Harvard Law receives record number of Skadden Fellowships
Nine HLS students and alumni awarded prestigious Skadden Fellowship for public service.
D Dangaran ’20: “When someone experiences harm, I want to be there to help”
D Dangaran ’20, this year’s William J. Stuntz Award winner, intends to focus on gender issues and transformative justice long-term.
LSC Housing Clinic student helps win precedent-setting case for domestic violence survivors facing eviction
A recent Massachusetts court case spearheaded by clinical students and teachers at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center (LSC) has created important new protections for survivors of domestic violence.
Asseret Frausto wins CLEA’s Outstanding Clinical Student Award
Asseret Frausto ’19 is the winner of the Outstanding Clinical Student Award from the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA). The award is presented annually to one student from each law school for outstanding clinical coursework and contributions to the clinical community.
Putting compassion into action
On April 5, Harvard Law School’s Legal Services Center celebrated its 40th Anniversary of training more than 4,000 attorneys and law students and providing pro bono civil legal services to thousands of Greater Boston’s most vulnerable residents.
Evolving and Adapting: The HLS Clinical Landscape
More than 100 years after students started the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, there are now 40 clinics and Student Practice Organizations at HLS, focused on everything from cyberlaw to veterans’ rights.
Cameron Clark ’18 wins Gary Bellow Public Service Award
Cameron Clark ’18 is the winner of this year’s Gary Bellow Public Service Award, established in 2001 to honor the late Harvard Law professor Gary Bellow, his commitment to public service, and his innovative approach to the analysis and practice of law.
Harvard Law School: 2015 in review
Supreme Court justices, performance art, student protests and a vice president. A look back at 2015, highlights of the people who visited, events that took place and everyday life at Harvard Law School.
Post Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Next steps?
Harvard Law School Lambda, a student organization dedicated to serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, hosted a panel at the law school on Nov. 9 to discuss challenges posed to effectively ending discrimination against LGBT service-members in light of the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
GLAD’s Bonauto assesses litigation of the Defense of Marriage Act
At “Challenging and Litigating DOMA’s Constitutionality”— an event that was co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School American Constitution Society, Lambda, and the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Journal—Mary Bonauto, the Civil Rights Project Director at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), spoke about litigating the Defense of Marriage Act in federal courts in the wake of the Department of Justice’s recent decision to stop defending the law.