{"id":4271,"date":"2025-01-21T20:27:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T01:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlsorgs3stg.wpenginepowered.com\/blsa\/?page_id=4271"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:19:20","slug":"4271-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/4271-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Conference 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/files\/2026\/02\/HBLSA-CON-SPEAKERS-Instagram-Post-45-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"4368\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/4271-2\/hblsa-con-speakers-instagram-post-45-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/files\/2026\/02\/HBLSA-CON-SPEAKERS-Instagram-Post-45-1.png\" data-orig-size=\"1080,1350\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"HBLSA CON SPEAKERS (Instagram Post (45))\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/files\/2026\/02\/HBLSA-CON-SPEAKERS-Instagram-Post-45-1-240x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/files\/2026\/02\/HBLSA-CON-SPEAKERS-Instagram-Post-45-1-819x1024.png\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/files\/2026\/02\/HBLSA-CON-SPEAKERS-Instagram-Post-45-1-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/files\/2026\/02\/HBLSA-CON-SPEAKERS-Instagram-Post-45-1-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/files\/2026\/02\/HBLSA-CON-SPEAKERS-Instagram-Post-45-1-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/files\/2026\/02\/HBLSA-CON-SPEAKERS-Instagram-Post-45-1-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/files\/2026\/02\/HBLSA-CON-SPEAKERS-Instagram-Post-45-1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><b>HBLSA Spring Conference 2026<\/b><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Now or Never: Redesigning Power, Rebuilding Justice<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>March 6\u20137, 2026<\/b><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/harvard-black-law-students-association-hblsa-spring-conference-2026-tickets-1983047142385?aff=oddtdtcreator\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">GET TICKETS HERE<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><b>What Is Spring Conference?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spring Conference is Harvard BLSA\u2019s largest annual convening. This year, students, alumni, faculty, and community members will gather for two days of conversation about law, leadership, and the institutions that shape our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is both professional and personal. Academic and cultural. Reflective and forward-looking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For many students, it is the first time they see the breadth of what a legal career can look like. For alumni, it is a return to community. For all of us, it is a reminder that law is not just a profession, but a tool that can either preserve systems or redesign them.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The Theme<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year\u2019s theme, <\/span><b>Now or Never: Redesigning Power, Rebuilding Justice<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, reflects the moment we are living in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across sectors, institutions are being tested. Trust is strained. Inequality remains persistent. And yet, many of us are entering the legal profession at precisely this moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The question we are asking is not only what is broken.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>If power was designed, what responsibility do we have to redesign it?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over two days, we will move from understanding how systems were built to exploring how they might be rebuilt more equitably, more sustainably, and more intentionally.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Who Comes to Spring Conference?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spring Conference brings together:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harvard Law students across class years<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Admitted students and prospective students<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alumni practicing in law, business, policy, media, and public service<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students from other law schools<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community partners and faculty<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You do not need to have your career fully mapped out to attend. Many people come because they are still figuring it out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you are thinking seriously about how law intersects with power, opportunity, and community, you will find people here asking similar questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why It Matters<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In law school, much of our time is spent learning doctrine. Spring Conference creates space to talk about trajectory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is a space to explore how someone moved through Big Law with both success and integrity.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> How someone left traditional practice to build something new.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> How someone used the law as a lever inside institutions that were not built with them in mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The value of the weekend is not hype. It is proximity to people, to ideas, to possibilities that feel more concrete once you see them embodied.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>A Tradition Within HBLSA<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spring Conference has long been HBLSA\u2019s flagship event. Past years have featured national leaders, corporate executives, public servants, scholars, and alumni at every stage of their careers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But its strength has never been celebrity alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is the conversations in the hallway.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The small-group workshop that shifts how you think.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The alumni connection that becomes mentorship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is a student-led space that takes ideas seriously.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBLSA Spring Conference 2026 Now or Never: Redesigning Power, Rebuilding Justice March 6\u20137, 2026 GET TICKETS HERE \u00a0 What Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2377,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4271","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PgJEXh-16T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/blsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}