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From the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project—On March 2nd, members of Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC, came to Harvard Law School to speak to a group of students.

From the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic—The clinic filed on Thursday an amicus curiae brief in support of a lawsuit that seeks, among other things, to prevent the Trump administration from lowering the number of refugees that can be allowed into the country.

From the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau—The Hague Convention is an international treaty which provides a method for resolving the return of abducted children between member nations. Because it is an international treaty, all Hague Convention cases must be decided in federal court.

From Harvard Legal Aid Bureau—Last spring, an HLAB student attorney was able to win a victory for both his client and all tenants in Massachusetts. Louis Fisher ’16 argued before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the case of Meikle v. Nurse November 5, 2015.

From the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic—Earlier this week, the clinic took the issue of Donald Trump’s executive orders to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights calling for an emergency hearing to discuss the impact of the orders on the Safe Third Country Agreement.

View summer legal internships. The list will be updated periodically. For questions about each listing, please contact the respective program.

Twenty-three students, enrolled in the Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic and class, have just started their work with judges throughout the Massachusetts trial courts. Below, some of them reflect on their first days with their judges and confirm the value of leaving the classroom for the courtroom.

From Prison Legal Assistance Project—Recently, Tabitha Cohen JD '18 argued the appeal of a lawsuit, Crowell v. Massachusetts Parole Board, filed by the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project (PLAP) in the Massachusetts State Supreme Court, formally known as the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC).

From the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic—This case involves challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations limiting emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from power plants.

From the Cyberlaw Clinic—On February 21, 2017, the Cyberlaw Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of several trusts and estates law scholars and practitioners in Ajemian v. Yahoo!, Inc., Mass. Supreme Judicial Court No. SJC-11917.

From Harvard Law Today—On the morning of January 9, 2017, Harvard Law School student Dayne Lee ’17 slipped into a suit after three sleepless nights, punctured with dreams about his major oral argument. Later that day, he would argue before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

From The Harvard Gazette—When human rights clinical instructor Anna Crowe first began documenting the legal challenges faced by Syrian refugees in Jordan, she found a tangled system that put their lives on hold.

From The Washington Post—The Project on Predatory Student Lending at Harvard Law School is suing the Justice Department for withholding documents that could help for-profit college students get their federal education loans canceled.

By Michael Perloff, J.D. '17—Before my J-Term internship, I never spent time on Capitol Hill—no prior internships, no family vacations, not even a class trip. This omission was striking because politics fascinates me.

By Carys Golesworthy, JD ’17—The 3rd floor wing of Wasserstein Hall that houses the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Clinic is often a hub of activity. But last Friday, it was packed to capacity.

From the Cyberlaw Clinic—On January 24, 2017, the Cyberlaw Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in the case, Steinmetz v. Coyle & Caron Inc., First Circuit No. 16-1996.

From Harvard Law Today—Two students who have been working with the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program following the Trump administration’s executive orders on immigration recently wrote about their work and the impact of their collaborations with other students, faculty and attorneys.

By Hannah Belitz, J.D. '17—I spent this January term interning at HIAS in Israel, an international nonprofit that assists and protects refugees; it was founded in 1881 to assist Jews fleeing pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe.

By Peter Im, J.D. '18—I spent J-term at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law at a federal bench trial about remedying unconstitutional segregation at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in Maryland.

By Amanda Brown-Inz, J.D. '17—This January, I interned at the National Health Law Program, a public interest organization in Los Angeles that focuses on access to health care for low-income and underserved populations, and specialized issues such as reproductive rights and opioid addiction.

By Isaac Gelbfish, J.D. '17—During J-term 2017 I interned at the Criminal Appeals Bureau (CAB) of the Legal Aid-Society, New York City's largest public defender office. I was fortunate to have amazing supervisors and had the opportunity to work on a number of criminal appeals.