Week of October 12, 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 Dean Millay at K.Millay@northeastern.edu

  • Join RELS! The Real Estate Law Society (RELS) is updating its membership rolls. If you would like to be added to the RELS list-serve for future events and meetings, please email John Bayog at bayog.j@northeastern.edu or Madeleine Laffitte at laffitte.m@northeastern.edu.

  • 1L Students: If you haven’t already, now’s a great time to make sure you have access to the MAX by AccessLex personal finance program at Ask EDNA! – the Education Network at AccessLex, then:
  • Complete the Financial Foundations course for 8 scholarship entries into this year’s MAX scholarship drawing.
  • Register for the Foundations of Investing three-part webinar series happening this month! Be sure to enroll in each session to save your spot.
  • See the Access Lex seminar flyer here.

  • 2L and 3L Students: You can make sure you have access to the MAX by AccessLex personal finance program at Ask EDNA! – the Education Network at AccessLex, then:
  • Complete the Crafting Your Legal Career course for 8 scholarship entries into this year’s MAX scholarship drawing.
  • Complete the Life After Law School course for 8 scholarship entries into this year’s MAX scholarship drawing. (3L only)
  • Register for the Foundations of Investing three-part webinar series happening this month! Be sure to enroll in each session to save your spot.
  • Check out the new AccessLex Champions program for 2Ls and 3Ls. Champions spread awareness about AccessLex Institute’s programs and services on-campus to gain points that can be redeemed for up to $590 in gift cards each academic year, plus a free Helix Bar Review course, for those who meet a set point minimum. As an added incentive – any student hired as a Champion by September 30 will receive a $50 bonus! Learn more about the program on an upcoming Champions Information Session and apply here.
  • See the Access Lex seminar flyer here.

  • For any 2L or 3L student who missed the endowed scholarship deadline you have one more opportunity to apply. The Application will be available Tuesday October 12th through Wednesday October 13th until midnight, There are limited funds available. If you do not apply during that time, you will not be able to receive any endowed scholarships for the current academic year. You can reach the office at lawfinaid@northeastern.edu if you have any questions.
Deadline Lowdown
Co-op, Graduation Requirement, and Other Upcoming Administrative Deadlines
  • Co-op & Career Deadlines:
  • The Main Deadline for Spring 2022 collecting co-ops is TOMORROW, Wednesday, October 13th at 11:59 PM Eastern.
  • The next Summer 2022 collecting co-op deadlines are October 26th, 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 (In-Person):
  • Tues 10/12: 12:00 - 1:00 pm (Cynthia)
  • Weds 10/13: 3:30 – 4:30 pm (Renay)
  • Thurs 10/14: 2:00 – 3:00 pm (Lisa)
  • Fri 10/15: 2:30 – 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 schedule an appointment with a librarian! Click here and set up a meeting on Teams today!

  • 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 be 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
  • Wednesday, October 13: UPCOMING OFFICE OF NEW MARKETS EVENT: Integrating Social Activism, Filmmaking, Cannabis and ESG… Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 1:00-2:00 (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 Sanford Lewis, Esq. Mr. Lewis is a social activist and lawyer who focuses on ESG and shareholder activism on environment and human rights, including issues of climate change and stakeholder impacts such as racial and gender equity. He is the founder and director of The Northeast Sustainable Cannabis Project, which advocates on behalf of outdoor license cannabis cultivators in the Northeast. His work as a documentary filmmaker includes the short films: Twenty Years Without Justice: The Bhopal Chemical Disaster, Burning Issues in Medical Waste, The Truth About Cats, Dogs, & Lawn Chemicals and Contaminated Without Consent. Mr. Lewis has a BS in Environmental Studies and Urban Communications from Cook College, Rutgers University, and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School.   ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED HERE.

  • Wednesday, October 13: 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. This week's topic is Politics and Identity: The Latinx Experience with Professor Amílcar Barreto, CSSH and Professor Ángel Nieves, CSSH
  • When: Wednesdays, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET
  • Where: West Village F, Room 20, Northeastern University
  • REGISTER HERE

  • Wednesday, October 13: Please join the George Lewis Ruffin Society for an event series called “Convocation on Criminal Justice Reform: Here and Now.” A distinguished group of judges, academics, law enforcement officials, and community leaders will convene to discuss race and criminal justice in America today. Panels will take place on October 13th - Criminal Justice Professionals on Reform - and October 20th - Healing the Community and Ourselves. More information and RSVP here.

  • Thursday, October 14: NUSL’s Intellectual Property (IP) Society is hosting its 2021 Welcome Meeting on Thursday October 14th at 12:00pm in Dockser 42. This event will be a great place to meet other law students interested in: Patents, Copyrights, Trade Marks, and Trade Secrets. Come chat about Co-ops, IP CO-LAB, courses and more! No experience in IP is necessary and we hope to see you there as we discuss our plans for the fall and spring semesters. 

  • Friday, October 15: The Post-Graduate Job Search for 3Ls: Friday, 10/15, 1 - 2 pm. Virtual event via Zoom. Join advisors Cynthia Tow McPherson and Renay Frankel to discuss tips and strategies for your post-graduate job search. Join the discussion on Zoom here: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/97758294237  (Passcode: Jobs)

  • Sunday, October 17: NUSL Students for Immigration Justice invites you to an informational event on the Migrant Justice Milk With Dignity campaign! This campaign is lead by farmworkers from Vermont who are fighting for improvements to their work conditions, their industry, and the food supply chain. Learn about their groundbreaking organizing efforts on Sunday October 17th from 3-4pm in Dockser 240! See the Facebook event for more info.

Events Round-Up: Next Week
Events & Programs at Northeastern & Beyond
  • Symplicity Training for the Class of 2024: Monday, 10/18, 1 - 2:15 pm. Virtual event via Zoom. Please mark your calendars for this important training about our online Symplicity system! Mandatory for all full-time 1Ls. Join us on Zoom here: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/99054752159 (Passcode: NUSL)

  • Equal Justice Works 2021 Conference and Career Fair: October 21 - 23, 2021. A virtual Public Interest Job Fair open to current students, 3Ls, and recent grads! The conference features 200 public interest employers who will conduct virtual interviews for Summer internships and post-grad positions, and informational "Table Talks." Students must register for the conference before applying to open positions. The deadline to apply for the pre-scheduled interviews is September 13th. Learn more here. 

Save the Date
Events to Register For or Put on Your Calendar
  • 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 third speaker in the series is Dr. Dada Docot, who will be giving the talk "Extraordinary Precarities: Overseas Filipino Workers During Pandemic Times." Dada Docot is a diasporic Filipino anthropologist, community worker, and artist, whose works are centered on the Philippines in which everyday life is permeated by overseas labor migration. She is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Purdue University and a postdoctoral fellow at Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo. Currently, she is the principal investigator for the project titled “Overseas Filipino Workers amid COVID-19.” Registration is required for this hybrid event on Thursday, October 28 from 6– 7:30 PM. See a poster here.

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.

  • Housing Stability Jobs: The NuLawLab has two part-time, paid public interest positions available now supporting our Housing Support Station at MLCS in East Boston. Must be fluent Spanish/English bilingual. $16 per hour, remote part-time (8-10 hours per week) for four (4) months. Contact Connor Scholes at scholes.co@northeastern.edu for more information.

Distinguish Yourself 
Opportunities for Student Distinction
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg Scholar Award: The American Constitution Society’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg Award recognizes an outstanding scholar in the early stages of their academic career who has demonstrated those qualities exemplified by Justice Ginsburg: scholarly excellence, the ability to imagine how society might be more just and more equal, and the determination to use the law and one’s scholarship to creatively and strategically make the imagined real. The Awardee will be recognized at the ACS National Convention, via media release, and on the ACS website, and will receive a cash prize of $5,000. Please submit nominations by October 31, 2021 at 6 p.m. ET. For more information visit the RBG Scholar Award page

  • 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.

  • The NLR Law Student Writing Competition offers law students the opportunity to submit articles for publication consideration on the NLR Web site. No entry fee is required. Applicants can submit an unlimited number of entries each month. Entries are reviewed October through May, when school is in session. Entries must be submitted via email to lawschools@natlawreview.com by 5:00 pm Central Standard Time by the last day of the month.

  • Northeastern University Law Review is accepting student-written submissions for publication in Volume 14, Issue 2. Submissions should be between 10,000 and 15,000 words (including footnotes) and follow a standard law review-style format. Please email your submissions to submissions.nulr@northeastern.edu. 

  • 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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