Category: Announcements

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 […]

Interested in impact litigation and migrant rights? Sign up for an appointment with Ben Botts, Legal Director of the Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc., from Jan. 29-31.
Ben engages in impact litigation, direct services and community education focused on removing the U.S.-Mexico border as a barrier to access to justice. His work has a specific focus on the rights of migrants who travel to the U.S. to work on H-2A agricultural and H-2B non-agricultural temporary work visas. Prior to working at Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Ben was a trial attorney with the Office of the Solicitor of the U.S. Department of Labor, where he handled appellate litigation in federal courts of appeals, legal advice, and regulatory matters. In 2012, he moved to the Regional Solicitor’s Office in San Francisco, where he focused on litigating wage and hour cases in low-wage industries, winning an order of more than $2.2 million in back pay and penalties for hundreds of farmworkers on H-2A visas.  Visit "Our Services" to sign up for an appointment. 

When: January 30, 2020 6:00 pm
Where: WCC Milstein East ABC

OPIA’s Public Interest Networking Reception is a great way to learn about summer internships and post-graduate fellowships. Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served. Business casual attire suggested.
RSVP!  

Advisors are available to help with whatever job search questions you may be facing. If you have special concerns about your summer job search, please make an appointment to discuss your search with OPIA.

The OPIA office and all HLS admin offices will be closed on Monday, January 20 in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.

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 […]

The Robert M. Cover Retreat on Feb. 21-23 brings together law students, academics and practitioners committed to public interest to share their experiences, network and reinvigorate their commitment to this important work. Registration deadline is February 7, 2020.

Check out the evolving list of practitioners and register for the retreat!

OPIA has compiled a few key dates that may be useful as you plan your summer internships and other commitments, including the confirmed 2020 EIP dates.

Deadline: Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 5 pm EST
The Heyman Summer Internship is designed to encourage law students to spend one or more of their law school summers in federal government. Harvard Law 1Ls or 2Ls who have secured or are pursuing federal government summer internships are eligible to apply in late winter each year. Heyman Summer Interns participate in networking and programming with Heyman Fellows and other federal officials. Learn more and apply!

Spring 2020 Clinics with Available Seats The drop deadline has now passed for all spring clinics.  If you are already signed up for a clinic in the spring, you can no longer drop it without receiving a withdrawal (“WD”). There are a handful of clinics that have a few seats available for the spring term.  […]

Help J.D. Admissions welcome future HLS students to campus! We’re looking for volunteers to help with the 2020 Admitted Students Weekends. Volunteer shifts take place from 11:45 AM to 12:30 PM on March 6 and April 17. Volunteers will help to direct admitted students to faculty lunches across campus. Sign up by February 18!

HLS will be collecting Toys for Tots donations at the HLS Holiday Celebration on December 19. Please bring a new, unwrapped toy, in the $10 and up price range to donate. Toys for Tots is in particular need of toys for the age ranges of 0-2 years old and 9-12 years old. Donation boxes will be located in the Milstein East lobby during the party.

Spring 2020 Clinics with Open Seats The following spring clinics still have a few seats available!  Please log in to Helios and navigate to the Add/Drop section to enroll in one of these clinics.  Open seats will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.  The add/drop deadline for most spring clinics is TOMORROW, Friday, December […]

Year Up and Harvard have partnered since 2004. This winter, you can help support this partnership and the young adults of Year Up with necessary winter wear. Drop off donations at the Center for Workplace Development or purchase through Amazon and send directly to Year Up. Hurry, deadline is December 18!

Spring 2020 Clinics with Open Seats The following spring clinics still have a few seats available!  Please log in to Helios and navigate to the Add/Drop section to enroll in one of these clinics.  Open seats will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.  The add/drop deadline for most spring clinics is Friday, December 6th. […]

The Spring 2020 academic schedule will be imported after the winter break and the EMS Scheduling System will also be offline from January 6-13. Beginning at 9am on Monday, January 13, the HLS community will be able to book classrooms for the Spring Term (1/27-4/24).

Interested in learning more about nonprofit work? The following resources can help you begin your exploration.

Location: Washington D.C. January 6, 2020 – January 24, 2020 The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty (www.becketlaw.org) is a non-profit law firm dedicated to protecting the free expression of all religious faiths. Becket seeks interns for the winter term to work in its Washington, D.C. office on a variety of Supreme Court, appellate and trial-level […]

Interested in learning more about private public interest law firms? The following resources can help you begin your exploration.

Public Service Venture Fund Organization Based (Org-Based) Fellowships are fully-funded fellowships intended to help launch students’ public interest careers at the public service organization of their choice that otherwise is not hiring at the entry-level. Learn more about the selection criteria and process.