject to availability). Please email Professor Bruce Jacoby with your interest. 

  • Study Rooms: You can reserve study rooms at the law library here.

  • The Jewish Law Students Association invites interested students to sign up for their email list here. If you have any questions, please contact jlsa@northeastern.edu.
Deadline Lowdown
Co-op, Graduation Requirement, and Other Upcoming Administrative Deadlines
  • Co-op Deadlines:
  • The next Supplemental Collection for Spring 2022 collecting co-ops is Tuesday, November 30th at 11:59 PM Eastern.
  • The next Summer 2022 collecting co-op deadlines are Wednesday, December 1st (default deadline!) and January 19th.


Office Hours 411
This Week's Administrative Office Hours, Appointments, and Drop-by Schedules
  • Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers: LCL provides free and confidential mental health resources, addiction recovery support, and practice management services. LCL is a non-profit organization not affiliated with Northeastern University. LCL is now offering dedicated office hours for NUSL students! To sign up and learn more, please visit: https://www.lclma.org/northeastern-office-hours/


  • Co-op Office Drop-by Hours:
  • Mon 11/29 - 3:30 - 4:30 (Lupita)
  • Tues 11/30 - 12:00 - 1:00 pm (Cynthia)
  • Weds 12/1 - 3:30 – 4:30 pm (Renay)
  • Thurs 12/2 -2:00 – 3:00 pm (Lisa)
  • Fri 12/3 - 2:00 – 3:00 –pm (Adam)

  • Financial Aid Appointments: Appointments with our financial aid team are available virtually and in person. You can schedule a virtual appointment here. If you wish to schedule an in-person appointment, please email our Assistant Director Vanessa Hensey at v.hensey@northeastern.edu for assistance.

  • Law Library: Away from campus this term? You can still get help from a librarian! Email lawlibrary@northeastern.edu or use our Chat to get research help, or schedule a virtual meeting!

  • Computer Services: OCS is available Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 5. Chat with us on Teams here. You may also email us at slaw_ocs@northeastern.edu or call us at 617-373-8919.

  • The Dean's Suite (120 Knowles) is open Monday-Friday, 9-5.  

  • Office of New Markets: Learn more about employment opportunities and career paths in new, emerging and growth areas by scheduling an appointment with Rhonda Rittenberg, Director, Office of New Markets. Co-op and Post-Graduate Opportunities can be found on Canvas at Office of New Markets. 

Events Round-Up: This Week
Events & Programs at Northeastern & Beyond
  • Tuesday, November 30: The SJC Standing Committee on Well-Being and its Legal Education Subcommittee have been working on setting up a series of Town Hall meetings for law students and very recent law school graduates (0-2 years since graduation). All of the information is available at this link: https://lawyerwellbeingma.org/news/law-student-town-halls. The next session is on November 30 from 6:30-7:30 pm. You can register here. The goal of these sessions is not for the Committee to tell law students of the Commonwealth what their challenges are or how we’re planning to respond, but for the Committee to really hear from students about their own lived experiences and challenges, so that we are better equipped to ensure that the individual and collective well-being challenges faced by students are reflected in the Committee’s ongoing work to improve the lives of legal professionals throughout the Commonwealth.

  • Wednesday, December 1: Please join the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 from 9am – 12pm ET for a conference on policy approaches to redressing historical racial harms. Recent years have seen heightened calls for the redress and remediation of historical racial injustice. Policymakers have responded with initiatives that take meaningful steps to address the United States’ long legacy of racial violence and injustice. This convening will take a close look at the current laws and proposals put forth by those legislators and public officials who are at the forefront of these efforts. The conference brings together lawmakers, academic experts, and advocates from across the country to explore legislative efforts to launch government-sponsored truth proceedings and reparations programs.  Webinar Registration is available, or see the Conference Poster

  • Wednesday, December 1: You are invited to join the Northeastern University Asian Studies Program for the university-wide speaker series, Asia America and the World. The recent upsurge in anti-Asian violence and bigotry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has attracted renewed attention on a long-standing problem. This inaugural series invites a diverse slate of scholars from different disciplines—history, sociology, political science, and anthropology—to address critical issues confronting Asian American communities from a global or transnational perspective. The fourth speaker in the series is Dr. Mae Ngai, who will be giving the talk "The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics." Mae Ngai is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, and co-director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. A U.S. legal and political historian interested in questions of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism, she is author of the award-winning Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004); The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (2010); and The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (2021). Registration is required for this hybrid event on Wednesday, December 1 from 4– 5:30 PM. See a poster here.

  • Wednesday, December 1: Open Classroom | Fall 2021 | Repairing a Divided America: Race, Hate Crimes, and Reconciliation. Please join the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, the College of Arts, Media, and Design, and the Northeastern Humanities Center for this semester’s Open Classroom series. The Fall 2021 Open Classroom will focus on hate crimes, anti-Semitism, anti-Asian discrimination, and on ways of bringing together disparate groups to address discrimination and reconciliation. We will address history, reparations, racial dialogues, and approaches to addressing social justice in America. The next topic, on Wednesday, December 1, is presented in collaboration with the Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Committee: Plunder, Reparations and Restorative Justice
  • When: Wednesdays, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET
  • Where: West Village F, Room 20, Northeastern University
  • REGISTER HERE

  • Thursday, December 2: CPIAC Coffee Hour with Lisa Sangoi of Movement for Family Power. Thursday, December 2, 4:00 - 5:00 PM, Knowles Sunroon. Join CPIAC for a conversation with Lisa Sangoi, co-founder and co-director of Movement for Family Power, an organization using movement lawyering principles to challenge the foster system's policing and punishment of families. Coffee and refreshments will be served.
 
  • Thursday, December 2: National Lawyers Guild Legal Observer Training: Join NUSL NLG and NLG, Massachusetts Chapter for a Legal Observer training! Legal Observers are an integral part of a comprehensive system of legal support that NLG provides to progressive and leftist activists throughout the country. This training will be held virtually by longtime NLG MA board-member and NUSL professor Melinda Drew. It will be held on Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 4:00 PM EST. Please see the attached flyer for more information and a link to begin the registration process. If you have any questions, please email guare.a@northeastern.edu.

  • Thursday, December 2: The Intellectual Property Society is hosting Larissa Bifano, chair of DLA's patent prosecution practice, and co-chair of the firm's Artificial Intelligence Practice. Larissa concentrates on patent and other intellectual property strategy, counseling, prosecution, diligence, and litigation in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and federal courts. She also leads the firm's team that focuses on efforts to assist companies as they navigate the legal landscape of emerging and disruptive technologies, while helping them understand the legal and compliance risks arising from the creation and deployment of AI systems. She'll be having a conversation with NUSL's Intellectual Property Society on Thursday, December 2, 2021, at 6:30pm. Please join us over zoom. All are welcome, registration is required.  

  • Thursday, December 2: The Mental Health Alliance of NUSL Guest Speaker: David Henderson, MD, Chair of Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center, will be speaking virtually Thursday, December 2nd from 7-8 pm, titled:  "The Boston Model for Preventing the Criminalization of the Mentally Ill". This will be followed by Q&A from students and staff. Find the link and more information on the flyer here.

Events Round-Up: Next Week
Events & Programs at Northeastern & Beyond
  • The Christian Law Caucus is collecting donations for the Women's Lunch Place, a daytime shelter in Boston that provides free meals, personalized advocacy, and medical care to women suffering homelessness. Please consider making a donation during the activities period on December 8th, 12:45-2:00 p.m. See the list of requested items here https://womenslunchplace.org/in-kind-donations . 
 
  • Please feel free to stop by the Christian Law Caucus table in the Commons on Wednesday, December 8th from 12:45-2:00 p.m. to pick up a treat at our exam encouragement table. Please visit this document to obtain more information or make a request of the CLC. 

  • Lawyering And Leadership… A Focus on Entrepreneurship and Equity: Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 1:00-2:00 p.m. (ET)(via Zoom). Please join us for The Power of Your JD In An Interdisciplinary and Innovative World Lunch & Learn Series with our upcoming guest speaker Krystal Williams, Founder of Providentia Group and General Counsel of StashUp in Portland, Maine. Attorney Williams is an accomplished and results-driven energy and business attorney. She brings an important and respected perspective to issues of innovation, strategic partnerships and board governance, and has served on the board of directors for multiple non-profits and in leadership roles at her alma maters. She currently serves as a technology advisor for Maine Technology Institute, the Equity Officer and a director for the Maine ACLU, and a member of the governance committee for Maine Public Radio. Attorney Williams is the chairwoman of KinoTek, a rapidly growing startup in Maine. She holds a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law, an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and BAs in Mathematics and Psychology from Williams College. ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED HERE.

  • CPIAC Coffee Hour with Mario Paredes of Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI) and Prisoners Legal Services (PLS). Wednesday, December 8, 4:30 - 5:30 PM, Knowles Sunroom. Join CPIAC for a conversation with Mario Paredes, staff attorney for MLRI and coordinator of MLRI and PLS's Immigrant Detention Conditions Project, which supports immigrants who are incarcerated as civil detainees in county jails. Coffee and refreshments will be served.

Apply Yourself
RA, TA, and Work-Study Positions around Campus 
  • Work for CISP: The 2021-2022 class year CISP is now seeking employees! Any interested, work study eligible 2L or 3L is encouraged to apply. CISP employees will sell snacks and merchandise to raise money for students going on public interest co-ops. Please email Rachel with your resume and a short statement of interest at moroknek.r@northeastern.edu to apply.

  • Professor Zoltek-Jick is looking for T.As for her 1L Criminal Justice class. Duties include conducting “office hours” in the Commons and /or Zoom, preparing and leading multiple review sessions, editing student work, and doing occasional research. Ability to sit in on all classes (Mondays 9:45- 11:05, Tuesdays 10:45- 12:05 and Thursdays 1:45-3:05) is highly desirable but not absolutely required. You do not have to have taken Crim with me to apply. Credit or work-study. Please apply to: r.zoltek-jick@northeastern.edu

  • Professor Zoltek-Jick is looking for a T.A. for Evidence: Duties include “office hours” in the Commons and /or Zoom, preparing and conducting review sessions, editing student work, and doing occasional research. Ability to sit in on both classes (M and W 2:20-4:15) is required. You do not have to have taken Evidence with me to apply. Please apply to: r.zoltek-jick@northeastern.edu

Distinguish Yourself 
Opportunities for Student Distinction

  • The Hon. William C. Conner Writing Competition was established by the New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA) to recognize exceptionally written papers that are submitted by law students and is presented each year at the Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner. The competition is open to students enrolled in a J.D. or LL.M. program (day or evening). The subject matter must be directed to one of the traditional subject areas of intellectual property, i.e., patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair trade practices, antitrust, and data security/privacy issues. Entries must be submitted electronically by Sunday, February 27, 2022, to Richard Brown, rbrown@daypitney.com. Find more information here.

  • 2021-2022 American Indian Law Review National Writing Competition: This year’s American Indian Law Review national writing competition is now welcoming papers from students at accredited law schools in the United States and Canada. Papers will be accepted on any legal issue specifically concerning American Indians or other indigenous peoples. Three cash prizes will be awarded: $1,500 for first place, $750 for second place, and $400 for third place. Each of the three winning authors will also be awarded an eBook copy of Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law, provided by LexisNexis. The deadline for entries is Monday, February 28, 2022, at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. For further information on eligibility, entry requirements, and judging criteria, see the attached PDF rules sheet or the AILR writing competition website.

  • The ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law and The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers are pleased to announce their 2022 writing competition. This competition is open to articles written while the author is an active student at an accredited law school in the United States. Articles must be submitted to swan@laborandemploymentcollege.org, using the subject line “Writing Competition,” by midnight (EDT) on June 15, 2022. Find more information and the application form here.

  • Northeastern University Law Review's online counterpart, Extra Legal, is accepting article submissions from faculty and students. Extra Legal aims to publish legal commentaries that support legal professionals and facilitate discussion of emerging legal issues. Submissions should be between 2,000 and 5,000 words and written as a formal Law Review article. Extra Legal is looking for responses to current events. More information can be found here. Current posts are available here. Email your questions or proposals to extralegal.nulr@northeastern.edu.

  • The Law Review Online Forum is accepting submissions from students to write a piece on any legal, policy, or current events topic of their choice. The Forum provides an opportunity for NUSL students to publish an article, gain writing experience, and express their views! All posts are generally between 250 and 2,500 words and follow a blog-style format. More information can be found here. Current posts are viewable here. Reach out to forum.nulr@northeastern.edu with any questions or proposals, or stop by office hours on Thursdays at 7pm: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/97446170807
 
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