HLS students take their pro bono work on the road
HLS students spent their spring break working in legal organizations in the Boston area and across the United States and Puerto Rico, often responding to crises or disasters in local areas.
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.
Student Voices: A Lawyer’s Limits
Harvard Law student Solange Etessami ’20 recounts her experience using her advocacy skills to help refugees seeking asylum at Moria, an overcrowded refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, widely known for its dire living conditions.
The Law and the Digital World
Officials from 23 offices of state attorneys general recently met at HLS as part of the Berkman Klein Center’s AGTech Forum series, to discuss tech-driven challenges to privacy and data security that vex state regulators and threaten consumers, and to strategize on how the law can keep up.
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau gets landmark win in attorney’s fees case
The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau has received a major win in a case that may change the standard for determining attorney’s fees in wage lawsuits in Massachusetts.
Food Law and Policy Clinic releases advocacy and lobbying guide for food policy councils
The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future have released “Advocacy & Lobbying 101 for Food Policy Councils,” a resource for food policy councils and others working to change the food system in the U.S.
Student Voices: Guiding permanent residents through the naturalization process
Andrew Patterson ’20 shares a reflection on his time spent working as an advocate for Legal Permanent Residents throughout the naturalization process with the local organization Project Citizenship.
From Fiji to New Delhi, Cravath International Fellows pursue projects around the globe
During Winter Term, 12 Harvard Law School students traveled to 12 countries as Cravath International Fellows to pursue clinical placements or independent research with an international, transnational, or comparative law focus. Four of them share their experiences.
A ’60s Experiment with a Ripple Effect
During an event at Harvard Law School last year celebrating its 40 clinics and student practice organizations, Van Lanckton ’67 was delighted to hear about so many opportunities for students to work in the public interest today. But he also felt a sense of pride and nostalgia as he recalled the legal services experiment he and hundreds of other students had been part of more than 50 years earlier—at a time when clinical education did not exist at the school and change was in the air.
Student Voices: Humanizing the incarcerated in Massachusetts
I joined the Prison Legal Assistance Project (PLAP) the fall of my 1L year at a time when I knew very little about the criminal justice system. I knew, however, that PLAP provided important services to prisoners in Massachusetts, including representing them in disciplinary hearings and in their bids for parole.