Archive

From Cyberlaw Clinic—The brief, submitted on behalf of eighteen intellectual property law professors, supports petitioners’ request that the Supreme Court review a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. 

Spanish for Public Interest Lawyers is a non-credit class that offers HLS students the opportunity to learn Spanish language skills in a legal context, emphasizing language most commonly used in civil and criminal legal services practice.

From St. Louis American—ArchCity was Strode’s first job coming out of law school, and he said the firm’s “multi-faceted advocacy” practice is truly unique.

From International Human Rights Clinic—The award honors ICAN for having “given the efforts to achieve a world without nuclear weapons a new direction and new vigour.” In particular, the prize recognizes the civil society coalition’s “ground-breaking” work to realize a treaty banning nuclear weapons.

From the Cyberlaw Clinic—The Clinic’s brief on behalf of Special Rapporteur Cannataci supports neither party with respect to the question of domestic law at the heart of the case.  But, it offers important context about Internet jurisdiction and places the right to privacy in its proper context against the backdrop of global human rights laws and norms. 

From Cyberlaw Clinic—The comment asks the Library of Congress to grant an exemption for libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions to circumvent technology protection measures in order to preserve software and software-dependent materials.

This winter term, over a hundred students have traveled to 62 cities across the world to pursue clinical projects with a wide range of governmental agencies, non-profits and other organizations. 

OCP wishes HLS students, faculty, and staff a wonderful holiday season! We hope you'll have lots of fun and exciting moments on your travels and with your families! Our office will close on December 22, 2017 will reopen on January 2, 2018.

From Harvard Law Today—In December, Amy Feinberg ’18 became the second Federal Tax Clinic student to argue an appeal in a federal circuit court since the Clinic opened at Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School in 2015.

By Veronica Saltzman J.D. '19—My internship at the Federal Public Defender Office increased my knowledge of federal criminal law and procedure immensely. I appreciated the opportunity to work with fantastic attorneys and gain experience by working on important tasks and witnessing intense moments during the criminal justice process.

Via Project on Predatory Student Lending—For-profit colleges have exploited the promise of higher education by deceiving tens of thousands of students seeking a better life. One of the groups the for-profit industry has particularly targeted are veterans and servicemembers.

From Harvard Law Today—He will spend a year working at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and will have the opportunity to have a short piece relating to his work considered for publication in the Law Review’s online Forum at the end of the year.

By Salomé Gómez Upegui LL.M. '18—I believe in law as an instrument for social change, and I came to Harvard interested in focusing on that. A year is not much time, and as any LLM student can confirm, we all suffer from “fear of missing out”.  I’m happy to say the International Human Rights Clinic, was perfect to curb this fear.

By Zeineb Bouraoui LL.M. '18—The Clinic constituted an eye-opening experience to me, allowing me to understand firsthand the challenges that human rights lawyers and activists are routinely facing with funding, media outreach and advocacy, or even the simple act of gathering accurate and reliable information.

From Health Law and Policy Clinic—The problem is that more Americans than ever are injecting opioids and inadvertently infecting themselves with hepatitis C. Shared needles mean shared blood-borne infections—and that’s how the opioid crisis has created a new generation of hepatitis C patients.

By Varsha Bhattacharya LL.M. '18—The moment I call a client, hear their story, and feel a direct connection with them; as their representative I feel a greater responsibility to give them the best chance in their cases.

By Niklas Andree LL.M. '18—After working closely with supervisors at the beginning, students soon get to communicate with clients and later set up meetings and lead discussions with clients by themselves – valuable opportunities certainly not many internships or even first-year contracts would offer.

From Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program—Last week, the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program filed two amicus briefs in the Fourth and Ninth Circuits to challenge President Trump’s most recent iteration of the travel ban.

From Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic—The paper primarily focuses on sampling carried out by utilities for purposes of Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) compliance.

From Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic—The brief argues that the deliberative process privilege should rarely apply to scientific documents such as biological opinions. Keeping such documents secret undermines government transparency and accountability.

By Tammuz Huberman J.D. '19— Most alcoholic beverages are not required to display nutrition or ingredient information. This makes them virtually the only ingestible consumer products not required to disclose comprehensive product identity or quality information.