APALSA Announcements through 3/19/07

The following are the APALSA announcements through 3/19/07. The following can also be seen by going to http://bcapalsa.blogspot.com



HELP CALL ADMITTED STUDENTS!

Hey APALSA members:

During the next couple months, we will be calling prospective students who identify as APA to answer any questions they may have about BC Law, APALSA, student organizations on campus, diversity, etc. Deciding where to go to law school is a big step, and one of the best ways to get to know a program is to talk to its current students. We need volunteers to relay their experiences at BC Law! If you're interested in calling a few students (just 3 or 4), please contact Jane Qin at qinja@bc.edu. Please include in your e-mail your undergraduate institution and home state so she can best match you up with prospective students.

Thank you in advance for your help!


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Brown Bag Lunch with Zenobia Lai
Date: April 3, 2007
Time: 12:45 PM
Room: 410 Stuart

At our next Brown Bag Lunch, APALSA will host Zenobia Lai of the Greater Boston Legal Services' Asian Outreach Unit. Zenobia will be speaking about her public interest and community lawyering experiences in Boston's Asian American community.

In addition, we will be discussing the recent assault of four Asian American women by Quincy police, their upcoming trial, and how we can best offer our support. For more information on the Quincy 4, visit:

http://www.cpaboston.org/news_and_events/quincy4.html

E-mail wongrg@bc.edu for more info.

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Join the APALSA Career Resources Committee
Here's another chance to get involved in APALSA committee work. The primary purpose of the Career Resources Committee will be to acquire, compile, and distribute relevant recruiting information for both the upcoming 2L recruiting session and the 1L job search for the incoming class of 2010. Our first project will be to organize info about the upcoming diversity job fairs. E-mail wongrg@bc.edu.



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Immigration Volunteer Opportunity

hi,

you're receiving this email because we thought you might be interested in helping the victims of last week's immigration raid in new bedford. as you likely know, last tuesday immigration officials surrounded and entered a factory in new bedford in southern mass. and detained over 350 immigrants working there. many of the immigrants were sole or primary caregivers and their confinement resulted in at least 60 children being left alone or without adequate care. federal officials have moved about 200 of the detainees to the immigration detention centers in texas, including the one near harlingen, texas, where some of you went as part of the immigration service trip.

several community organizations, including legal services organizations, are trying to locate people and determine legal strategies. there are a few organizations in new bedford and boston in need of help from law students. bilingual (spanish-english) law students are especially needed given that most of the immigrants detained are from el salvador or guatemala. knowledge of immigration law is not necessary.

in new bedford, catholic social services and another organization could use up to 4 volunteers per day. in boston, the mira (mass. immigrant and refugee advocacy) coalition can use up to 3 per day. it would be great to have people volunteer for an entire day, but if that's not possible for you a shorter commitment is welcomed. volunteer needs for this weekend are still being worked out as the emphasis on saturday is to have a large turnout at the demonstration on saturday afternoon in new bedford. also, it would be great to carpool to new bedford so we are looking for people who have a car and are willing to drive others.

if you can volunteer let me know by sending me an email at garciacn@bc.edu. include a) the dates and times you're available; b) whether you can volunteer in boston, new bedford, or either; c) whether you have a car that you can use to carpool; and d) whether you speak spanish.

more info on events is available at the mira coalition's web site: http://www.miracoalition.org/ , and at the boston may day coalition's site: http://www.bostonmayday.org/index.html.

-debbie & césar
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Study Abroad Opportunity

My name is Michael Peil, and I am the Assistant Dean for International Programs at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri.

I am writing to invite you - and any students at your school interested in international law - to apply for the 2007 Summer Institute for Global Studies in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Washington University, Case Western Reserve University, and Utrecht University co-sponsor this six-week course, which offers six intensive courses in current topics in international law.

The dates of the course are June 10 through July 21. All courses will be taught in English, by leading U.S. and European scholars, practitioners, and judges. We are especially excited this year to welcome as a Distinguished Visiting Jurist Judge Richard Goldstone, who will teach a three-week course titled "The Future of International Humanitarian Law." Judge Goldstone served as a Justice of the South African Constitutional Court from 1994 to 2003, and has also served as Chief Prosecutor for the UN ad hoc Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda.

The deadline for application is March 30, and seats in the program are filling up quickly.

For more information, please consult the attached brochure or visit Case Western's website, at http://law.case.edu/summer-institute/.

Feel free also to contact me directly with any questions.

Sincerely yours,
Michael Peil
Assistant Dean for International Programs
Washington University School of Law

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International Legal Studies Colloquium

Dear all,

This is to let you know about the last two meetings of this year's International Legal Studies Colloquium. They are:

(1) Professor Gabriela Blum, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, Tuesday March 27, 12:30-1:30: "Does International Law Need More Universal Law? A Multifaceted Approach to Multilateralism and Bilateralism in International Treaty-Making" (details to follow shortly)

(2) Professor Francesca Bignami, Visiting Professor, Boston College Law School and Professor, Duke Law School, Tuesday April 10, 12:30-1:30: "Towards a Right to Privacy in Transnational Intelligence Networks"

Both should be extremely stimulating. Please save the dates; I hope to see you there!

Cheers

Gail
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Minority Scholarship

The firm of Fredrikson & Byron has a scholarship that is available for first year minority law school students. The dollar award has been increased this year to a $10,000 scholarship. In addition to the $10,000 award, there is also the possibility of a summer associate position for the summer of 2008.

Please email galiciam@bc.edu for the scholarshop application or please feel free to contact Great Larson at the below address if you have any questions.

Greta M. Larson
Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
Manager of Legal Recruiting
200 South Sixth Street
Suite 4000
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
T: (612) 492-7141
F: (612) 492-7077

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MassVOTE, a voter education and advocacy organization, is coordinating poll monitoring for the Boston Special Municipal Election on both the April 17th primary and the May 15th general.
They are looking for:
-- attorneys who can commit to a 3 hour block of time on either day
-- individuals with strong language skills in Chinese or Spanish who can commit to a 3 hour block of time on either day
-- anyone who can help who can commit to a 3 hour block of time on either day

Please let MassVOTE director Avi Green know if you are interested in participating: Avi can be reached at 617.542.8683x207 or at agreen@massvote.org

There will be a short training ahead of time at their office in downtown Boston. A conference call-in number will be available for people who can not attend. Please let Avi know if you and/or your chapter would like to participate, and if you have any questions please feel free to contact me as well.

Thanks,

Brian Corr
Field Organizer and Public Education Coordinator
ACLU of Massachusetts
211 Congress St., Boston, MA 02110
617.482.3170