We The People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment
On NPR Throughline’s We the People: the Eighth Amendment, the death penalty, and what cruel and unusual really means, featuring Carol Steiker, director of the Capital Punishment Clinic.
January 31, 2025
Clinical Programs
Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs (OCP)
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Cambridge, MA 02138
Clinics give students hands-on legal experience under the supervision of attorneys. With clinical placements in-house and at organizations across the country, and the opportunity for students to create their own independent placements, HLS students participate in more clinical placements than any law school in the world.
Clinics are open to 2L, 3L, and LL.M. students. Each clinic is tied to a classroom component: students receive clinical credit for their legal practice in clinics and academic credit for the course component. In addition, most clinics allow students to fulfill HLS’s 50 hours pro bono graduation requirement.
In the News
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Winter term across the world
From cities to farms, tropics to tundras, Harvard Law students traveled near and far to do legal work in many corners of the globe this January. Through the independent clinical program, students have the opportunity to work in placements across the U.S. and the world during the winter term.
January 29, 2025
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Scholarship from the Clinics: On Venue Diversion and Enforced Disappearances
This post highlights recent works published by HLS clinicians Rosa Hayes and Susan Farbstein.
January 23, 2025
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HLS Library Resources for Spring 2025: See what’s new and useful!
The Harvard Law School Library is here for you as you prepare for a new semester! Check out some of our newest resources to help you with your clinic work!
January 22, 2025
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In Pursuit of Justice: Supporting Roma Communities through Clinic Work
“It seemed serendipitous when I joined the International Human Rights Clinic and heard about a project seeking reparations for Roma people poisoned by lead in UN-managed displacement camps in Kosovo. The project has since become the highlight of my time in law school,” writes Giovanna Garcia ’25.
January 22, 2025
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Protecting and improving public education, in Kentucky and beyond
In this Q&A, Peter Goeckner'25 discusses his experiences in the Education Law Clinic, his passion for promoting access to high-quality public education, and his work in Kentucky on a novel litigation model that could have nationwide impact.
January 21, 2025
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‘Hard times are coming.’ An immigration raid in New Bedford 18 years ago may offer a glimpse of what’s to come
“It was like a bomb had gone off,” said John Willshire Carrera, assistant director of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic at Greater Boston Legal Services, who represented many of the families in their legal cases, pro bono.
January 17, 2025
