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The Climate Leaders Program for Professional Students at Harvard is a student-led, faculty-advised program for Masters and professional students across all Harvard graduate schools, developed in partnership with the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE). This program provides students with a hands-on opportunity to engage with others across Harvard who share a professional interest […]

RA for Professor Goldsmith/Federal Courts-Related Topics

RA for Professor Goldsmith/Google Docs and Zoom

The Environmental & Energy Law Program seeks research assistants to work closely with its attorneys on research projects related to environmental regulatory changes. Topics include Clean Air Act research related to vulnerable communities, continuing research on the impact of using the Congressional Review Act to eliminate recently enacted rules, and other topics relevant to a potential change in administration in 2021.

The Environmental & Energy Law Program seeks research assistants to work on various legal research projects related to sea level rise, covering issues such as: the impacts of recent amendments to the Stafford Act designed to provide grants to communities to mitigate their vulnerability to environmental disasters; obligations in the real estate industry to disclose flooding/sea level rise risks; legal ramifications of sea level rise and other climate hazards threatening Superfund sites; water utility obligations in the face of saltwater intrusion or facility vulnerability; and others.

Profs. Martha Minow and Emily Broad Lieb are co-hosting a weekly colloquium series: "Covid-19 and The Law" involving more than 40 experts from our faculty, clinics, and research programs. Wednesdays, 12pm-1pm, starting Sept. 9. You are invited to come to any and all discussions--register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MMwm3rx2QLuVjLKb212U0w Academic credit is available to students who wish to write an independent paper or contribute to the blog. All information about the series and how to get involved can be found here: https://covidseries.law.harvard.edu/

Professor Kaplow is looking for research assistants, mainly for taxation & antitrust.

The Asian Outreach Unit (AOU) of Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) uses a community lawyering model to provide bilingual and bicultural legal services and organizing support to Asian immigrant clients seeking access to justice. Partnering with community based groups, AOU supports and strengthens the impact of community organizing through direct legal services, advocacy, legislative campaigns, […]

Work with Ghanaian law students and community partners for radical education reform in Ghana’s rural North. This on-going project targets the unfair and illegal mal-distribution of power and money in Ghana’s basic education system. Using policy analysis, stakeholder interviews, official consultations, strategic planning , and community empowerment methods, the project will tackle structural features of the current system that leave children without what they need to learn. Yet even so, HLS students saw first-hand last year how people have joined together to create vibrant schools. Building on

Election Protection National Remote Voter Hotline – 1,200 Captains Needed! The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and its coalition partners seek legal volunteers to remotely serve as Captains for the Election Protection’s English language national voter hotline (1-866-OUR-VOTE). The national, nonpartisan Election Protection coalition works year-round to ensure that all voters have an equal opportunity to vote and […]

There are a handful of clinics that have a few open seats available for the fall term.  Interested students should email Maggie Bay (mbay@law.harvard.edu) to discuss enrollment – open seats will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.  As a reminder, the add/drop deadline has passed for all fall clinics, so if you are already […]

The Sixth Amendment Center (6AC) www.sixthamendment.org  is a national non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that no person faces potential time in jail or prison without first having the aid of a lawyer with the time, ability and resources to present an effective defense, as required under the United States Constitution. We do so by […]

The Criminal Justice Institute is accepting applications for an Independent Clinical placement focused on CJI’s medical parole project.  Also known as compassionate release, medical parole is a recently-enacted statutory path to decarceration for terminally ill and incapacitated individuals in MA prisons.  However, the pathway is fraught with barriers to release.  Despite efforts in the State House and the Courts, […]

Ambassador Samantha Power and Professor Cass Sunstein are seeking course assistants for their Fall 2020 course: “Making Change When Change is Hard: The Law, Politics, and Policy of Social Change” (HLS 2578).

The second project will focus on reviewing Harvard University’s curricular offerings that cover topics related to race and legacies of slavery.

The HLS Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs (OCP) is posting volunteer opportunities for HLS students looking to support the COVID-19 response on our volunteer opportunities page. If you are looking for ways to collaborate, get involved, or share resources, please contact Lee Mestre at lmestre@law.harvard.edu in OCP. Additionally, please see this National Disaster […]

Join us on Friday to learn more about the clinical options available to you at HLS!  All of our clinics will be represented at the showcase, with clinical attorneys and students on hand to answer your questions. Registration for 2020-2021 clinics will occur April 6-7, 2020.  Clinical registration is for the entire upcoming year.  Stop […]

Take this opportunity to make a difference by engaging in pro bono work over Spring Break 2020! It’s a great chance to learn more about legal services work and do some good in the Boston community. This year, students have an opportunity to participate in spring break projects with the Massachusetts Court Service Centers and […]

The Harvard Law School Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs seeks up to two undergraduate student interns for summer 2020. Through work on various administrative projects, summer interns learn about diverse opportunities in public interest law and gain insight into the law school experience. Responsibilities Work on projects that vary by year and experience, […]

The LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic offers students the opportunity to work directly on cutting-edge issues involving LGBTQ+ rights, with a particular emphasis on issues affecting underrepresented communities within the LGBTQ+ community. Clinic offerings include local and national projects covering the spectrum of LGBTQ+ issues. Students will have the opportunity to engage in a range of work […]