Week of November 15, 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  The spring schedule and registration information is available on ASA's website here. COVID and Flu testing: Swabs at the Huntington Testing Center, for symptomatic Northeastern community members, are now tested for COVID-19, influenza A, and influenza B. The testing center does not need to get two separate tests for COVID-19 and the flu. People without symptoms who are on the Boston campus are tested at the Cabot Testing Center once a week; their swabs are not part of this program. 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. Have you accepted a Spring 2022 or Summer 2022 co-op? Remember to confirm your placement with the Co-op Office here. Co-op placements are not finalized until confirmed with our office through that form.  Spring 2022 Clinic applications will be available on the ASA website this week. Application deadline is Monday, November 22nd by 5pm. For questions, please contact lawclinics@northeastern.edu. Apply for the Spring 2022 Public Service Externship Course! This 3-4 credit course combines a 1 credit seminar with a 2 or 3 credit field placement at a non-profit organization or government agency. You do not need to secure a field placement before you apply for the course. For more information and how to apply, click here. Please send applications to Renay Frankel by Nov. 22nd.  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 Active Student Organizations: SBA is collecting information on active student organizations. Please complete this form to indicate whether your organization is active.

Deadline Lowdown Co-op, Graduation Requirement, and Other Upcoming Administrative Deadlines PHRGE Scholar Awards (formerly PHRGE Fellowships). Deadline: November 23rd at noon! Going on an unpaid human-rights co-op in the spring term? Apply for a PHRGE Scholar Award, which would help defray the costs of your co-op. Open to JD and LLM students. PHRGE Scholar Awards provide at least $3500 in financial support. All PHRGE Scholars will be invited to join the PHRGE Fellowship, a group of current and former PHRGE Fellows and PHRGE Scholars. For the spring quarter, PHRGE will privilege applicants whose co-op work will promote racial justice! Find more information and the application instructions on the PHRGE Fellowship Program site.   Co-op & Career Deadlines: The next Summer 2022 collecting co-op deadlines are December 1st (default deadline!) and January 19th. Class of 2022: As a reminder, it is your responsibility to ensure that you are on-track for graduation and meeting your graduation requirements. If you have any questions after reviewing ASA's website and the JD Student Handbook, then please email ASA at lawstudentaffairs@northeastern.edu.

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/ ASA Office Hours: Please email lawstudentaffairs@northeastern.edu to set up an appointment to speak with ASA, or drop by our new offices from 9-4pm  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 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 Monday, November 15: CPIAC and CLIC invites you to a panel discussion: Gig Workers’ Rights, the Future of Employment & the Future of Democracy, featuring Prof. Veena Dubal, UC Hastings; Prof. Peter Enrich; Beth Griffith, Chair, Boston Independent Drivers Guild; Prof. Jason Jackson, MIT; and Prof. Karl Klare. Monday, Nov. 15, 12:45 - 2:10 p.m in Docker 240. Pizza will be served.   Monday, November 15: Northeastern Environmental Law Society will hold its first meeting of the semester today, Monday November 15 in DK 046 from 1-2 pm. Please join us if you are interested in environmental law or related topics. Questions? Email Bri at ziegenhagen.b@northeastern.edu. Hope to see you there! Monday, November 15: In Real Law: Casual conversations with diverse attorneys about what life in the law is really like for first generation professionals or persons of color and answering your questions about navigating law school and the modern legal job market. Featuring Michael Curry, Esq., CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, dedicated to reducing health inequities in our community, and former President of the Boston Branch of the NCAAP. November 15, 2021 05:30 PM. Register here. "¿Qué es Co-op? This week on Monday 11/15 (Private), Tuesday 11/16 (Public), and Wednesday 11/17 (Judicial). LALSA invites all BIPOC students to a three-day event where students can connect, ask questions and network with panelists from the private, public, and judicial sectors. Panelists will include current upper-level students with co-op experience and practitioners currently working in each of these areas. Each event will be from 5:30-6:30 pm in Dockser 220. For more information, check out our flyer and please register here. Food and drinks will be provided!" Tuesday, November 16: The Intellectual Property Society is hosting NUSL alum Allison Krause as she discusses her career path from IP and tech transactions associate in big law to in-house counsel at an automation and tech start-up. She has also clerked for the US Dept. of Education and served as the COO of a software platform which provided pricing for potential clients in the legal market. This meeting will be taking place over Zoom on Tuesday, November 16th, at 6:30pm. Registration is required and all are welcome.   If you are interested in applying for a Spring 2022 clinic and have questions please join us on Wednesday, November 17th at 1pm or Friday November 19th at 2pm for a 30-minute student panel. If you would like to submit a question for the panel please email Lindsay at lawclinics@northastern.edu. Applications are due Monday, November 22nd at 5pm. Wednesday’s Zoom Link – https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/91867179566 Friday’s Zoom Link - https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/93355113802 Wednesday, November 17: 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 first session is on November 17 from 1-2pm. 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, November 17: 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 Black Lives Matter and the Black Struggle: The Road Ahead. When: Wednesdays, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET Where: West Village F, Room 20, Northeastern University REGISTER HERE

Save the Date Events to Register For or Put on Your Calendar 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 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 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. Professor Blaine G. Saito is looking for RAs to work on various tax and social policy projects for both the remainder of fall term and the spring semester. Ideal candidates would have taken taxation or have an interest in tax. Duties include pulling and summarizing sources, assisting with footnotes, and drafting memos. Work study or credit is preferred. If interested, please submit a resume, cover letter, and full transcript to b.saito@northeastern.edu Professor Blaine G. Saito is looking to fill TA roles for the Spring Semester Contracts course. Interested candidates should have a strong performance in their 1L contracts course. Duties include but are not limited to attending some class sessions, grading assignments, running review sessions, and holding office hours. Work study or credit is preferred. If interested please submit a resume, cover letter, and full transcript to b.saito@northeastern.edu.

Distinguish Yourself  Opportunities for Student Distinction The Boston Bar Journal recently decided to broaden their reach to law students and now accept submission proposals for publication in upcoming journals. The current submission period closes on November 12, but there is some flexibility there. The submission form is here.  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. 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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