Public Interest Orientation for 1st year students
Friday, August 29
12:30-2:00pm – Bay View Room
Lunch will be served.
Student Public Interest Experiences
Wednesday, September 3
12:30-1:30pm – Rm. 286
Panel of second and third year law students discussing their summer public interest jobs.
Public Interest Law Speaker Series
Wednesday, September 10
6:00-7:00 p.m. – Rm. 283
Showing of the PBS Documentary, Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
Episode One: “In Sickness and in Health”
With Series Senior Producer, Christine Sommers
Public Service Requirement Information Session
Monday, September 8
1:00-2:00pm
Room 283
Spring 2009 Externship Program Information Session
October 2008 – More details to come.
Public Interest Law Speaker Series
Wednesday, October 1
12:30-1:30pm – Rm.262
“Incarceration Policy and the Effects on Black Men”
Glenn C. Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University
Equal Justice Works Conference and Career Fair
Friday and Saturday, October 10 &11
Washington DC: “Idealism Revisited: Forty Years After King and Kennedy”
Public Interest Law Speaker Series
Wednesday, October 15
12:30-1:30pm – Rm. 262
“Massachusetts Public Defenders -- Defending Civil Rights in the 21st Century: the Work Life of Public Defenders and Tips for Applying for a Job”
Andy Silverman, Deputy Chief Counsel, Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS)
Joanna Arkema (RWU Class of ’07)
Staff Attorney, Pittsfield District Court Office
Thomas Mello (RWU Class of ’04)
Staff Attorney, New Bedford Superior Court Office
Erin Steadman (RWU Class of ’06)
Staff Attorney, New Bedford Superior Court Office.
Public Interest Law Speaker Series
Wednesday, November 5
12:30 – 1:30 – Room 262
“Coming to Terms with the Past to Build a Just and Peaceful Future: The Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission”
Evan Posner , Dechert, LLP
Michele Garnett-McKenzie, Advocates for Human Rights
Mator Kpangbai, Former President, Liberian Community Association of Rhode Island
Casey Lee, RWU 2L
NYU and Public Interest Summer Job Session
Wednesday, November 12, 12:30-1:30pm
Room to be Announced
Learn about the NYU job fair that happens in February 2009 and gather information on finding a public interest summer job.
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