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WOCC's Valentine's Week Tabling

Friday, February 14, 2025 10:00am to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building
Women of Color Coalition is tabling throughout Valentine's Week (Feb. 10–14) in BLB lobby between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.! Stop by to write and decorate notes of appreciation, encouragement, and well wishes to your fellow law students, staff, and faculty members in the Iowa Law Community.

Women's Support Group

Friday, February 14, 2025 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building
This support group is led by Social Worker Sam for any and all female- and femme-identifying law students, non-binary and transgender folx included. The invitation is to come together on a regular basis to vent, process, plan, and support each other. There is no long-term commitment and no need to attend consistently. Attendance in this group will also not be documented outside of a headcount. Sam will not document any names or any of the content this group discusses. This group will collaboratively decide how they want to approach confidentiality within the group, and these terms at the beginning of each meeting. This is not a therapy group; Sam will not provide clinical advice in this space.
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The "Iowa Effect": Insurance and Climate Change with New York Times Reporter Christopher Flavelle

Friday, February 14, 2025 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Boyd Law Building
Join the Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative at the University of Iowa College of Law for a discussion with New York Times climate reporter Christopher Flavelle and Martin Grace, Professor of Finance at the Tippie College of Business about insurance markets in a changing climate. Christopher Flavelle has been writing about the impacts of climate change on insurance markets for years. In May of 2024, Christopher reported on a recent trend in insurance coverage, calling it the “Iowa effect,”...

Come Be Our ValenFriend - The Princess Bride Watch Party

Friday, February 14, 2025 5:30pm to 8:00pm
Boyd Law Building
Enjoy dinner and the movie with us. No expectations! Let us entertain and provide dinner and a movie for you on Friday night. We will be ordering from the Oasis. Please RSVP by Monday, Feb. 10 at noon.

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