Week of May 24, 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  As a reminder, ASA has a COVID-19 Resources page. Please also check the FAQ page. Work for CISP: The 2021-2022 class year CISP sign-up is now available! Any interested 1L or 2L is encouraged to sign-up by August 31, 2021, at 5:00 PM. Work study eligible and volunteer students accepted. When the law school is open full-time, CISP employees sells snacks and merchandise to raise money for students going on public interest co-ops. If you are an interested 2L, consider working as a co-chair on your rotation. Please sign up via this google form. Any questions, please contact wall.d@northeastern.edu and smith.ryan1@northeastern.edu. Good news everybody! The Law Library is proud to announce access to an online collection of legal study aids. Need some help understanding your course materials from well-established experts? Need some practice with multiple-choice questions? Is COVID-19 an obstacle to consulting print study aids? Then this is the tool for you! Consult the Understanding,Mastering, Q&A, Skills & Values and A Student's Guide series. You can access the study aids anywhere, anytime, on any device with no restrictions. Initially access the Legal Study Aids Collection with your Northeastern credentials. Thereafter your computer/device will remember your access and personalized account. https://lexisdl.com/library/northeastern/. If you need any help with access, please contact LawLibrary@northeastern.edu.

Deadline Lowdown Co-op, Graduation Requirement, and Other Upcoming Administrative Deadlines Summer Semester Deadlines: The deadline to drop a class (without a W) is Sunday, May 30th. Co-op Deadlines: The Main Deadline for Fall 2021 collecting co-ops is Tuesday, June 8th at 11:59 PM Eastern. Locker Clean-out: any student who still has belongings in a locker assigned during the 2019-2020 academic year must clear them out. Lockers should not currently be in use. Students on who will be in classes during the summer will have through Tuesday, May 25th to clean out their locker. Any lockers that are not cleaned out will have their locks cut and anything inside will be discarded. 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 ASA Office Hours: ASA will have drop-by office hours from 12:30-1:30pm on Wednesday, May 26 in 56/59 Cargill. Please email lawstudentaffairs@northeastern.edu to set up an appointment to speak with ASA.  Co-op Office Drop-by Hours: Virtual Drop-by Hour: Monday 5/24 from 11 - 12. Meet with Naomi on Zoom here: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/5016747377. Passcode: 514215 In-Person Drop-by Hours: Tuesday 5/25 from 10:30 - 11:30, Wednesday 5/26 from 10:30 - 11:00, Thursday 5/27 from 2:00 - 3:00. Financial Aid Appointments: the office of financial aid is currently working remotely. To schedule an appointment with either Hillary Werner or Linda Schoendorf please use this link. You can also email us at lawfinaid@northeastern.edu. Law Library: Away from campus this quarter? 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) will be open Monday-Friday, 9-5.   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, May 24: Co-op Application Drop-by Q&A Session: Monday, May 24, 12:45 - 1:45 pm, via Zoom. Getting ready for the June 8th Fall deadline? Join us this afternoon to ask your questions to members of our advising team and our operations team. Stay for the whole hour, or drop by for a minute with your quick question. Join us on Zoom here: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/99044590763 Password: co-op Tuesday, May 25: JTB is hosting the Tea-Time with Attorney’s Virtual Program for undergraduate and law students. Tea-Time with Attorneys is a virtual program that exposes students to the various legal career paths and helps them navigate the legal field. Students can look forward to an attorney panel discussion that covers the essential skills necessary to succeed in law school and breakout sessions where students can ask lawyers questions and delve more deeply into the skills needed for law school and legal careers. This free program will be held on May 25, 2021 from 12-1:30pm. Interested students can click here to register.   Friday, May 28: Postgraduate Job Search Strategies Workshop for LLM Students. Friday, May 28, 9-10am, via Zoom. This event is for LLMs who just completed their Spring co-op! We will offer this workshop again later for LLM students with a Fall 2021 co-op. In this workshop, we will review the timing of the search, resources for the job search, and tips and strategies for succeeding in finding your post-LLM job. We will also go over steps you can start taking now to position yourself to effectively enter the market. Join advisor Claire Lee here. Meeting ID: 973 5367 4514 Passcode: NUSL

Save the Date Events to Register For or Put on Your Calendar Legal & Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence Conference: June 11, 2021 (Virtual)- 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. (ET) The University of Maine School of Law is partnering with Northeastern University School of Law and The Roux Institute to host this one day virtual conference, which includes a Privacy and Policy Responses to AI panel that Professor Hartzog is chairing. NUSL students can attend at no charge. Please contact Rhonda Rittenberg, Director of New Markets, for registration details. Are you LGBTQ+ or an ally? The National LGBT Bar Association is hosting its annual Lavender Law® Conference and Career Fair, July 28 - 30th. With over 1700 annual attendees and more than 180 recruiters, it is the largest LGBTQ+ legal career fair in the world! This year the conference will host more than 50 programs, including a number geared specially to law students about career planning, student activism, and more. Additionally, top law firms and organizations from across the country will be recruiting students at the Career Fair.  You can learn more about the conference and register online here. Remember: Student members of the LGBT Bar can register for free! Students interested in signing up for membership should email s.bergelson@northeastern.edu./

Apply Yourself RA, TA, and Work-Study Positions around Campus  The Office of the Dean in the School of Law at Northeastern University is seeking applicants for a front office receptionist who provides essential frontline support within the Office of the Dean. Responsibilities include front desk supervision and other tasks as needed. Please apply on the student employment portal, under the job title “Summer 21 Law School Desk Receptionist.”  Professor Margaret Woo is looking for a research assistant this summer to prepare a short report on U.S. access to civil justice. The report will be presented at an international comparative law conference in Asuncion, Paraguay in October 2022. Please contact Professor Woo at m.woo@northeastern.edu, if you are available and interested. RAs Sought- Professor Dyal-Chand: Professor Dyal-Chand is looking for several RAs this (Summer) semester to support her work on several articles and books (about the sharing economy, opportunity zones, and community development banking and racial justice). Those interested should send an email with "Summer RA" in the subject line to r.dyal-chand@northeastern.edu along with unofficial transcripts and a resume. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until filled. Prof. Wendy Parmet is seeking research assistants for the summer to work on a several public health law issues. Interested students should send their evaluations and a note to w.parmet@northestern.edu. The note should state whether the student is qualified for work study or would prefer to work for credit. Weekly Wire Work Study Position: ASA needs a new student worker to manage the Weekly Wire! Worker will manage the weekly input and formatting of the newsletter in Constant Contact and proof read content for publication. Applicants must be work-study eligible and in class during the fall/spring; 2Ls strongly preferred. Please email a resume and statement of interest to Aileen McGrory to apply.  Prisoners’ Rights Clinic Teaching Assistant: The Prisoners’ Rights Clinic is hiring a tech-savvy TA to assist with the summer semester Clinic’s use of NUFlex virtual learning equipment and with Canvas-related issues. Work-study eligible preferred, but not required. Student must be available in person during class times 4:25-6:20pm on Monday and Wednesday, and at other times via Zoom as needed. Must have had experience with the NUFlex classroom equipment, Canvas, and Zoom. If interested, please email w.holohan@northeastern.edu and lawclinics@northeastern.edu.

Distinguish Yourself  Opportunities for Student Distinction   First annual Zipporah B. Wiseman Prize for Scholarship on Law, Literature, and Justice: The international and multidisciplinary writing prize, administered by the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law, will be offered annually in honor of the late Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman’s important work at the intersection of law and literature. We welcome papers from any discipline that engage both legal and literary methods or texts. For these purposes, literary texts include written and other narrative forms, such as film. Papers should use an interdisciplinary lens to explore issues of justice, broadly understood. The papers may work from any of a variety of perspectives: legal and literary, of course, but also philosophical, historical, sociological, political, economic, or cultural. The call for papers is available online and submissions are due by June 15, 2021. Law Student Writing Competition: For the past ten years, the ABA Forum on Construction Law has held an annual Law Student Writing Competition. Through the Competition, the Forum introduces itself to the next generation of construction lawyers and pursues its mission of “Building the Best Construction Lawyers.” And, talented law student writers gain the opportunity to demonstrate their skill to the Forum and attend its Fall Meeting. The Law Student Writing Competition was prompted, in part, by the increasing number of law school courses dedicated to construction law.  Competition closes July 21st. Click here for more information. 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. The Law Review Online Forum is accepting submissions from students to write a blog post on any legal or policy topic. The Forum provides an opportunity for NUSL students to publish an article, gain writing experience, and express their views. All posts are between 250 and 1,500 words and follow a blog-style format. The Forum is particularly looking for students to respond to current events. More information can be found here. Current posts are viewable here. Email your questions or proposal to forum.nulr@northeastern.edu. The Law Review's online counterpart Extra Legal is accepting article submissions from faculty and students. Extra Legal is aimed at publishing legal commentaries that support legal professionals and facilitate ongoing 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 particularly 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.

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